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by hash872 21d ago
The whole 'AI can't automate a lot of jobs, because that's exactly what everyone in the past said about technological advances then!' is a classic fallacious argument. It simply fails as a logical thought pattern. Past t
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by hash872 24d ago
It's really not that rare for smaller companies. Every two-bit contractor, small landlord who thinks he's smart because he put his properties in an LLC etc. undoubtedly violates the corporate/personal distinction by cominglin
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by hash872 2mo ago
Also there's a big difference between the sites that easily allow you to simply reject whatever their premade cookie settings are. And, the sites that only allow you to use them after you've accepted (example, politico.eu). Or,
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by hash872 2mo ago
Would love to see the overlap between the average anti-Big Tech HN commenter cheering on this regulatory advance, and the average HN commenter who thinks hard drugs should be legalized and that the War on Drugs is bad. Because these are con
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by hash872 3mo ago
You read a 63 page paper today?
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by hash872 3mo ago
I'm a bit skeptical that you absorbed these 3 pieces in the time it took you to respond (they are 27, 29, and 63 pages, respectively), but they find a range of effect sizes here- the other two a bit more strongly. I feel comfortable wi
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by hash872 3mo ago
Sure https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2013b_e... https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/wp-107.pdf https://eml.berkeley.edu/~yagan&
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by hash872 3mo ago
I don't have time for a longer comment, but AIUI this is mostly a statistical illusion caused by changes to US tax law- previously income that was attributed to 'labor' shifted over to LLCs/S corps for more beneficial ta
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Ask HN: What do you do about nonstop email spam from overseas?
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by hash872 3mo ago
1. I grew up in a small town, and occasionally ask my parents how mayoral/city council politics is going there. (Or, I check out the latest drama on Facebook about it). My good friend's uncle was our mayor for a long time, etc. Pe
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by hash872 3mo ago
Because the median voter doesn't realistically have that detailed a level of knowledge on legislators/their policies. This is tough for a lot of people to believe- especially the kind of high-information voters who propose these s
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by hash872 3mo ago
Grouchy old political scientist here: 1. Due to geographic sorting smaller districts would be more intensely partisan than today, not less. A smaller land mass is going to be more deeply blue or red 2. A gigantic house would be less cacop
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by hash872 4mo ago
OK, but there are some logistical issues here- let's say Alberta votes to secede and this is somehow legally viable. All of the Albertan voters who didn't want to secede- including the native tribes- could then by your rules vote
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by hash872 4mo ago
Has anyone had any luck deleting themselves from the data brokers who sell cell data to political texters and/or survey companies? Those are the ones I really want to opt out of
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by hash872 4mo ago
There's a US-specific one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_... "From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses,[7] with prescription and illicit opioids responsib
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by hash872 4mo ago
>Those are exactly the people you want to have access to it Yes but that's different from 'every random person can buy some meth at 7-11 or the government store' though. I'm fine with a controlled program for register
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by hash872 4mo ago
I think we're agreeing with each other?
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by hash872 4mo ago
>The government should just regulate it, control purity and production and let people access small amounts for recreation/performance Famously, the US spent about 15-20 years attempting this with opioids. They were widely available
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by hash872 6mo ago
"The key move was Congress’s amendment to INA §214(b), the provision that says every visa applicant is presumed to be an intending immigrant unless they prove otherwise. In 1990, Congress inserted an exception for H(i) and L nonimmigra
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by hash872 6mo ago
This might not be a fruitful discussion because I get the impression you're a bit ideologically dug in on this. I would like to think my subject matter expertise is reasonably high given that this intersects with my IRL job. But yes: &
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by hash872 6mo ago
It seems like you already understand what dual intent means- it's both a temporary working visa and a path to a Green Card. Yes, the government issues I-140s to H1-Bs, which are another step on the path to a GC. The government has an e
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by hash872 6mo ago
No, H1-B is a dual intent visa- working and a path to a Green Card. It's always been that way
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by hash872 6mo ago
At least even money that an appellate court throws this verdict out entirely. Reminder that the US is the only developed country that uses juries for civil trials- everywhere else, complex issues of business litigation are generally left to
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by hash872 7mo ago
The Department of Energy funded much of the early research into fracking in the 70s https://www.energy.gov/hgeo/articles/does-early-investment-s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking_in_th
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by hash872 7mo ago
The proto-Internet. GPS. Nuclear energy. MRIs. Fracking. The Human Genome Project. Fiber optics. Optical data storage. Jet engines. Heck, the entire space industry. Lithium ion batteries. Radar. Night vision technology. Modern lower limb pr
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by hash872 7mo ago
How about if your neighborhood wanted to keep out people of a certain ethnicity instead? Is that a democratic outcome that we need to respect? The definition of democracy is that we hold regular elections for political office. It does not m
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by hash872 8mo ago
From an institutional engineering POV (warning- I am a grouchy old former political scientist), it would be interesting to come up with institutional solutions for some of the problems America is facing right now. Specifically I think I&#x2
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by hash872 8mo ago
Glad to see future builders focusing on bureaucratic compliance first & foremost. It's a stirring vision. This is a great European VC on Twitter you may want to tag about your project, he invests solely in GDPR-compliant European t
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by hash872 11mo ago
Why do people persist in repeating this dumb meme? Tyler Cowen, who should really know better, does it too. To be profitable shorting, you have to not only be right about the direction of the market but you have to time it precisely . Sh
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by hash872 1y ago
Re: 1- one certain protection of the state that they benefit from is the US Constitution, which as interpreted so far forbids the government to impair their free speech rights. Making a private actor host content they personally disagree wi

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