mkaziz

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by mkaziz 10y ago
I mean, the US way works. Immigration, especially of skilled labour, lends real tangible benefits to the US, its growth, and its culture.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I really don't see a way out for Japan that's not immigration. It might lead to social upheaval, but it sounds like that kind of change is sorely needed. A well executed immigration policy could inject fresh blood into that countr
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by mkaziz 10y ago
If they're asking for your religion for the purposes of deciding whether to let you into the country or not, or detain your or not, doesn't that open the door to being discriminated against /for your religion/?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
They're allowed to ask a US Citizen their religion? Isn't that a protected class?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I want to see the smirk on Obama's face so badly right now.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Would you mind answering a few questions? I'm curious how you published your novel (self vs traditional), how you marketed, what your sales were like, etc.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Your last paragraph there speaks volumes about my own writing ability. Any advice on how to overcome the handicap of being too rational? (In my writing, it manifests as all my characters being unnaturally reasonable)
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by mkaziz 10y ago
So I actually don't know much about the subject. Could you (or anyone else) describe what the difference is?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
How much extra time investment does it take you to do that?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
More radiation = more mutations = healthier/faster evolution!
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Or they could just say, migrate your phone number elsewhere.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Upvoted you for the civil response. I think you are viewing censorship apparatus as on a good -> bad spectrum. There is also the spectrum of the scale of censorship. For example: HRC's "sex ring" (obviously false facts mis
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by mkaziz 10y ago
False dichotomy. You can have a censorship apparatus that allows only fake news. At the same time, it's also clear that fake news is being used to justify all sorts of political things that are leading to intensified divisions and hatr
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by mkaziz 10y ago
How should we handle the phenomenon of fake news being virally circulated in social media
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Great for someone like you or me who know not to trust everything you read on facebook. Not so great for my 60yo dad who still believes pretty much everything he sees online, and doubly so when he reads it on facebook because it was a &quot
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I was a foreign student, and I ended up assimilating by becoming friends with first gen Americans (children of immigrants). Once I got used to a handful of cultural norms (took about a year or two), it became easy to interact with Americans
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by mkaziz 10y ago
You need a lot of capital to get involved in the above, no?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Yeesh, minimize civilian deaths? "The Iraq Body Count project (IBC) figure of Documented civilian deaths from violence is 155,923 – 174,355 as of March 2016. This includes reported civilian deaths due to Coalition and insurgent militar
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I let the newspeople follow him, and reserve my winces for when the tweets are bad enough to make headlines.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I think the idea is that you don't want to work at a place where that memo is needed in the first place.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
forgive me if I misunderstand, but isn't negative income tax only negative until you hit a certain amount of income (let's say the federal poverty level) and then start getting taxed normally via the brackets?
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Ah I didn't know that. Super cool, thanks for sharing
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I really wish Congressmen didn't have federal healthcare, and they had to use the same insurance us plebeians use. That would help them fix up the system real fast.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Obviously a line needs to be drawn, the question is where it is drawn. A good rule of thumb is that if it doesn't hurt anyone else and is between consenting people (adults?), you should be able to tolerate it. But you are right of cour
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by mkaziz 10y ago
> As a result, I must agree that it is possible that a woman in an interfaith marriage may be executed for it, with no other reason necessary, under recognized interpretations of Sharia law. The thing with Sharia is that it is loose eno
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by mkaziz 10y ago
With enough power and political will, fighting other types leads to genocide. I am truly sorry you live in a difficult place. Your best bets would be to immigrate to a place that does have institutions (US, Germany), or to work hard to buil
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by mkaziz 10y ago
> You can have wars but those rarely result in genocide. Civil wars had much worse outlook on that. WWII and Nazi Germany > However when there are Christians (or Muslim) in your country, it's pretty real that suddently the regime
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by mkaziz 10y ago
> If she is female then your religion tells you to murder her. That's in the books. That's sad but true. That's a crazy bit of misinformation right there.
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by mkaziz 10y ago
Disagree. If you as a Muslim live as a Muslim surrounded by Muslims, you're eventually going to otherize the Christians living across the border. If OTOH your neighbour is a Christian and your cousin is married to a Christian, you&#x27
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by mkaziz 10y ago
I think the lesson is how easy it is for humans to split into groups and start slaughtering each other, and that we need incredible amounts of education to guard against that.

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