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by dgut 8y ago
It's really hard to help a neurodivergent person. Normally, that requires having a special type of strong love for that person, the type of love that exists from parent to child (and not the other way around) for obvious evolutionary r
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by dgut 8y ago
Hah, that's funny. As an anecdote, I was having a nice trip back from holidays when a security guard body-searched my then 2-year-old kid at Amsterdam airport on arrival. The shock-realization of what sort of society we've become
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by dgut 8y ago
Except there is nothing intellectual about it. It's an article about what somebody believes GS was doing/thinking during the World War II and a couple of anecdotes. If you already know the premises (GS was a Jewish writer who live
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by dgut 8y ago
At the time of writing, there are three humanities articles on the front-page and they are the only articles that have 0 comments: this, Spinoza's Ethics, and A Defence of Common Sense. So why are people upvoting these entirely subject
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by dgut 8y ago
Hasn't the aging population paid their fair share though? How does it help to bring in more adults who for the most part have low wage jobs (=little or no taxes to collect), and will most likely live close or the same number of years a
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by dgut 8y ago
Mention it anyways, that is don't ever hesitate to post your opinion. Those who can't tolerate the topic aren't worth your argument/time but a lot of people wouldn't mind. Including me, an immigrant myself (not to t
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by dgut 8y ago
Do they? By how much? Immigrants have usually low wages. Anyways, in Western Europe, the increased demand (which is probably smaller than in the US), those things are easily canceled by the added costs to public healthcare + social benefits
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by dgut 8y ago
Nothing wrong about it per se. Just don't try to mask it as or "soften" the principles of science.
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by dgut 8y ago
The thing about NL is that it's totally flat and a tiny piece of land. The biking culture is a result of their geography, not anything else. For example, in Norway, where biking infrastructure is quite decent and people are generally p
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by dgut 8y ago
When I lived in Norway, this was pretty much the norm. They would publish gossip about celebrities and politicians all day instead.
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by dgut 8y ago
It looks like they had been taken by a rip current and the lady had exhausted her energy. In such a case one is very close to drowning. Most likely the guys managed to bring her back close to shore before the drone had arrived, at which poi
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by dgut 8y ago
If there was a moment to create an alternative that specifically "left content alone" to FB and Youtube, it'd be now. I wish I had the resources/time to do that, but I don't. I hope somebody finds the time, though.
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by dgut 8y ago
Really curious to know what you mean by "an emotionally driven society". What does that imply?
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by dgut 8y ago
Do you know what leads some boys to move their bodies more than others?
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by dgut 8y ago
Have you considered that users can think for themselves, that we might not have to spoon-feed them? :-)
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by dgut 8y ago
To be fair, there wouldn't be any Linux without Unix & C, but there would definitely exist many other "Linux", e.g the __superior__ FreeBSD. Not diminishing Linux's achievements in any way. :-)
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by dgut 8y ago
With the exception of Spotify, none of those services you name are "big" in Europe. And we use those services on a US or South Korean device. :-)
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by dgut 8y ago
Its usage hundreds of years ago inside the US, yes. That's a pretty irrelevant argument for the rest of the remaining countries that are part of America, isn't it? No, the continent(s) have traditionally been called America. A loo
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by dgut 8y ago
It's irrelevant what Washington or anybody else said. The common name for the North and South American landmasses is America (note: not Americas). The land between Canada and Mexico has no more rights to that name than the rest of the
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by dgut 8y ago
This. A space program is not very impressive if your population has to live under dystopian conditions.
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by dgut 8y ago
> Gulag-style camps and secret police already existed in the Russian empire. USSR managed to have an "industrial revolution" over 20 years and beat Nazi Germany, then was the first country to space and was one of the world&#x2
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by dgut 8y ago
It has become more or less accepted (at least in Scandinavia) that small children crying is just a form of misbehavior that shouldn't be given any attention. Coming from South Europe, I found that very strange. But they've become
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by dgut 8y ago
I remember reading a Dutch study where nearly all "child is allergic to milk" diagnosis by parents turned out to be false. Unfortunately, I can't find the study.
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by dgut 8y ago
Con artists in disguise right... Including Pulitzer himself.
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by dgut 9y ago
The difference is that the US is home to some of the best universities, attracts a lot of educated/talented people and has the largest knowledge economy in the world. So while India might have failed to develop great cars and whatnot a
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by dgut 9y ago
Typo... oops.
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by dgut 9y ago
As somebody in the process of building a "cryptoasseta" app - I wonder that too.
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by dgut 9y ago
Thanks for the link.
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by dgut 9y ago
A Caravaggio has inherent value because it's a cultural artifact. But today's "art" has little (if nothing) to do with Renaissance art. Modern art is such a subjective field it's meaningless to discuss what is and w
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by dgut 9y ago
It's evolution. Isolation=diversity.

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