OnlineCourage

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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
This is a tautological explination which adds absolutely nothing to the discussion. Yes we all understand that A = A.
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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
> Can they get away with it if a large percentage of highly educated and well connected people are very strongly opposed to it and can't do their jobs properly? Well, Mao certainly could during the cultural revolution.
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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
I would be absolutely shocked if this happens. Less than 1% of China's population speaks English beyond learning for business purposes. Making learning English illegal would be impossible to enforce, you would have to build additional
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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
The US has far more than $3 trillion in assets when you take into account land holdings, as well as the idea that money itself is representative of continued faith in the existance of an issuing institution. There are so many layers of ince
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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
There is no such thing as a wise monkey. Take everything you said and remove the possible upside, and that is the truth.
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by OnlineCourage 9y ago
Ok, here is another quote from Xiaobo in 1990 which shows that he did not hold extremist views as you falsely claim: My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China.
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
> Is this proof that I am more intelligent than everyone who believed in this idea? No.
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
> The more intelligent and clever will always benefit Not during the cultural revolution in China.
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
I'm not quite sure what you're asking and I am not going to ask you to elaborate to appear as though I am being intelligent by asking questions because this conversation is not in real-time, I may not come back here for a few days
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
Actually, it's more like a nice shiney bank which gives a huge interest rate on your deposits, but you go to the bank and the doors are locked, and you can't get in to make a deposit...but you can kind of see opaquely through the
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
It doesn't need to seem serious...the Science Minister is following more of a risk mitigation strategy - e.g. the vast population of the public will most likely feel OK about the, "Attenbourough," name, whereas a small fringe
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
He would have received public criticism either way. However, he's going for the safer strategy, which is to mitigate attack rather than expand upon opportunity. Think about politicians like Sarah Palin who attack scientists for study
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
My head is fairly asymmetrical, so I wonder if there would be some kind of strange signature which wouldn't allow a standard system to work, or perhaps it would identify me as a monkey or something.
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
If you read my other comment on this thread, you will understand more about where I'm coming from. Sorry...I didn't want to repeat a huge wall of text.
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
Your understanding is incorrect, actually. HMOs do charge higher insurance rates for people who are less healthy on the aggregate. You are using the word, "penalize," but it has nothing to do with penalties, it has to do with mar
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by OnlineCourage 10y ago
I will attempt to answer your question directly, rather than going off on a tangent or creating some nuanced, "deeper insights," response - since by my reading of the responses so far, I see people writing very emotionally toward
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by OnlineCourage 11y ago
Blatantly false numbers in this article calls into question anything that the journalist said. Really sad, terrible fact-checking in this one. The population of SZ in 1979 was 30,000 not 300,000...that's an order of magnitude differe