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by helveticaman 17y ago
"And nearly every CEO will tell you how much added cost and hassle there is in hiring a foreign-born worker—they do it because they physically can not find enough appropriately skilled workers in the U.S." I've been thinking about this a lo
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Source?
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A Surprise Increase in Jobless Claims(nytimes.com)
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Oh yeah. In fact, coca leaves used to be distributed by the Catholic church. Now, I totally agree with the part about the chemicals. I mean, you can do the same thing with coffee: taking caffeine pills is dangerous and can lead to a fata
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by helveticaman 17y ago
That's what cocaine costs in Brazil and Argentina. $2 a line. I've read that in Australia there are heroine addicts on whom everyone has given up hope of rehab who have normal, janitorial jobs to pay for their habits. They get the horse f
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by helveticaman 17y ago
So it's fake yet satisfying. Would it be like porn for the intellect, then?
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by helveticaman 17y ago
What if the economy is a shitstorm? I'm not talking about right now, either; I'm talking about an Argentina-style, complete meltdown. What then? Can it become implausible to do well?
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by helveticaman 17y ago
There are many young kings throughout history, for young =< 32. The difference may have been that this was acceptable and even expected at the time. So I stand by what I said; this is age discrimination on false grounds.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
"How intoxicating for someone just 32 years old." Maybe. Asshole thing to say, though.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
From experience: if you drop out at 19, know that things can get seriously fucked up. Now I'm 21, and the startup I stopped out for for nine months went nowhere. It can also throw a wrench in your college experience. Just...if you want to
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I aspire to being neither humble nor arrogant perception of myself; I aspire to having an accurate perception of my self worth in every area.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Yeah, but you get credibility in the process.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I'd call the Dutch a small population...but yes, you are right. They're not the tallest. But going from Chile to US, it's astounding how much taller people there are.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
No, I don't. But I've asked doctors, and they say the nervous system takes up between 20 and 30% of a person's caloric intake. A third is spent on maintenance and two thirds on firing synapses. Apparently it's ridiculously energy-intensi
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by helveticaman 17y ago
My guess is that this is happening because food is not a limiting factor right now, nor has it been in the last century or so. This meant that the canon of female beauty changed from plump to toned, because it was suddenly more important t
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Maybe their ovules are more receptive to heavier sperm or can detect whether a sperm is XX. Or fertilized eggs that are girls attach more easily. There are a lot of ways this can be the case.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Different rules. In the presidential election, the candidate is like the post. It has to root for itself.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
You know, in Chile there is now a cable provider that promotes its lack of caps on p2p. It actually plays it up. http://www.bandaancha2.cl/ Goes to show capitalism works.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Wouldn't this imply news aggregators like HN would have to pay to post links?
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Creative destruction at its finest.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I wanted a map.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Thank goodness. Highschool and elementary are shitty times for nerds.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I disagree, but voted it up for the interesting counterpoint.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Well, hopefully now on his second attempt he gets better leverage on the deal.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I upvoted the OP so more people could read this post. I read HN for the comments first and the OP second, and this is an example why.
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by helveticaman 17y ago
Supposition they'll get more money from the government in a continuous wave of "assistance for the next x months."
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by helveticaman 17y ago
I think that it doesn't matter how much energy it wastes provided you'll only use it for your laptop. 1/(1-.45) * $1 a month is still negligible compared to the pain in the ass it is to get it plugged in every time you want to use it. At
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by helveticaman 17y ago
The length organisms will go to reproduce is "as far as it takes".
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by helveticaman 17y ago
But that is still different from "no matter how hard I tried, I could never dunk."
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by helveticaman 17y ago
The Fed/Treasury/Gov triumvirate is getting mortaller every time it has to monetize treasury bonds.

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