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by surement 3mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/bernie-sande... https://americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/h-1b-workers-...
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by surement 3mo ago
They agree on immigration, both illegal (border security) and skilled (H1B). They agree on trade policy and tariffs. They agree on public stakes in AI and semiconductor companies. They used to agree on foreign intervention, though Trump 47
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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)(theguardian.com)
68 points by surement 1y ago|64 comments
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by surement 1y ago
Universal in what country? In the US I've had two MRIs in the last few years for non urgent things and both were scheduled within less than a week.
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by surement 1y ago
Your evidence is the most absurd "antitrust" lawsuit in history. What law did they break? Macs come with Safari and Android devices come with Chrome, where's the lawsuits?
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by surement 1y ago
> by any means necessary This implies that they got rich by pillaging instead of countless people voluntarily giving them money in exchange for what they offered.
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by surement 1y ago
It definitely always works. If your skills become obsolete then it's time to find new ones or stop working.
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by surement 1y ago
> Have any of these economists ever tried to scrape by as an entry-level graphic designer/illustrator? "Equip yourself with skills that other people are willing to pay for." –Thomas Sowell
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by surement 2y ago
you don't need to bring up trump in a camera thread
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by surement 2y ago
the people with the highest compensation packages are by definition the least replaceable
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by surement 2y ago
neither does education, what's your point?
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by surement 2y ago
> Definitely under appreciated and under paid, but I learned a ton about working for a living. a lot of the discussion about wages ignores the value of experience; students pay to spend their days learning but it's somehow unfair fo
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by surement 2y ago
> extreme form of coffee hipsterism I know a lot of coffee nerds and cold brew is disdained for not extracting enough flavors. This is just someone who never adapted to the world hoping the world will adapt to them.
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by surement 3y ago
> Papers don't establish ground truths in science > it doesn't shake the foundations of science the comment doesn't say any of that, just that resources are wasted participating to these "conversations"
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by surement 3y ago
> if MIT rejected applicants with better profiles because of the URM checkbox, in some sense they didn't deserve to get in "better" is subjective and imo anyone who goes on to succeed at the school is as good as the next p
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by surement 3y ago
> I went to MIT, and to this day I wonder how much checking "Hispanic" helped me there and if I "deserved" to go. the problem with aa is not about people getting in that didn't "deserve" it, it's p
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by surement 3y ago
then you know it's not a great article.
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by surement 3y ago
> My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons: profit-maximizing sellers can only increase prices if demand rises, otherwise they will sell fewer units at the hi
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by surement 3y ago
> To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient or more innovative companies captured the market share of less innovative ones, e.g. lockdowns bankrupting brick and mortars in favor of online gi
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by surement 3y ago
you can flag it
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by surement 3y ago
> Some niche languages enthusiasts can be very picky and reluctant to work on other languages, and would pick Haskell when a simple python script would be more appropriate. in my experience, these people also refuse to learn about any so
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by surement 3y ago
I get taxing companies for things that cost taxpayers money, but why do this based on recyclability? It seems like more of an economic problem: if recycled plastic costs more than new plastic, then why is it better? Charge companies for pac
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by surement 3y ago
> Name all your variables 'data'. Name a class "Entity" and make everything else derive from it. Write code that can't be deleted, ever.
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by surement 3y ago
basically the 0x engineers the article talks about wrt opportunity cost
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by surement 3y ago
it's a tax on your bank account, but other assets can increase in value proportionally with inflation
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by surement 3y ago
there's also "empirical evidence" that minimum wage laws don't lead to unemployment, that doesn't make it true
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by surement 3y ago
Acting like "food" is a company is absurd, there is a ton of competition and substitution in the market, no one actor has the capacity to influence "food" prices in general. If they did, then were they just being altruis
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by surement 3y ago
like what?
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by surement 3y ago
government agencies are the only ones that get MORE money when they fail to deliver
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by surement 3y ago
> Said lack of funding is the primary cause of the inefficiencies No, the primary cause is politicians promising things that sound good so that they'll get reelected, because that's the number one thing they care about, not eff

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