I read Walden when I was 16 without knowing anything about him. I’ve never felt so enlightened as that time. I don’t care about the literary critiques and background information. That book lit a fire in my young mind
I'm an Indian. As a past H1B visa holder, I know that this happens. I've seen people being so biased that they only recruit people from the state they belong to in India.
And, I've come across Americans in bay area who were so pissed off with this that they voted for Trump. The level of politics and discrimination I've seen would make anyone angry.
There are highly skilled people working on H1B but they're a minority. If H1B allows only full time employment and no contract jobs, a lot of abuse will be eliminated.
Edit: Why the downvotes? Truth hurts? This is a known secret throughout the valley.
It's almost an emergent property... don't think it quite qualifies as a "mistake". It was bound to happen
I'd personally rank the careless use of plastics for nearly everything conceivable including the most unnecessary stuff higher in our collective mistakes list
I think your response is extremely unimagnative. We had the internet in widespread use for a decade before 'social media' was in widespread use.
Social media of the kind being discussed here-- mass market sites driven by algorithms designed to hack human behaviour and drive "engagement" at any cost-- is may be an inevitable consequence of advertising funded business but I don't believe it is an inevitable consequence of the internet.
Most high income jobs in this country are performed by foreigners. I have data to prove this, scraped all of the top firms LinkedIn’s. The labor force in the USA is way more hollow than this data even shows. It’s harrowing to see how few American college graduates enter roles that have a bright future. I am currently working on a website to expose the reality of American employment.
Other factor here is the fed printing money to inflate financial assets, making the rich richer and driving up the housing market.
Ultra capitalist policies by the left and right to completely outsource American jobs.
The effects of all of these have not been realized yet. But they will. We’re 15 years off from real crises when both the left and right middle class populations realize they’ve been had
> Most high income jobs in this country are performed by foreigners.
Citation? There are only about 3 million H1B visa holders in the US. The remaining ~120 million workers are citizens or immigrants in non-specialized work.
There’s a trick to #9. It is 10x better freshly brewed! I went to the magic hat brewery and had #9 there. The taste was so much better, you could tell it was due to the freshness. It ruined the beer for me though, because now I know what I’m buying off the shelf is a bit old.
Most beers are better at the brewery IMO, and most beers are better on draft. One beer I especially like in a can is Boddingtons because of the CO2 capsule that makes its pour quite similar to a draft beer. I think a few other beers have the same innovation. I believe I’m the only person at my local package store who buys it, as they order very little and I always seem to buy the last couple 4-packs.
Ask a Tesla employee who created their job. Ask any involved in the immense space delivery chain who is supporting their job. And that's just one immigrant.
Inequality between countries is decreasing. Poor countries get richer and wealthy countries lose some but less than the poor gain. That is positive sum.
For example you might lose 10% of your salary but four people in India double their salary. It's a slow process so it will feel like the downward trend will go on forever but one day it will change its course and salaries will go up again.
Inequality within countries is increasing, and is more directly connected to experienced disutility (though media saturation from one country to another can also make inequality b/w coubtries a factor in experienced disutility.)
A problem with naive economic analysis is that it tends to pretend that absolute material wealth is the prime determinant of experienced utility (and consequently that disutility is mostly driven by absolute deprivation), which while true in the most abject poverty isn't true beyond that level.
I would imagine American workers interpreting decrease in their quality of life and their wealth as a negative event. Condoling the fact by pointing out that some folks in India are now much better off is tone deaf at best.
It’s pretty clear this is from a lab. A number of well known scientists have said so, including the guy who got a Nobel prize for working on hiv has said so.
Montagnier's "proof" is a questionable paper (that has not his name on it, though) that does "decomposing" on the RNA of the viruses with a mathematical transformation that has no biological sense, and by using "patterns" and "waves" "deduces" that there must be something from HIV.
I've read it. It's embarassing on how bad it is written, and the mental gymnastics it uses to "explain" things.
