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[Randomuser]

Mods can delete this since this is old news.

But I wanna ask the Singaporean posters here if Piyush Gupta's rule over DBS was a good or bad thing?

It's not a new thing since he's gone now but it got me thinking about what happens if you place key institutions in the hands of others esp those from India?



Now in actual recent events, I think westoids who used to swear by GDP are going to start singing a different tune. After all the excuse was we need immigration to keep the country's GDP growth. Well if they oppose that, then GDP isnt that important?

It's funny how I spent hours trying to figure out why GDP is flawed and it turned out all you need to get westoids to change their mind is recent immigration.

 

[pmc]

I wonder if NATO does the same to the Russians, if so then I can understand this action but if not then the Russians are playing a very stupid game.

Russia has more newer planes with greater flight duration. I doubt NATO can afford this game over wider area.

 

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Maybe this is the role of India as gollum. As you know India is an enemy of China. But maybe that's a good thing since they won't come to flood it. Instead they conviently all want to move in droves of millions to all of the countries China has problems with. How convenient for China!

Lol these are not tech jobs.

 

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...leaving India with the "excess."

I wish that was true lol. The excess is here in America. It started when leetcoding became a widespread way to evaluate candidates.

 

[FriedButter]

The extreme Meltdown of Indians after the H1b order is fun to watch. They have literally lost themselves. All the bravado and chest thumping is gone, now its all doom and gloom. Finally, the reckoning is coming for all the extreme aggressive foreign policy.

It’s funny that it all started due to May 7th. Modi must be regreting attacking Pakistan now.

The real show begins when the HIRE act is passed and enforced by the White House. Assuming it ever does.

The bill aims to promote local job creation by discouraging outsourcing. It proposes a 25% excise tax on payments to foreign entities for services benefiting US consumers, and would deny tax deductions for these transactions.

If enacted, the effective cost of offshored IT services could rise by nearly 60% after factoring in the excise tax and disallowance of deductions for federal and state corporate taxes.

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i wonder how they are going to use this large drone. i think speed will be below mach 1. This was original idea but later you can already observe which planes are successful in Ukraine and why Putin mention Tu-160M.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

I wish that was true lol. The excess is here in America. It started when leetcoding became a widespread way to evaluate candidates.

Have you worked with offshore teams based in India? If you have, then you will realize that the Indians in the US on H1bs are actually far less incompetent than engineers based in India.

LeetCode is nothing new, companies such as Microsoft and Google have been asking LeetCode style questions since early 2000s. It is just much more widespread now. Yet for most software jobs in the US practicing LeetCode is unnecessary. For engineers desiring to work at good tech companies, than LeetCode is par for the course. If someone is unwilling to put in a few months practicing LeetCode and/or is unable to gain proficiency (defined as being able to solve 80-90% of Medium level questions as well as the most common 50-100 Hards) after a few months (assuming solid DSA fundamentals), then they wouldn't be able to survive in tech anyways.

The real problem with LeetCode is that many Indians who lack the actual problem solving ability just memorize a bunch of problems and manage to get jobs in tech. Obviously, these people become low performers and have to be managed out. This results in companies either 1) maintaining an unrealistically high bar for LeetCode, ie Google/Netflix or 2) adopting PIP factory culture, where each organization is required to meet a certain URA threshold annually (generally ~10%), ie Amazon/Meta, destroying company culture and turning these places in toxic meat grinders where engineer are constantly sucked in, drained until burnout, then PIPed.

 

[phrozenflame]

Russia has more newer planes with greater flight duration. I doubt NATO can afford this game over wider area.

RuAF is no match for NATO airpower.

 

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LeetCode is nothing new, companies such as Microsoft and Google have been asking LeetCode style questions since early 2000s. It is just much more widespread now. Yet for most software jobs in the US practicing LeetCode is unnecessary. For engineers desiring to work at good tech companies, than LeetCode is par for the course. If someone is unwilling to put in a few months practicing LeetCode and/or is unable to gain proficiency (defined as being able to solve 80-90% of Medium level questions as well as the most common 50-100 Hards) after a few months (assuming solid DSA fundamentals), then they wouldn't be able to survive in tech anyways.

Back 20 years ago Google and Microsoft were asking mostly easies and occasionally mediums. The rest were asking fizzbuzz.

Nowadays it's two mediums or a hard at every company paying competitive salaries. Anyone working isn't going to have time nor energy for practicing hundreds of mediums and hards.

Also recently just getting all the questions correct isn't enough anymore. You have to several other people that also solved everything correctly.

Not to mention folks in America have a life outside of work.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

The H1B thing might have been aimed at Indians, but Chinese libs and neocons took a huge blow alongside them.

What a week. Chinese libs/neocons get hit with first being told they're dalits for investment visas, then H1B closes to them as well.