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by speakfreely 4y ago
Not a MAGA so I can't speak for them, but the "root causes" angle is really just a dead end talking point to deflect and allow inaction on this issue. As long as salaries in the US are double, triple, or more than people can
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This point is about 20 years out of date and is no longer true in most of the country. Most local police, aside from border states, will not inquire about immigration status when dealing with the general population and many larger cities a
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> If the US can put 40% of its working populace into some lower-rights having class, like strip their citizenship, we would have a comparable public housing tax base. The US is already working on this, albeit unintentionally. Undocumente
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This seems about right. Startup ideas are the white collar equivalent of day dreaming about how you would spend the money if you won the lottery. It's cheap to talk about, easy to fantasize about, and many people have a very distorte
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> So is the cost of the SLS, and the Artemis program as a whole, worth it? Maybe. If Artemis accomplishes all that it has set out to accomplish over the next 10 years or more, that "maybe" could shift to a "probably."
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Sometimes it's painfully obvious who is giving their idealistic opinion and who is speaking from personal experience.
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People frequently cite historical racial inequities (race-based loan denials) as proof of racism in 2022 when those specific issues are no longer prevalent.
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Which is fine when the extremism is effecting the change you're looking for, but when it's just a distraction from the cause it's more about you and your needs than the cause itself.
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Yeah, so probably most of us came here really hating the pharmacist but you've taken such a wildly extreme position that suddenly I'm concerned about the safety of the pharmacist more than the woman in question. Not good.
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I think this is an important point. Many of us here live in cities, but in rural America there is a stunning amount of people who really believe that Joe Biden lost the 2020 election and that there was a massive, coordinated campaign of vo
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I go straight for the comments, attack the article without reading it based on something it didn't say, and then get defensive when anyone disagrees with me.
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Ask HN: What are the opportunities in the chipmaking ecosystem?
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Of course not and op's reply was not, on its own, a very convincing rebuttal to the article. My only point is that the objectivity of the authors (really, any author on this subject at this point) should be assumed to be cloudy until
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> Not one of the listed authors is Chinese, nor do any of them have any Chinese institutional affiliations. Those are pretty naive criteria based on what we already know about the situation. One of the biggest opponents of investigatin
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That's just someone doing retail arbitrage: they take your eBay order and immediately have a bot (i.e. https://zincapi.com/ ) place an Amazon gift order to your address. Amazon does shut down buyer accounts for this bu
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Because Costa Rica has agreed to act as a client state of the US and is protected as long as they do what the US government says.
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You're not going to have any more luck reasoning with them than a black person would have trying to reason with a klan member. If you've decided you hate people because of the color of their skin, no online discourse is going to
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Whenever someone wants to talk about what's wrong with group of people with skin color (X), you already you're talking to someone with the wrong priorities.
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> but I'd support banning gambling entirely If this was possible, that would be great. But you cannot eliminate a service where there is sufficient demand. You can only drive them underground, which frequently cause worse external
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Weight reviews based on the spread of the user's other reviews. If a user only posts negative reviews, reduce the weight of their further negative reviews. Weight reviews from well rounded users higher to discourage people from being
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Depends if the bot is using full browser emulation or not. If they're using Puppeteer or something to drive a headless browser, it seems likely the ad would be recorded as "shown". If they're just making requests to sp
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The majority of mail screening these days is to find illegal drugs. However, given that so many drugs get through, it seems they only x-ray a small subset.
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The jurisdiction where banking and accepting payments will be easiest for you. Probably the US (Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming, as mentioned) or EU. Be careful of common offshore places, accepting credit cards will either be difficult or expen