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by aianus 7y ago
We probably should. I bet it's easier to teach a STEM grad how to teach (in a professional training program after college) than to teach a professional 'teacher' how to do math.
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> No-one is violently forcing provinces they don't even live in to stay in their country What I saw in the news at the time was that the rest of Spain shipped in armed goons from outside Catalonia in to beat people up who were tryin
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> we are no better than the Chinese government who have banned countless "American" apps If someone punches you (bans your apps, bans your companies from operating and acquiring companies in their country) and you then punch th
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by aianus 7y ago
I’m from Canada and we let the separatists have a referendum and tried to change their minds. The referendum failed. I don’t know anyone who took it personally or wanted to invade Quebec to make them stay or violently stop the vote. Quite f
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by aianus 7y ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, my last car, phone, laptop, all lasted much longer (3-6x) than their respective warranties.
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by aianus 7y ago
Mass shootings affect 0.00001% of Americans, it’s not a comparable problem.
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China threatened to invade if the British allowed democracy in HK. It has been the Chinese denying HK democracy since the early 80s. https://www.scmp.com/article/48108/thatcher-reveals-dengs-th...
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by aianus 7y ago
What is the point of the human race surviving if it turns into some 1984-like dystopia with cameras in my house making sure I pledge allegiance to Emperor Xi's portrait every morning or my social credit score plummets? Give me the clim
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by aianus 7y ago
Lots of people move to SF to get rich (and succeed, for some definition of rich) but end up losing their friends, not seeing their families, forgoing having their own families, living with lots of roommates, etc. If someone just hands you $
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by aianus 7y ago
It's possible that any given person can, as you say, work harder and achieve success in dating, and that it is impossible for everyone to do it because of structural reasons. For example, if there are 800 million men in your country
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by aianus 7y ago
Obamacare made non-barrier birth control free so it's possible that some people switched from condoms and were therefore more likely to contract STDs. (I just made this up as a suggestion, I have no evidence this actually happened)
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by aianus 7y ago
No, it’s a terrible system that we have here in Ontario. People kill themselves every year at Waterloo when they reach university and discover their 98% grade in high school math was a lie and they are completely unprepared and begin flunki
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by aianus 7y ago
> If you look at the tech company equivalent of that, like FB messenger, or Hangouts, or other messaging systems, they behave more similarly to the phone company. FB Messenger censors pornhub links or at least it did a few years ago.
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by aianus 7y ago
> I similarly wouldn't expect Visa and MasterCard to allow me to buy drugs legal in Canada Ironically the government here in Ontario will sell you marijuana by mail and they accept Visa and Mastercard! The rules must be very vague a
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I read that moving to somewhere sunny like Southern California was several times more effective for depression than SSRIs.
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> Further, if something's illegal in a different jurisdiction than you are in, you aren't usually exposed to any liability, as any tourist to Amsterdam will tell you. You may not be exposed to liability back in the US, but that
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by aianus 7y ago
> Would you do it if it also meant you made 80% of your current comp? Why or why not? That would not be a fair discount because the number you see on your paycheck is not the full amount the company is paying to employ you. They also pay
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by aianus 7y ago
This also mirrors Chinese vs. American values perfectly. The Chinese believe in the Apple model of safety, greater good, social harmony, and the ends justifying the means over individual liberties. The concentration camps, great firewall, I
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by aianus 7y ago
I see it the other way; it's telling that KSA didn't cut the oil off along with their other threats and actions because they realized it would only hurt them more than us. Just a pointless temper tantrum while they remain utterly
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by aianus 7y ago
The UK wanted to give HK free elections and China threatened to invade if they did. https://www.scmp.com/article/48108/thatcher-reveals-dengs-th...
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by aianus 7y ago
> Why doesn't anyone put Saudi Arabia on a blacklist for human rights violations Canada has basically cut diplomatic ties with KSA (more like they cut ties with us after we criticized their human rights record). Good riddance and I
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by aianus 7y ago
Is there any way to turn this feature off?
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The West should do this with Hong Kong. There must be many wealthy, educated HKers who are interested in leaving at this point and they would be a huge asset to whichever country accepts them.
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by aianus 7y ago
Argentina is poor because they elect populist leaders who spend more money on social programs than they collect in taxes and eventually default. Same as Greece. It is entirely self-inflicted.
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by aianus 7y ago
If the market were efficient the new price would be somewhere in the middle. Is this what happened in the UK? I don’t know.
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by aianus 7y ago
Why is it legal to charge men more for car insurance? It’s definitely more profitable that way, but maybe so is the targeting in the article.
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> Dutch universities can’t select for students What do the Dutch do if there are 10k spots available in a given university and 20k people apply?
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You don't have to be forced to sell. You could live in it until you die at which point the sale is forced and the taxes are paid. This can be done by borrowing against the house from a financial institution or we can have the governmen
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China hates Canada, no way these tech stocks are being listed in Toronto, it’s nonsense.
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Canada, for one. China continues to imprison random Canadians as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei’s CFO in Vancouver.

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