alexasmyths

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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Not really, the locals in that area have never known good jobs.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" Such regressive developments can only be pauses in an ongoing forward movement." Trashy globalist arrogance. The 'Germanics' have been around for a few thousand years, it's not an issue of 'nation state'
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Doctors and Executives are not 'pyramid schemes' in any sense of the word, and profs at elite universities represent a very small economy. 'Management' is a skill, not a 'market manipulation' and a very difficu
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I wish there was more info on the drivers of this. Is it less demand from US firms due to slowdown? Market saturation? Shifting needs?
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
The irony is that while the words are stupid (“alignment”, “intentionality” and “end-state visions”) - this pretty good actually. Most white collar jobs are full of 'waking sleep' - and if we focus on outcomes, and drive them forw
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"Spiritual but not religious" Maybe you missed my point? I'm kind of saying spirituality is easy, less practical part. :) The 'work' of spirituality is hard. It's often done through religion. Crazy point: those
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Spirituality and Religion are not quite the same thing. Even hearing Angels is not necessarily very religious (and of course, we may hear a lot of things with chemical help ...). Spirituality is a personal, intellectual, possibly experienti
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes, technically there were 'people who wrote music' but we wouldn't really call them composers, and we were not attributing anything to them. And it wasn't a 'maslow' thing - it was that we had yet to develop
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yeah, I see what you are saying. But I'm coming to think they may go: Lincoln, Washington, Obama as the 'big 3' over time. Again, a 'Black leader of the free world' is historically massive, and it transcends USA iss
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" Name a composer from 1300s or 1100s." There were no composers then ... Musical theory only developed during the renaissance and was basically formalized by the baroques i.e. Bach - and Moazart/Beethoven mastered it. Music a
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Obama was the 'First Black President' - this is, on a historical scale - massive. Just massive. Also, America is kind of a 'world leading' country, so 'leader of the free world' - meaning, a black man as '
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Ramses was probably only recorded on stone tablets for quite some time, they stopped that a while back and he is still remembered :)
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
A) It's the power centres that we remember, because they make the decisions - most notably, Royalty. The articles comments are off on this - maybe 80% of UK Royal heads of state are almost household names in the UK. Even around the wor
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Setting qualifications and standards is a reasonable form of discrimination. Assuming that someone is stupid because they didn't go to Ivy League is a dumb form of discrimination.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I fully get what you are saying, but pruning code is a valid thing to do on it's own, and it doesn't necessarily mean changing tech or whatever.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
I love throwing out code. It makes me feel clean. :)
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"regulatory hurdles" those may be in place because the citizens want it that way, which is kind of their right.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
There can nary be such a thing as a 'housing crises'. California does not have one, in general. If California municipalities 'don't want to enable building' because their residents don't want it ... well ... th
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
People in California are generally not voting for this. Most people would rather cheaper home prices, given the choice.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"It's not about arguing whether he does his job, it seems like you've already stated that he does." Not really - what he 'does' is 'writes code that solves problems we are facing' - ostensibly - beca
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
It should probably be 'one month' and it should go both ways. Also - if you've ever been a manager, you'd realize that what is 'bs' is that you think you can just 'do your job' in the terms that you t
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" Libya had the highest per-capita GDP / quality of living/(?) in Africa" Except for the part where Gaddaffi was using his military against half his nation in revolt.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" dying for somebodies else cause." False. 'Proxy wars' is a misleading title. The Korean war was not a 'proxy war' it was a real war, that happened to also be a proxy for other powers. Country A does not fight
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"a major force in recent history got pushed over and trampled upon for oil " This is ridiculous. The US didn't take a drop of Iraqi, Kuwaiti or Libyan Oil. The US could take all the Oil in the Middle East in a heartbeat if it
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Yes, we all know it would have ended without them, but not as it did.
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"If the rest of the world thinks Gaddafi was toppled because he gave up his nukes, then it’s true" This is not what the world thinks. Gaddafi was not about to obtain nuclear status - not even close. There's no way he would ha
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
Most companies were started because someone needed something fairly mundane done. Even most inspirational companies were started more or less along these lines. Extremely few companies were started with a highly aspirational 'world cha
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
" Even ignoring the logical absurdity this would require, the simple fact is that nuclear war nearly happened on many occasions as a result of various misadventures, and it was a matter of pure dumb luck that it didn't." No -
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
The US did not topple Gaddafi. He was in the midst of civil war when NATO did some intervention, mostly led by UK and France. Gulf Arab states on the ground hunted him down, it was Qatari forces that likely killed him. The US did some drone
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by alexasmyths 9y ago
"The problem is that nuclear weapons are too attractive to powers with weaker conventional militaries." They are attractive to everyone. Note that the 2 biggest nuclear powers also have the most powerful conventional militaries. N

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