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by hash872 1y ago
It's their private property, they can ban or promote any ideas that they want to. You're free to not use their property if you disagree with that. If 'silencing people' doesn't work- so online platforms aren't
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by hash872 1y ago
What is Youtube a 'near monopoly' in? Online video.....? Do you have any idea how much video there is online that's not on Youtube? They don't meet the legal definition of a monopoly
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by hash872 1y ago
>the journey to modern democracies involved centuries of concessions by kings to the emerging middle classes Eh, sort of disagree. The journey to modern democracy started with centuries of concessions by kings, first to other nobles (Mag
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by hash872 1y ago
Fun fact, but there's essentially zero correlation between income inequality & wealth inequality- and the Nordics have some of the highest wealth inequality in the world. For example in 2019 by Gini coefficient, the most unequal co
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by hash872 1y ago
Adam Tooze's grandfather was one of the most notorious Soviet moles/traitors in British history, so I guess I don't find it surprising that he's found a new Communist regime to hang his hat on. (For anyone saying 'h
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by hash872 1y ago
It's just incredible to me that Blade Runner predicted this in literally the very first scene of the movie. The whole thing's about telling humans from robots! Albeit rather more dramatically than the stakes for any of us in front
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by hash872 1y ago
H1-Bs are overwhelmingly new grads, and have been since the inception of the visa. The purpose of a system is what it does- H1-Bs are issued to new grads, hence the point of the visa is to hire new grads. You may want a different system, bu
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by hash872 1y ago
I just don't think that salaries are high enough for engineers that have been working for 2 years, that we can employ a market-based model for just the highest paid ones. I guess to be fair you could lengthen the OPT visa period to lik
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by hash872 1y ago
But most H1-Bs are brand new grads, so their salary is just not very high. You'd be kicking out every 22 year old graduate of Stanford, Harvard etc. if you enforced a pay scale. The US has had a public policy since the 60s of making it
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by hash872 1y ago
They're not tied to a particular employer, this is a myth that will seemingly never die. H1-Bs are transferrable between employers. I know multiple people in both my professional & personal life who have done so easily https:&#x2F
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by hash872 1y ago
The problem with this argument is that most non-spouse H1-Bs are granted to new college grads who just graduated from a US college. Brand new engineers do not have very high salaries, so if you insisted on a 'highest wages' system
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by hash872 1y ago
Basically all of the problems with the H1-B system could be fixed overnight by simply banning visa holders from working for consulting companies. 'No visa holder may be employed by a company whose main business is consulting for other
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by hash872 1y ago
Seems like a non-sequitur. 'Corruption' is typically not an issue in civil disputes. 'Influence peddling' and 'political horse trading' are not the subject of civil litigation. If you think 'corruption&#x2
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by hash872 1y ago
Thank God I've never been involved in serious litigation, but his description of the process sounds absolutely wild to me. Reminder that the US is a global outlier in 'loser doesn't pay winners' attorneys' fees&#x27
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by hash872 1y ago
An appellate court overturned & greatly limited the Microsoft decision and found that the judge had engaged in misconduct. An appellate court has nothing to do with the administration in charge at the time
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by hash872 1y ago
I don't think it's possible to be in compliance with every law in every jurisdiction simultaneously. There are over 300,000 federal laws in the US, and apparently no one knows how many laws each of the 50 states has. That's 1
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by hash872 1y ago
Perfecting Parliament, by Roger Congleton. It's a history of the global move towards parliamentary systems. Obviously not primarily an economics book, but he does touch on some econ themes- here Congleton quoted Adam Smith on American
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by hash872 1y ago
Fun fact, the US has always had some of the highest wages in the world- even dating back to colonial times before 1776. Adam Smith did a detailed accounting of them, going occupation-by-occupation and noting that American colonist wages wer
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by hash872 2y ago
Congressional (or executive branch.....) stock trading is completely unacceptable and should be totally banned. Full stop. With that being said- the idea that they're outperforming the market I think has been debunked several times. I&
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by hash872 2y ago
BJJ. Good luck, but just so you know- SLAP tears don't heal on their own. There's not enough bloodflow to the area, and the actual physical substance of the labrum for the both of us has been ripped apart. It may or may not bother
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by hash872 2y ago
Unfortunately my disposable income to spend on experimental medical treatments is slightly less than Marc Benioff's :(
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by hash872 2y ago
So are stem cells a 'real' thing now? I can never tell, and I'm not sure that I trust a website called 'medicalxpress' (which has a nag screen that ominously warns me about the 'consequences' of my using a
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by hash872 2y ago
RIP George Foreman. As a former combat sports fan, I find it increasingly difficult to watch. These guys (and gals) are doing enormous brain damage to themselves & their opponents. Foreman seemed to have been an outlier that came out OK
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by hash872 2y ago
If there are 'mass layoffs in hundreds of sectors of the economy at once', then the economy immediately goes into Great Depression 2.0 or worse. Consumer spending is two-thirds of the US economy, when everyone loses their jobs and
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by hash872 2y ago
The discussion was about scoring. In order to score the fight, you do need to process it in somewhat real time. I don't think waiting a few days to find out who won is going to be acceptable to fans
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by hash872 2y ago
>Boxing for example could calculate the amount of kinetic energy brought to the table and how much of it landed or was sidestepped. How much was absorbed? Not easy to do, but also not impossible It would be pretty difficult to do in a co
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by hash872 2y ago
(I really don't like this but) I definitely expect the future will involve ubiquitous on-person video & audio recording. People will walk around with devices that constantly record every interaction, which will eventually seem norm
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by hash872 2y ago
Yes, one of my ideas that I've had for a couple of years is that the US should impose the following sanction on Russia for invading Ukraine- all Russian scientists & engineers in a narrow range of critical industries (nuclear weapo
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by hash872 2y ago
I think the main point that I want to make is that attracting all of the world's smartest people to our country, and staying the world's superpower in technology & science, does have extremely 'clear and defined benefits
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by hash872 2y ago
But we're all descended from immigrants. Do you think it was wrong when the British & Italian & Irish & German all moved here en masse? Assuming no, what would be different about the latest wave of immigrants?

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