malandrew

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by malandrew 10mo ago
> or just stay with her current employer and somehow work on her startup. The first two options make sense but this latter option sounds like a risk. As I understand it, she can't earn any active income from this startup unless see
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by malandrew 10mo ago
Why don't they just start a company in the country where they are from or why don't you start a company with someone who is a citizen or has a green card? The entire premise of your question is misaligned with the intention of the
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by malandrew 2y ago
> Where? Can't think of any particular sources off the top of my head. It shows up from time to time in different places. > I think blood-and-boden arguments for territory are bad, full stop. I generally agree. I generally argue
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by malandrew 2y ago
I think you're confusing me with other folks on HN. I value cohesive high trust societies so I'm personally in favor of assimilation and much more gradual changes to any culture. I think a change from 96% to 67% in 76 years is a c
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by malandrew 2y ago
Fair enough. With that in mind, at what point does it no longer make sense to track it? There must be some principled position where you can argue when it does and or does not make sense. In the case of this conflict, we're talking abo
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by malandrew 2y ago
Fair enough. I didn't realize that the Khazar hypothesis was fringe. I've seen it pretty widely cited and assumed it was more commonly accepted. What is still fair to say is that many Jews in Israel do not actually have a continue
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by malandrew 2y ago
I'm not denying individual soldiers committed atrocities. However if we go back to the actual news following October 7th, the claims were that the types of atrocities being claimed were claimed as widespread/systemic amongst the H
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by malandrew 2y ago
That festival is one of the places I'm most curious to see the footage from the helicopters and tanks. Where's the footage from the AH-64 Apache helicopters that engaged? Did the helicopters distinguish between Hamas combatants an
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by malandrew 2y ago
Fair enough. It was a poor choice of words. I wasn't trying to justify the taking of hostages. I was trying to raise a discussion that we should be demanding more evidence about what actually happened on October 7th and that such evide
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by malandrew 2y ago
Yes it matters. 1195 people were killed on October 7th. My understanding is that 815 of these were civilians. This means that 380 were IDF. This is a ratio of 2.15 civilians killed for each combatant. The IDF considers a 2:1 ratio "tre
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by malandrew 2y ago
> Are you know claiming that an Ak-47 is incapable of killing people? Yet another strawman. I'm guessing you have no practical experience with firearms otherwise you'd argue the points I'm making. > If you find yourself
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by malandrew 2y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by malandrew 2y ago
Strawman much? Taking hostages has practical benefits. Indiscriminate killing of folks that don't present a threat isn't practical. Every single one of those combatants that left the fence that day had a limited amount of ammuniti
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by malandrew 2y ago
Ukraine won't end until terms can be achieved that allow bankers and Western investors to buy up all the "distressed assets" in the Ukraine for pennies on the dollar just like the oligarchs bought up all of the major industri
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by malandrew 2y ago
My understanding is that there's been renewed interest in building the Ben Gurion Canal proposed by Howard D. MacCabee in 1963. https://www.osti.gov/opennet/servlets/purl/453701.pdf Google's Ngram v
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by malandrew 2y ago
To be fair, the JIDF has been astroturfing Wikipedia for far longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52LB2fYhoY Who knows where the balance actually lies, but it's not just pro-Palestinians doing the propaganda here.
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by malandrew 2y ago
To this day we still have no idea how many of those 1200 people were killed by Hamas and how many were killed by the IDF under the Hannibal Directive. There likely are thousands upon thousands of hours of footage from October 7th from priva
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by malandrew 2y ago
In 1872, less than 4% of Palestine was Jewish. It was 17% in 1931. 33% in 1948 when Israel was formed. The vast vast majority of Jews in Israel now are Ashkenazi. Ashkenazis are from Khazaria and converted to Judaism between 740 and 920 AD.
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by malandrew 2y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by malandrew 2y ago
I'm not sure there is a modern form of government that can solve the problem we have. If a non-trivial quantity of your leaders (elected or appointed) are being coerced and blackmailed, there's not really a solution. Maybe in the
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by malandrew 2y ago
The way I see it, the overly powerful government and corporate institutions are two sides of the same coin. There's been so much revolving door activity and corporate capture of government, that depowering either in either order yields
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by malandrew 2y ago
TBF, I'm not against wealth transfers and infrastructure investments. I just think they should be handled as close to the local level as possible. Wealth transfers for example worked better when Churches and other local community insti
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by malandrew 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words. > I'd add the nuance that in the past trust was not (largely) extended across racial lines, but there was progress made, up until it began falling apart altogether. Yeah, I'm not going to deny this a
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by malandrew 2y ago
Glad to know other people feel this way. My experience has been that there are a lot more of us out there than it feels, but you only find that our when you start speaking up about it. One of my biggest observations in life is that many dis
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by malandrew 2y ago
First of all, I want to say, I'm sorry for what our government did to your countries. Absolutely shameful. (This goes for pretty all the wars the US has been involved with in the 20th century, but especially those since Kennedy was ass
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by malandrew 2y ago
For the most part, my observations is that we now just put up with rampant property crime and very little of it gets reported. This isn't surprising because getting cops to respond to property crime reports when you call 911 now takes
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by malandrew 2y ago
> you cited 0 things I would personally be interested in what things are you interested in that are cultural? > as hard times coming This wouldn't surprise me, but unless it happens in 2nd to 4th year of his presidency, it's
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by malandrew 2y ago
Got it. Wish you the best. Wish you had had a better experience here like I have. Only thing I can surmise is that you ended up in some cities in your list that left a lot to be desired. Denver is the only place on that list I'd ever c
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by malandrew 2y ago
Strawman much? I don't understand how you can get "America sucks" from from my comments. I love this place. All the stuff you said sucks are things that suck in lots of other countries too. Why am I going to get upset about p
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by malandrew 2y ago
I'm not surprised by your interpretation of a lot of my comment. Coastal/Urban America hasn't had anything resembling a common culture for a lot longer than 8 years now. I'd say that it's been a wholly different pla

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