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by bsanr2 6y ago
It should be noted that this was not an accident, but the result of a concerted effort by corporate interests with major influence in state and federal gov't via professional connections and their control of the labor market. This not
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They said the same thing when Maria Sharapova beat Serena Williams.
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Every sentence you've written is the opposite of true. And cashiers still have to do math. Most places don't have automatic change dispensers, nor can a machinr account for a customer suddenly switching which bills they're go
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Relatively. It's not based on what you can buy with it, it's based on what your company pulls in with your turning your cog.
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Thank you for taking the time to give your analysis. I disagree with much of it. I ask you to bear with me as I explain myself. The subject of race is inherently political, and, specifically with regards to Egyptians, mired in decades of ba
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I fail to see what's confusing, and the tone is appropriate, considering the parent.
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Thank you for confirming just the kind of person I'm speaking too. I look forward to writing your Wikipedia article's "Controversy" section.
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Maybe he was just good enough, young enough, to get people behind him? What is with this insistence on stripping him of his agency in his success? Are people threatened by it?
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I feel like I'm being concise. Blackness is a designation of political expediency. It's not a genetic distinction. HN commenters routinely confuse this point. Ergo, this is a poor topic for us to discuss. You seem to be hinting at
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We need to stop having these discussions here. HN users are broadly unequipped to deal with the subject of the "blackness" of Ancient Egyptians. Immediately citing limited genetic studies (as conveyed by a popular newspaper) rathe
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Is European global dominance and accident of timing and history? I'd like to think so, but there are plenty of people who would argue quite vehemently in the negative on that point. Alright, so let's go down the rabbit hole, and b
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Comparing the Yamato expansion across Honshu to the European expansion across the Western and Southern Hemispheres is a difference of degree so great as to breach into a difference of quality. I'm sure the Ainu weren't particularl
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SWE's don't have a union, so of course they're getting relatively hosed, too. Though the disparity is somewhat justified in that the efficiency of software (neither in its running nor production) haw kept up with Moore's
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It's not fair at all. The responsibilities of retail employees have grown vastly in the last 50 years. There's more product, with a greater diversity of handling requirements, which need to be stocked across larger stores later in
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Low admixture, sure. And similarity of genetypes?
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"This means that these infintesimal mixings have even less impact than you'd think. A modern Japanese person could have a European ancestor who traveled to Asia a thousand years ago, but have zero genes from that ancestor. Which m
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That's a misunderstanding of the thesis. Because humans tend to have trouble surviving completely alone, our nature is to privilege others and the group in many circumstances, over our individual wellbeing. Sacrifice - of comfort, heal
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by bsanr2 6y ago
No, I simply addressed your statements re: individual vs collective motivation. This reply of yours is simply a way for you to avoid interrogating your viewpoint in light of my response, which I think is a shame.
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Before exposure to colonial Europe, >Japan, China They weren't expansionist. It should be noted that these tendencies were predicated on the West's unwillingness to perceive them as equals, with full respect for their soverei
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Downvotes don't make me any less right.
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That depends entirely on government incentives to maintain wages and labor's power to demand the same. The idea that wages are driven by market forces is only half true. Someone has to pull the trigger on underpaying people who ought t
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>People still think that people making 6 figures are the elite and cheer every time a progressive income tax targeting someone marginally richer than them is introduced by their government. They are not the enemy, they're not the pe
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We need to start thinking about what happens when those people die and our incredibly permissive inheritance laws allow them to pass down literal trillions to... basically a bunch of 50, 60, and 70 year olds. Especially since a lot of that
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I think it would be extremely interesting if the thing that got tech nerds to get on board, politically, with the notion that a single company doesn't have to have a monopoly for consumers to be hurt by "market standards" was
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by bsanr2 6y ago
IMDB is notorious for having BIPOC- or women-lead films average ~1.5-2 points lower than you would expect from reviews (e.g., Metacritic or RT averages). I believe there was a chan-lead op some years ago, but it's also probably just pa
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>It is simply cheaper to feed off desperation than to value human lives When the inherent costs are externalized, of course. The public pays the bills of these people who can't afford medical care or end-of-life expenses. My last jo
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>It necessarily requires stifling the motivations of individuals so that they can work together. This assumes that people are naturally and totally individualistic, which is untrue even at a biological level. People work together instinc
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>The entire purpose of society, and of a state, is to stifle the motivations of the individual for some group. The entire purpose of a society is to harness the potential of the group in order to enrich each individual life within it. St
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Governments are checked by the wavering legitimacy of any given representative within the government. In our system, we have a direct check on that legitimacy through elections. Meanwhile, corporations frequently do not have to compete, h
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>Care to share your feelings on the far left push to suppress science and mathematics? It's not actually happening. I can imagine what you're thinking of as "suppression of science and mathematics" is pseudoscience.

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