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by hash872 2y ago
I'm a little confused. It's possible to be very pedantic and say that the current immigration law only dates back to the 60s, but the population of the United States is 97.9% not from this continent. There was a wave of British, S
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by hash872 2y ago
Letting in a lot of smart people benefits the citizens of the United States, that's why I said it's a win-win. Do you think we'd be better off if we excluded Musk to hire a native-born American instead in our aerospace indust
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by hash872 2y ago
The US is only 4% of the world's population, so there's an enormous number of extremely smart people who live outside its present borders. I don't think anyone believes that even the world's greatest educational system c
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by hash872 2y ago
The current bar under the 1st Amendment is very high
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by hash872 2y ago
TikTok isn't 'foreign', it's a Delaware corporation. Its parent company is foreign. If you think having a foreign parent company is somehow a magic loophole in the 1st Amendment, do you think the US government can force
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by hash872 2y ago
Just find random Microsoft executives off LinkedIn, figure out their work email, and cc them on the conversation. I would search for anyone in 'privacy' and related keywords. One of them will see your email, mysteriously escalate
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by hash872 2y ago
1. The Trump era automatic 20% deduction for LLC or corporate income. Totally unjustifiable, it's 20% off your revenue for everyone with a company for no public policy reason that I know of 2. You can mostly avoid paying into SS/M
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by hash872 2y ago
If the US had a population of 1 billion it would still be half the population density of Germany. I do not share your goal of leaving half of our continent sparsely populated for the sake of 'conservation'
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by hash872 2y ago
I don't hate your argument, but the Arab Spring citation is some idealism from over a decade ago. The Arab Spring mostly failed and almost all of those countries remained autocracies?
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by hash872 2y ago
As OP notes, the 'Free Tibet' cause was very popular in the 90s when the US was not seen as being in a great-power conflict with China. So I don't think your 2nd sentence is correct. Your 1st sentence is just classic whatabou
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by hash872 2y ago
I don't think that macroeconomics is an empirical field, so when people say 'it's textbook stuff' that doesn't impress me. I don't believe the textbook. People want to pretend that economics is like physics or
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by hash872 2y ago
>the realtor commission would be around $20,000. That's $20,000 cash equity that is taken out of my hands Not to defend the current real estate industry too much, but if the sellers were not paying $20k for a buyer's agent, the
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by hash872 2y ago
A blockade is like the least likely thing to happen. Taiwan has years of foods & oil stored up already, so it would take a very long time to be effective. Meanwhile I've seen projections that China's economy would immediately
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by hash872 2y ago
Not a trade lawyer but as I understand it, WTO treaty obligations specifically forbid the kind of purchase guarantees that Ben's arguing for here. Part of the whole point of the WTO is to to pull up the ladder and prevent countries fro
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by hash872 2y ago
I wish 'AI' (whatever that means) safety conversations could move past the pointless philosophizing of whether a system is self-aware or not. Regardless of whether it's sentient, which is a philosophical question that probabl
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by hash872 2y ago
I think I understand the confusion- awkward sentence construction on my part. I am noting that all of the presidential systems that have collapsed so far have followed the exact same pattern. I am not sayin that all presidencies are autocra
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by hash872 2y ago
No, the political appointees who run the EPA do change with a different administration. In the US system, the president (via appointees) runs the agencies. Yes, the rulebooks are literally rewritten every 4-8 years. EPA examples, Trump rene
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by hash872 2y ago
I have a pretty low opinion of judicial review, but I'm not clear that reviewing actions by administrative agencies actually qualifies as JR. Review is when the courts strike down actual laws passed by Congress. In this case it's
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by hash872 2y ago
Handing more & more power to a president is exactly how all of the other presidential systems in the world have collapsed into autocracy. I do not think the oil & gas industry 'owns' more than a minority of Congressmen and
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by hash872 2y ago
I see them in small towns all over that absolutely do not have 10k in daily people foot traffic, including the town that I grew up in. So that cannot be accurate
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by hash872 2y ago
People in rural parts of the country don't have fast-enough Internet to stream Netflix. At least not without it being unacceptably choppy
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by hash872 2y ago
It's popular in rural areas where people don't have fast enough Internet to stream movies. And/or, they can't afford Internet speeds that fast. Not a demographic you're going to see represented on HN much, but a lot
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by hash872 2y ago
Would be interesting to hear Rachel's take on all the contract recruiting (?) firms that claim to do the same thing, test candidates and then provide them to employers- just on remote contracts for temp work. The OG in this space is To
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by hash872 2y ago
He leaves out examples that contradict his thesis, like the 1977 New York blackout which lead to widespread arson and looting. (1) Plus similar widespread rioting in Montreal in the 60s when the police went on strike. (2) Wiki also suggest
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by hash872 2y ago
Eh. Sectoral bargaining is very very different from the much more-confrontational US model where individual firms unionize, to the extent that I don't really think they should even be in the same category as each other. In an alternate
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by hash872 3y ago
Your quoted text says 'unless required to do so by law, regulation'. H1-Bs would legally require a visa transfer to switch employers, and the company can simply choose to not sponsor or transfer that visa. Thus, the worker is not
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by hash872 3y ago
The H1-B program allows a large number of people into the US, and frankly they vary a ton in how 'skilled' they are. Some are super-smart, some are mediocre, some are just bad. This really confounds the human tendency to make simp
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by hash872 3y ago
You absolutely can discriminate on the criteria of 'will this person require a visa now or at any point in the future', and tons of companies put that requirement right in their job postings. If your company told you otherwise the
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by hash872 3y ago
I'm not a huge fan of this kind of safetyism argument. Human beings have been injured or killed by most fields of human endeavor, it's certainly unfortunate but unless Richard Serra specifically was engaged in some kind of neglige
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by hash872 3y ago
>but it's important to let the FDA do their work The FDA has been 'working' on authorizing sunscreen widely used in the rest of the developed world for the last 20 years, or since the original Dubya administration. This is

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