catzaa

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by catzaa 17y ago
Whether or not they are seeking or not, they are getting it. 20% of Angola's population is Chinese. Also note that there are countries (although without such a Chinese influence) who will have major demographic shortages. A good example is
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by catzaa 17y ago
Parent's in some areas can have girls that aren't subject to the one child policy (i.e. they can get another).
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Debatable. Women in the West were forced into work due to declining wages. A single income was no longer enough to support a family, and as more women went to work the other families would bid up the price of goods. That is debatable.
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by catzaa 17y ago
You should remember that there is already a selection process going. Most women will refrain from marrying a violent person. The violent person will therefore be "unmarried" yet the high crime rate hasn't anything to do with marraige.
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by catzaa 17y ago
Africa.
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by catzaa 17y ago
Men compete for women (that is one reason their economy is booming). > How much money is enough to pay a hundred million men that there simply aren't women for? There are millions of Chinese living overseas (esp. in Africa). They will c
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by catzaa 17y ago
Even the poorest American have boundless opportunities. Unfortunately most people chose not to take these opportunities and then demand equality of outcome.
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by catzaa 17y ago
> Jon Stewart, a comedian, is often seen as one of the best political reporters in the country. This is part of the problem. Instead of people reading in depth newspapers they want to be entertained. They then switch to comedy shows whi
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by catzaa 17y ago
Cruise ships (and some other ships) generally have armed gaurds. I heard that it is popular among Israelis (after conscription and before working) to work on a cruise ship as armed security.
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by catzaa 17y ago
I just spoken with a Zimbabwean (in South Africa). What happened in Zim is a fuckup. This guy's sister was raped (and eventually killed herself in South Africa). There money is less than worthless. The only thing that saves the populace is
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by catzaa 17y ago
> You mean like the George W. Bush White house email scandal? The media was highly critical of GWB during his whole presidency. He was portrayed as a stuttering moron. This is in complete contrast to the current love-fest with Obama. (I
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by catzaa 17y ago
Does this really belong on HN? As a sidenote, why is it okay to quote Nietze (who died in a mental hospital) whilst wearing a Che Guevera T-shirt yet it is wrong to say anything about Rand? Does the author’s personal life have any bearing o
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by catzaa 17y ago
The biggest lesson I have learned was that if you fail people, you should make sure that those who fail correctly reflects the demographics (e.g. black people, women). Otherwise it is a fuck-up with some very nasty complaints.
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by catzaa 17y ago
This looks like episode 2: > 2001-09-11 08:21:37 Arch [0948817] A ALPHA 92-i was hoping i would have heard from you anyway. please don't be angry.i guess what i need... > 2001-09-11 08:21:39 Arch [0948817] A ALPHA 2...to know is
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by catzaa 17y ago
Is this some kind of joke? On http://911.wikileaks.org/files/messages_2001_09_11-08_25_200... : > 2001-09-11 08:26:01 Arch [0948817] A ALPHA 93-if you want to say goodbye, i will understand but i will always be in love with you. that
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by catzaa 17y ago
Are you sure? In my country people live of wellfare even though they do not directly get it. It is usually a parent with old age pension / disability pension that supports 3 or four people. So even though a person doesn't get welfare he sti
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by catzaa 17y ago
What I have seen is that there are a lot of white people doing well without college education. But this doesn't mean that they do not receive any education. A lot of white people (in my part of the world) learn their parent's occupation. A
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by catzaa 17y ago
> it doesn't solve the real problems. Well, it would sure make running software on a mixed cluster a lot easier. But in any case - the proliferation of package "managers" is a bigger problem. I really hope a few Linux distributions die
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by catzaa 17y ago
> , but I don't think there is any electrified freight service. Are you sure. I live in a third world country and most freight tracks are electrified.
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by catzaa 17y ago
A lot of trains are electrified (I do not know what that situation is in the US). Also, even diesel-electric trains are much more efficient than trucks.
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by catzaa 17y ago
Long distance trucking is sure to loose. If the economy recovers, the oil price is sure to "recover".
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by catzaa 17y ago
In my country (South Africa) prison rape is also common. I've read a study (not going to search for it now) that the AIDS prevalence for people in prison actually goes down (which is suprising). A lot of sex in prison also isn't rape. The b
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by catzaa 17y ago
The problem with goats is that they are notoriously good getting out of their enclosures. If a goat sees yummy grass that looks better than his bush, he will almost surely get out. They will also try to eat anything (even if it doesn’t even
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by catzaa 17y ago
If you draw a Sine graph, you will see that sin(x) is zero at 0, pi, 2*pi, ... If you draw a cosine graph you will see that it is -1 at pi. Therefore in the above sum the sine part just falls away. It is easy to see that the above is true w
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by catzaa 17y ago
> For a lot of New York Jews, Hebrew isn't just "another language", but simply a decoder ring they use to read aloud in cultural rituals. They still have a cultural and personal Jewish identity. Most have accepted a version of American
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by catzaa 17y ago
Language is a product of culture. A lot of things can be expressed in English – but it is not normal to do so. For an Israeli Jew Hebrew isn’t just “another language”. It never is – language is part of your inherently part of your cultural
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by catzaa 17y ago
> What makes the potential death of a language all the more emotionally charged is the belief that if a language dies, a cultural worldview will die with it. But this idea is fragile. Certainly language is a key aspect of what distingui
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by catzaa 17y ago
And I'll write a post about how my shitty 3rd world university didn't prepare me for working on startups (or anywhere else in the formal economy for that matter).
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by catzaa 17y ago
I've used Duck Duck Go a bit and the results are okay. Maybe just a shorter URL would be awesome (such as ddg.com ddgo.com, etc...). Here is a search that I have had problems with : octave "--eval" Your site does pretty well with this (four
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by catzaa 17y ago
We had the exact same discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9s6p2/google_is... It is starting to get incredibly difficult to do specific searches (such as for documentation). It also seems that SEO have become

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