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by argumentum 11y ago
This is more due to Bangladesh being a very low income country generally than anything else. It's not like Bangladesh was once the United States and devolved to its current state due to worker exploitation. For most of the last century
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by argumentum 11y ago
John McEnroe?
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by argumentum 11y ago
Why couldn't you build more hotel capacity? Anyway, airbnb should accommodate more and more visitors as well. Some of those things, particularly medicine & food, are artificially high priced because you are in the EU: http:/&
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by argumentum 11y ago
For sure, Switzerland is an amazing wealth-generator. In addition to all you mentioned, it also exports great tennis players, my personal favorite Swiss product :) I meant that it is a strategically situated, naturally beautiful, culturally
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by argumentum 11y ago
I'm a (classical) liberal, but a lot of the current Greek position makes sense. 1. To get future investment, it's more important that Greece starts growing again than that it pays off existing debt. While socialist policies can st
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by argumentum 11y ago
In theory, with a new drachma and its own central bank, Greece could devalue and gain competitiveness. But Greece’s trade is modest Greece is the most enticing tourist destination in the world. It has everything .. history, culture, beach
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by argumentum 11y ago
Ultimately the way for Greece to get investors in the future is to be a productive growing economy. While Greece's existing creditors may be "pissed off" for a while, they aren't the only people in the business. Smart in
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by argumentum 11y ago
I'm over this horror of the investors (creditors) not getting repaid. When you make an investment, you are taking a risk . If it doesn't work out, accept it, learn and move on. The fact is the EU currency union was deeply flawed
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by argumentum 11y ago
Also worth reading about is his co-founder & the former chief scientist at renaissance, Nick Patterson. If there's anyone whose literally a "mad scientist" he's it (in a good way). A close friend of mine at MIT colla
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by argumentum 11y ago
So then, perhaps you'd want to replace "As a nerdy Asian, if 50% of my classmates were nerdy Asians," with "As a nerd, if 50% of my classmates were nerds,"
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by argumentum 11y ago
As someone who skipped kindergarten and 1st grade, and later tested through some math classes, I am dubious about the ability of the existing public school system to accommodate such acceleration without harming students. Being younger than
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by argumentum 11y ago
It's often the kids who put themselves through this pressure. I can't speak for all families, but I went to a Whitney HS, a southern california version of TJ, and the peer pressure is quite a lot stronger than what most parents
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by argumentum 11y ago
Why do you presume Asians are any more nerdy than others? It's one thing to be in favor of diversity of experience (it's great that you met such interesting people) and quite another thing to assume that Asian ethnicities are less
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by argumentum 11y ago
Depends how you look at it. If it's a "survival of the fittest" state of nature, which is what humans emerged from, remember that those with a lot have a lot to lose, those with nothing have nothing to lose. We'd either
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by argumentum 12y ago
He has an even better chance with Rand Paul. Though that chance times the chance of a President Paul is probably lower than what he could get w/Obama.
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by argumentum 12y ago
So basically you support Adolf Eichmann's claim that "following orders" was a legitimate excuse for participating in the Holocaust? Either that, or you do not understand PG's argument.
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by argumentum 12y ago
Is there a single man on the list of highest paid fashion models? http://www.forbes.com/models/ What exactly is your point?
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by argumentum 12y ago
If by "startup space" you mean the set of problems in the world that can be solved by tech startups, this is clearly not a pie that is carved up, rather uniquely a pie that grows indefinitely. Startups, as a whole, benefit from o
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by argumentum 12y ago
He did mention Stephen Fry discovering a "bug" in his mind related to childhood trauma.
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by argumentum 12y ago
Unless you've checked the number enough to have realized a pattern (in this case a growth rate).
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by argumentum 12y ago
> because of actual injustice witnessed first-hand several days ago. A man has seizure and the police won't allow him medical care. What does this have to do with Peter Thiel, and the audience that was gathered to watch him speak?
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by argumentum 12y ago
For my coding setup, I do one portrait, one landscape. But generally, smartphones are so much more commonly used in portrait, so this is not a shock.
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by argumentum 12y ago
As a mild disagreement, I would worry that over-enforcement of this principle would squelch out all humor. While humor may not quite be in the spirit of colleagues, or politics, it is certainly within the spirit of friendship . I am not su
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by argumentum 12y ago
This release is a great development, and despite the overwhelming angst and disgust that many here are (rightly) feeling about these actions, it affirms that we aren't a totalitarian state. That our system of checks and balances doe
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by argumentum 12y ago
without Philip , Alexander would not exist Haha, you wouldn't need to know much about history to know that sons would not exist without their fathers ;)
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by argumentum 12y ago
Contrarian thinking doesn't reflexively oppose the consensus, but rather starts with the assumption that the consensus is wrong, insufficient and or irrelevant. In this case, the reviewer notes a seeming contradiction between Thiel&#
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by argumentum 12y ago
I don't mean to question your friend's decision, and I don't know the exact situation, but this is just anecdotal evidence. Was it discrimination by the government or by fellow Spaniards in a private capacity? If it's th
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by argumentum 12y ago
Here's one for economic freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking Chile is #7 and Cuba is #177 (only North Korea is worse, at #178)
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by argumentum 12y ago
Respect for human rights? Political liberty? Quality of life? Social Mobility? Economic opportunity? Myopia means excessive focus on one aspect at the neglect of the whole picture. I would consider many things in deciding where to live. Eac
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by argumentum 12y ago
Wow, this is the definition of myopia.

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