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by Amezarak 1y ago
> The bailey is all this stuff about how we need to rid the food chain of stabilizers and glutamates and nitrates and preservatives because "bizarre lab concoctions" endanger people. In my case, I'm arguing that doing awa
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> At some point with this line of reasoning you fall into the precautionary principle Is there something wrong with the precautionary principle? It would be one thing if the supposed benefit was something really incredible, like extendin
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I think it’s misleading to suggest a substance is okay because it’s “just” an extract. Normal foods contain lots of substances that when extracted, are obviously bad if concentrated and consumed in larger quantities than would be had during
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> Why would this matter at all? You suggested that it’s a small niche and that the US is focusing entirely on software. That’s obviously not true. It “feels” true because of where the hype is at and because we’re on HN. > China has 10
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USINFO https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/manemp The US manufacturing sector employs 10x more people than the US information sector.
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They do, it's called free fillable forms. If you have salary-only income that's about how long it takes. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form... Tax prep software exists for people wit
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That would be approximately the same percentage of the population that voted for Obama in 2008. (69 million votes, 304 million people, 22%.) I don't think this is a crazy argument to make, but only if you make clear by this standard al
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This sounds great until you’re minding your own business in your house while these people engage in gun battles out in the street and you or your kids catch one of the strays. If you google this you will find plenty of examples that made th
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We've had multiple leaks and reports that the government was directly involved in these censorship cases prior to January 20, 2025. So no, that's not the difference. On this very forum, people (not you) argued it was perfectly acc
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Most people also seemed to celebrate Parler and Gab being pulled/denied. It was perfectly obvious that the same logic could be used to do things like this, but many people seem to be totally surprised or oblivious.
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> The FDR admin had 90% support in the House and Senate. FDR directly embedded his staff in Congress and told them what they were going to do, and vigorously attacked anyone who got in the way of his agenda by any means necessary, includ
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> where "deplatforming" was a social phenomenon that meant hopping to one of many other open networks, not the dogged federal punishment of institutions and individuals promoting inconvenient narratives. This is manifestly untr
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Constitutional amendments by fiat: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/biden-dec... Assassinated Americans with drone strikes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-th
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Perhaps you are not aware that the “other side” declared Constitutional amendments by fiat, assassinated American citizens with drone strikes, lied to the courts to imprison influential Twitter users, used intelligence agencies to spy on Co
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You may want to read the Appeals Court ruling that overturned his conviction 3-0 because the government lied. But also consider the point that everyone has a reason why their exact situation is different than the other sides when the outcom
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That’s the problem. Everyone makes tendentious arguments about how their exact reasoning and mechanism is justified, while the other sides’ is not justified. The outcome is the same. Edit: I have been rate limited so I cannot reply, but not
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Yes. Note that what Mackey did, and the content of his posts, was entirely legal and his conviction was overturned unanimously on appeal. To convict him originally, the government had to lie about him participating in a conspiracy - the rea
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They've extended their range, so there's lots of cases where they don't have wild ones around, but there's still overlap, at least according to the article I read.
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> The classic concept says that [a species] is a group of organisms with similar physical and genetic characteristics that can reproduce with each other in nature and produce fertile offspring,” The fact this is a gross simplification th
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All M. structor's aren't clones, only in that colony. They are out their in the wild reproducing with other M. structors sexually.
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Infosys, Tata, and Deloitte are hiring basic programmers. There’s no shortage of American applicants with those skills. I’m sure people will make the argument about FAANG but there’s plenty of Americans for that too. Go look at the experien
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There is a big problem with ethnic nepotism and ghost jobs. I have been struggling to get younger people in my network hired anywhere despite solid resumes. Continuing to issue H1Bs in the current job market was bananas.
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If they're the best and the brightest individuals in the world, then surely they are worth absolutely enormous sums of money.
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We've all seen hiring managers that coincidentally hired only or nearly only their fellow countrymen, and nothing happens to them, even though it is highly illegal.
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The USSR was one of the most authoritarian regimes in world history. They killed millions of people. They invaded Poland together with the Nazis, which was the start of WWII. I have no idea what was bad about the fascists that wasn't e
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As someone who worked in the farming and restaurant industries, and whose family continues to work in that and construction, it’s always baffling to me to see people insist Americans just won’t do it. But yes, undercutting the labor market
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It sounds like you’re saying the job market imploded in the last five years. In that case, it seems like we should halt h1b visas until it recovers. > Also, you cannot expect a hiring manager to do everything. If the company decides I sh
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It sounds like we need high tariffs to exclude products made in countries without living wages and strong worker protections from the American market, in addition to cutting off the pipeline of cheap labor to the US.
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I’d qualify as a senior and like I said, hundreds of apps and not even an interview - very different from 5+ years ago, where almost 50% of apps resulted in an interview. When you’re a hiring manager, you need to do whatever it takes to be
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How hard are you looking? I was looking early last year and despite hundreds of applications, got nothing but automated rejection emails, if that. I also know many new grads looking for jobs and having a lot of trouble. Unfortunately, their

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