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by hugh3 15y ago
America has too many poor people, and not enough rich people. And it's easier (and more legal) to import rich people than to kick the poor people out. It makes sense that the countries of the world should be competing for the most talented
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by hugh3 15y ago
The only thing that bothers me about this proposal is that it might attract too many people doing PhDs for the wrong reason. And people doing PhDs for the wrong reason usually wind up doing bad research.
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by hugh3 15y ago
This doesn't do that much for the finance industry since it has to be a cash purchase. Still, I guess it'd drive prices up somewhat. The effect couldn't be huge , though... there's not that many foreigners with half a million bucks cash
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by hugh3 15y ago
They're not the only beneficiaries. I can think of a few moderately-wealthy foreign-born H1Bs (and equivalent) living in Northern California who might have half a million spare and wouldn't mind buying a $500K house and getting a free gre
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't know Jacques, but based on his name I'd guess that he's not even from the English-speaking world anyway. It's no secret, though, that English speakers have had an influence on history far out of proportion to their numbers. The worl
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by hugh3 15y ago
Of course, predicting the future with 100% certainty is impossible. But that doesn't mean that making predictions is a mug's game. Predicting the future, with appropriate levels of uncertainty, is a very sensible thing to do with your time.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Eugene Volokh wrote about this law yesterday. He addresses whether this law is inconsistent with "legal tender", and notes that a recent district court decision ruled that a very similar law was upheld and ruled not to be. http://volokh.co
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by hugh3 15y ago
So (and my eyes glazed over that huge list of objects) the threshold is "more than once a month"? That sounds... far too broad.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, if it prevents thieves from selling their stolen goods to legitimate dealers and forces them to go to specialist "fences", then the law could certainly help achieve its objective of making life more difficult for thieves. The question
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by hugh3 15y ago
I grow tired of Kurzweil's vague arguments against people who disagree with his vague predictions. What I think Kurzweil doesn't understand is that in any argument about what's going to happen in the future, the onus of proof inevitably lie
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by hugh3 15y ago
The law applies to 'second-hand dealers', and it's not clear whether this term is defined. Does it only apply to professional second-hand dealers, or to anybody selling anything?
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by hugh3 15y ago
This is an excellent idea. Having a robot to play Angry Birds for me would save a lot of time. If only they'd adapt it to play Fruit Ninja too.
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by hugh3 15y ago
And doing that doesn't feel the same as slinking around dungeons and fighting dragons, which is probably terrifying and deadly... but on the upside holds far more social prestige than playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Very few jobs, I imagine, are anything like they seem from the outside. Every glamorous-looking job has many hours of painstaking drudgery involved. On the other hand, dull-looking jobs probably have great parts that outsiders never know ab
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by hugh3 15y ago
The "natives" are immigrants too, just from slightly earlier. We're all Africans.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I thought becoming a Japanese citizen was impossible for foreigners.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe, but you can't complain if you choose to disobey the rules and they catch you. Especially when the rules are just "dumb" rather than "immoral". That is to say, the United States is morally entitled to set rules about who can and can't
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually the E3 visa lets you hang around more or less indefinitely, but it explicitly does not allow you to apply for permanent residency.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Largely. Two things killed that off -- the jet age (meaning that travelling to another continent is now easy) and the greater connection of the third world to the first world. Open borders for a rich country just aren't practical any more,
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe they got Greensboro AL (population 3000) confused with Greensboro NC (population 300,000)?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Surely that's a function of "rural" rather than "South"? You can get great internet in some parts of the South, and crappy internet if you move to remote parts of California. Or so I would assume, having never tried to get internet in the S
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by hugh3 15y ago
I, too, was hoping this article would be about The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed . It has, however, filled me with a desire to write a script that writes novels (which I could then sell on Amazon). Perhaps I'll do that for this yea
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by hugh3 15y ago
Exactly. This is a good step-by-step on how to do a nice-looking under-sea background. But to know that these few simple things are enough to make a nice-looking under-sea background -- well, that takes artistic skill.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well then, it may have served its purpose! Seriously though, there's maybe a dozen ultra-important people in the world for whom I could tolerate a reply like that. But anyone that important really should have their secretary sorting through
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by hugh3 15y ago
Interesting, and I am on Android. But the reason I keep it on vibrate is to stop it making noise every time I get a low-priority notification. What I want is for it to ring for calls and text messages, but only vibrate for emails and facebo
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by hugh3 15y ago
Maybe, but let's be realistic. We're talking about 9% unemployment rather than a "full employment" value of 5%. The US economy is perfectly capable of finding productive work for another fifteen million people, just like it was three years
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by hugh3 15y ago
Right. One-on-one lessons are the most efficient way to learn things, but not necessarily the most practical, because experts generally don't have infinite patience for stupid questions. If I were Unquestioned Emperor Of The World, I'd lear
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well, this is why you shouldn't be using semi-well-known problems as interview questions.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Not to worry, I'm sure it's highly illegal anyway.
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by hugh3 15y ago
1. Neat. Just to clarify, this doesn't require a landline? I keep my phone on vibrate all the time, which tends to mean that when I'm at home I miss a lot of calls. I'd definitely pay for a thing that looks like a regular landline phone but

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