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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm honestly not sure. Until now, I had no idea that was a special type of green card. The second-to-last chart in that article mentions employment as an admission category, so maybe? Better sources are welcome. In either case, pretty
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by deogeo 7y ago
If you have statistics showing that US green cards are mostly awarded to whites, despite going to mostly non-white-countries, please share them. It would certainly go against the general trend of US immigration, which is predominantly non-w
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by deogeo 7y ago
> racially discriminatory provisions put in place to satisfy southern segregationists The vast majority of green cards go to majority-non-white countries - the chart at the bottom of https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank&
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by deogeo 7y ago
Surely it's a different narrow frequency range? Otherwise sunlight would act as a signal jammer, a source of noise that drowned out our wireless signals?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> But eventually this second generation of school gentrifiers started pushing the black students out. [..] Gradually those students and their parents began to feel less welcome at P.S. 8. It is still more integrated than the Park Slope s
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by deogeo 7y ago
According to https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/ and the chart on top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_... , that seems correct.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Leftist culture can also traditionalist about different things. From a US perspective, I would add "we are a nation of immigrants (therefore immigration should continue)" to that list.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> EM fields are not affecting protein folding. Why not? The energy needed to affect that is lower than ionization energy, so they could. And I'm not "reacting" to anything. 60 GHz radiation is sufficiently different from s
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by deogeo 7y ago
> the ancestors of modern humans interbred with at least five different archaic human groups as they moved out of Africa and across Eurasia. Now I'm confused. Isn't the consensus that there are currently no distinct human races
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by deogeo 7y ago
"So am I to understand 5G causes merely skin cancer, not brain cancer?" was mostly meant as a critique of the article, since they use shielding by skin as a defense. Otherwise yes, I'm aware that 5G is non-ionizing, and produ
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by deogeo 7y ago
> At higher radio frequencies, the skin acts as a barrier, shielding the internal organs, including the brain, from exposure. So am I to understand 5G causes merely skin cancer, not brain cancer? Or is non-ionizing radiation safe regardl
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by deogeo 7y ago
Other jobs are just as vulnerable to protests, strikes, and boycotts, so I don't see why they couldn't all be pressured to treat workers better. By your logic, workers should never fight abuse, as they'll "just get ano
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think it's highly dubious to suggest that the average American is better off due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is as the post you replied to said - the weapons sellers make money, while the rest of Americans pay them throug
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by deogeo 7y ago
All these things I am missing, yet they haven't put a dent into any immigration numbers I was able to find [1]. In fact, "The number of people who became U.S. citizens reached a five-year high in fiscal 2018" [2]. As for the
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by deogeo 7y ago
That would result in less consumer spending, so yes.
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by deogeo 7y ago
More importantly, how to at the same time make payment as frictionless and password-free, so that you do not lose any business to people having second thoughts or going to competitors! Because that is the purpose of a smartphone - to funnel
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm not saying everything is fine. I am saying that xenophobia hasn't had any political power in the US for the last half century - both legal and illegal immigration numbers can attest to that. There may be a lot of xenophobic rh
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by deogeo 7y ago
Or they will have jobs at other retailers, that will step in to take Amazon's market.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Very hard, especially for non-ethnic Chinese, as there is about 1 million immigrants in China, total (that's 0.07%): > He said the policies, much like those of Japan and South Korea, were “predicated on a very strong nation-state
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by deogeo 7y ago
> There's a powerful, xenophobic political movement that has made him president, and there's a mainstream political party that wins more elections than it loses, that panders to that constituency. So very powerful, winning so m
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sure, but, from a Biblical legalistic point of view, then the appropriate New Testament passage should be cited.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> No, the two strategies differ That "No" is unwarranted - the strategies differ in the way you say, but they coincide in the way the post your responded to says.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The 10 Commandments are Old Testament, which the New Testament supersedes, no? Same logic as how stoning of adulterers got canceled.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> In order for the economics of having a personal servant to work out, there needs to be a fairly grotesque level of income inequality, driven by high levels of societal and legal inequality. If the master has 10x the income of their ser
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by deogeo 7y ago
> My communication, teamwork, and managerial skills are poor and always will be. Could you elaborate on how they're poor? And why you think it won't/can't change? You seem to have expressed yourself very clearly in th
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by deogeo 7y ago
Better not give consumers the choice though, just in case.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The whole shady passing-fees-to-willing-consumers thing is just business. Advertising one price and charging another looks like textbook fraud to me... Edit: I guess we could take free market ideas to their limit, and allow companies t
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by deogeo 7y ago
It references an article, not just an abstract. The conclusion of said article reads: The broader application of this procedure to other areas of the world with different population, infrastructure and disease characteristics warrants furt
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by deogeo 7y ago
It.s on top of http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/ : Circumcision of Male Infants. Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2010.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Interestingly, they reference a statement from 1996 which is no longer the current position. They reference both current and historical statements, I assume on purpose to show how the position has evolved. For the case of Australia, th

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