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"This isn't that crazy, till 1914 in the U.S."

Are you sure nothing has changed about the economy since 1914?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Amer...

It's 77% if you count people of Spanish origin as European which you should because they are.

hyper-nationalistic, filled with bravado, lauding yet reserved, sense of authenticity, extremely humble, it's austere, category of conversation in many other contexts, optimism from a source that does not appear to use it as an instrument of control

Sorry English is not my first language and it is not easy for me to understand such advanced writing.

Is it that you like the sort of pride that quantifies the material wealth of the nation and attributes it to a market based economy and furthermore there are other sorts of pride that do you not like?

In fairness, "expats giving us jobs" is hardly the same thing.

It is important to understand the United States is leading a bombing campaign that has recently killed over 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq. Killing people on a vast scale from countries and also accepting immigrants (including military age males) from the same country at the same time is more complicated than #WereACountryOfImmigrants.

This is the first legal test of the pervasive practice of Indian nationals hiring predominantly or exclusively other Indian nationals from their same region in India.

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From the Department of Labor complaint:

"...Oracle nevertheless preferred Asian applications over other qualified applicants in the Professional Technical 1, Individual Contributor Job group and in the Product Development job group at statistically significant rates."

Who is it who is favoring Asian applicants for this job group?

This sort of bias is a danger when hiring decisions are made at a team level rather than a systematic company-wide process like at Google.

Small and midsize businesses

http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/smbs-small-and-midsize-bu...

"midsize enterprise is defined as organizations that make more than $50 million, but less than $1 billion in annual revenue"

So -- no -- businesses with $1 billion in revenue are not running off a Facebook page.

Which cities?

You mean how the child of an immigrant is President?

The president's father was never an immigrant. An immigrant is someone who comes to life permanently in a new country. He was a foreign student with a wife in Kenya and eventually returned to Kenya with an American third wife upon the completion of his studies.

Several presidents have been a child of an immigrant: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Chester Arthur, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover.

In my lab we developed a different assay that favoured the isolation of generalist phages and we were really successful in finding broad host range phages (many were multi-genera in host range).

Did your group publish anything on this approach? If so, could you share a link to one or some of the papers?

First they came for the lobbyists and I did not speak up because I was not a lobbyist.

People change as they age. Today's 60 year-olds were the idealistic youth 40 years ago.

Many a 20 year old communist is something else at 30 and then again at 60.

"Except Thiel is saying many of the repugnant things that made Trump popular.

- Thiel wants to restrict immigration to highly educated people. Just like Trump."

Why is this repugnant?

One would expect a country to institute immigration policy that benefited that country. If it is the case that some immigration restrictions are beneficial, isn't that a fair and reasonable policy?

Is the only acceptable immigration system random selection? Or are no restrictions acceptable?

"His solution has been to advocate increased immigration. Yep, wages are flat, lets bring more people so more people can compete for fewer jobs."

That isn't true. Peter Thiel has opposed low skill immigration.

"PG doesn't get to publicly disavow Trump AND keep this guy on the YC board."

Why not? People who disagree can do business and even be friends.

The funding round was led by DP World, which operates 77 marine terminals around the globe [1] and is interested in using hyperloops to move containers from marine terminals to inland ports.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DP_World

In a large part thanks to this guy

You mean due to the process discovered by Fritz Haber.

It isn't the case that if he hadn't discovered the process in 1909 that in 2016 the human species would still be without it.

After Alice v. CLS, what patents about React could be enforced?

edit: After Alice there has been a software patent massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...

"Which is only a value proposition if you're an agoraphobe - the trip takes eons compared to the subway."

There are parts of Manhattan that are not well served by the subway.

"Uber really doesn't have that great of a value proposition in NYC IMHO."

Uber offers $5 shared rides anywhere in Manhattan during communing hours.

Probably most of the world would prefer Hong Kong to have self determination. But do you think it is inevitable that it will not?

The People's Liberation Army has 2.3 million personnel and Hong Kong has a population of approximately 7 million.

"but the title is clickbait"

Almost every Bloomberg title is clickbait [1]. Probably Bloomberg should be flagged for title correction.

Perhaps: "Canadian government offering relocation to homeowners from some declining villages"

Financial news readers may enjoy Reuters, which has far less irritatingly misleading titles.

[1] source: Bloomberg.com

Prague is a lot cheaper than London.

Skype pays employees with title Software Development Engineer II:

  US$46k in Prague [0], and
  US$82k in London [1].

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Skype-Prague-Salaries-EI_IE... [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Skype-London-Salaries-EI_IE...

He is a captivating public speaker. He accessibly expresses new ideas of considerable importance and complexity. What else do you want from him?

SpaceX doesn't need Vince Offer.

The pronouns he and him have been prescribed for use to describe a person of unknown gender for centuries. You have to willfully ignore the English language to find a misogynistic conspiracy in pronouns.

sewer: a person or thing that sews.

1350-1400; Middle English; see sew

pronounced soh-er, not soo-er as in

sewer: an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city.

1375-1425; late Middle English suer (e) < dialectal Old French se (u) wiere overflow channel

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sewer

Do you really not see a distinction between allowing sewing machines and allowing unlimited immigration of sewers?

"Non-Hispanic Whites totaled about..."

Hispanic white people are white as well if by white you mean of predominately European descent.

"The Spanish mixed with the native population and created communities with them since the beginning. This process is 500 years old. Race boundaries have been erased."

It isn't true that boundaries have been erased, though it may seem that way because a majority of Mexicans are mixed European and indigenous (62%).

But about 10% is European, 7% indigenous and 21% predominantly indigenous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mexico#Ethnic_...