I’m from India, planning to move to US on L1 as an IC. I want to get green card in 3-5 years or get out of the country. If I get green card, I want to look at bringing my parents permanently to US.
As someone without any research papers, any significant industry presence, how difficult will it be to get an EB1 green card if I start chipping at requirements now?
How doable is getting parents within next 5-7 years?
You can't sponsor your parents until you are a U.S. citizen and you must be a green card holder for 5 years (unless you are married to a U.S. citizen) before you can apply for citizenship. Will you be managing any employees in your position in the U.S.? Are you managing any employees now?
It's going to be a long process to a green card then. The only reasonably fast path is the EB1A extraordinary ability path and the standard is very high and difficult and subjective/uncertain.
I am from India as well, and I am currently a startup co-founder for a self-funded startup that currently employs about 5 American Citizens full time. My other co-founder is with me on the idea of continuing the self-funding situation and acquire more customers which will increase our revenue.
I am considering applying for EB-1 but wondering what my changes would be to get a GC through that path, would you rather advise me to wait a bit more until we hit 10 American Citizen workers in our company?
Unless employees in your company are reporting to you in India, your hopes of getting into an EB1 category is close to zero. You need to prove that you've managed EMPLOYEES of your company in multiple countries other than the US.
Correct. Unless you are super senior within an organization, you must be managing employees now and managing employees in the U.S. to have a chance at an EB1C green card.
This kind of stuff doesn't hurt my feelings, but I do have a question. If I'm being a "bootlicker", how does that justify hostility?
Wouldn't that be good for you and others who feel the same as you? Like, shouldn't you actually encourage "bootlickers" if you have this kind of devil may cry, realpolitik view of morality? Otherwise I'm just competition right?
There are no wrong answers here, I really just want to understand what you think better.
The "boots on the necks of workers" metaphor has been used over many generations as a reflection of the hostility that working people endure in the capitalist workplace. Complaining about the metaphor itself being "hostile" is just laughable. Sticks and stones, my friend.
I don't think the engineer in the OP did a good job. They were the last link in the knowledge chain. It's on them to pass the knowledge along and onboard the newbies.
I find it weird that you’re blaming the Engineer and not the managers or culture. Isn’t it on them to make sure that knowledge is passed as well?
That's forcing the engineer to do what they should be doing. You can blame them for not doing that but that doesn't absolve the engineer of not doing what they should be doing.
“I thought everybody was dumb but it turns out they saw the same things in weird ways!”
Is wrong twice (ignorance), while still asserting superiority (arrogance).
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but said opinions can still be ignorant and arrogant.
It was going off-guidelines for them to say the author should be embarrassed but not for calling out the character of the essay itself. It’s genuinely very insensitive, uninformed, and misguided.
“I thought everybody was dumb but it turns out they saw the same things in weird ways!”
I see superiority but ignorance? If anything, author is admitting ignorance here. Re-reading some parts and looking at other quotes, they're definitely coming across as arrogant.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but said opinions can still be ignorant and arrogant.
I agree, my issue was that parent comment felt like an Ad hominem attack. Looking at rest of the discussion, I can see how a lot of the essay is insensitive. And it's a little bit of self promotion as well (author submitting their own article).
I still learned at least one thing that changed my world view slightly, so I wanted to argue against such a dismissal. Could be my situation, I'm wrestling with some of the religious beliefs with my family. If nothing, seeing utility of existing customs is an improvement over dismissing them outright as useless or uninformed.
The Swift team released a VS Code plugin recently. As far as I'm aware, it doesn't do live preview, but considering how often Xcode fails to render live previews, I'm not seeing that as much of a loss.
I don’t think that’ll be relevant to what the article is discussing. It’s about group vs individual traditions. We can’t refute those points by waving quantum mechanics.
That's probably the only (if not most) unintuitive experimental knowledge we've come across, and we still don't have a good explanation for it today. No idea how that makes tradition "invariably wrong".
Using this as an example of "tradition being wrong" in the context of the linked article is literally peak autism on top of the fact that our "common sense" understanding of physical processes being wrong (is it even wrong at the level of abstraction we work on?) says nothing about our understanding of social phenomena.
I’ve had similar issue for some time. I had not used Pinboard regularly for a couple of years but was still paying for archiving. I started using the account a couple of months back actively and most of the bookmarks aren’t being archived. There’s one that’ll go once in a while, so feature doesn’t seem to be fully broken but yes, when I restarted using Pinboard, ~96% of my bookmarks were archived. Now it’s down to 90%. Last one went through 27 days ago.
