Visa Raj

An enlightening article on the new "visa raj" that has become fashionable in the US - a backlash against the shipping of US jobs to India and China. Little do they realize that this is going to add nitroglycerine to the fire :

1. Software companies will face an even more acute shortage of talent due to all the visa restrictions.
2. Pay will bloat in the US, making it even more un-economical to keep jobs in the US.
3. Go where the talent is. Lets go to India!

If things continue the way they are, all the H1B types are simply going to go to India and continue what they were doing in the US, for close to the same pay. Not a bad deal, I think.

I think..

I think that life is one process that is constantly reverting to -inf. In the sense, its a random walk where if you were to go down, you are more likely to go further down than go up (think about it, in the end you die, the boundary condition). Its also one you have no control over as there are too many free floating variables. You cannot control your birth, race, ability etc. etc. You cannot control many of the random events that come to affect you. You can only try, and that can only help so much. Its also memoryless. The future has no memory of your past successes. If you dont get through the next stage, you are basically back to where you started. It doesn't care how many stages you had made it past earlier. Interesting. Does anyone have a good model for this?