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This is a dumb statement. Immigrants pay taxes as well


No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyway, that wasn't the point. The point is that if you enter a foreign country it's your responsibility not to bring any diseases with you.


> No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

Are you trying to tell me that until someone becomes a citizen in the US, they pay no taxes whatsoever? I find that hard to believe.


> Are you trying to tell me that until someone becomes a citizen in the US, they pay no taxes whatsoever?

No, that's not what I'm saying.


> No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyway, that wasn't the point. The point is that if you enter a foreign country it's your responsibility not to bring any diseases with you.

This is so laughably silly I don't even know where to begin.

First of all, I was a temporary immigrant to the US and I immediately was on the hook for a bunch of money as part of my visa application process. So immediately I'd argue your first point is incorrect on that technicality anyway, not to mention I was basically moving to the US to start a business so then spent the next two years dumping money into the economy.

What is your expectation of responsibility here? You can be sick and not know you're sick. You can be sick and asymptomatic. You can be sick and think you're sick with something basic like a cold but it's actually the flu or COVID or something else more sinister.

Pretending that anyone is going to adhere to an undefined system of responsibility at the best of times, let alone when it comes to moving overseas into a different country, seems ludicrous to me - I'm supposed to cancel might flight and re-arrange my immigration plans because I have a runny nose?

If you want to have a healthy country you need publicly accessible healthcare for everyone. We literally just had an object lesson in this with the COVID pandemic - indeed, we're still in the middle of the object lesson, where people's sense of "responsibility" towards others when it comes to communicable diseases is visible everywhere you look.


You didn't pay any taxes. Paying for your visa application is not a tax. Your sense of entitlement is sickening. The US does NOT owe you anything.


You said "paid any taxes or contributed anything". I'm just pointing out that you're wrong, right out of the gate.

And even if you were right, which you're not, you'd be wrong about 10 minutes after the average immigrant turns up when they first have to buy something and pay sales tax.

The "sense of entitlement" exists in your head. I'm noting that if you want to have a healthy society, a plan to look after sick people is a necessity. Your sort of thinking is exactly why almost one in three hundred Americans died in the first year of the pandemic.

FWIW I left the US for the UK in 2016. Before arriving there I had to pay into their national health insurance scheme. If you object to immigrants coming and not paying their way you could agitate for such a scheme. But I assume that's not the point.

Anyway, looks like you're going to get what you want and nobody is going to come to the US any more. You'll get to see what it's like when it works like that.


Look, I object to the idea that the host country is responsible for the spread of diseases that are brought by immigrants, which is what you're implying when you blame the spread of diseases on the lack of affordable healthcare. I didn't know this was controversial.


It's totally normal for countries to screen for this stuff both at border entry and as part of the immigration process. In Australia we check at the border if you're coming from a country where they have certain diseases (e.g. yellow fever). If you're applying for some immigration status you need medical checks if you're from certain countries to screen you for certain conditions (e.g. tuberculosis).

It is absolutely the host country's responsibility to do this to keep their own citizens safe.


They can keep their citizens safe by simply not accepting migrants from these countries.


Even if you don't have any help from an LSP, I don't really see how this change adds any meaningful complexity.

With `for x, y := range m.Range`, you know you are iterating over something, and you are getting an `x` and a `y`. For the purposes of understanding the range block and what it does, it doesn't really matter what `m.Range` is, only that it allows iteration. Just like you don't care in <=1.22 land whether `m.Range` is a slice, map, or channel, because for the purposes of understanding the code, that doesn't matter.


> if you forget

Does this happen? Is there any data on how often error checking is forgotten?


In my experience, outright forgetting is very rare because an unused err should be a warning, but the following is not nearly as rare as it should be:

if err != nil { return nil }

With how boilerplate the correct version is, you learn to skip over it entirely, meaning it can be hard to spot that anything is wrong here. Linters do exist for this now, but they have so many false positives on other error handling cases that most people don't bother with them.


The article states otherwise


>The article states otherwise

No it doesn't. You're ignoring the context.

You can't have too much iodine when it's obtained from iodized salt.

...because you can't handle that much salt.

From the article: 10x'ing the concentration of iodine in salt had no adverse effects. You'd have to eat salt by the pound daily to reach levels where iodine is harmful, but at that point, that'll be the least of your worries.


To be fair to the interlocuters, kergonath left the salt out of his or her or their comment.


I think that depends on the concentration of the iodine in the salt


Right, but that's a standardized fortification so any iodized salt you get anywhere in the world now would make that statement true.


Well, the article brings up iodine overdose from popular medications at the time, but you pretty much can't get too much iodine from iodized salt without having consumed way too much salt.


Finding a Vatican conspiracy would be quite interesting


Isn't there a muzei plugin for that?


> All the "But it works in my Tesla" fan boys are part of a religious cult and are simply lying. Whenever I checked, the "works for me" replies stopped when I either did a test drive together or asked for a video showing that things like wipers and assistance systems really work.

So all those fanboys are lying, but we should definitely trust your take on this?


No. You can easily do your own research. Do a test drive. Or, if you want to verify from the comfort of your home: Hours and hours of videos to watch on YouTube just for "Tesla Wipers" alone. You then can cross-check with a search term like "Ford Wipers" or "Mercedes Wipers" to see if this really is a subject any owner of a different car brand has to deal with.


The only entity that actually inspected the car said it was damaged. And I don't think you were there, so why state it with such misguided confidence?


This conveniently ignores the location of the pollutants, not to mention the difference in difficulty with recapturing pollution particles from many small, vs few big sources.

Even if the electrical grid is only run on coal, the end result is still less pollution, especially in dense population centers


No one is safe from bad developers. I've seen go SDKs for paid products that were clearly written by people with only a vague idea what the target language offers. I have to assume such libraries were hammered until the compiler just accepted what was given


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