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Wealth is not distributed equally either, those with a lot of resources find it much easier to maintain and gain wealth. Wealth provides a shield against consequences and accidents.

The US signed a formal treaty, which remains law.

These rights existing because the US government signed treaties with independent foreign nations. Those treaties are valid law until the Congress withdraws from them.

Delivery apps and websites highlight and promote restaurants with "free" delivery. Anecdotally, people like feeling like they are getting a good deal. The "free delivery" that is included in food pricing is more enticing than cheaper food with a $9 delivery.

Yelp also provides DDG results.

Anecdotally, in Northern Wisconsin, GMaps is only slightly better than OSM on abandoned logging roads. There are a lot of private gated or abandoned roads and logging tracks which Google Maps will use for route planning.

If the economy grows by ~3% per year on average, and the interest rate is ~1% on government debt, can the debt actually "catch up"?

> They inherently incentivize not working and punish those who do work.

Do you have any evidence of this claim?

I'm from the North Carolina, in US south. In my opinion, Confederate monuments are not mere objects showing the long reach of history.

These monuments were built mostly from the 1890-1930 during the worst period of extrajudicial killings of black people. White mobs freely enforced violent racial apartheid with the approval and backing of state and local governments. One example, in 1898 the elected government of the majority black city of Wilmington, North Carolina was overthrown in a coup by a white mob and several dozen black people and members of the local government were executed[1].

These statues are prominently displayed in front of court houses and government buildings in towns and cities all over the south. The governments that built these monuments were extraordinarily reprehensible in their explicit and violent racism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...

Isn't the issue that Apple doesn't charge the same 30% surcharge to their own business units? Apple controls the entire ecosystem and can use it's control to force anti-competive terms on its competition.

> 3. Social Welfare programs should be limited to Citizens Only. Persons can apply for Citizenship after they have lived here for 3 yrs under the temporary immigration program.

How to you handle underclass, i.e. people who become disabled or injured, move into a recession, can't meet the initial requirements, or some reason to not comply. With your requirement #1, #3 seems cruel. In most countries a work permit gets you basic access to the same welfare and worker protections (usually statutory retirement, unemployment insurance, health care) for this exact reason.

> If you break the law you will be separated from your family

Really depends what law you have broken, doesn't it? Under US immigration law crossing the border at the wrong place is punishable by $250 fine (8 U.S.C. Section 1325, I.N.A. Section 275). Many traffic violations have stricter penalties.

In early 2017 the Trump administration stopped accepting asylum applications at ports of entry and required asylum seekers to apply in the country (contrary to law). In April 2018 ICE started separating families of asylum seekers who had committed the grievous act of a) crossing the border b) requesting asylum from the first US official they encountered (a condition explicitly allowed in US asylum law)

> keeping children in cages ... 3 different presidents now

I think that's a false equivalency. The fucked up stuff ICE got away with under Obama is not the same as the fucked up shit Trump has given the green light to. The Trump admin is actively violating US immigration law to for no other apparent reason than a simple desire to be cruel to asylum seekers. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/688/the-out-crowd

> dealing with illegal immigration has popular support.

You presume that "dealing with illegal immigration has popular support" is the same as "the public broadly supports arbitrary cruelty to illegal immigrants".

The US population (~80%) appears to think "dealing with illegal immigration" should mean "provide a path to citizenship" [1]

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx

> I don't think it's fair or makes sense to single them out.

ICE has earned all of the scrutiny they get. ICE does not seem to care about the welfare of the people in its care [2]. It does not seem to care about US immigration law [3]. Or the rights of legal immigrants [4]. ICE employees say ICE prioritizes rounding up law abiding families over criminal investigations [5].

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-se...

[3] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-15/asylum-off...

[4] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/ice-is-out-of-co...

[5] https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter-kirstjen-nielse...

How is "ICE is running concentration camps" hyperbole if all parts of the sentence are literally true?

If ICE could be trusted to care for those in its care [1] or respect the legal rights of immigrants [2] then, maybe it would be unfair. How many children need to die in custody before "concentration camp" stops being hyperbolic?

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/12/19/ice...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-15/asylum-off...

> I have to admit that I am not sure what ICE is doing wrong

ICE is pretty bad at following US law and pretty good at being cruel to everyone in their path

- ICE routinely detains and deports citizens and legal residents (guess their skin color) [1]

- ICE routinely abuses those placed in their care and doesn't punish known abusers [2] [3] [4] [7]

- ICE is happy to hurt its law enforcement practices to round up more immigrants [5]

- under Obama ICE was actively ignoring court orders [6] this is much worse under Trump

- ICE asylum officers (i.e. lawyers and experts) have reported extensive cruel and illegal practices [8]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2018/10/11/adelanto-ice-detention-c...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/sexual-assault-ice-det...

[4] https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/im...

[5] https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-hsi-letter-kirstjen-nielse...

[6] https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-p...

[7] https://www.aclusandiego.org/cbp-child-abuse-foia/

[8] https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-11-15/asylum-off...

And if the laws of your country are unjust?

So you don't like the questions the term "concentration camp" makes you ask about the indefinite detention of foreign nationals for misdemeanor offenses?

Maybe the term isn't the problem and the policy you are trying to defend is

> secessionist monuments

You misspelled white supremacist. All of the confederate monuments I know of were built during _CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS_ as an expression of power by white supremacist governments and political traditions.

From the library readme [1]

> The database is a key value store prepopulated with the english names of countries and their capital cities from the continent of Europe. Selecting the country will perform a search of the matching capital. On a 2019 Macbook Pro laptop, the example searches take under 80 seconds.

Does this have a heavy performance cost for even toy applications?

[1] https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-macos/blob/master/Getting...

Or one of the business units of the CCP is putting lateral pressure on Google. Or an organized CCP/PLA operation to mass report the term.

If this is true, follow the money. HN is run by a Venture Capital firm. What are their incentives? Who does the business have to keep happy?

What's a non-myopic view of slavery?

If dependence on a government for basic necessities is slavery, isn't any form of dependence slavery? Are trust fund recipients slaves? Are workers who depend on an employer slaves? Are people in debt slaves to their creditors?

I though slavery was having a job you couldn't quit and weren't paid for? Having no job and guaranteed income seems pretty far from being owned by another human.

US public health infrastructure is less resilient than most of europe, capacity is lower and everything is >10x more expensive.

Further the risk of transmission is higher from low wage workers who can neither afford to take time off nor afford health care. Sick days are not a guaranteed (California guarantees only 3) and many employers will fire employees who take even unpaid sick days.

Maybe conservatism is about preserving existing power structures and not much else?

Berlin has a very large tech industry, a lower cost of living, and lower wages.

No, you subsidize people doing poorly paid but highly educated work in fields like public health work, education, and non-profits. You also subsidize people getting the basic education required for many jobs.

Google Fi a virtual operator using T Mobile towers. T Mobile's coverage is excellent in cities, but pretty bad in rural areas.

Maybe they BuzzFeed's remaining employees should unionize to keep this same shit from happening to them.

Laborers deserve to be paid for their labor, and compensated fairly. Regardless of what one thinks of the labor.

The concerns of labor should be given as much weight as the concerns of profit maximization.

A preview of some of the economic toll of climate change