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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I see a lot asking for the specific salary numbers but no answers. I believe (could be wrong) that the required wage increase for old->proposed new H1B requirements changes would be close to the below examples: 1)Software Developer in C
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I have heard stories (that don't seem too uncommon) of unscrupulous companies doing a variety of things - including charging the hopeful visa recipient payments to secure a job, paying the required salary only for the months leading up
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
The real pity is that your local public school is likely spending a similar amount per student as the private schools![1] Our public school system spends a ton and seems to not get a good value for that spending. You can believe in governme
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Agreed. But interesting how the "American tourists are the worst!" comment is currently upvoted and the "Nope, actually the Chinese are the worst" is downvoted. Even if you believe it true that a pattern of a grouping of
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
A couple great posts about vitamin D posted to HN: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138590 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261124 -And her part 3 (which links to tons of studies and is quite
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
This is incorrect and a misunderstanding of qualified immunity. Qualified immunity refers to not being allowed to sue for those officer's personal property. It has nothing to do with the criminal consequences (ie going to jail). Those
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Just to be clear, my point was that reasonable people can disagree on these issues. Do you think that reasonable people can disagree on these issues or not? But I'll also address some of the counterpoints raised above: -The supreme cou
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Open borders and free trade share a lot of economic characteristics. Why should the US only get the benefits of foreign labor only while that labor is outside of the country? Crime is one reason. Immigrants from different backgrounds, count
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I'm going to put alternative arguments below to try and show there is a reasonable discussion to be had on this topic. My actual views are more complex. >I do think it is grossly immoral to detain and intern immigrants at the border
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I don't understand what "utilitarian immigration policy framework" means, but in any case policies are made by congress not by ICE. In fact it would be quite undemocratic for ICE to decide universally they aren't going t
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I actually think that it's totally legitimate to call out whoever you want (employer, customer, vendor, friend, family, etc) when you believe there is a clearly and grossly immoral action being carried out. But when there's a &quo
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Do you really believe that if there is proof of this doctor performing unnecessary surgeries that he will not go to jail? The difference between China and the US is not that people in the US don't do bad things.... of course people do
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
In fact it is written into the law! It is illegal and the doctor who is suspected of potentially performing those procedures (either without proper consent or with poor communication or totally fraudulent) is being investigated. The fact th
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
So you believe that buying a house should be legal, selling a house should be legal, but renting a house should be illegal? Or you believe all land+buildings should be government owned? And you believe the government should have a monopoly
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Thought experiment for you: Evictions become much more difficult, maybe even illegal. What happens to people who want to rent apartments?
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Those people would be surprised to learn how common "cash for keys" agreements are... When a landlord wants to evict a tenant who hasn't been paying rent, it's not uncommon for the landlord to actually pay the tenant cas
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I understand evictions trigger lots of emotions and can be terrible situations for the tenant. But so many comments here seem to treat an apartment as something the tenant is entitled to, even without payment. How is living at a property w
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Layperson, but my intuition is the same. Also, as far as I understand it, phosphine is seen on other planets (gas giants?). If phosphine is seen on these planets, is it really a stretch to think anything but similar explanations? Is there a
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
It's worth noting that this is a type of economic disaster very different than a hurricane, wildfire, or even the 2008 financial crisis. No restaurants were physically destroyed by the pandemic. All the buildings, stoves, tables, signa
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Thanks. Hope you fully recover soon!
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
This is something I can't find... how safe is being outdoor in close proximity? So I'll take your story. How close were you to your friends/others and did you go inside the bar at all? Did either of your friends test positive
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Good points. It's crazy the level of power I'm learning our executive branch has... Government is dangerous without checks and balances.
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Another guess: Even the indoor areas likely have no windows/doors and have tons of fresh air. So even if you get the virus, it's likely a lower initial viral load which seems to be correlated with less severe outcomes?
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I think the point is that PG&E negligently caused sparks. But many things can negligently cause sparks, including dozens of human and natural causes. Even among power operators, sparks seem to not be too rare (for example, the tree that
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
While it's true this seems like a strong US thing, I haven't heard many happy long-term stories of folks living intergenerationally. In my experience (talking to people from a variety of countries), most couples in their 20s/
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
I understand there were problems at Boeing and the FAA that lead to the unexpected first crash. I'm honestly not that bothered that a plane crashed (besides the general sadness of any loss of life tragedies). Sometimes bad things happe
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Not sure how these games work, but what do you mean "destroy your economy"... Are the coins people win used to buy other in game products, so too much winning would lead to in-game inflation? But w
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
There are so many "basically online gambling" adjacent companies. They seem to take advantage of the same psychological loophole, but likely leave the vast majority of people involved worse off. -Penny Auction sites. Tons of TV co
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
If the false positive of the PCR test really is 2.3%, how are so many places able to have positivity rates consistently less than that, more like .1%[1]? And how can test pooling in huge numbers (like was done in Wuhan) work? A false positi
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by tuna-piano 6y ago
At a certain point, the choice between: "Do I want to lose a few days of my life to a disease with a tiny chance of a bad outcome?" vs "Do I want to lose a year+ of my life not doing what I enjoy?" becomes overwhelmingly

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