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November 16, 2016 at 11:27 AM #803755November 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM #803757
CoronitaParticipantI like inventing new words these days. It makes makes me feel very presidentially biggly huuge.
Now of they would just stop sending my grudgery work to Chyna…
November 16, 2016 at 11:52 AM #803762all
Participant[quote=flu]I like inventing new words these days. It makes makes me feel very presidentially biggly huuge.
Now of they would just stop sending my grudgery work to Chyna…[/quote]
Keep mispronouncing and misspelling Jhyna and you might be on the next train to Beijing.
November 16, 2016 at 5:37 PM #803772flyer
ParticipantFrom an investors perspective, just wondering if anyone knows how Qualcomm’s acquisition of NXP may bode for the company, and how it might affect jobs and housing in San Diego? Thoughts?
November 16, 2016 at 6:24 PM #803774CoronitaParticipant[quote=flyer]From an investors perspective, just wondering if anyone knows how Qualcomm’s acquisition of NXP may bode for the company, and how it might affect jobs and housing in San Diego? Thoughts?[/quote]
NXP isn’t really here in san diego. Most of NXP is in Europe. So there’s little impact to the existing Qualcomm headcount, since Qualcomm has virtually no in house NFC solution.
Of the few NXP people in San Diego, they came from Broadcom. Avago bought Broadcom 2 years ago. At the beginning of this year, Avago sold Broadcom’s NFC group in Rancho Bernardo to NXP. I’m assuming now that NXP group will be part of Qualcomm. That said, most of the trimming already happened by Avago before they sold that Broadcom group to NXP. There’s less than 100 people in that group, I believe. The guys are still part of that group are the lucky ones, double dipping into both vested Broadcom RSUs and now vested NXP RSUs.
What’s amazing is Qualcomm went from no NFC solution last year to being pretty much the only NFC game in town…The only two companies that were really making NFC chipsets were NXP and Broadcom. Frankly, I’m surprised why Qualcomm took so long to figure that one out. From a biz perspective, Qualcomm chip portfolio is looking pretty good. They also grabbed CSR a few years ago, which is a pretty dominate player in Bluetooth.
What’s even more surprise is, once again Intel slept at the wheel.. Intel is fvcked.
November 17, 2016 at 1:28 AM #803782ParticipantThanks, flu. My wife is the stock guru in the family and as far as tech goes, she has been into GOOGL and AAPL for years (starting when it was like.90/share, or something crazy like that around ’96) but she didn’t know much about the NXP acquisition. I was curious about how it might affect our local economy, and your explanation was very helpful.
November 17, 2016 at 9:31 PM #803817bewildering
ParticipantI suspect that Trump will impose an employer tax on H1B visas. For example, the company has to pay the Fed the equivalent of 25% of the employee’s wage. That will sort out the ‘cheap’ labor but still provide the visa to companies that really do need the expertise.
November 17, 2016 at 9:48 PM #803818CoronitaParticipant[quote=bewildering]I suspect that Trump will impose an employer tax on H1B visas. For example, the company has to pay the Fed the equivalent of 25% of the employee’s wage. That will sort out the ‘cheap’ labor but still provide the visa to companies that really do need the expertise.[/quote]
Well, I guess that means a lot of those workers are going to end up working for the foreign competitors, lol.
November 18, 2016 at 11:13 AM #803826poorgradstudent
ParticipantCompanies who donate money to candidates love H1B visas.
End of the day, H1B visas don’t affect that many American workers, and they people they do affect can still find jobs. It’s not the same as a factory being shut down and workers in a city not being able to find anything close to as good.
If Trump does go after H1B visas it will be more theater than policy based. The people who elected him care a lot more about factory work and Mexican laborers than they do visiting Engineers and Computer Programmers.
November 18, 2016 at 2:04 PM #803843bearishgurl
Participant[quote=poorgradstudent]Companies who donate money to candidates love H1B visas.
End of the day, H1B visas don’t affect that many American workers, and they people they do affect can still find jobs. It’s not the same as a factory being shut down and workers in a city not being able to find anything close to as good.
If Trump does go after H1B visas it will be more theater than policy based. The people who elected him care a lot more about factory work and Mexican laborers than they do visiting Engineers and Computer Programmers.[/quote]I DO think there are engineers and computer programmers living in flyover America who voted for Trump. However, they can’t afford to live in or near SV (San Mateo and Santa Clara, CA) or in SD County to take a tech job in coastal CA so the H1B hires in these areas won’t affect them.
I disagree that all Trump supporters in flyover America were factory workers and miners before their employers closed up shop. They were from all walks of life, including medical and legal professionals and teachers/school administrators, as well as Federal, state and local govm’t personnel and law enforcement. And I think Trump supporters are beyond tired of hearing that they have all been pigeonholed into the same (deplorable) little boxes by the (sore-loser type) liberal set.
November 19, 2016 at 4:27 PM #803853Anonymous
Guest[quote=poorgradstudent]If Trump does go after H1B visas it will be more theater than policy based. The people who elected him care a lot more about factory work and Mexican laborers than they do visiting Engineers and Computer Programmers.[/quote]
Well I voted for him and I care more about the H1B issue than factory workers.
November 21, 2016 at 2:35 PM #803945Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=poorgradstudent]Companies who donate money to candidates love H1B visas.
End of the day, H1B visas don’t affect that many American workers, and they people they do affect can still find jobs. It’s not the same as a factory being shut down and workers in a city not being able to find anything close to as good.
If Trump does go after H1B visas it will be more theater than policy based. The people who elected him care a lot more about factory work and Mexican laborers than they do visiting Engineers and Computer Programmers.[/quote]I DO think there are engineers and computer programmers living in flyover America who voted for Trump. However, they can’t afford to live in or near SV (San Mateo and Santa Clara, CA) or in SD County to take a tech job in coastal CA so the H1B hires in these areas won’t affect them.
I disagree that all Trump supporters in flyover America were factory workers and miners before their employers closed up shop. They were from all walks of life, including medical and legal professionals and teachers/school administrators, as well as Federal, state and local govm’t personnel and law enforcement. And I think Trump supporters are beyond tired of hearing that they have all been pigeonholed into the same (deplorable) little boxes by the (sore-loser type) liberal set.[/quote]
I’m pretty sure teachers broke pretty heavily Democrat, as they always do. Especially considering the Republican platform regarding public education from the last 10-20 years, and the fact that teaching on the whole is dominated by women. Government workers on the whole tend to prefer Democrats as well, although that does vary a bit by state.
On the whole, Trump supporters were largely white, largely lacking college degrees. Does that describe every trump supporter? No. I know a Vietnamese Computer Programmer who for some reason supported Trump, despite the fact he’d be told to Go Back to China at a Trump Rally. But ON THE WHOLE you can draw a profile of a Trump supporter demographically. There’s nothing wrong with being a working class white male; plenty of them are not deplorable, but overall that’s the group that voted Trump into office.
November 21, 2016 at 6:59 PM #803956FlyerInHi
GuestNon college white males and their wives in MI, WI, PA. Of course OH and IN also. And non-college retirees in FL.
I told my relatives in OH and IN that I’m boycotting their states. They have to come visit me instead. I’m not setting foot in a red state nunca mas!
November 22, 2016 at 6:34 AM #803985CoronitaParticipantLol…… I think a lot of you guys will soon be disappointed…..
Trump: the relations between India and the United States would be “the best ever.”The president-elect — who has called India a “great country” — is involved in at least 16 partnerships or corporations here. Those business interests — and the financial relationship with a leading member of the governing party — will be a significant backdrop to Trump administration policy toward the world’s most populous democracy — and toward its warily hostile neighbor, Pakistan.
At an October campaign event with the Indian American community in New Jersey, Trump boasted of his “massive” and “very beautiful” development projects in the country and vowed that the relations between India and the United States would be “the best ever.”
It’s really a matter of making money…. I don’t see he’s going to do much on H1-Bs.
Not when your own empire is heavily invested in those countries where the bulk of the H1-Bs come from.God, this is turning out to be a travesty, almost…. Why did I sell my stock market? This is going to be a like a casino on steroids.
November 22, 2016 at 8:13 AM #803990scaredyclassic
Participant[quote=flu]Lol…… I think a lot of you guys will soon be disappointed…..
Trump: the relations between India and the United States would be “the best ever.”The president-elect — who has called India a “great country” — is involved in at least 16 partnerships or corporations here. Those business interests — and the financial relationship with a leading member of the governing party — will be a significant backdrop to Trump administration policy toward the world’s most populous democracy — and toward its warily hostile neighbor, Pakistan.
At an October campaign event with the Indian American community in New Jersey, Trump boasted of his “massive” and “very beautiful” development projects in the country and vowed that the relations between India and the United States would be “the best ever.”
It’s really a matter of making money…. I don’t see he’s going to do much on H1-Bs.
Not when your own empire is heavily invested in those countries where the bulk of the H1-Bs come from.God, this is turning out to be a travesty, almost…. Why did I sell my stock market? This is going to be a like a casino on steroids.[/quote]
the truth is that smarter people take what people say seriously.
and dumb people dont.
however, it is dumb to think trump actually meant he would do literally anything he said hed do. it was just poetry. like rap: verbal bragadoccio. words to evoke a certain feeling.
i am dumb. but i idiotically thought he meant at least some of what he said. at least the prosecution of HRC.
power means saying literally anything to get the desired response.
truth is absolutely irrelevant.
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