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It's a shame for the sake of memes that they couldn't hold out long enough for a Unicode flag emoji

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>Because I'm pretty sure America needed plenty of foreign help to split the atom

The whole point of my comment was that such truly high-skilled immigrants were able to arrive and thrive during the term of the Johnson-Reed Act. The rest of your critique on that point is ill-founded and irrelevant.

>Almost everyone has something made by Sony or Panasonic, but no one has a Zenith TV anymore.

Yes, tariffs will be needed to reshore those industries.

>The "Green Revolution"... depended entirely on the cooperation of foreign governments, investment and labor. The US absolutely did not "feed the world with our Green Revolution," just as the US did not "win World War 2."

You'd do well to read a biography of Norman Borlaug. He did a lot more than repackage Haber-Bosch. American charity during the 1960s and 70s is the only reason tens if not hundreds of millions of Indians are alive today. Whether that's ultimately in America's best interest remains to be seen.

The sweeping socialist polemics and corny "y'all" was very funny, thanks for the laugh.

Just not true. The H1B visa program didn't exist until the 1990s.

In fact, until passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the US was under strict immigration restrictions established by the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924. During that time we assimilated the Ellis Islanders, beat the Great Depression, out-produced the Axis to win World War 2, split the atom, rebuilt Europe and Japan, electrified the country, fed the world with our Green Revolution, invented the transistor, cured polio, invented the integrated circuit, and built the Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam and interstate highway system. Cheap tech labor benefits a small club of men at the top, such as Elon and paulg. It is not essential to the success or prosperity of America or the American people.

An America where children must study 24/7 and work 80 hours a week as slavish, soulless drones to compete with indentured servants from every corner of the world is not a country I want to live in. It's not the country I was promised nor the future I voted for, and I'm going to fight to make sure it doesn't happen.

>Y'all is one of the only decent things to come out of Texas,

This is bigoted anti-Texas slander.

Yes. A non-Southern speaker who uses "y'all," especially in the typed or written word, is a strong liberal/progressive shibboleth. That so few comments have remarked on this so far indicates the leanings of the HN comment section, a product of many years of flagging and downvoting other viewpoints.

This is a laughably naïve view of Chinese-owned companies and the total, I repeat total, amount of control China's one-party state wields over those entities.

Reciprocity is a perfectly sane policy when it comes to America's top strategic adversary, China, whose stated goal is annexation of our critical economic ally. If I can't eat at your table then you can't eat at mine, and I won't serve my kids your poison-laced food.

>Sundar doesn't say, we need more XR.

Right, that's the job of some random PM who will launch a half-baked XR project that overlaps with a nearly identical XR project down the hall, which will compete with its fellow Google project/product in the marketplace and confuse customers before getting killed within 18 months of launch. See also Google Wallet and Google Wallet (yes), Allo and Duo and GChat and Hangouts, and so on.

In 1975 Gerald Ford was President, "Star Wars" had just started filming, and the Soviet Union was four years out from invading Afghanistan. A lot has changed in the 48 years since then.

And don't forget wage theft! Which yes, is a problem; and no, does not justify wanton violence and theft.

I suppose it's only a tracking nightmare unless and until you're the victim of grand theft auto, or specific and tangible police abuse of this power.

KeePass says 305. That's a few decades' worth of logins across everything from Yahoo! to GMail to random online storefronts. Unique password for each. Doesn't include old accounts I've deleted where possible. Not all services offer account deletion, sadly. When I can't delete an account I leave it with blank or garbage contact info and link it to a one-off email alias for spam prevention.

The duality of man:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end... - "Why Everything Is Getting Louder The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can't adapt." (2019)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-bro... - "Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? The sound of gentrification is silence." (2022)

Ditto fire safety. High-rise apartments where I live tend to have concrete floors and sturdy walls between units for this reason, and it helps greatly with noise reduction.

>What we need is some good tech to make our homes and gardens more peaceful and quiet.

Concrete or brick wall should do it. If you live in an apartment made of drywall and 2x4s, either commit to building a room-within-a-room or buy earplugs.