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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by ryanobjc on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:16PM (#18454641)
Ahem: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/17/h-1b-foreign-citizens...

"About 71 percent of tech employees in the Valley are foreign born, compared to around 50 percent in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward region, according to a new report based on 2016 census data."

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by humanrebar on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:46PM (#18455832)
Yeah, the appeal to diversity is strange since if you're into quotas and metrics, it's south and east Asians who are overrepresented in tech, not "majorities".

Implicit in the appeals to diversity is that women and non-Asian minorities are mostly the target as far as increased representation.

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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by ryanobjc on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:17PM (#18454658)
I think this is probably a net positive for NYC, so I don't see why the dig at silicon valley?
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