Snargorf

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by Snargorf 10y ago
That's a narrow comment about a specific dataset, and is supported by evidence.
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by Snargorf 10y ago
"Healthy, positive communities" is an oxymoron. A healthy community has healthy and sometimes necessarily intense disagreement in its discourse (just as a healthy mind questions itself). A "positive" community has no dis
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by Snargorf 10y ago
Wait, so to you, a statement affirming part of the carbon cycle is equivalent to "there is no such thing as climate change"? Wow. Wow.
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by Snargorf 10y ago
Neither quote says or implies "there is no such thing as climate change". In fact, the second one - "it is a theory that can never be disproven" makes it clear that he understands that climate change is constant and has
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by Snargorf 10y ago
Have Trump or Cruz ever used the word "hoax", or is that your reinterpretation of their position? Have either one of them ever said that there is no such thing as climate change, as your statement seems to imply? Or, do they just
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by Snargorf 11y ago
I take it this plan is going to be executed by the 2% of Indian programming graduates who are employable.
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by Snargorf 11y ago
It's a shame the West abandoned Africa to the warlords and tribal supremacists. Think of what Africans could've accomplished with consistent, basic decent governance from the top, over the last ~50 years. Hong Kong, anyone? The ro
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by Snargorf 11y ago
I find a lot of irony in this comment.
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by Snargorf 11y ago
Who said anything about anyone 'caricaturing' people of Arabic origin? They spoke the language. That is not by itself a 'caricature'. Moreover, blackface was done to be funny (you know, like an actual caricature). This i
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by Snargorf 11y ago
If there was no other source of clothing, you'd be willing to spend crab money. In fact, this was the case during the industrial revolution. A pair of pants would cost a full week's wages. This is why people back then owned like 2
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by Snargorf 11y ago
Compared to what they could make in another job, they make a lot wherever they are. e.g. here it's hundreds per hour for a girl who would barely beat minimum wage otherwise. $5 in South Asia is mostly mythical, but even where it would
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by Snargorf 11y ago
>What you forget is that some jobs just cannot pay enough to make it worth for non-impoverished people. Of course they can pay enough. Just not when there is competition from other farms using illegal immigrant labor. You know as well as
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by Snargorf 11y ago
Or maybe it's a form of harmless-but-pointed civil disobedience by people who don't want their society to merge with those of the Middle East.
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by Snargorf 11y ago
Sure they would. People will do almost any job, if they're paid enough. This is why military contractors in war zones, Arctic crab fishermen, and prostitutes make a lot of money. This is econ 101; supply and demand. You know it too. Yo
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by Snargorf 11y ago
No. Next question?
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by Snargorf 11y ago
It's not just tantrums. It's a huge variety of status-reinforcing behaviours which symbolically or actually make the lower-status person uncomfortable in favour of the higher-status person. Even something like having an entreprene
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by Snargorf 11y ago
I believe you're being honest, but what about in two years? Four years? Six years? Anything can change in that time span, including your sales model. Not that this is a dig against you or Asana; it's just that this is how the worl
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by Snargorf 11y ago
Indeed. In fact, basically all Muslim country north or west of Saudi Arabia were Christian for centuries before being conquered by Muslim invasions. Syria, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Balkans, Turkey - all Christian before the
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by Snargorf 11y ago
The analysis is broken by the focus on the top 1%. They should be looking at the top 0.1%, or smaller. It's absurd to put together hedge fund managers making $30 million a year with the established doctor who works two blocks from your
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by Snargorf 11y ago
You're so close to a breakthrough here. If everything the UN does is self-serving bureaucratic garbage designed to maintain and expand the bureaucracy itself... And the bureaucrats behind the IPCC gain authority and money when their re