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by skylan_q 11y ago
Hahahahahahahhaha
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I honestly don't know, but haven't they been advocating for "lowering" of borders?
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Unions don't confer benefits to people not in their union and actually increase costs to them by putting up barriers to entry. Nations can do the exact same thing with immigration policies with respect to citizens and non-citizens. A u
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Do US Citizens deserve a job more than a non-citizen? The original article stated that the prof. didn't understand why american politicians were trying to get more STEM-educated/skilled people into the US. 1) Rubio is bought by
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So what you're saying is: It doesn't solve the problem of the combination of gov't corruption and private sector corruption, so private safety regulators/inspectors would never be able to keep anything safe.
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Anyone whose ever been to a bad dentist would see the merit in this. I have been to a bad dentist after my dentist moved. He was licensed. I told everyone who asked that he was a bad dentist and I found a better one. I don't see how
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Private organisations have an incentive to increase profit, even if it means a loss of public safety. 1) Charge someone for dental work. 2) Injure them. 3) Profit? We have laws against injury.
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A free market is only constrained by the morality of individuals There is no one who advocates for free markets who advocates against laws. Killing people is murder, hurting them is causing injury, etc... It's constrained by laws, et
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We have laws against killing people.
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How about the notion that we've figured out all the causal links/factors for the different kinds of cancer?
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Sticking to the theme about gripes about APIs, why do so many companies have APIs and no webhooks? Polling sucks. Many SaaS providers will say it's "hard" to implement webhooks but they have an API available. I'd like to
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It shouldn't have even gone this far.
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Most everyone I asked about it's failure said that they just didn't get Canada. It acted as it Canada was a 51st state. The lack of inventory didn't help either. The one closest to me had about 10,000 options for bath mats an
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I'm sorry, but not having find control over scrolling is really annoying.
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We already have a "long depression" in the history books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression unemployment stayed low, very slight deflation persisted, and over the 30 years GDP per capita and GDP o
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One that I've read up on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986 Some tax shelters were eliminated/reduced in their effectiveness, shifting some of their wealth gain through the year to being cl
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Loopholes mitigated the 90%. The rate was cut and loopholes were closed at the same time to make the on-paper tax rates actual tax rates. Comparing a 90% tax bracket then to 90% tax bracket now is comparing apples and oranges.
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I'm told by Americans that Putin is looting everything meanwhile Americans have to buy parts from Russians to get to space.
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then looting them of anything valuable Those were the oligarchs who came to power in the 90's. He turned against them shortly after he became president and is currently consolidating power for himself in a very, very large country th
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One idea: that they bring capital with them. Increasing the supply of labor while not increasing the supply of capital can drive down productivity and wages in the nation getting migrants. If they come with accompanying capital, it could he
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Capital moves more easily than labor. Not only are there loopholes to not pay taxes, they can also shift operations so that profits are realized in a different jurisdiction and the money goes there instead. Despite large cuts in corporate i
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The mortgages everything was based on were junk, because they were guaranteed by the GSEs that couldn't handle the rate and size of the defaults on junk mortgages. Everything based on junk mortgages were junk.
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They can't. There's tons of cheap labor out there in the developing world and 3rd world. Capital moves quick and labor is everywhere. The best we can do in the long-run to increase working conditions is to increase demand for labo
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Fed raising interest rates 0.25% and setting a goal of "normal" 2% by 2018 means little to nothing. Market already priced the miniscule rate hike in as the move was widely expected, and move did nothing to assure markets that the
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What's the beta on that stock? Look at it in comparison to other tech stocks. Most of Yahoo's recent rise is explained by the rise in all tech stocks over the last few years.
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You cannot outrun the fork I've never heard it said this way. I learned this lesson the hard way. I struggled with weight for a few years after highschool. No matter how much more activity I added, I couldn't lose the fat. Then
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I'll tell you as a web developer who is a CS grad: CS students are terrible at programming and software development when compared to someone who does it for a living. It takes more than participation in a course to develop a skill. I u
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I would like to think that Russia is not going to start attacking Turkey or any other NATO country just because one plane was brought down near Syria. You're likely right. My guess is that they'll find ways to put more pressure
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"What if your water company started pretending to be out of water then offered free car washes where they had placed ads playing 24/7?" Then they'd be lying.
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I'm not following. People are getting their bandwidth allotment AND additional services. Your contempt for them doesn't mean that they're anti-competitive.

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