Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Suppose there are 100 people wanting to ask questions, and there is > only time to answer 10 questions. If the 1 in 20 ratio holds, then 5 > of those people are women and the other 95 are men. > > Alternating between men and women means that all of the women get > their questions answered, and only 5/95 of the men. So in this > example, if you're a woman you have a 100% chance of getting answered, > and if you're a man you only have a 5.26% chance.
The United States has an "egalitarian" quota system that seeks to promote diversity. By law, at most 7% of green cards can be awarded to citizens of any individual country. So, by this fair principle, in any given year, at most 7% of the green cards can go to citizens of Finland (pop. 5 million) and at most 7% of the green cards can go to citizens of India (pop. 1 billion). <URL: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit> Indian and Chinese H1B holders are getting screwed, which is of course the whole objective of the country limits. The US used to have more explicitly worded immigration laws: <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act> <URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Exclusion_Act> How this relates to Python? Well, I bet thousands of Asian Python coders in the United States are under the threat of deportation because of country limits. See also: <URL: http://www.petition2congress.com/14376/eliminate-per-country-limi t-in-employment-based-green-card> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list