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Immigrants who apply for a change in status might be deported if denied(qz.com)
6 points by hello_1234 8y ago|1 comments
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by hello_1234 8y ago
I don't know where you got your information from. It's half true. No, immigrants do not have abysmal rates of employment. The unemployment rate for foreign-born persons in the United States was 4.1 percent in 2017 compared to 4.4
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by hello_1234 8y ago
If you lose a piece of an old memory from sleep deprivation, you are not going to magically get it back once you catch up on your sleep. It has happened to me when I pulled all-nighters. I just couldn't remember that friend's name
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by hello_1234 8y ago
Looking at comments above, I find it extremely disheartening about how bitter Americans have become. Why are people celebrating the downfall of Apple - the company that comprises 3.94% of S&P 500, and is probably the single biggest hold
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by hello_1234 8y ago
Don't our brains also extrapolate? I am sure our eyes feed the brain at a limited frequency, and the brain combines and extrapolates the images to create the illusion of smooth streams.
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by hello_1234 8y ago
I wonder if narcissism and individualism are also linked to higher suicide rates.
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by hello_1234 8y ago
I see this sentiment quite often on hackernews. Despite having more than enough, we are just bitter than we don't have more and it's blinding us from enjoying what we have. Immigrants are just the scapegoats.
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by hello_1234 8y ago
We are talking about MIT. Their acceptance rate is around 6%. I am sure they get plenty of applications from the smartest American undergrads. Assuming that they choose the best and the brightest, it makes sense that they would have student
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by hello_1234 8y ago
Depression is a real disease. It should and can be treated. Stanford professor Sapolsky on depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
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by hello_1234 8y ago
Competition is great but when the narrative starts leaning towards "Us vs Them" and "We are at war" and countries start actively sabotaging each other, then we have a problem.
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Trump Orders a Lifeline for Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants(nytimes.com)
1 points by hello_1234 8y ago|2 comments
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by hello_1234 8y ago
Every day or two I see something new about facebook on hackernews front page, and pretty much all the discussion boils down to "how awful facebook is", "oh, I quit it five years ago, I don't understand those people who s