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It's a great weigh-station for immigrants who want to eventually move to the US. Canada is easier to immigrate to as a high-skilled person.
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If some algorithm says crime is more likely to happen in neighborhoods ABC and XYZ, and therefore put more police there, doesn't seem like a problem. I would prefer more police everywhere given the crime rates. But I'm someone who
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Straight to calling people nazis! This must be parody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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Ah yes - anyone who disagrees with you is "far, far right". Mm hmm
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Considering the criticism here is that it's racist, isn't it odd that black Americans want increased police presence in their communities when compared to whites? > The share of Black adults who say police spending in their ar
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“Horrified” “monstrous” “inhumane” The language the left uses to describe anything they disagree with is shrill and argumentative. Very tired of it. Also crime prediction software isn’t making any alarm bells go off for me, especially if it
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Not every app needs a token. But it's an alternative way to fund a project, one that any dev on earth can do, and any investor on earth can fund, and the team can remain anonymous if they want. Not passing judgement on whether this is
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I know some equity investors in this who would disagree strongly with how beneficial the end game turned out to be
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It’s almost like paying for intimacy is a poor substitute for real-life love with a human being.
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Yes yes, move the goalposts, nothing anyone ever says will ever convince you. Just typical HN commenter crypto stuff.
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The Supreme Court says states can decide how to regulate abortion, and that is now the law in the land of the USA. But many cry and bemoan how this is illegitimate, immoral, wrong, and elected officials encourage their citizens to help othe
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I don’t have the energy to fight anymore here but you can go through my prior comments https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&pa
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I could respond with a long and well-argued comment but this is HN so it would get downvoted to oblivion no matter the content as it is positive towards crypto. Few on this website argue in good faith on this subject and trying to convince
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I am sorry for every individual who gets hurt and loses money. I genuinely hope they get recourse and their funds restored. I am not sorry for Voyager, 3AC, Celsius, or any firm that has insolvency issues. I do not care if liquidation pushe
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Another option if you are the technical talent is to find someone you trust to partner with on the business side. I highly recommend partnering with someone you have worked with before to ensure you can get along with them, but failing that
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No 2 businesses are alike, no 2 industries are alike, no 2 consumer profiles are alike. There is no silver bullet to solving this problem. One thing I have noticed is you really need to understand the buyer deeply - this is most easy if you
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Marketing - which is making the market aware you exist - is a fundamental element of business. Even those that do “no marketing” have to do some sort of marketing, it just isn’t the advertising sort. There is all manner of marketing possi
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Capitalism is about channeling all of the energy, resources, and effort of the most ambitious people into trying to solve other people’s problems. You win if you solve other people’s problems with some excellent combination of quality and p
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Europe pays ~10% of GDP to healthcare and you say it isn’t enough money “due to cuts”. USA pays ~20% of GDP and the left says it’s “too much” when compared to Europe. How much would you expect society to pay? Clearly it’s less than 20%, as
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Is it at-all possible that either 1) it isn’t the conservatives but a larger systemic issue Or 2) healthcare is, like all services, a market-based system where the highest-skilled gravitate towards the private sector, the highest-wealth gra
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Sadly in the USA, any hint of allowing “choice” with public schooling has you labeled a heretic by one side of our two-party system. While leftists despise monopolies in all business, they worship monopolies when it comes to schooling, no m
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The anecdotes from supposedly-superior socialized medical systems in Europe always throw cold water on USA leftist dreams. The left here has been saying it’s a utopia for a fraction of the cost for decades. The reality is so much more compl
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The brightest minds don’t go into government bureaucracies - they don’t get respect, don’t get paid, can’t get shit done, and a myriad of reasons why they go private instead. The best-staffed departments are those that have a symbiotic rela
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I would rather a private company build it, or in a public / private partnership, so we at least have some semblance of breaking-even if not a small profit. Our current train systems are so woefully wasteful, inefficient, prone to break
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I live in Massachusetts, and somehow we actually have fairly low taxation (5.25% flat tax) despite our reputation and being deep blue politically. I average about 30% total taxation in a high tax bracket. If I was trying to avoid taxes on r
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A common criticism is that “but you get so much more for your taxes in Europe”. I have a counterpoint - you get the choice of what you want to buy in the US. I’d rather keep more of my take-home pay and do without certain services, or bette
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As Goes Florida(spectatorworld.com)
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Not that far away from permanent rentals owned by the state, where you gain whatever equity is added while you temporarily control it. Then you pass the rental off to the next person. Your max monthly payment is a calculation based on your
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Author also believes in the “peak oil” thesis. There is so much oil, so insanely much, and we constantly find new sources. The biggest risk to oil is governments outlawing / taxing it to be uncompetitive.
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I’ve started to get emails followed by text messages which include my name. “Hey James, just thought I’d should you a quick text in addition to my email…” I already mark any unsolicited email from a vendor as spam. The text is way too far.

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