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781.
by tsotha 12y ago
We have over a million legal immigrants a year, so even if you can't get in easily somehow a whole lot of other people are managing.
782.
by tsotha 12y ago
Right now in Europe and the US we have boatloads of people sitting around without jobs. How does it make sense to import more people to compete for the few jobs that are left? Automation means you need a smaller percentage of working peop
783.
by tsotha 12y ago
There isn't much anti-immigration sentiment in the US. What we have in the US is anti illegal immigration sentiment. In terms of European countries there was an article about a week ago regarding Americans going to Germany for free
784.
by tsotha 12y ago
>Considering the Zuckerberg comment, we have to realize that ageism in tech is not only wrong, it's not sustainable. We all age. Eh, what? Sure it is. As long as they can find new young people they can replace the older people. H
785.
by tsotha 12y ago
Eh, what? Not only is this acknowledged as reasonable in many countries, it's policy .
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by tsotha 12y ago
Economic growth isn't a desirable thing in and of itself. What really matters is wealth per capita. If growth is flat and population is down, that's a better situation where growth and population are both increasing at the same
787.
by tsotha 12y ago
Heh. She's selecting out anyone with ambition. Good luck with that, Ellen. It'll probably work out as well as your groundless lawsuit.
788.
by tsotha 12y ago
I find this argument exceedingly unpersuasive. The "social contract" argument would only be valid if people agreed on its terms. As it is, a company's responsibilities end where the law ends.
789.
by tsotha 12y ago
And yet ironically that legal exposure may be a risk worth taking to shield yourself from an even greater legal problem.
790.
by tsotha 12y ago
Yeah. You know something's wrong when 98% of federal cases are pled out.
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by tsotha 12y ago
I doubt that. To take advantage of a drone's capabilities you'd have to start from ground zero. Eventually they'll make a pilotless version the way they have pilotless F-16s. So the newer planes have something to shoot at.
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by tsotha 12y ago
This one video always comes up in F-35 discussions. I think you have to take his criticisms with a grain of salt. Of course he thinks the F-16 is better - it would have been better than anything that wasn't just like the F-16 with be
793.
by tsotha 12y ago
I used to play a lot of relatively high-stakes poker. Some of the people I played against had a fair amount of cash (tens of thousands) on them on any given Friday or Saturday. It was pretty well known if you got robbed it would most like
794.
by tsotha 12y ago
As soon as a Republican is elected. The media will remember that Constitution thingee then.
795.
by tsotha 12y ago
... and allows the government to decide who qualifies as a "hacker". Don't see any due process problems here. Nope.
796.
by tsotha 12y ago
Sure, it's nice that the Germans are doing it. I don't want my country doing it, though.
797.
by tsotha 12y ago
Ah. Now all is clear.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Well consider the alternative: only rich people could get a higher education otherwise. No, that's not the alternative at all. The alternative would be to have people from other countries pay their own way and provide free educati
799.
by tsotha 12y ago
If you're willing to shell out tens of thousands of euros to attract "talent", why not just give already educated people money to become Germans?
800.
by tsotha 12y ago
>I, as a citizen, feel like our government's priorities have been absolutely abysmal since the 1980's. Which government? What does the federal government have to do with California's subsidy of the UC system?
801.
by tsotha 12y ago
In the US they take money out of your paycheck too. The only difference is once a year we "settle up" for the previous calendar year. You pay more if you're short and get some back if you overpaid. There must be a similar p
802.
by tsotha 12y ago
Yes, it is like that if you only charge for your model of business expansion is to charge for your product in your own town and give it away for free everywhere else.
803.
by tsotha 12y ago
Well, okay, you've made the standard argument for a social democracy. It's sort of irrelevant to the question of whether or not you should provide services to citizens of other countries. If your argument is Germans pay their tax
804.
by tsotha 12y ago
The US doesn't track for four reasons. * The US is obsessed with race, and tracking makes it too obvious black kids aren't doing as well as white kids. * Parents all believe their own child is above average regardless of the mathe
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by tsotha 12y ago
Amazingly enough in most places with sharply progressive tax codes the people who actually have to pay the taxes are a lot less thrilled with the status quo than everyone else. Though they are certainly willing to pay lip service to its
806.
by tsotha 12y ago
How could this possibly make sense to German taxpayers?
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by tsotha 12y ago
Just because the marginal price is near zero doesn't mean you're not going to pay a lot. The marginal price for software is near zero as well. You may be right about it being a cartel, but the marginal price doesn't tell
808.
by tsotha 12y ago
>With micro-payments, you can't deal in actual currency. You have to move around some kind of "Credits" that at some point get exchanged back to currency in bulk to a payment processor, otherwise the transaction fees are g
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Because a lot of that group said they "didn't know any better" and were "misled" when it came to bad mortgages during the crunch. What else are you going to tell people when you lose half a mil? That sounds a l
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by tsotha 12y ago
Even professionals in the industry don't understand CDS's. Some of them are deliberately complicated.

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