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codeddesignyesterday at 10:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Highly relevant as it makes your point mute.

The highest quality of talent is already not being brought in. A very specific pool of people are, and not for reasons of talent.


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estearumyesterday at 10:44 PM

No no, your observation is that a large amount of (per your assessment) low-quality people are already being brought in.

This is completely unrelated to the question of whether the highest quality people are being brought in.

By analogy: "New York City doesn't have a lot of the greatest restaurants in the country because 90% of the restaurants in New York City are not that great."

It's just logically invalid.

And divorced from reality. There's a reason the top students in the world overwhelmingly come to study in the US (at least up until recently). The US's dominance on this and its downstream effects is absolutely unambiguous and it's frankly silly to suggest otherwise.

"We also have a lot of underqualified Indian H1Bs" is completely irrelevant.

P.S. It's "moot" not "mute"