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It's too bad that no immigrants work in construction to build more housing. If we could import lower cost laborers to build houses, that would greatly improve the housing affordabi…

> is there any country an immigrant can move to, and better their lives as well as the locals' life/economy? The United States. > It seems the world is turning hostile to immigrati…

By that argument, why should any musician get anything? They're not paying royalties to the musicians who they listened to in the past and whose songs they trained on while they le…

This is the first time I have seen refusing to pay bribes framed as a moral failing and character flaw. Perhaps it's not that he "didn't understand he was supposed to bribe" but ra…

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You've picked a handful of consumer goods which have become cheaper due to technology and used them to construct a narrative entirely opposite of reality. It would be more accurate…

The problem is on a thread where there is 1 AI post, people will identify 10 posts as being AI. People latch onto the word "delve" or an em-dash or the idiom of "it's not X it's Y"…

> No they don't know and if they did I would get fired obviously And yet, above, you're still asking where the fraud is. You clearly know you're violating the terms of your employm…

OP was presumably not asking literally because they thought this was the best way to find out, they were doing so rhetorically to point out that Andrew Tate is not a person of any …

> Using AI, I've been able to land several interviews and work 3 jobs remotely currently without much effort Working 3 jobs is almost certainly defrauding the employers, your emplo…

Does it matter if it was? It's 2026. LLMs are integrated into text editors the same way as spell checkers and grammar checkers. Even if people write things themselves, they likely …

So you've used AI to do fraud and you're confused why people are opposed to this? You're the reason companies are pushing return to office and putting candidates through gauntlets …

This anecdote may be true, but is certainly not representative of current life in America. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St... Millions i…

> would imagine that they’ve been compelled Sadly, your imagination isn't cynical enough. While the responsibility for the Texas grid failures, which led to multiple deaths and bil…

The HN title matches the submitted article title, however, it should really say "racial diversity". If removing the legacy preference results in a working-class white kid from the …

> Particularly given the alarming stories of people being prosecuted for having miscarriages You need to delete your social media accounts and change where you're getting your news…

I'm genuinely fascinated and confused by what's going on in this thread, as apparently British and American English speakers misunderstand each other. If I understand correctly, we…

Important to note that "banned" here means "a school chose not to have this book in their library". It's an annoying abuse of language. "Banned Books" has historically meant people…

There's a political backlash because Fox News and some Russian propaganda social media accounts told people to get angry and they did. We have mandates against leaded fuel and exce…

And schools get funding from lotteries and casinos, and healthcare gets funding from alcohol and cigarette sales. A good thing funded by taxes on a bad thing is pretty common in Am…

I worry the narrative here is going off the rails. A huge part of the Epstein saga was that he had connections to everyone, everywhere across finance, academia, entertainment, non-…

When I was a kid the Detroit automakers bought air filters manufactured at a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin and brake pads manufactured in Peoria, Illinois and lubricants from Fort …

> Remember that Musk grew up in Apartheid South Africa And cited his opposition to apartheid as the central reason that he left the country as soon as he could, at age 17, because …

> Please correct me if I’m wrong. You are, about pretty much all of this. Being a market maker doesn't provide any special information. I'm guessing someone misunderstood something…

That's not fringe at all. That was a claim made by anti-drug commercials that ran on TV across the US so frequently that it was satirized by South Park in 2002. See the "Where did …