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> He is an immigrant in Japan but he doesn’t want immigrants both in his host (Japan) and home (UK) countries Except that’s not what he said at all. He said if there’s visa abuse, the abuse should be stopped. How one gets “doesn’t want i
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Well, it depends a little on what OP meant by “resident” - often that gets used by expats to mean “permanent resident”, which is a pretty high bar. But even if you just assume that OP is here on the digital nomad visa thing, you’re effectiv
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What’s rich about it? You can live in Japan as a non-resident and still be following 100% of the rules. I agree with the GP. It’s their country. They set the rules. If they want to change the rules because those rules aren’t working for th
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Well, at least you’re not trying to pretend you have a well-founded argument.
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Yep. There was also a proliferation of Indian restaurants in the major cities, for the same basic reason. (Though I have to say that seems like a much harder road than operating a guesthouse for people from your own country, which is what I
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Yes, many, in fact. But more importantly, nobody is making drivers take these jobs. The restated version of your comment is simply “I think drivers should get paid more,” which is fine, but not an argument. Everyone who has ever had a job
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So basically, you’re saying that “most places” had uncorrupt, put-upon taxi industries who simply cannot survive against Uber because Uber is anti-competitive, and it has nothing at all to do with delivering a better product? Yeah, I don’
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Yeah, anyone who uses taxi drivers as an example of destruction either don't know what they're talking about (because they never experienced it) or they're crying crocodile tears. I had cab drivers nearly drive off with me h
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I'm not arguing that one political team is innocent. When it comes to correctly managing complex scientific problems, all politicians are reliably incompetent .
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Well there you go. If you want to differentiate yourself today, just use bootstrap!
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> Your own link [5] says that the 165 million funding came in 2024, not 2025 which would make it something done by the Biden administration. From the link: > APHIS received emergency funding of $109.8 million in 2023 and $165 million
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The point is that you’re trying to blame post-2025 events for a problem that began years ago . Stop letting partisan politics dominate your thinking. It’s preventing you from seeing the full scope of the problem.
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> This article is misleading because it does not mention Trump or Musk or Doge The article doesn’t mention those things because you’re wrong about both the facts and the timeline, and you’d know that, had you read the article. > M
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It didn’t happen in less than 2 years. The problem started at least in 2020, and likely long before that.
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…and the current administration is using money to do that. It’s in the article , and I’ve posted links to evidence on multiple sub threads of this thread, which you had to ignore to make this comment. Y’all are just absolutely fixated on
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> I heard there was one keeping this under control. It involved transgenic flies, which sounds close to transgender. DOGE ended it. No. First, the problem here predates DOGE by an entire presidential administration or more. If you had re
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> I'm not sure what your point is here. My point is that the instinct to be partisan on this issue is inane, but also factually incorrect. > Yes, the screwworm problem predates the funding cut. Great, so we're agreed that th
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The current administration is funding an increase in response: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/nws-visit... It's right there, linked in TFA. The press release provided by the GP i
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As the article you've linked to makes clear, this problem predates the cut in funding.
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Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)(marginallycompelling.com)
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> It's already scary how easy it is to launch an MVP or produce prototypes with the latest models. No it isn’t. The things that were hard are now harder. The things that were comparatively easy are now easier. But if you build anoth
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Basically the same. An “article” planted by a PR firm, where the promotional target just happens to pop up about halfway through.
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I randomly drove by there back in about 2018 or so when I happened to be in Pittsburgh for a weekend. The parking lot was empty, so it must have closed by that time, but it was still intact. Very intense memories of going there with my gran
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In fact, when you see someone in the art world claiming that X is a "defining" anything, it usually means that they have a big collection of X for sale. In this case, I imagine it's submarine marketing for the movie that&#x27
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It's so weird to open a page on HN and see a photo of a place that I went to all the time as a child, but as some kind of abandoned-space porn for Zoomers (Century III mall).
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> All observational studies are wrong...You heard it here first in HN. No, but most of them are wrong, and all of them need to be treated with an incredibly high degree of skepticism. This is critical review 101. When you push on this
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> the controls also lived through lockdown. If this is the rigorous analysis you’re bringing to the studies you read, I’m not surprised none of them pass the muster. You've missed the point. I'm not suggesting that the other fa
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> You are just ignoring the evidence, being unscientific, and unless you work for a top medical lab somewhere, plain arrogant. If you don't know how to interpret evidence, then I suppose it would sound like I am being overly critica
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All of those are examples of exactly what I told you about: they take a group of people claiming to be sick, and go hunting for signals to claim as “significant”. The MRI studies are particularly egregious examples of this. Just because you
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> You’re seeing neural and auto immune clusters gathering around certain immune dysfunction and previously rare diagnosis like Small Fiber Neuropathy. Everything I've personally seen in this space is exactly what I described: they

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