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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by more_corn on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:36PM (#42536616)
The point is that major contributions to American tech supremacy come from foreigners. Scrapping the H1B program would jeopardize us tech leadership.

Those other 64k people contribute as well. If you want to argue the other side (I don’t know why you would) feel free.

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by bdangubic on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:41PM (#42536651)
how would you know whether or not american tech supremacy would not be the same without foreigners? of course you wouldn’t so this is silly line of argument :)

the main reason for american tech supremacy is american military budget. and also that is next 876 reasons. H1B program won’t crack top-1000

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by ritcgab on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:38AM (#42540971)
> how would you know whether or not american tech supremacy would not be the same without foreigners?

We don't know, but we can't afford losing the supremacy.

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Re:Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for forei... by bdangubic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @12:16PM (#42541254)
as long as the “defense” budget is 89.76 trillion dollars we cool, H1B or not…
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