turkishgetup

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by turkishgetup 9y ago
America has never been a melting pot - more like a salad palette, with clear boundaries between constituent parts. Melting pot is but a nice-sounding rhetoric. Racial bias aside, people usually prefer to live closer to their own kind. For m
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What Putin Really Wants(theatlantic.com)
3 points by turkishgetup 9y ago|0 comments
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
Hi Mr. Schneiderman, NY resident here. Thank you very much for your work. I'm proud to have you as our State AG. In your view, do the fake comments delegitimize FCC's rule-making process, if the FCC does not delay the vote until a
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More Machine Learning About Congress’ Priorities(propublica.org)
2 points by turkishgetup 9y ago|0 comments
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Trump administration starts push to officially rescind ‘startup visa’ rule(sfchronicle.com)
10 points by turkishgetup 9y ago|2 comments
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More Than 100 Universities and Colleges Included in Offshore Leaks Database(icij.org)
176 points by turkishgetup 9y ago|66 comments
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How a New Inflation Measure Would Raise Taxes on the Middle Class(wsj.com)
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
This is an interesting idea. As far as I understand, many grantors such as NSF place strict limit on each categories (PI salary, student stipend, material, travel), and generally you cannot move extra $ from one category to another. I think
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
> It looks like it leaves the grantors, universities, PIs, and graduate students in the same financial positions Because the grantors, universities, PIs, and graduate students are not in the same decision-making positions. PIs and gradua
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
> But from an outside perspective, the current rules look like a money laundering scheme. > The "tax increase" would stop incentivizing universities to do these accounting tricks and declare tuiton as 0. You cannot just ask
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
The reason is that U.S. Immigration laws only allocate 14% of annual quota to employment-based (EB) petition. The majority go to family-based (FB) petitions. Indian have a much higher EB/FB ratios, whereas Chinese have many more FB pet
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
> If history is any indicator, in political systems this broken, other institutions collect power and either that power is sustained and relieves legal pressure or that power is revoked and the pressure builds until the system comes apar
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by turkishgetup 9y ago
It occurs to me that many current issues can be abstracted as follows: When corporations have become powerful monopolies (or regional monopolies) that trample on individual rights and captured regulators, should the citizens still respect t