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Comment #31583767
If it makes you feel better, Google doesn't have a second gold vein yet, either.
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Comment #31564594
There's tons of qualified people that are unable to find work simply because of their immigration status. Having work permission in the US is a massive economic advantage so it mak…
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Comment #31561800
Because a certain subset of people loves to advocate for disadvantaged people so long as the personal cost to themselves is zero.
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Comment #31561758
I'm not sure why criticizing politicians who are weaponizing homeless populations against local residents to sway public opinion is lacking empathy. If anything, it's dignifying th…
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Comment #31418601
We just started planning our transition, as well. This was handled so poorly I can't imagine anyone would ever plan to start a new project on their platform.
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Comment #31373672
Sorry, looking for numbers in the United States.
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Comment #31346283
There was a "truth world" when interconnectivity between average people was low and narratives were controlled by a select few that dominated or had influence over the media. Now t…
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Comment #31333472
Except no one has been able to come to any consensus on what "disinformation" is and isn't. For most, "disinformation" means "doesn't support my political narrative". Sure, there's…
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Ask HN: How can I buy non-VoIP phone numbers?
I'm looking to set up something related to a service like https://clerk.chat. This would require the ability to obtain phone numbers that can receive SMS codes from banks, governme…
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Comment #31333109
I highly recommend Notion for building a knowledge base at your organization. We have one section dedicated to company-wide knowledge, and another section dedicated to various task…
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Comment #31323212
I don't think there's enough investigative power to find all the people who were abusing the system. The level of fraud that I personally witnessed of people filing hundreds of PPP…
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Comment #31254958
I don't think the most perverse behavior we've seen in the CDC has a been a result of political pressure from the executive branch. They seemed to be fairly effective at maneuverin…
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Comment #31254651
You are absolutely correct from a theoretical standpoint. Completely neutral, independent medical experts should, on average, make better health decisions than an uninformed popula…
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Comment #31242650
I think you're shooting the messenger here. OP was explaining the incentives for the behavior we're seeing, not excusing it.
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Comment #31212152
Sorry if it came off that way, but what was intended is that if boarding school is an option you want for your children then the parents are not tied to any one place geographicall…
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Comment #31201470
I have it configured so that the touch bar just shows F keys at all times. It's a really technologically advanced row of F keys for me, only difference being this extra advancement…
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Comment #31201156
When the kids are younger, they don't really need to stick with a specific curriculum throughout the year. As they get older, I imagine the need to dictate your schedule around sch…
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Comment #31201108
> I’ve generally found it much better to mount these into the filesystem and read from there. Is there a standardized/best practice way to do this? Some convention for file names o…
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Comment #31201057
There are companies like TriNet that hire your workers directly on W2 and administer all the payroll and benefits for you. You then just pay TriNet directly instead of doing payrol…
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Comment #31201043
That's just HR being lazy. The process for handling it is an afternoon of filling out some state forms and handing them off to the payroll company.
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Comment #31200985
It's actually pretty economical to have a second home in Latin America, with copies of all your creature comforts there. Kids get multicultural friends, new language, and much wide…
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Comment #31198807
I think it's pretty widely accepted at this point that Hunter Biden repeatedly attempted to peddle the influence of his father for personal profit. Whether he was ever successful a…
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Comment #31181616
You just put the problem into focus. Trump pushing the lab leak hypothesis and using the term "China virus" is indisputably a xenophobic dog whistle to a racist subset of his base.…
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Comment #31163969
I don't know who Alex Berenson is or what he's said about this topic but another example you could use is "limiting the dissemination" of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which also …
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Comment #31163220
There was a time when you weren't allowed to say that the SARS-COV-2 might've leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. That's the most prominent, indefensible example of moderation gone …