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> 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 …

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 you…

> 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,…

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…

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…

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 m…

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…

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 h…

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 wh…

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…

> 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 po…

Thanks for the correction.

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 t…

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 …

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.pd…

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-Pa…

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 up…

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 fr…

Thanks for the correction.

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 blackma…

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 go…

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 work…

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 …

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…

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 2…