earlyreturns

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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
> Is there any way for us to check? Lurk more.
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
I’ve read the first 4 of those links and they don’t point to financial investment per se. They do cover liberalization in the diplomatic sense, and sale (not purchase) of US military tech, all of which is obvious given their location and th
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Interesting point and pardon my naïveté but I’m curious, by “the west began investing” do you mean public sector investments? Or are you including people like jim rodgers long time China bull? I think private sector investment wouldn’t be d
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Foreign governments running honeytrap operations on powerful perverts like bill clinton is common knowledge amongst anyone interested in knowing about such things, but some people think it is a super big secret that needs to be revealed to
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
My opinion comes from my personal experience with CHiPs funded projects but admittedly thats merely anecdotal knowledge so I’m very glad to hear that Biden’s “biggest ever!”(tm) inflation reduction package met its goals and wasn’t just mone
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Where are the CHIPs then? Oh but at least our infrastructure was rebuilt. Right?
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Presumably they’re referring to jazz.
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Basically the Ted Kazinsky scenario. Or the guy who thought he was a glass of orange juice. Or Jim from Taxi. Many such cases.
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
H1B abuse is rampant, so the headline is what we expect. Jobs are for the foreign born, just look at HN for evidence of that. They even hire lawyers to help the outsourced labor “navigate our system.”
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
As with any survey or most research really, it’s the sample the determines the finding. Homelessness is not easy to define precisely. Drug addiction, setting aside the fact that surveys are self reported, is a bit more cut and dried but fro
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Just make the isp the gateway. Nobody under 18 needs the internet. If a parent lets their kid onto the internet, prosecute the parent. It’s pretty simple really. People just want to pretend it’s harder than it is because they have some conf
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
Can they switch to bitcoin?
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
I’m guessing not as much as standard transmissions, which largely eliminate the need for breaking while also reducing fuel usage. Yet there are almost no new cars with standard transmission. If only people cared a bit more.
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by earlyreturns 9mo ago
That’s the sort of winner mentality America needs much much more of.
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
I mean, there’s the internet and then there’s the internet. People are too rigid and old timey in their thinking on this issue. “We have to keep the internet anonymous and open to all!” No, we don’t. There is no singular “internet.” We have
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
This was and probably still is true about tobacco. Personally, I choose to not smoke.
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
Porn is a special subset of social media.
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
Yes, I’m sure they’ll vote for that.
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
Qualifications are easily and frequently faked and most people who write code for a living have seen competent people replaced by low cost semi-competents who excel at getting hired but little else. Interviews have gotten much more onerous,
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by earlyreturns 10mo ago
Why pay to get a degree in the US when you are competing for jobs not based on merit or qualifications? I can see why those in h1b’d industries like cs don’t see any point, and those are the industries where the most jobs and money have his