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by as300 6y ago
Once again, behind a bad geopolitical situation is a Brit. History is unduly kind to the U.K., ignoring all of the atrocities of their colonialism for the sole reason that they suffered and overcame in WW2. Israel Palestine, India Pakistan,
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by as300 6y ago
seems like its reasonable only if you take corruption and cronyism as a given
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by as300 6y ago
Well, if there was truly a quid-pro-quo, then the United Kingdom should pay China reparations for its atrocious actions during the opium wars, similar to what Germany had to do to survivors of the holocaust. If there were truly a quid-pro-q
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by as300 6y ago
I think a sort of understated factor here was the messaging associated with the company and its lofty mission statement - which seemed like it was to kick off a technology movement on the African continent. If you watch the ad in the video
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by as300 6y ago
This is ignoring the many state schools in those states which attract tens of thousands of international students each year
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by as300 6y ago
>Look at the politics of this and where ICEs actions stand on the spectrum of immigration, foreign relations and COVID (and probably a couple other issues that I'm not thinking of) and it all makes sense. The COVID angle seems to me
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by as300 6y ago
The OP used the term in a negative sense, to justify removing all borders...
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by as300 6y ago
Is this really a comment? That people should be racist towards Indians now? How about white people being racist towards Asians, of which there are many more instances than the opposite. By your logic what we really need to do is not allow w
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by as300 6y ago
There are ways around this problem. See: https://local bitcoins.com Doesn't completely de-anonymize you but it does reduce the set of people who have uniquely identifiable information to 1
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by as300 6y ago
Calling nationalities and cultures that arise from a group of people being forced to live together a "ghettoization" is a bit of a stretch
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by as300 6y ago
I don't think this is the case - I think inflation has caused the cost of producing bread to increase thus leading to higher prices. If anything it seems to me that bread is of lower quality these days - more GMO's and usually m
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by as300 6y ago
Right - so I think we are in agreement: Prices will rise, but purchasing-power of the average citizen will almost certainly increase (that is what I attempted to show by the poorly-written second paragraph). > In 1997, it took 1,768 hour
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by as300 6y ago
> > What's stopping prices from rising accordingly? > Short answer: supply & demand This seems to run counter to the idea of inflation. Could we not apply your same argument to all goods and services? And if so why have pr
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by as300 6y ago
Sure, but isn't the point of git to be able to roll back all changes on any branch? And since GitHub is owned by Microsoft, they themselves would surely be able to regain ownership of the account. This seems like a non-story.
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by as300 6y ago
thanks!
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by as300 6y ago
This is a bit unrelated, but how do folks make those nice shiny landing pages like this one, which all seem to have almost the exact same layout and format (e.g. the animation with the little people at the top and the link to learn more, al
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by as300 7y ago
https://www.theoryofball.com/ I write technical analyses of cryptocurrencies based on their flaws and vulnerabilities rather than on potential. My hope is that I can provide a realistically optimistic take on the crypto spa
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by as300 7y ago
I don't think we can say it's good or bad without context. Hiring skilled immigrants at a lower price might enable a company to compete for contracts with overseas companies with cheaper labor, thereby making the company, it'
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by as300 7y ago
The losers are the local people who get fewer opportunities as a result. Not saying it's good or bad, just putting it out there.
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by as300 7y ago
This seems like a really convenient way for schools to pass the buck on to their students, while administrative bureaucrats continue to rake salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
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by as300 7y ago
> I'm afraid Mr. Yang has forgotten one of the most basic principles of economics: When you tax some behavior you get less of it This is true, but if you subsidize some behavior, you also get more of it. And giving people $1000&#x2F
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by as300 7y ago
Hey, I'm a SE in the US looking strongly at a move to Europe. Wanted to PM but didn't see anything in your profile. Would love to chat about roles!
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by as300 7y ago
This is kind of off-topic, but given there's a pretty huge VAT on foreign cars, and this guy lives in Denmark, why didn't he just go to Germany to buy his car, and presumably not have to pay the VAT?
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by as300 7y ago
It's a limited comparison, I agree, but I think it still tells part of the story. Curry shoots fewer threes but the same kind, and he can't buy the types of calls Harden gets
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by as300 7y ago
> a computer to have sufficient accuracy to model the world would by definition need to have as much memory as the world, and model itself in it. But what if we had certain "compression" abilities that allowed us to simplify th
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by as300 7y ago
asymptotically, I'd argue
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by as300 8y ago
Fair point, looking at Facebook as a platform and product I think it has far greater impact than Twitter.
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by as300 8y ago
And before someone comes and says that I want to police free speech, no. Not at all. I simply want curation which means a set of processes that are followed for certain categories of speech, and the labeling of potential speech as incor
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by as300 8y ago
What percentage of the population can write for a newspaper or appear on TV? When I say dissemination, I'm not just talking about elites. If the average Joe wanted to reach out asany people as they know and tell them something, tell me
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by as300 8y ago
I honestly don't think you should even be taking this comparison seriously at all. It'll just open up this side of the argument to straw man attacks. One is a store that sells things to customers, another is a company that has pro

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