asianthrowaway

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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
To whom should I send my resume?
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
The 19th century (post 1815) didn't see huge conflicts like the Napoleonic wars, the 7 year war or the 30 year war which completely wrecked Europe.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> Simply stating the facts that Europe’s wealth is because of world looting I'd like to see some sources for those "facts". What exactly happened? Europeans came into Africa and Asia and stole all the factories, leaving Af
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
How do you explain the fact that many European countries who had marginal or no colonial empires are among the richest countries in the world today? (Germany, Sweden, etc.)
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Yeah, I understood you were talking about the Siege of Baghdad. If you think that the destruction of a single city is the reason for the middle east lagging behind the west over several centuries, then I reiterate what I said before, you ha
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I think that's wholly simplistic. What about regions who beat off the Mongols, such as the Mameluks? Or people who weren't that affected, like the Ottomans. For that matter, I'd be interested in your theory as to why the Otto
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
This line of reasoning is silly. I suppose all technology comes from Homo Australopithecus since they were the first to bang two rocks together, and they were the true origin of the Renaissance? I'm all for acknowledging eurocentrism,
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
The entire history of mankind is one of constant, vicious and brutal wars.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I doubt doing farmwork 12 hours a day is worse than doing the same mundane repetitive action 16 hours a day.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Yes I agree, the big tech companies in the West are entirely complicit.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Maybe slave labor was hyperbole, I meant the dreadful conditions allowed to fester due to the lack of the concept of human rights in China.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> I'd like to point out that the demand for places like Foxconn comes from capitalist businesses in capitalist countries (one in particular). True, but the implementation of the supply through the use of slave labor is a distinct co
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> We hope that in the future, workers in Foxconn and elsewhere manage to find ways around such companies' military-style discipline and surveillance, come together, and forge collective paths out of this capitalist world of death, i
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I think this is not the appropriate place for such a discussion, but c'mon, the ADL is not exactly unbiased on the topic. Also I don't think the term "apartheid state" is to be interpreted literally. Of course Israel doe
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Gold plated lamborghinis
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Assuming this is true, the pink pigs would be the smart ones in this situation. Tricking latinos and asians to do all the hard work while they get to enjoy life!
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I've often wondered about that. It seems we've gone backwards since the social democratic promises of the 60s and 70s. A higher level of technology should translate into more leisure and less work, not the opposite. Neoliberalism?
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Yes this is how I understood it too. Makes sense that such a feature would evolve when you think about it.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Check out Unicomp, they bought the rights to produced Model Ms: https://www.pckeyboard.com/
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I use a Unicomp at work and I'm still alive!
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> but the specifics of how that will be expressed appears to be picked up environmentally and transmitted to offspring. I mean I guess that is a possibility, but that would be incredibly generic wouldn't it? That a cell could someho
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> but isn't your point similar to saying that English is in our DNA because the tools to learn and speak it are? No, but the ability to learn languages is in our DNA > I think if you disqualify the changes DNA _enables_ What our
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Is this really Lamarckism though? It seems that what the paper describes is a mechanism in which specific cells "infuse" sperm with information relating to specific stresses. Ultimately, we could interpret this mechanism as a tran
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I guess I'm not cultured for not knowing about all the rappers and actors who seem to make up 90% of the list. I did have a good laugh at Jared Kushner being listed as an "investor".
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
First off, why do you assume I am american? And my point is that this kink of his, which involves dominating and "owning" his employees, should raise alarm bells considering the accusations levied against him.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
The burning man guy is another guy (who still works at Google afaik). This Rubin guy was no doubt a creep. From the NYT article: "The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy be
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Are you familiar with "the art of unix programming" by ESR? It's in the same vein as what you describe. It even has an appendix with buddhist-like dialogues!
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Interesting. Yeah I agree that it would make sense for the link to be clear. Come to think of it, a couple of years ago there was this app called FaceApp which came out which used neural networks to modify selfies in funny ways (like making
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
That's pushing it too far. An image might be represented as 1s and 0s but what it represents is a "real world event" which actually happened. If it was stored on magnetic tape instead of on a hard drive it would still represe

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