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by refurb 9mo ago
Looking at net support is an odd way to look at the data. Overall approval of Trump's immigration policy is floating around 50% +/- 5%. That means 1 out of every 2 Americans support it. That seems quite high to me.
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by refurb 9mo ago
None of those things you stated are accurate. Citizens do not need to carry papers. Federal law enforcement (what you call “masked men”) cannot enter your property without a search warrant, nor take whoever they want without a I-200 or I-20
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by refurb 9mo ago
> Citizens would have to put up with some pretty draconian living conditions to ensure zero illegal migration. I don’t agree. It’s a matter of incentives. If you know entering the US illegally means you stand a high chance of being dep
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by refurb 9mo ago
Changing laws is irrelevant if the executive chooses to ignore them. It would be better to actually enforce the immigration laws we have right now, and see where we land. Then make changes from there.
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by refurb 9mo ago
That logic doesn't hold up. Legal immigration - as is today - is about 1% of the US population. That's pretty standard, and would result in an slowly increasing population. But regardless, saying "we need immigrants" th
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by refurb 9mo ago
Whose morals? Yours? And from what I remember, we weren't supposed to force others to follow our morals.
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by refurb 9mo ago
Those links are all political views. Beyond the veracity of those numbers, it is a political decision whether or not the US should be spending $150B on foreigners or Americans.
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by refurb 9mo ago
We’re not discussing valuation we’re discussing model sales?
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by refurb 9mo ago
I find it odd to completely disavow someone because you don’t agree 100% with their politics. I mean Werner Von Braun was a Nazi party member and knowingly used slave labor. Doesn’t make his rocketry advancements any less impressive. Or Ch
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by refurb 9mo ago
The number of models doesn’t seem that relevant? If anything it would make Tesla’s numbers all the more impressive being a niche market EV.
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by refurb 9mo ago
Expected value calculations are terrible unless applied to a situation of hundreds or thousands of outcomes. Otherwise you be stupid NOT to buy a lottery ticket each week.
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by refurb 9mo ago
As a scientist, the two links you provided are severely lacking in utility. The first developed a model to calculate protein function based on DNA sequence - yet provides no results of testing of the model. Until it does, it’s no better th
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by refurb 9mo ago
Yup. I met a guy in the East Bay who escaped Vietnam in 1978. Family sold everything to bribe the government to look the other way. Boat trip lasted a week - people died, mostly the youngest and oldest, their bodies thrown overboard. Thai
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by refurb 9mo ago
It’s historically incorrect though. After the 1911 Revolution imperial possessions were a few stripes of land in Shanghai. It was mostly civil war after that until 1937, and KMT fighting the Japanese. Then another civil war in 1945. Mao cou
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by refurb 9mo ago
Ive never been in a US grocery store that didnt have 20-30% of floor space dedicated to fresh veggies and fruit. Where you shoppin’?
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by refurb 9mo ago
How is it clear? Have you seen all the evidence? I’m being serious. You seem quite confident of your opinion, so I’m asking what it’s based on?
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by refurb 9mo ago
> One only has to look at the buffoonish attempts to push through charges on Comey, James and other political opponents to see that. How so? Charges were dismissed on a technicality of on the US prosecutor who brought them, not based on
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by refurb 9mo ago
Intuition? Let me put it this way - if you wanted to know a subject well, as in truly understand it, for example the current protests in Iran. Do you think you’d walk away with a good understanding from what the mainstream media says? From
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by refurb 9mo ago
Yeah, but everyone knows why. The IMF has called out that 40% of Ireland’s GDP isn’t real because it flows into and back out (back to the US mostly) due to tax schemes.
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by refurb 9mo ago
Unless you have better alternatives you’re not really saying much. And I don’t think anyone relies only on GDP. Typically you’d look at employment rates, inflation, etc.
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by refurb 9mo ago
I wish I had the kind of hubris to make a bunch of predictions that all turned out not to happen (high inflation, recession, etc) then come back a year later with more predictions and a “trust me bro, I’m 100% sure this time”
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by refurb 9mo ago
Of course landlords create supply. A renter is someone looking to rent. If someone buys a home then rents it out they just +1 the supply of rental units.
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by refurb 9mo ago
You reply seems to be a nonsequitur to my comment.
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by refurb 9mo ago
> That debt issued by a central bank to its government to productively utilize real resources is not inflationary and not really “owed” to anyone. It’s an accounting detail. This sentence doesn't make sense. "Debt issued to it
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by refurb 9mo ago
> The second secret to getting promoted is working at a company that's growing I would say this is the #1 most important factor. If a company isn’t growing, you’re relying on attrition to move up. 90% of the people I know who moved
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by refurb 9mo ago
Ok, so if you agree that infinite spending is impossible, and resource extraction is limited by the market, then what do you mean by: > There actually literally is a free lunch
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by refurb 9mo ago
> I never said anything about lending infinite money, don’t straw man me. You did say... > There actually literally is a free lunch. Debt owed to the government by itself isn’t real Which I think is reasonable to interpret as lending
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by refurb 9mo ago
The problem is you’re getting all your information from the internet (I’ll bet social media?). The impact of that is on display in this very thread. Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been
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by refurb 9mo ago
I’m sure the evidence for this is as strong as the Russiagate evidence. You don’t see the irony in claiming Trump wasn’t elected in a democratic fashion, by using undemocratic methods to force him out? I see the irony.
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by refurb 9mo ago
Vietnam, Tibet, Laos, Cambodia, India, Russia and Taiwan would argue otherwise.

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