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    Comment #48674570

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/bernie-sande... https://americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/h-1b-workers-...

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    Comment #48674336

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    Comment #48674277

    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. …

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    Comment #48674103

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    Comment #44248040

    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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    Comment #43938655

    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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    Comment #43928533

    > 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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    Comment #43838854

    It definitely always works. If your skills become obsolete then it's time to find new ones or stop working.

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    Comment #43832448

    > 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." –Thoma…

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    Comment #43333871

    you don't need to bring up trump in a camera thread

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    Comment #43038807

    the people with the highest compensation packages are by definition the least replaceable

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    Comment #41384017

    neither does education, what's your point?

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    Comment #41382704

    > 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 …

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    Comment #40289916

    > 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 h…

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    Comment #36792293

    > 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…

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    Comment #36537035

    > 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 succ…

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    Comment #36522120

    > 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 "de…

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    Comment #36484693

    then you know it's not a great article.

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    Comment #36484595

    > My personal, uneducated, unverified hypothesis was that companies overcompensate price increases for three main reasons: profit-maximizing sellers can only increase prices if dem…

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    Comment #36484493

    > 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. lock…

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    Comment #35903905

    you can flag it

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    Comment #35805966

    > 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 e…