Sam Peak
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Labor and Mobility Policy Manager @InnovateEconomy. Kansas City native. 🇺🇸💡
Washington, DC:Kansas City, MO
Joined July 2015
Interesting "Boriswave" data: In the UK, the outright majority of skilled work visas went to low-skilled workers in late 2023/early 2024, 5x the same share just two years prior.
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congrats
We've won. 69% of conservatives say raising tariffs is a conservative policy. https://t.co/n8Zvdoqhxd via @BreitbartNews
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I think this shows how important flows of knowledge from worker mobility are to creating competition. The US should not let Taiwan prevent competition like this. Pay the guys legal fees if needs be.
nytimes.com
An executive left TSMC for Intel. Taiwan’s government says that could threaten its national security.
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Indian students pursuing master's degrees have been the post-pandemic engine of international-enrollment growth for U.S. colleges. But there's an ongoing challenge to recruiting these price-conscious students: an American degree is far more expensive
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What does it mean to be a “real” American? As our new video explains, the answer to that question changed the world.
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There seems to be a little bit of irony here. Trump Admin is expediting visa approvals for the few World Cup qualifiers that need them (Mexico, Colombia, Algeria). But he is making the process more onerous for the many more World Cup qualifiers that use the Visa Waiver Program.
Wow, the Trump admin is going to completely revamp the ESTA process and require all Visa Waiver Program entrants to use a mobile app, disclose every social media handle used for the last five years and every email used for 10 years, and give the US a whole host of data on family.
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The U.S. selling NVIDIA chips to China to ensure reliance on U.S. chips is playing checkers when China is playing chess.
Instead, H200 exports will counterfactually boost China’s ability to both develop frontier AI models and deploy them widely, competing with US AI and cloud companies abroad. The new Chinese stack will be NVIDIA chips, Tencent/Baidu/Alibaba cloud, and DeepSeek/Qwen/Kimi models.
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I miss the political right that was into personal responsibility over all of this “look what they took from you” grievance crap.
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What’s good for Nvidia is not always what’s good for America. Seriously, why are we doing this? I don’t buy Nvidia’s argument that this will create dependence on American chips.
The US has reportedly decided to approve exports of NVIDIA’s H200 chip to China. This gives Chinese AI labs chips that outperform anything China can make until ~2028. How big a deal this is depends on how many we export. Thread with key charts from our new report...
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I did not expect that the PowerPoint killer would be something called Nano Banana Pro, but that is where its heading It makes the major efforts by all the other AI companies, including Microsoft, to crack PowerPoint by using python seem like a dead end ImageGen is all you need?
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I think the story has journalistic merit, but the Marxist framing is so insufferable and annoying.
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This is *always* how it worked! Jesus.
@Groundwork @KatieJWells @ConsumerReports @MorePerfectUS @bencasselman @nytimes Companies no longer price according to how much it cost THEM to make something. Instead, they price based on what YOU are willing to pay. An army of pricing advisers–a cross between the Geek Squad & Seal Team Six–is helping them to execute these high-tech pricing experiments. 6/9
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Exporting NVIDIA H200 chips to China is a really, really dumb decision. Here's why:
The US has reportedly decided to approve exports of NVIDIA’s H200 chip to China. This gives Chinese AI labs chips that outperform anything China can make until ~2028. How big a deal this is depends on how many we export. Thread with key charts from our new report...
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This guy gets it.
@Noahpinion In a meritocracy, importing talent is importing a new ruling class.
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Curious why some Democrats say "TX isn't a red state. Just a state with low turnout" when the whole reason Trump went from winning Texas by 5.5 points in 2020 to about 13.5 points in 2024 was he successfully persuaded Democratic Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley to vote for him.
Q: How will you win over Trump supporters? Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal." Q: "Do you need to?" Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."
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H-1Bs don't go to cashiers. In 2020 a 7-Eleven in Connecticut submitted 2 petitions for DOL for cashiers. They were never approved by DHS. The dog trainer position was a niche role for training seeing eye dogs for blind people. The job was advertised for two years before they
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The US has reportedly decided to approve exports of NVIDIA’s H200 chip to China. This gives Chinese AI labs chips that outperform anything China can make until ~2028. How big a deal this is depends on how many we export. Thread with key charts from our new report...
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The White House says that meritocracy should not be used as justification for recruiting foreign talent in its latest national security strategy document. https://t.co/f1iwGVMahf
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