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by davidf18 10y ago
> "Anyway, why should American employment come first?" Because we are American citizens. Ask about any American and they will agree as will our President, that immigrants should not be displacing Americans from jobs. This is t
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Firms often claim they want to hire on the basis of merit, but then don't offer the salaries necessary to hire on that basis. E.g., those that have higher abilities through merit deserve substantially higher salaries, based on merit.
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> "Please stop talking about things you have no clue about. I have been in the US for 3+ years now on a H1B visa and during all this time my wife, who has an MBA, is not allowed to work here - which is absolute garbage." I have
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by davidf18 10y ago
Thank you for answering. The intent of H1-B visas is only to offer immigrants jobs that cannot be filled by Americans. American firms have been misusing H1-B visas to instead lower their STEM wage rates of American workers. We don't
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If you're going to downvote, have the courage to say that you want American wage rates depressed and for Americans to be displaced from jobs. Generally, people who care for others don't want them to lose their jobs or have depres
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"Recently, Obama administration also passed a directive to allow the spouses of H1-B visa to apply for employment authorization (or the ability to work at any place). This is a great move as it again encourages more talented people, w
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Interestingly, Trump doesn't drink alcohol (his older brother had died of alcoholism).
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Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted European Jews to go there. But the British broke their mandate with "The White
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Government policy should strongly fund the design and production of robots in the US as noted in the article. Factories run by robots still employ many people doing jobs that work alongside the robots and also in maintaining the robots. T
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How to Make America’s Robots Great Again(nytimes.com)
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Well, that's great! So why does Musk want to build a car tunnel? He should want to build an additional subway tunnel. The city of LA should be encouraging more transport that lessens global warning, not encourage it. As stated previ
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by davidf18 10y ago
If you're taking the time to build a tunnel, might as well put a subway in it. Come to NYC (or London or Paris or ....) and Chicago and see real subways are a much better use of building tunnels. If NYC, Boston, DC, SF, Philly, all h
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by davidf18 10y ago
When Columbia turned down Richard Feynman because of the Jewish Quota, he went to MIT.
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by davidf18 10y ago
Intersting. Why downvote a true statement? Anything to contribute to the fact that the government is suing a company led by a woman for discriminating against women? By suing Oracle the government is basically saying that Safra Cats is di
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by davidf18 10y ago
A woman, Safra Catz, was co-president and is now co-CEO which means that they are accusing a woman of discriminating against women.
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"Today, there are more than 47,500 cars affiliated with bases operated by ride-hailing apps, of which more than 46,000 are connected with Uber, though they may be used for other services, too. In contrast, there are just 13,587 yellow
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Yellow Cab, Long a Fixture of City Life, Is for Many a Thing of the Past(nytimes.com)
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> "Tobacco taxes are incredibly regressive (they very disproportionately tax the poor)." They disproportionately tax smokers making smokers at least pay a portion of the additional health care costs they incur by smoking. Taxin
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A Subway Bastion Falls: Cell Service Goes Underground(nytimes.com)
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When can I order one with Uber?
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by davidf18 10y ago
Countries that offer universal care such as Canada, The UK, France (also also NY State/NY City where I live) have a tobacco tax in the $5 to $7 range or more that helps to pay for the higher health care costs of smokers. NYC tax is $6
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The self-flying M*A*S*H air ambulance that could replace medivac choppers (2020)(dailymail.co.uk)
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"Consumer Reports went on to share their new results for the tested systems. On the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar they saw 15.75 hours of battery-life, for the 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar they saw 18.75 hours, and for th
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Consumer Reports changes course and now recommends new 2016 MacBook Pro(9to5mac.com)
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Hamas is part of Muslim Brotherhood, the group that assassinated Egyptian President Sadat. They are terrorists who target among other things family restaurants (e.g., Sbarro in Jerusalem [1]) and teens dancing at Dolphinarium Discotheque. [
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by davidf18 10y ago
At least in the US, purchasing power has declined with many for two factors: 1. Rising health care costs now 18% of GDP at over $3.2 trillion. As firms spend more on insurance, there is depressed wage growth, while direct employee contrib
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The supervised elections were by US, UN or similar groups, not by Palestinian government. The Palestinians were given the chance to self-govern Gaza when Israel pulled out in 2005 and show the world community that they are capable of self-g
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by davidf18 10y ago
In 2006 there was a supervised election where Hamas was legitimately elected over Fatah. The Palestinians gave a mandate of a terrorist organization to lead them.
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The Palestinians elected a terrorist organization that shot missiles into Israel killing civilians that also refuses to recognize Israel. Egypt has closed off their border and flooded illegal tunnels to Gaza as well. I was a few miles away
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by davidf18 10y ago
I've been to Israel many times including during the time of the first Gaza conflict (Cast Lead). There were elections in 2006 and Hamas was elected over Fatah. Hamas does not recognize Israel and is declared a terrorist state by the U

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