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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I don't know about China, but in Vietnam there are 14 family names which account for about 90% of the entire population. Roughly 40% of all Vietnamese people are called "Nguyen", which makes it one of the most common family n
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
What wars did David Cameron start? You sure you're not thinking of Tony Blair? Incidentally, Cameron is far from the only UK politician to have studied PPE at Oxford. An alarmingly high number of our leaders are products of that one de
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Most countries/languages use a comma as the decimal separator - it's the English-speaking world that's unusual for using a dot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I know it's too late to save the word "dogwhistling" from losing all meaning, but can you at least try to use it correctly? "Dogwhistling" doesn't mean "saying something that means something else",
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
"Cheeks sent me high"
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Yep. For example, the name of the third-largest city in Poland is "Łódź", which might look like it's pronounced "lods", but is actually pronounced more like "wootch".
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> The goal in Western capitalism is to create wealth for stakeholders. *shareholders.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I don't think people are okay with it - they just don't have the power to do anything about it.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> I think that equality of outcome not only will not solve the problems that our societies have, but exacerbate them. As should be obvious to anyone who has studied the history of communism.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
If you think the abortion debate is as simple matter of "men vs women", you obviously haven't looked up the facts, otherwise you would know that men and women in the US oppose abortion in roughly equal numbers.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Do you think the Democratic Party will ever admit that they lost in 2016 not because of "misinformation" or "fake news" or Russian interference or any of the other nefarious conspiracy theories they've promulgated,
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> The goal is to regulate Facebook into oblivion. No, the goal is to regulate Facebook so that the Democratic party controls what you are and aren't allowed to see on Facebook. It's entirely about power and control and anything
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Coinbase CEO: banning politics was “one of the most positive changes I've made”(twitter.com)
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
FYI: basilgohar's comment was accurate when it was written, since my comment was downvoted at first, but has since been upvoted again.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
I think you mean "of literally every country in the entire world".
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> Literally nobody thinks impact & intent are equivalent You haven't been paying attention - the (preposterous) idea that "intent doesn't matter, only impact" is a key premise of modern social justice activism and
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> intent is a big part of judging a wrong As well as being a bedrock principle of the law, it's also basic common sense. If I accidentally step on your toe, that's obviously different to me deliberately stamping on your toe in
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
> to weaken the specificity and balance of the CoC. This is a feature, not a bug. When the rules are clear and specific, they can be enforced fairly. When they're vague and unclear, then the only consistent principle is that the peo
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
"‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator" https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they...
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
How many times in your life have you needed to register for school? How often do you need to apply for a visa? How often do you do these things compared to how frequently you enter a public building like a restaurant or supermarket? (And wh
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Not bothering with a movement license (sorry, "vaccine passport") in the first place?
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Having read the book, I fully agree. Atul Gawande is obviously a smart guy, and the book is very readable, but I gained almost nothing from reading it that I couldn't have gained by just reading the LW article linked in the OP. Not rec
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
Why the hell would you want a new laptop every year? Doesn't seem very "reasonable and responsible" to me.
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by MadeThisToReply 5y ago
You think that's bad? Wait until you hear about the horrible service I got from my local garage the other day. Took my car in for a routine service and the staff were completely unprofessional and rude. Didn't do the job I asked o
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by MadeThisToReply 6y ago
I don't know about Haskell specifically, but the question isn't "how many developers are able and willing to work with $language?" but "how many developers are able and willing to work with $language relative to th
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by MadeThisToReply 6y ago
Presumably they meant to write Parler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler