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by robotrout 8y ago
The premise of the article was to use a capitalist supply and demand metric (salary) as a way to fairly allow merit based immigration. I think that strategy makes a lot of sense, and was making the point that our hypothetical midwest compa
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by robotrout 8y ago
I"m not sure this should be a consideration. If that midwest company cannot compete, it should not exist. That is tghe essence of capitalism. You should not subsidize it by making it not compete fairly for H1B applicants.
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by robotrout 8y ago
Any digital analogy fails, since the biological signals attenuate with distance from source. A digital gate acts as a repeater, re-boosting the signal strength to original level. That is not the case with neurons/dendrites. Perhaps a
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by robotrout 8y ago
Your logic allows me to lock up all hardware in an Applesqe way and get praised for my altruism as I pocket hundreds of millions in extra peripheral sales. The world has gotten this far with standards that allow equipment from different man
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by robotrout 8y ago
But I was told that anybody that disagreed with the liberal bubble mentality of silicon valley was either a russian bot or was Brett Kavanaugh on a bender.
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by robotrout 8y ago
That was a very educational tweet steam. I hadn't heard of 2/3rds of the issues he raised.
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by robotrout 8y ago
There was mention of one being discovered buried inside the FR4 PCB material.
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by robotrout 8y ago
Not me. But it reinforces my commitment to never get attached to any Google service. The new GMail is also helping me with that.
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by robotrout 8y ago
Inflation can indeed be caused by supply and demand, which is what you're referring to. However, if an open market is allowed (no price controls), generally supply will rise to meet demand and price will fall back. Unfortunately, infl
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by robotrout 8y ago
> nobody's falling for the lies. They're too transparent. I would be pleased if you did not personally insult those who you are speaking to. The lack of evidence is a farce, since any attempts to collect such evidence are met w
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by robotrout 8y ago
Nonsense. We've been asking for voter id for years and you've been opposing it for years. Why is that? You talk about conspiracy theories. This notion that there is this huge population of legal, eligible voters who are functi
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by robotrout 8y ago
I will support any system that insures that all voters have verified citizenship.
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by robotrout 8y ago
I'm sure their friendly neighborhood community organizer will charter a bus for them to get their ID cards. If they're citizens, there will be somebody who wants their vote badly enough to walk them through that process and even
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by robotrout 8y ago
I prefer a physical thing that somebody has to physically steal, hide, replace, destroy. Something that can be signed for, locked up, and monitored with cameras for years after an election. Computers are about convenience. Elections are i
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by robotrout 8y ago
No, it removes them from one, since the decision is made by the state, not by hubby and brother. Also, appeasement is not the answer. This fundamentalist backslide that has occurred over the last 40 years must be confronted, not encourage
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by robotrout 8y ago
That's sad that liberals consistently condemn christian fundamentalism but never fail to coddle Muslim fundamentalism out of some misguided liberal virtue signalling. Muslim women had it much better 40 years ago. Why are liberals so
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by robotrout 8y ago
I applaud France's action here. Should have done it earlier. These women are often forced to wear such garments or face severe retribution from their fundamentalist communities. Making it illegal allows them a similar loophole that
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by robotrout 8y ago
There is some of this in the "Bobiverse" trilogy which I very highly recommend. Funny and Smart.
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by robotrout 8y ago
What reasons exactly? Will the governments being dissuaded from influencing ours include allies such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and the UK? Or will it just be Russia, Iran, and China? I would personally be in favor of stopping our allies from
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by robotrout 8y ago
I did a 10 second google. Here's a couple where the NYT issued their little correction as unobtrusively as possible, which happens often, after they enjoy the click-bait traffic the erroneous story give them. http://www.fox
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by robotrout 8y ago
Exactly. Price controls result in famines and shortages. Allow gouging, and the gouger will soon have competition to drive the price down. Very quickly, the price will drop to a reasonable level. Conversely, if you price control, there i
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by robotrout 8y ago
I would love an opensource replacement for Evernote. But it must allow me to clip images into it. Life is not always just text, and most of the programs that people claim they use to replace Evernote are text only. Evernote also allows me
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by robotrout 8y ago
The last 10 years of "recovery" have themselves been on the back of more and more credit and leverage. Pointing to them as some sort of proof that the system is not fragile is an error. The system has much more debt than it did
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by robotrout 8y ago
The rails? The car will travel over a stationary structure, not be pulled up by a pulley like a conventional elevator is. So it is failure of that stationary structure that we are talking about.
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by robotrout 8y ago
The whole "life expectancy" calculation which takes into account infant mortality, death by accident, death by childbirth, death by violence, etc., seems to cloud the issue that most people are more interested in, which is "d
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by robotrout 8y ago
As the supply of available money increases, there is no incentive not to increase tuition. Any system that is flooded with money experiences price inflation. Because students are not able to discharge their debt in bankruptcy, they constit
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by robotrout 8y ago
Nice that your mom got better with her breast cancer. I'm sure you know that a lot of breast cancer "survivors" are victims of an over hyped mammogram screening that calls any lump, no matter how slow growing, "cancer&q
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by robotrout 8y ago
OK. You tell your mom that, after she's gotten cancer, asshole. How did her lifestyle cause her cancer in her ovaries (another inflammation caused cancer), I wonder? While you're chastising your mom for her lifestyle, the rest
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by robotrout 8y ago
Yes, there are many causes. We are in violent agreement. If you focus on the causes, you are preventing cancer, not curing it. You are playing whack-a-mole.
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by robotrout 8y ago
What if your product never gets built, because you are unwilling/unable to navigate the legal and regulatory barriers that have been set up to keep you out? Not many startups do medical devices. Everybody knows why not. Many other in

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