CoongLiu

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by CoongLiu 9y ago
A large part of the poor handling of waste, is that developments in the field are severely hampered by politics. There's a large amount of ignorant good intentions. Ironically, those that pseudo-scientific bandwagons have probably caus
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
The unfortunate reality is that most of the people who win the lottery of life, and luck their way into high levels of the financial industry are essentially untouchable. Exhibit A: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/09
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
I find your concluding statements intriguing, and suspect I'm missing part of your point. From my interpretation, your initial thesis is that speech should, for valid reasons, be curtailed so as to spare certain groups the very real tr
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
Countries don't generally operate on the myopic principle of addressing issues one at a time. When America first began the Apollo program, it was almost a full decade before the United States addressed a lot of the racial issues that h
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
By definition, any model is basically bound to be discriminatory. Taking data, extracting common key features, and discarding the rest is essentially generalisation. But the model is amoral. It's (morally) neither good nor bad for util
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
Most economies use representative currency. In many places, notes and coins are largely worthless. Cryptocurrencies differ mainly by being virtual. Given that notes are usually used to represent the larger sums of money, the virtual aspect
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by CoongLiu 9y ago
In this context, the objection is to laundering. Within a developed and healthy economy, corruption is ideally minimised and caught by regulation. Poorer developing countries are more prone to corruption and fraud, because there are not as