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by aikinai 21d ago
How is Scott Bessent like a racist grandpa?
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by aikinai 21d ago
Private capital. This is a VC website, and you just naïvely and incorrectly assume startups are government funded? Even if the government had funded it, it would have been a good idea with extremely positive ROI. But no, they didn’t; you ju
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by aikinai 21d ago
It started in the early 2000s. Politics hadn't shifted left enough to make him right-wing back then.
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by aikinai 26d ago
This is exactly how people on here claim SpaceX is dependent on government handouts.
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by aikinai 2mo ago
Without a shift to electric cars and the emergence of reusable, affordable space travel?
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by aikinai 2mo ago
Companies aren't funded by one person, even his. After their current round, Blue Origin will have raised more than three times as much capital as SpaceX, and SpaceX is obviously far more advanced and has already gone public. Rivian use
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by aikinai 2mo ago
That's a somewhat valid point about the "move fast and break things" culture at SpaceX. I'm sure there's some correlation between the pioneering, hyper-productive culture at Elon's companies and safety violatio
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by aikinai 2mo ago
Ben Thompson calls these strategy credits.
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by aikinai 2mo ago
Weird how other people can put up more money and not be able to make the same things as Musk’s companies.
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by aikinai 2mo ago
Somehow you have it 100% backwards. Grok is the only one that's not trained to be extremely biased. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/0...
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by aikinai 3mo ago
None of those books are banned.
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by aikinai 5mo ago
That doesn't change anything the parent said. If not copying Apple created a better product that people want to buy, someone would be doing it.
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by aikinai 5mo ago
Oh… not what I expected this to be about.
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by aikinai 8mo ago
You can also do that in high-functioning societies. In Japan people leave their purses, phones, etc to hold their seat before ordering in a café, going to the bathroom, etc.
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by aikinai 8mo ago
Wow, this was so well presented! I almost didn't click on the article since I assumed it would be a meandering explanation about awkward edge cases or something. But this is so clearly and succinctly demonstrated! Amazing work by the a
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by aikinai 10mo ago
"You let me in at the time, therefore you can never deem the past entry fraudulent" is not how the law works. It was fraudulent at the time of entry, but the government doesn't know that until true intent is revealed when the
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by aikinai 10mo ago
In many cases regarding immigration, any single agent can act as judge, jury, and (deportation) executioner. Again something I learned many years ago and have kept top of mind for my own family. If you are already married, then you enter th
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by aikinai 10mo ago
That sentence should probably be broken up for better clarity, but the content looks true and informative to me. Did you include that to imply there's something wrong with it?
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by aikinai 10mo ago
It's extremely unlikely a journalist this haphazard is going to differentiate between a visa waiver and a temporary visa. Obviously some came on other visa if they could work, but it doesn't matter anyway; any non-immigrant visa y
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by aikinai 10mo ago
I assume you’re insinuating some kind of insult? I’m honestly not sure which one. For not risking my family to cheat US immigration law? Edit: And now browsing the latest on this thread, it seems all the commenters here who have actually fi
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by aikinai 10mo ago
Read my other comment. It’s fraudulent based on intent, which they don’t know until you apply for change of status.
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by aikinai 10mo ago
People following the actual immigration law, like I did. This very much impacts me and has determined my family's country of residence for many years. The process is horrible, but we still aren't cheating and I don't apprecia
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by aikinai 10mo ago
Maybe I'm too stiff, but even if they don't get around to updating the laws, I'd still prefer they enforce the ones that exist so it's clear, fair, and safe. And so upstanding citizens aren't spending years separate
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by aikinai 10mo ago
Professional opportunity or quality of life, most likely. Nowhere else even comes close to the US in terms of professional and economic opportunity.
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by aikinai 10mo ago
The article strongly misrepresents this, and they were almost certainly not detained for over-staying, but likely for fraudulent entry. See my other comment.
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by aikinai 10mo ago
Supply and demand. The US is by far the top place people want to be, so however poorly they treat applicants, there will still be an infinite supply of people willing to put up with it.
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by aikinai 10mo ago
Yes, exactly. Your legal options are to either remain separated for one or two years while you wait, or the American can immigrate to the spouse’s country and wait there (since almost every other country is easier to immigrate to). It'
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by aikinai 10mo ago
As an American with a foreign-spouse who went through the green card application long before Trump, these stories are heart-breaking but also what I expected. I guess these couples and lawyers were just counting on lax enforcement? But this
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by aikinai 1y ago
This is a disingenuous strawman. "Japan First" doesn't have to mean your naïve interpretation of some maximally xenophobic isolationism. If the US bases are good for Japan, then it's perfectly "Japan First". So
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by aikinai 1y ago
Cool tip on the ad transparency, but this isn't the "ruling party". I'm sure you're aware, but I think others will be confused by the link with no context. This is one of the "right-wing rivals".

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