But that's the case for literally every infectious disease. We all have slightly (to dramatically) different immune systems and other systems. Even without being immunocompromised, some people die from seemingly innocuous diseases while others survive the most deadly diseases there are.
Even Black Death killed "only" an estimated 50% of the population. That means that there were necessarily a lot of people that got infected and survived it, probably some of them asymptomatically. Bodies are complex and varied, and there's no 100% way to predict how they'll respond to any given situation.
The book I was just reading says that the genes for MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) molecules are among the most diverse genes in the human population, with even the suggestion that people find others with different MHC genes than themselves more attractive.
>All renting gets you is the "privilege" of paying someone else's mortgage. The entire point of homeownership is to build equity and pay off the mortgage.
Where I live, what renting currently gets you is an enormous discount compared to the cost of a mortgage and the opportunity cost of parking your cash into a downpayment. Renting and investing downpayment level money is literally a better deal than buying a house.
Why do I care if I'm "paying someone else's mortgage"? The interest payments to the bank aren't building me equity either! It's all money, going one way or another, equity is just more money, and sometimes buying a house means more money goes out than in compared to renting, even if it's more intuitively satisfying.
You care when you're 60 years old, trying to figure out how to live the rest of your life on a fixed income, and still either have to pay rent for the rest of your life or spend a big chunk of cash on a house, because you didn't spend 20-30 years paying a mortgage.
Actually yeah, I think having a minor citizen child should probably automatically make you a citizen, or at the very least a legal permanent resident (but that's stupid, let's just stick to citizen).
Why? Why should someone be a citizen because they were born in a specific country? With jus sanguinis things are much clearer: one of your parents is a citizen, you're a citizen. Your kids are citizens. In perpetuity.
Jus solis is a bit like right of way at American intersections: the person that's been there the longest goes first. Whaaaaaa? What if two cars arrive at the same time? What if 4 arrive at roughly at the same time? What is people can't agree who arrived first? A lot of the rest of the world gives way to the car coming from the right. Which is obvious and basically non-negotiable.
> Fair or not, that’s what happens in the US courts.
That's also not actually true. Mothers tend to get custody because both parties are more likely to agree to give them custody (or the father is more likely to cede custody).
If it comes to an actual legal battle, fathers are actually more likely to win custody than mothers.
This is a really bizarre claim to make. Are you claiming that the United States is, idk, forgetting how to farm and so we have to do mass immigration to bring in people who remember how? It also flies in the face of historical facts, like how the United States gained its status as an industrial powerhouse when immigration was at its lowest point in its history.
It’s not about knowledge. It’s about having people willing to use their strong backs.
Very few agricultural products are harvestable without the use of hands at the current prices. And when states have cracked down on illegal immigrants, farmers cry bloody murder that native-born Americans can’t last 1-2 days doing that work. American living standards are FAR higher than those of the people who are willing to work agricultural fields.
Okay. Then build robots to do it. Have you thought for a second about why these robots don't already exist? Perhaps it has something to do with available cheap labor. Really really strange to see a pro-immigration argument that amounts to "Big Ag needs their slave labor".
There wasn't even a single, popular vacuum robot with less then 7% one star ratings (complaints with valid utter failure).
How naïve must one be to expect decent robots for farming. And those very soon?
Do you believe in Santa? Or Tesla FSD?
A little difficult to parse your comment, but I think you're calling me naïve for asking the tech community on a message board for the incubator that has backed and does back the some of the most successful tech startups ever to think a little more deeply about how to solve these kinds of problems with technology. Wherein I posit that one of the reasons this tech community seemingly lacks interest - and surely the difficulty of the problem is also one of those reasons - is the availability of cheap labor, resulting in a weak argument for funding this kind of venture.
I'm not against automation. I'm against the interruption of the food supply chain.
I don't won't the US to see a lot of pitchfork in use -- and that wouldn't be for farming.
I agree that (slave like) misuse of cheap labor is a problem.
We have a similar issue here. (Bad cleaning, by badly payed, overworked cleaners).
I'm a bit angry because I looked into fixing it by (partially) automating it, but the supply chains are rather bad. The currently available mainstream robots (Dreame, Roborock) are not up to the task (no proper support in Europe).
The only interesting option seems to be cleanfix from Switzerland.
To make things short: that anger shouldn't have targeted you, because it boils down to my own current incompetence to fix a real problem.
Sorry!
Robots did my dad's knee replacement surgery. I don't think this argument holds water anymore. Maybe if you make your claim more precise: delicate + scale. But, if that's the case, the scale problem is solved with money.
Lots of teleoperated stuff in the medical world. That's not the same as robots. There's still a skilled hand at the controls making the medical decisions.
Chinese dark factories aren’t harvesting bruisable fruits and veggies. Dark factories are specifically selected for tasks that are easily automated with extremely high precision. Most of agriculture isn’t.
In some places Chinese labor is at price parity. However the reasons why China has dark factories is government investment and an abundance of mechatronics engineers.
People build factories in China because all the other factories are in China just down the road.
None of this contradicts my previous comment though. We don't invest in automation because we have cheap labor. China is an aging society with a shrinking workforce. Here we have cheap labor and offload the cost to the taxpayer. Illegal immigration is just another part of corporate welfare which is why socialists like Bernie sanders used to be against it.
Your counter argument clearly cuts against your initial argument. Low wages isn’t preventing automation. It’s lack of an ecosystem of similar suppliers, lack of highly trained talent and lack of government and market investment.
Liberals aren’t against immigration because it is corporate welfare but because of the strain it places on the social safety net and effects on jobs but both of those could be overcome with a rational policy on special economic zones.
Not all women, there were some women in my son's class applying for the CDL.
Generally, Women do not want labor jobs and enjoy a desk job instead. This is why men are paid more than women in general the labor jobs pay more and require a trade school.
There is some evidence that part of the effect is explained by women needing to go to college more than men in order to get decently paying jobs. This is less true today than 20 years ago, as we've seen real wages of men without college degrees drop since the financial crisis, but the trend of more women attending college started well before that.
Even Black Death killed "only" an estimated 50% of the population. That means that there were necessarily a lot of people that got infected and survived it, probably some of them asymptomatically. Bodies are complex and varied, and there's no 100% way to predict how they'll respond to any given situation.
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