whybroke

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by whybroke 11y ago
Is that because you personally have such enormous bargaining power (inspite of a flood of STEM workers)? Or is it because employers always spontaneously pay the highest wages they possibly can and never, ever treat employees unethically let
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or certainly 3) How the opinions of non-citizens are in anyway relevant to US policy on this issue.
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Quit possibly. But pushing the hypothetical further: simply depriving ignorant people of the vote, aside from possible justice issues, would certainly result in social instability. (not to mention the undoubtable drag on the economy that ig
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>most people are aware of population density Half of Americans can not find New York on a map. Half can not find Mississippi. Most believe Alaska is more populous than any New England state etc. >...they always show the total votes ba
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So would you object to a map like this[1] because Alaska and Hawaii are not geographically to scale with the other states? (Or in the correct geographic position for that matter) Clearly distorting those 2 states does not distort the inform
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Truths have truth value while opinions do not. Uncomfortable truths exist. And like all fact based observations they require evidence and are susceptible to disproof. The interesting case is when one takes an internal personal dislike (opin
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And when new treatment arrives, how any individual will be able to afford any two.
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No, the context is that you completely misrepresented a wikipedia article and historical events to exactly reverse the facts for ideological reason then apparently flagged the post that pointed it out. And, by the way, thereby doubly proved
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Did you really read that article and think "this isn't an example of employers murdering employees" then downvote anyone who says otherwise? It seems this site has a serious infestation of rightwing cranks.
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>Everyone knows that the terrorists will detonate a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl when it's in Denver. No, no it's gonna be a blimp in Miami! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_%281977_film%29
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>We're the Only Animals With Chins... Is the author an Elephant?
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A person rich enough to inherit a house at a young age isn't going to notice the relatively tiny minimal income. They are far more likely to oppose the taxes necessary to support minimum income than they are to be a secret motivating a
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by whybroke 11y ago
You correct. Perhaps that is why you are being downvoted. Indeed you can trivially get a rough idea of political leanings of European parties from the university of Bergen. For example http://www.nsd.uib.no/european_election
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I of course don't know the why. I lived in the bay area coding for 10 years and left 5 years ago when the current state of affairs was just starting. Upon every visit back upon seeing the falling quality of life, especially for housing
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Please be aware that moving to the bay area for any reason other than fun will be a serious life mistake. If you move to the bay area in your 20s, by the time you're in your 40s you will have a specific knowledge of a fad language that
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by whybroke 11y ago
This is the archetype of magical thinking. You could just as well have said god will do those things with the amount of support you offered. But it seems there is such an unquestioning faith in "the invisible hand" that the mere s
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by whybroke 11y ago
I would add to the article's list of reasons why minimum income is a good idea the very Roman purpose behind public aid: to prevent civil unrest. And I'd second sama's mention of controlling cost of living. In addition to uni
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If engineers have more value, then market forces will adjust wages to fill those roles won't they? If that doesn't happen then clearly your conjecture of their relative value must be wrong. Necessarily. At least that's the st
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>Or is this a guise for xenophobia? Would you be in favor of increasing the general US immigration cap by 65000 and abolishing H1B completely? Because I would. If you are not in favor of that then perhaps there is a motive to your concer
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by whybroke 11y ago
Well said. In fact why not simply add 65000 to the net US immigration, abolish H1B and let the much praised market forces attract or repel people to those alleged unfilled jobs by rising wages.
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by whybroke 11y ago
If I can find a better use for someones property than he is currently putting it to, why shouldn't I steal it? Or have we entered an era where hereditary property rights are so much more valued than a citizens rights that we can no lon
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There is no limit to growth there's just a limit to how little a developer will accept a job for. That is the sole limit H1B is trying to work on. I assure you and anyone reading this, your skills are not unique nor is you talent unmat
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by whybroke 11y ago
1. By that logic, everyone who doesn't migrate from such a country is voting in favor of equality over absolute wealth and they constitute a much larger number. 2. To some degree, people do migrate to poorer areas and countries, includ
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You can't copyright such material at all. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_of_X-ray...
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by whybroke 11y ago
Wow, such contempt for the people of the country you've moved to and the State that has made you such money is truly breathtaking! Just ignore those down votes and be sure to post your story everywhere you can. Actually, I think you sh
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Is the gun control position unknown? It's the same as has been recited ad nuasum for 50 years: there is no right to bear arms in the same way as speech or religion and increased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence. On
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>...influence people... Is there some possibility of convincing a gun rights advocate that he is wrong? Only as much as there is to convince a climate change denier or creationist they are wrong. So for all three I'm afraid the abov
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by whybroke 11y ago
Ok, how about we set up a fund to give an AK47 and 1000 rounds of ammo to every homeless person in the country. That people seriously consider more guns to be a solution to anything let alone this problem shows the profound level of insane
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by whybroke 11y ago
The EU spends approximately the same per capita on direct farm subsidies as the US. Your choice of words however would mislead people into believing that 40% of European national budgets are devoted to farm subsidies and that EU subsidies e
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Well food prices are significantly lower in the EU than the US. A more dramatic case, Spain, the consumer bread prices can be 1/10 US prices. Vegetables run a fraction of US price, eggs about 1/3. Even corn is less expensive when

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