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by simplecomplex 8y ago
Most citizens are not net contributors to welfare. It sounds like you dislike welfare, not immigrants. People who come here legally and illegally are just like you and me, wanting the same things, to work, live, and provide a better future
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The widespread killing (and other abuses) of Rohingya is done by the Burmese Army as part of offensives against the independence armies in Rakhine state, not by people who read anti-muslim posts on FB and then go out and murder people. Burm
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The article presents no evidence that Facebook ended Free Basics because of media pressure. The likely reason is commercial. Many of those areas now have better internet and phone penetration, so there is less to gain for Facebook.
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They didn’t make it worse. The situation in Myanmar has been happening since before anyone there was using Facebook... Ethnic violence, hatred, military junta, none of it was brought about by Facebook.
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Facebook has nothing to do with Sin Ma Kaw having anti-Muslim laws, and Muslim free areas have been instituted by the Burmese army all over Myanmar since at least 2012. Ethnic cleansing and ethno-religious conflict with Rohingya has been ha
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Equating someone moving to the town you live in (wherever they come from) and breaking into your home is disingenuous and childish.
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Estimates show undocumented immigrants are net contributors to welfare, they pay taxes but they can’t apply for most benefits that they’re paying into. Half of undocumented immigrants pay taxes. Source: https://itep.org/wp-c
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Why is it so expensive?
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In-n-out double-double is $3.45, and they don’t use frozen or prepackaged patties. Automation isn’t doing much for consumers here.
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BitTorrent with DHT, upload to lots of places.
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Ask HN: What does successful product development and specification look like?
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Your website doesn’t work with mobile screen sizes. The text is cutoff.
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Acronyms should also be capitalized.
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SQL is an initialism. Please capitalize it, as it should be. It stands for Standard Query Language.
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Why spend time building an API at all? Just point Postgrest at your PostreSQL database and you get a REST api for free. There’s similar projects for graphql and other DBs.
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I can’t think of any pros. Most startups I worked at had long hours and shitty pay, with a hefty dose of koolaid. Most lacked any sort of business plan besides “raise more money”. Stock options at startups are worthless, since there’s no ma
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This might be to prevent a cash back loophole. Most banks don’t allow getting cash from a credit account. The cash back loophole works like this: buy crypto on coinbase with credit card, then immediately sell and transfer to checking accoun
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This isn’t a new business model and plenty of people and organizations already charge money for newsletters or subscriptions for content. There’s been plenty of academic papers from economists focusing on journalism detailing the issues, bu
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Finally, someone talking about the fact that literally all school shooters are males, and many of them are fatherless or have estranged relationships with their fathers: http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/14/gue
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Cold medicine is usually a combination of Acetaminophen, Dextromethorphan, and Phenelyphrine. ALL of which are no better than placebo in randomized trials and meta studies, especially when you exclude industry funded ones or at doses found
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500 “Internal Server Error” is the code you should be using for generic server errors.
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Many common western products are borderline fraud: Cold medicines and pretty much all beauty products for example. The FDA doesn’t care that the majority of cold medicines in Walgreens don’t work better than placebo because they’re deemed s