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Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:40AM (#19044300)
>Economists who have done hundreds of studies on different wage markets have found that immigrants create more jobs and raise wages in most cases.

Except of course the low skilled jobs that the immigrants are now doing. Those jobs see decreased wages. Seriously why do you think companies are hiring them if there were no economic gains and in the end they have to pay more to workers? They might not take jobs overall but claiming they increase wages even in the sectors that they are working in? Now that is what I call delusional.

Re:U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:15AM (#19044195)
> That assumes the demand and the supply are independent variables.

When the argument is that an increase in supply causes lower wages your counter argument doesn't make any sense at all. For wages to rise the demand has to grow faster than the oversupply. The primary way to increase demand is by lowering the price of a service aka workers get paid less. In other words it is possible that even with an extreme amount of immigration everyone still gets a decently paying job but in the end wages across the market have fallen.

Whatever pie analogy you're trying to pull doesn't matter. I don't know why people keep getting nerdsniped by that word and often even use their own hyper specific definition of it which doesn't match the definition of the other person. There is no law that says people always benefit from a growing economy and there is no law that says people can never benefit from a shrinking economy.

Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? on Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:58AM (#19043907)
>Parsers typically use regexes for the tokenization stage - indeed, what else would you use?

This is completely wrong. One can also just write their own tokenizer reading one character at a time with a state machine. It's trivial compared to the complexity of the rest of the parser.

Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? on Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:08AM (#19043722)
You're not looking hard enough. Even flat-earthers find their own niche on the internet.

http://platelets.fun (You're supposed to click)