an_cap

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by an_cap 9mo ago
Nice motte and bailey there between "people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions" and non-compete clauses.
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by an_cap 9mo ago
Can you point me to a capitalist who wants to expand the category of workers without the right to switch jobs?
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by an_cap 9mo ago
How was my comment dishonest?
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by an_cap 9mo ago
The an_cap position on immigration is open borders which is the opposite of "people who can be deported if they complain about their working conditions". Feel free to check the comment history.
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by an_cap 9mo ago
FWIW, the union (CWA) via its Seattle affiliate tried to get OPT banned, a visa status that many readers of HN benefited from - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/2... . I encourag
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by an_cap 2y ago
An excellent career retrospective by John Hopfield - https://pni.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf321/files/docu... "As an Academy member I could publish such a paper without any review (this
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by an_cap 4y ago
'Browsing: enabled' doesn't actually work though. In the referenced thread, that comment is a joke.
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by an_cap 8y ago
At the risk of cementing your conviction of my troll status, I have some civics 101 questions for you. (I also have rocket science questions, but I'll leave that for another day.) 1. At a time when blacks were not citizens of the Unite
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by an_cap 8y ago
Actually, I suspect its easier to get a full-body skin graft than it is for a low-skilled third-worlder to get an American citizenship.
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by an_cap 8y ago
I'm just engaging in common-sense ethical reasoning. It seems wrong to require that all whites employ a much higher bar for hiring blacks. And, I have the same intuition about requiring all Americans employ a much higher bar for hiring
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by an_cap 8y ago
Might makes right. Got it. Edit : Sorry addicted, I interpreted your comment as a justification, not as historical account. My bad.
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by an_cap 8y ago
How so? I claim that severe discrimination (like banning a group of people from entry level positions) based on circumstances of birth is ethically dubious. I think that's why we don't entertain the idea of banning people from ent
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by an_cap 8y ago
Why is it morally acceptable for a country to prioritize the prosperity of its own citizens, but not for whites to prioritize the prosperity of fellow whites?
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by an_cap 8y ago
Why is it not okay to discriminate on the basis of your skin color at birth but okay to discriminate on the basis of which side of a border you were born in? Surely, there would a lot of outrage in HN if someone said - "Granted that H1
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by an_cap 9y ago
I also spent about 10 minutes reading the relevant section of that review. Agree with your assessment. The measure is 'number of cookies eaten' broken down by whether or not the person was a randomly chosen leader and their gender
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by an_cap 9y ago
I recommend reading this review before deciding to read the book. https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/book-review-weapons-...
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by an_cap 9y ago
But wanting blacks to prosper over your fellow whites is surely not akin to betraying your race? Your argument proves too much. Surely, you agree that its not okay to murder a foreigner if it boosts your country's economy. But you do t
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by an_cap 9y ago
Your view seems to be that some communities are allowed to prevent outsiders from working in the jurisdiction of those communities in order to accrue modest economic advantages for community members. It seems like communities that share loc
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by an_cap 9y ago
I can see how, in this example, using race doesn't really serve to clarify the issue. I definitely understand why a person might care more about their neighbor. In fact, I care more about my neighbors (or my family members). However, t
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by an_cap 9y ago
I don't have any problem with you caring more for your fellow citizens. I encourage you to do that. I just don't want you to prevent your other fellow citizens from hiring me if they want to because I will displace people you care
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by an_cap 9y ago
I don't think everyone is equal. I just think that everyone has certain negative rights that you must respect. For instance, you are not allowed to murder a stranger just because it accrues modest economic advantages to your family mem
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by an_cap 9y ago
Sort of like, "As a white person, white people are more important to me."? Do you think it is permissible for your town to pass a law that requires your neighborhood coffee shop to preferentially hire a barista from your town? Let
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by an_cap 9y ago
Why is the sentiment "I will always put my fellow whites first" bad but the sentiment you espouse not?
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by an_cap 9y ago
You're completely ignoring the substance of my question. Of course I understand that the US constitution doesn't allow racial discrimination. Surely its the case that racial discrimination is inherently bad and THEREFORE the US co
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by an_cap 9y ago
I agree than one has greater positive obligations towards one's community, with the degree of obligation decreasing with the size of the community. However, one also has certain negative obligations against strangers. For instance, the
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by an_cap 9y ago
I am somewhat sympathetic to this argument but only with the following revisions. An adult foreigner coming to the US has, if anything, better fiscal implications for the US than the children of American citizens since children need are ver
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by an_cap 9y ago
Other white people in my neighborhood don't want to accept a black person into the neighborhood. And, I am part of a social contract between these other people I live with (e.g. by fellow neighbors) where I can't just override the
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by an_cap 9y ago
I find very little to disagree with in what you say. All I ask for is a presumption in favor of allowing a willing foreigner to work for a willing employer. And I think that small harms like reduction in wages from say 100k/year to 60k
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by an_cap 9y ago
Whites expect other whites to protect them from people of other colors in matters of physical and economic security. H-1Black workers drive down white wages. Blacks have no intrinsic right to move into the white neighborhood of their choice
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by an_cap 9y ago
I don't give away my right to object when a black army moves into my neighborhood on the pretense of just wanting a better life. And yet I do demand strong evidence that this is a likely scenario before essentially banning black people

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