ericdschmidt

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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
The children of immigrants who grow up in the new culture learn it quickly and it becomes their own. American Chinese who grow up here behave just like white Americans. And BTW the Japanese thing you mentioned is likely almost entirely due
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Well, i'm glad you see open borders as an ultimate goal, kudos there, but why do you think its important for "bilateral treaties". Workers are engines of production. They're valuable. We want more of them. Even if they&#
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Wrong wrong wrong. Reality check: (1) Immigrants are actually NET CONTRIBUTORS to the welfare system. (2) Immigrants (at least the poor ones you're apparently worried about) are hard-working and yearn for financial stability; leisure
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
You seem to have a pretty good head for economics. Let me point you to my other comment in this thread for some more info on this important topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Making cheap clothes and electronics in factories are good jobs relative to the kind of work that the extreme poor do - scrounging for food in a garbage dump in Manila or farming shitty land. And they make clothing and electronics in Mexi
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
"Move from one stagnant area into a prosperous one to the point of dragging it down to be stagnant as well?" Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong... 100 times wrong. Productivity is the root of all prosperity. First read this excellent a
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Productivity is the root of all prosperity. First read this excellent article: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/always_keep_you.... . Workers become on average ~20x more productive when they migrate
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Productivity is the root of all prosperity. Read this excellent article: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/02/always_keep_you.... . Workers become on average ~20x more productive when they migrate to th
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
"A basic security problem" So what if anyone can come and go. You live in a town or city, right? So the adjacent towns, they let you just waltz in and out of them right? They "don't control who comes through." Is th
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
"open borders" doesn't have to mean you open them overnight. You can attenuate the flow to a rate that's manageable to keep up with, to give the various infrastructure a chance to grow/adapt to meet the influx. You&
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Foreigners could have their cultural enclaves and Japanese theirs. Anyway, this is an extremely minor concern relative to the astronomic benefits of open borders. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769826
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Please see all my comments elsewhere in this thread for context on this issue from someone who has read a lot about it. I've responded to the points you've brought up, but in different comments. Feel free to respond to me here.
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
It wouldn't be doomed. Foreigners could have their cultural enclaves and Japanese theirs. Anyway, this is an extremely minor concern relative to the astronomic benefits of open borders. See my comment here: https://news.yc
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Fallacy, fallacy, fallacy, fallacy. Oh, I lost count. Private property != public property. There are things called roads, parks, forests that are public - these spaces are designed for common use. Separately, there is private property. Like
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Uh, you can get smuggled into the US via the Mexican borders for like a couple thousand bucks. There's a whole industry around this. The people who do the smuggling are called 'coyotes". Any serious terrorist is already here,
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632 "unhappy immigrants" - surely they're no where near as unhappy as the extreme poor. The moral case for opening the borders is an absolute slam dunk.
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Open borders would enrich everyone, not just the immigrants or the poor. Please see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632 . I live in SF where there's a "housing crisis". All it means is tha
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
Absolutely they should. Open borders would enrich everyone, not just the immigrants and not just the poor. Please see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
"I have two Ivy League degrees. And I am on the verge of deportation." So you obviously deserve to come here, while the people living on $1 a day in extreme poverty and under oppressive regimes, they should be kept out? No, you
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by ericdschmidt 11y ago
I want to watch this movie. What about Pony?
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by ericdschmidt 14y ago
Can both of you guys just get back to me later? Kinda busy now.
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by ericdschmidt 14y ago
MSG basically IS glutamic acid, with Na+ ions. "MSG is the sodium salt of glutamic acid" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate
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by ericdschmidt 14y ago
Thanks for the good criticism.
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
> and even worse for people who were heavy drinkers and then quit Can you provide links or elaborate on this? I'm curious.
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
I also immediately thought of a big celebration occurring during that week
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
It's near the top of Techmeme, and I had to search for it here on HN. Surprised..
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
I didn't come away with the impression that it was flimsy at all. The rant linked to is written by Danny Sullivan, an eminent SEO expert (the most famous one I'm aware of). I would tend to trust his estimation of a person's notability in th
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
You could have just said this: "M for mega, m for milli."
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by ericdschmidt 15y ago
re: your last sentence -- agree, but I suspect most people will not need that much power

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