falsestprophet

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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"This isn't that crazy, till 1914 in the U.S." Are you sure nothing has changed about the economy since 1914?
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Amer...
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
It's 77% if you count people of Spanish origin as European which you should because they are.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
hyper-nationalistic, filled with bravado, lauding yet reserved, sense of authenticity, extremely humble, it's austere, category of conversation in many other contexts, optimism from a source that does not appear to use it as an instru
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
In fairness, "expats giving us jobs" is hardly the same thing.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
It is important to understand the United States is leading a bombing campaign that has recently killed over 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq. Killing people on a vast scale from countries and also accepting immigrants (including military age
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
This is the first legal test of the pervasive practice of Indian nationals hiring predominantly or exclusively other Indian nationals from their same region in India. edit: From the Department of Labor complaint: "...Oracle neverthele
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
Small and midsize businesses http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/smbs-small-and-midsize-bu... "midsize enterprise is defined as organizations that make more than $50 million, but less than $1 billion in annual reve
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
Which cities?
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
You mean how the child of an immigrant is President? The president's father was never an immigrant. An immigrant is someone who comes to life permanently in a new country. He was a foreign student with a wife in Kenya and eventually
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
In my lab we developed a different assay that favoured the isolation of generalist phages and we were really successful in finding broad host range phages (many were multi-genera in host range). Did your group publish anything on this app
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
First they came for the lobbyists and I did not speak up because I was not a lobbyist.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
People change as they age. Today's 60 year-olds were the idealistic youth 40 years ago. Many a 20 year old communist is something else at 30 and then again at 60.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"Except Thiel is saying many of the repugnant things that made Trump popular. - Thiel wants to restrict immigration to highly educated people. Just like Trump." Why is this repugnant? One would expect a country to institute immigr
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"His solution has been to advocate increased immigration. Yep, wages are flat, lets bring more people so more people can compete for fewer jobs." That isn't true. Peter Thiel has opposed low skill immigration.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"PG doesn't get to publicly disavow Trump AND keep this guy on the YC board." Why not? People who disagree can do business and even be friends.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
The funding round was led by DP World, which operates 77 marine terminals around the globe [1] and is interested in using hyperloops to move containers from marine terminals to inland ports. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
In a large part thanks to this guy You mean due to the process discovered by Fritz Haber. It isn't the case that if he hadn't discovered the process in 1909 that in 2016 the human species would still be without it.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
After Alice v. CLS , what patents about React could be enforced? edit: After Alice there has been a software patent massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"Which is only a value proposition if you're an agoraphobe - the trip takes eons compared to the subway." There are parts of Manhattan that are not well served by the subway.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"Uber really doesn't have that great of a value proposition in NYC IMHO." Uber offers $5 shared rides anywhere in Manhattan during communing hours.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
Probably most of the world would prefer Hong Kong to have self determination. But do you think it is inevitable that it will not? The People's Liberation Army has 2.3 million personnel and Hong Kong has a population of approximately 7
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"but the title is clickbait" Almost every Bloomberg title is clickbait [1]. Probably Bloomberg should be flagged for title correction. Perhaps: "Canadian government offering relocation to homeowners from some declining villag
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
Prague is a lot cheaper than London. Skype pays employees with title Software Development Engineer II: US$46k in Prague [0], and US$82k in London [1]. And I suspect life is a lot more comfortable in Prague on $46k than London on $8
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
He is a captivating public speaker. He accessibly expresses new ideas of considerable importance and complexity. What else do you want from him? SpaceX doesn't need Vince Offer.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
The pronouns he and him have been prescribed for use to describe a person of unknown gender for centuries. You have to willfully ignore the English language to find a misogynistic conspiracy in pronouns.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
sewer: a person or thing that sews. 1350-1400; Middle English; see sew pronounced soh-er, not soo-er as in sewer: an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city. 1375-1425; late Mid
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
Do you really not see a distinction between allowing sewing machines and allowing unlimited immigration of sewers?
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"Non-Hispanic Whites totaled about..." Hispanic white people are white as well if by white you mean of predominately European descent.
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by falsestprophet 10y ago
"The Spanish mixed with the native population and created communities with them since the beginning. This process is 500 years old. Race boundaries have been erased." It isn't true that boundaries have been erased, though i

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