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Foreign born employment increased [1], while native born employment actually decreased [2]. My wife combined the graphics [3]. The axes are in thousands of persons, so we lost 4 million native jobs and gained 4.2 million foreign born jobs. Coincidentally, that is about how many votes the democrats lost by.

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02073395

2. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02073413

3. https://i.imgur.com/KtBGrkg.png

More reasonable would be to explain the grocery prices will likely never come back down but we can increase workers' wages through certain policies. Biden's policy of opening the border to undocumented labor is not a policy that I believe will help increase the wages of those concerned about the cost of groceries.

The stimulus money was insane, shutting down the economy was insane, forcing people to take a vaccine by threatening their jobs was insane. The democrats lost so much good will with so much of the population during COVID.

They are a corporate party, just like the democrats. Supporting secure borders is not far right. Republicans have support of every race, they are not racist despite the media repeating that they are. Trump is very hesitant about getting involved in wars. I see nothing far right about them, maybe they are somewhat nationalistic instead of globalist, but the US is a diverse nation. At the end of the day they are just another corporate party that appealed more to the American people.

250k (recorded border patrol contacts) came across in December 2023 (peak), about 55k this last August. It is usually fewer then a million per year but still a significant number of people. Bad policies in 2023 led to an absolute flood. That is competition for American workers.

Flooding the country with millions of undocumented workers to compete with Americans is not a favor to the working class. That is a hand out to corporations.

Calling republicans far right is the exact rhetoric that alienates and divides people. Take the next four years to try to find some common ground with the right.

The oldest non-colonal tree is in California at 4800 some years old.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(pine_tree)

>From 2014 to 2018, for example, Santa Monica issued permits to build just 12 multifamily units. [1]

1. https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2022/11/santa-monicas-b...

>In Mammoth Lakes, there are two old K-Mart lots that could easily welcome competitive grocery stores

This sounds like Bishop, not Mammoth. Bishop is 30 minutes outside of Mammoth and is a little bit bigger. Mammoth does have two grocery stores now, for years it was just a Vons and now there is a Grocery Outlet as well.

Bishop has a Vons, Grocery Outlet, and a Smart and Final. Both cities have some hispanic grocers that I'm not familiar with. As far as I know though there has never been a K-Mart in Mammoth, and I've snowboarded there since ~2002.

Bishop did used to have a K-Mart and it is just sitting empty now.

What is weird to me about her proposal is that they talk about 3m homes but that is the normal number of housing starts in 4 years. Do they mean they will double it or are they just giving tax incentives for the expected home construction so they can point to it and get credit?

As someone who wants higher density, I see very little progress of this happening. Voters consistently vote against it. The one exception is California state has passed some good laws around ADUs and parking minimums. People will keep voting for rent control and affordable units to prevent construction.

The other side of the equation is that wages could increase relative to the price of housing.

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>It would kill the utility of cars though, you could never drive faster than maybe 30 miles per hour

That sounds lovely. I would live in that city.

The trained embedding vectors for the token equivalents of W4 and W-4 would be mapped to a similar space due to their appearance in the same contexts.

I am very pro capitalism, but as a worker under capitalism it is very clear that immigration benefits corporations. Why do you think the impacts of immigration on American workers are not discussed by media? My conclusion is that discussing it does not benefit those who own those media companies. They are shareholders in other businesses, they employ people, and likely sit on the boards of companies that benefit from immigrant labor. It does not need to be a conspiracy, just self interest of those who control the narrative.

It is because corporations benefit from exploitable labor and competition among workers. For this reason they promote a narrative that opposing illegal immigration is racist. The counter narrative would be that preventing it gives power to American workers (of all races) but no one seems to discuss that.

Windows system call numbers aren't stable. It is done through their system libraries. So rather than invoking a syscall number as you do on Linux, if you want your code to be portable you import the DLL with that functionality and call the function. You can do this all from ASM without needing C, though the system libraries were likely written in a higher level language like C. You can also invoke system calls by number directly, it is just liable to not work on another version of Windows.

Can someone explain the "restartable function" aspect of the proposal? I'm not familiar with that term and I don't see an explanation in the proposal or blog.

I think it would go the other way where you use coverage to guide reinforcement. Crank the temperature up to increase variation and you would probably produce a model that could approximate the file format you were targeting.

Their API is unusable due to rate limits. Myself and my wife have both had ideas, started using it, and found other approaches after hitting rate limits. I tried funding more money in the account to increase the rate limits and it did not work. I imagine they see poor growth there because of this.

I actually think OK Cupid is a pretty bad idea. It allows people to make things that are pretty superficial when you are together, e.g. politics, deal breakers. An example of this is that I am allergic to cats and would always set that as a deal breaker. It turns out, the woman I met and married has cats. We make it work.

The swipe apps are even worse and the whole online dating order is backward. You sort people on very superficial metrics, agree to a date, then see if you have common ground and get along. Social hobbies are the way to go. It is much more natural order where you get to know someone, see if you get along, and then go on a date once it is already established that you like each other.

I would do 30 days of solitary confinement for $1m without hesitation.

The government is large and consists of multiple organizations with different goals.

Why is this style of comment on every single study that gets posted? It was a small sample size in rats, we get it.

So now workers have unlimited competition. That sounds like it will put a lot of power in the hands of corporations in terms of being able to replace workers.

>Americans aren't willing to work a lot of lower wage jobs.

Then the wages are not high enough in those jobs. They should either pay more or get automated. Bringing in desperate people who are willing to live and under worse conditions is not an ethically sound solution.

I don't disagree, getting smart and ambitious people to move to your country is a really good policy overall. It is just worth weighing it against the opportunity cost for the citizens of the country.

>Recent immigrants tend to earn less than U.S.-born workers because of their lower level of education, lack of English, and in some cases because they are working without permission. They might also compete with existing workers with less education and put downward pressure on their wages, too.

This is my biggest problem with immigration. It is a handout to corporations. If we think about the poorest Americans, this is doing them a massive disservice. Not that there is any shortage of jobs in tech, but you also have to wonder where the salaries would be at in tech, and how many more citizens would be training for these roles if it weren't for H-1B visa.

For the most part, America serves corporations through legislation and policy though. I dream of a country where the politicians serve the people and not companies, but I also have to wonder if the U.S. would be the economic power house that it is if things were different.