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by 1stop 11y ago
It's good to see the US responding with its own astro-turfing. I bet you don't even get paid for doing it. I think you need to look at China with a more Chinese point of view, as that's how they look at themselves. The US to
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by 1stop 11y ago
It has been/is a fairly flawed mechanism of democracy and is more often used as a propaganda tool than an informative tool. The larger problem is how do we extract bias from media as I suspect that comes back to money.
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by 1stop 11y ago
An alternate narrative for your story: Your hard work was not the defining characteristic of your success. But it was in fact luck. And your rant could amount to: I won the lottery, why the hell doesn't everyone just do that! Look at m
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by 1stop 11y ago
The only people who don't want a "class war" (aka pointing out how blatantly unfair the system is) are the ruling class (aka the minority who through sheer luck managed to secure the best resources for themselves, and convinc
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by 1stop 11y ago
That's not really true. The big studios are distributors of the content. They traditionally sold to Cinemas, and had DVDs made, etc. The fact they missed the boat on digital distribution is completely their fault...
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by 1stop 11y ago
Given we are talking about how to judge a "Successful" country. There is a value judgement already at play. GDP to judge success is a value judgement. Defining success in a more utilitarian "Greater good for greater number
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by 1stop 12y ago
You made a similarly unsupported claim about genes being the dominant factor. Care to provide a source for that?
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by 1stop 12y ago
... As I alluded to with the "(or guardians)". Genes have no major correlation. I'm sure there are obvious exceptions with learning disabilities etc. If a higher class family adopted a lower class child, the childs academi
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by 1stop 12y ago
There were comprehensive studies done by education evaluation experts. Their recommendations (like those listed in the GP) were completely ignored because of funding and politics... The meta-problem with schools is you have amateur policy
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by 1stop 12y ago
... Except you are factually wrong. The highest predictor of academic success, is the academic success of ones parents. The next highest predictor is the socio-economic status of ones parents (or guardians). This is true the world over,
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by 1stop 12y ago
... I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious. But seriously... What "Mass destruction" can the GFW cause? ... Like Amazon/Azure/Rackspace are WMDs under your current definition?
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by 1stop 12y ago
If GDP is increasing, there is no reason to get account surplus, but instead to manage debt/growth ratio. Admittedly Australia hasn't done too well on this recently, but it's still in a good position (~30% of GDP). Unless y
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by 1stop 12y ago
Seems an odd statement. Australian economy is awesome, transitioning from resource to service long before it needs to... Which part of the future isn't bright?
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by 1stop 12y ago
We don't have any military autonomous drones... there is pilot pulling the trigger... so I don't understand your point.
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by 1stop 12y ago
% of GDP spent to predict future jobs for comp sci graduates. That makes the outright wrong assumption that the major cost of Military is personel...
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by 1stop 12y ago
Lets quote % of GDP when talking about a country with negligible GDP... honest! If what you say is true: DPRK spends $3 billion (approx) on military. It's neighbours spend the following: China: $150 billion (approx) South Korea: $33 bi
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by 1stop 12y ago
You aren't exhibiting a finally tuned sense of ethics. Exactly which ethical principle(s) are you following? This seems like a 5 minutes of thought kind of solution to an incredibly complex problem. North Korea can buy/steal/
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by 1stop 12y ago
I think I agree with the GP. I just tried to explain this to my 5 y/o (admittedly she is possibly too young). Questions I faced: "Which alligator is the mummy?" "Why does the alligator want to eat the other one? Don&#x2
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by 1stop 12y ago
McVeigh was never screened by anyone. He used a car bomb... What security process stops a car bomb!? I think in Iraq they use closely placed concrete barriers forcing cars to swerve, and they stick marines behind them. Maybe we should do
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by 1stop 12y ago
The underwear bomber boarded in Amsterdam... TSA had nothing to do with it. Seriously the TSA is bullshit, as it only applies to americans... I assume because the 9/11 attacks originated in the U.S.
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by 1stop 12y ago
He boarded in Paris... so the TSA had very little to do with it... He went through the "normal pre TSA" security... so you are actually disproving your own point...
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by 1stop 12y ago
But generally even with the weight cars are WAY more fuel efficient. There are some fords (non-hybrids) approaching 3 litres/100km. Even mini-vans that get 7-8 litres/100km. When 15-20 years ago a 3 door hatch back would be 6-7
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by 1stop 12y ago
Andrew Wiles already solved that...
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by 1stop 12y ago
So Police are pointless and a result of an "eh" attitude? (I'm just applying your point to another kind of 'security' that is provided to you). You are basically arguing the "We should all live in the woods, an
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by 1stop 12y ago
If only github had a community of developers that could play such a catch up game... oh wait. It's kind of amusing you are arguing that it's impossible to play this game, even though that's exactly what the perpetrators are d
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by 1stop 12y ago
Dependency injection should pretty much be renamed: "Unit testing in java". Sure you can come up with contrived examples like: Algorithm swapping, or integration point swapping, but I would hazard a guess that covers about 1% of
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by 1stop 12y ago
You so quickly ran out of actual knowledge that your discussion ran off a cliff. Come back when you've actually read a little bit about how the body works. I've given you plenty of scholar links to start at. Maybe just strike up
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by 1stop 12y ago
> It is. So when I say you said it was pointless, you say "No I didn't", when I say "you kinda did", you say: "yeah I did". trollololol > Contradict the evidence in the link I gave you then. "Nu
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by 1stop 12y ago
> Read the link. Were you the author of that link? Because if not, then that is someone else's understanding, what is yours? You've yet to describe it. > Please don't actually answer with the keto nonsense? Are you actu
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by 1stop 12y ago
> Why would it say something that absurd, and why do you think I believed it did? I said nothing even remotely like that, and that doesn't even make sense. You referred to insulin as a "weird fixation" as if it were meanin

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