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by jpadkins 1y ago
I agree the current process is broken. I disagree that you don't replace it with something workable. Like many govt regulations, it's several decades out of date. Heck, a simple "I submit under the penalty of perjury that at
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by jpadkins 1y ago
under-employment != unemployment. I carefully selected my words. And you switched from nurses to highly-qualified engineers. qualified nurses are having to get jobs at retail, etc to survive. For some sectors, it's importing cheap l
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by jpadkins 1y ago
No, his campaign pledges stated: 6. Ensure Our Legal Immigration System Puts American Workers First Republicans will prioritize Merit-based immigration, ensuring those admitted to our Country contribute positively to our Society and Economy
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by jpadkins 1y ago
the counterfactual is 'is there an equally qualified nurse who didn't get the position?' There is a lot of under-employment for highly qualified US citizens.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
The top end of H1B has been great for America. In the last few decades, there has been growth of abuse of the program to get mid level talent at below market rates which really hurts the middle class in America. People need to understand
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by jpadkins 1y ago
hard disagree on the 'search for qualified citizen' or something to replace it. American policy needs to put Americans first. Your other points are a good start. The main thing I would add is a floor on salary. H1B for a >$20
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Sounds like you want Hawaii to exit the USA, which I also support. One tenant of freedom is Right to exit. If a super majority of Hawaiians want to leave the USA, they should! Any group of people in a geographic area should have the righ
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Whether or not people live in Hawaii is not the question. Of course in a free society you can live wherever you want. The question is is it good for the mainlanders to subsidize or give money to people in Hawaii to live next to volcanoes.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
interesting, thanks for the info! I disagree it is humanitarian to entice people to live in more dangerous areas.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
came here to say this. We really don't want to subsidize people living next to active volcanoes. If you agree with that, then you can extend the analogy to all other forms of predictable natural disasters.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
The more direct cinema example would be sneaking into the theater and there were empty seats (so you did not deny anyone else access to the movie). Is that morally fine? You watched the movie, the creator doesn't get paid.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
You mean US history books * ? It's not my place to decide. It's a free society. * from my PoV, US history books taught in classrooms deny or downplay the genocide of native American people, so of which were my ancestors. But I
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by jpadkins 1y ago
I'm familiar with how sanctions work wrt advertisers / publishers. It would be totally fine if a court or similar institution said "here is a list of propaganda orgs, please limit what ads they can buy in our jurisdiction&qu
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Ad networks apply editorial oversight with respect to their own published policies* I am not aware of any ad network policies that approach the subject of "what is true" or "what is propaganda". They also apply restric
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by jpadkins 1y ago
The Banks don't determine if you are a terrorist or what not. They comply with the order when a judge gives them a lawful order to freeze accounts. I think it's okay to deputize corporations for the execution of the law in the
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Can you give examples of laws that put editorial standards on publishers? I am not familiar with any (I mostly know US stuff). A quick search only returned: - Disclosure of Advertorial Content: U.S. law requires that if paid content is pr
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by jpadkins 1y ago
ok, call it theft of services. You used the service but blocked how the creator makes money on the service. Is it really different from someone who runs out of a barber or restaurant?
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by jpadkins 1y ago
> Google did not pro-actively vet the truth of Israeli government claims It is really scary that people are pushing for Google and Meta to be the arbiter of truth. I don't think people realize what they are asking for. Western civ
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by jpadkins 1y ago
That case is about Google's publisher ad tech product (Google Ad Manager), not search ads (which was covered in Judge Mehta's ruling today).
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by jpadkins 1y ago
I can't take paper seriously when they have sentences like this: > In an agentic web, systems will autonomously discover optimal vendors and evaluate solutions without human research, establish dynamic API integrations in real-time
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by jpadkins 1y ago
> Chat is a horrible way to interact with computers Chat is like the command line, but with easier syntax. This makes it usable by an order of magnitude more people. Entertainment tasks lend themselves well to GUI type interfaces. Info
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Don't Steal. Governments hate competition.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
so if a junior dev checks in 4k lines of crap code in the codebase, is that progress? And what do you call the more senior engineer that advises we make changes carefully, and that there are subtle, important reasons why systems are working
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by jpadkins 1y ago
The OPM from the US government is defined as a relative wealth function, so technically it has to exist. Also you can compare the standard of living of someone above the poverty line in 1910 vs someone below the poverty line 2010, and 99%
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by jpadkins 1y ago
no, I think a fair + just world, both parties agree before they transact. There is no force in either direction (don't force creators to give their content on terms they don't want, don't force users to view ads they don&#x2
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by jpadkins 1y ago
> 1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees. I disagree. The website should have the right to say that the user can be shown the content under specific conditions (usage terms, presented h
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by jpadkins 1y ago
> Its job is to control the value of the dollar. Thank you for the softball! Since the 1913, the dollar has lost 95% of its value [source https://disciplinefunds.com/2024/07/23/the-death-of-the-doll... Th
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by jpadkins 1y ago
I've done some research. I didn't find any arguments on why un-elected bureaucracies are better than the status quo. The Federal Reserve is the currently most independent "agency" we have (privately owned corporation wi
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by jpadkins 1y ago
federal departments have always been staffed by political hacks and flunkies. This is not a new phenomenon. But no one has articulated a better way that is also responsive to the electorate. Monarchy would probably result in a much more e
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Yes, I am very aware. And the executive branch is led by a democratically elected President who appoints the heads of the departments and is responsible for the successful execution of the laws. There is no concept of an "independent&

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