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by Herring 1y ago
They’re quite correlated…. It’s hard for a country to take very good care of its citizens (healthcare, free education, social security, economic opportunity, work-life balance, access to nature) at the Finland level then turn around and per
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by Herring 1y ago
71% of H1Bs are Indian. They might feel differently, especially after looking at ICE. Personally I prefer looking at the average case: http://data.worldhappiness.report/chart China still has lots of ground to make up, but t
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by Herring 1y ago
Yes it has nothing to do with healthcare, education, work-life balance etc. Must be something else.
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by Herring 1y ago
China can turn on a dime. And they smell blood. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-entry-exit-k-visa... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8f1qs3TGs Give it 5-10 years and the situation could lo
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by Herring 1y ago
Meanwhile China is listening to their experts https://www.china-briefing.com/news/chinas-entry-exit-k-visa... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC8f1qs3TGs That's life, I guess. There's an anci
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by Herring 1y ago
Where are you getting "less competition"? The article clearly says that's not what happens. Study after study has shown that immigration generally has a net positive effect on the US job market. What'll probably happen i
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by Herring 1y ago
It almost certainly does mean less. Numerous studies have shown that immigration generally has a net positive effect on the US job market. It’s the broad consensus among economists. Racism is crazy. Everyone can look at the US south and pla
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by Herring 1y ago
Trump won the popular vote. I don't trust the billionaires, but I'm not sure my coworkers are much better on average tbh.
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It's right on my linkedin, and I'm joining their team as a specialist/consultant.
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In my experience that's usually just the tip of the iceberg. You've heard the expression "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"? It's like a link broke in a chain, and usually
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by Herring 1y ago
You need to get a better audience. I recently met a good developer who still thinks Covid was a hoax. Doing my best to avoid him. You think you can just politely work around him -- that's how you get vaccine skeptics dismantling the CD
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by Herring 1y ago
It's an old story. Check out Aesop's "The Wolf and the Lamb".
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You don't understand. Americans elected a rapist. YOU are his next target. Read Aesop's "The Wolf and the Lamb", and good luck. They knew exactly what they were doing, and they will do it again.
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Well then Trump will unilaterally abandon it the second he figures that out. Clearly the UK's unfair trade practices have disadvantaged American workers for decades.
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by Herring 1y ago
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
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Yeah you can't assume Thiel is competent either. Running a country is completely different from running a business. The most I'd be inclined is give them Mississippi for a decade or two let's see what happens.
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by Herring 1y ago
China has course-corrected many times before. They’ll do it again. I think the US should be more worried. Their govt makes it incredibly hard to course-correct (filibuster, gerrymandering, fptp, electoral college, supreme court etc) https:
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by Herring 1y ago
The consensus in sociology and anthropology is that ethnicity is a social construct. At this point I'd say I'm done here, you need to go take classes ideally, or read a book or talk to a frontier LLM. This is why education is so i
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by Herring 1y ago
Sociologists will tell you race is a “social construct”. People can wake up tomorrow and start discriminating on the smallest shades you and I wouldn’t care about - in China there’s already a preference for light skin. In the UK they discri
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by Herring 1y ago
It's self-explanatory. People of very different backgrounds can come together to make fair political/economic/social decisions. If you don't get this, it's on you. I literally can't make it any simpler.
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by Herring 1y ago
That's like saying "lots of different ethnic groups pretend to be Democrats". No, they just don't have that entrenched legacy of slavery.
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by Herring 1y ago
The problem with racism is it's not just immoral, it's also short-sighted. It's not like the US South is the richest. Newsflash: investing in your population yields huge dividends. China gets this.
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by Herring 1y ago
I think it's not just HN. There's a lot of gaslighting and denial when it comes to American politics, specifically the real-world version versus the Hollywood version.
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AI will keep improving https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030 https://epoch.ai/blog/what-will-ai-look-like-in-2030 There's a good chance that eventually reading code will
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah well my experience is a lot of conservatives seem completely normal until you start dating a black girl. That's when you see how racism/tribalism works. Try a fun experiment: ask your guy friend about ARPA-E https:/&#x2
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Cause you lack imagination. You'll have to sharpen that up too. Have you tried not antagonizing your allies?
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I actually think he was telling the truth (from his pov). Conservatives see the world in a very us-vs-them fashion. Makes it very hard for them to even notice nuances like in-group enemies (nevermind actually deal with them). It sounds like
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It's actually about tribal belonging. https://bigthink.com/articles/how-tribalism-overrules-reason...
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They were extremely open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump This works just like holocaust denial, and there's a reason that's criminalized in Germany and a lot of other countries. h
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by Herring 1y ago
Best news I've heard all year. Competition keeps you sharp. Monopolies lead to stagnation and abuse.

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