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by dm3730 8y ago
> I love Bryan Cantrill for being that classy bad-ass engineer with so much integrity. I have never worked with Bryan. What's the general opinion about Valerie's statements about working with him. https://blog.valeri
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by dm3730 8y ago
I watched the video. It shows a Chinese site manager having a confusing interaction with several African workers. He then expresses somewhat racist views to the camera, eg: all Africans are well built because it is a survival of the fittest
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by dm3730 8y ago
It is quite telling that you decided not to answer the question I asked. I'll try again. Could you clarify which people you are thinking of?
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by dm3730 8y ago
> I think when compared with Chinese imperialism, people will miss the US Could you clarify which people you are thinking of and your specific meaning of what they would miss? I'm thinking about those historical track record. I&#x27
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by dm3730 8y ago
> Where the $12 billion figure is coming from? Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_s... "According to its publicly filed accounts, 1MDB has nearly RM 42 billion (USD 11.73 bill
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by dm3730 8y ago
Perhaps it would help if we clarified some terms first. "An underwriter is the party that evaluates and assumes another party's risk for a fee, such as a commission, premium, spread or interest.". Note, the part about taking
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by dm3730 8y ago
> It seems to me that the prosecutor and finance minister are probably just as corrupt. They just see a pot of money and want to steal it, masquerading it as reparations. Could you provide some data to substantiate these accusations? The
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by dm3730 8y ago
> I'd draw some analogy between Scott Beaumont's behavior and China You could be just as likely to draw the analogy with the USA.
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by dm3730 8y ago
> America may have issues but ultimately is a force for 'good' or at least they provide the safe, open and fair means literally for Google to exist. I'm not making arguments here, just pointing to how thorny that one is. Y
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by dm3730 8y ago
> the link was that Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan and the government there tried to protect him instead of handing him over. Describing the faction of the Taliban that for a brief period gave Bin Laden sanctuary as a "governme
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by dm3730 8y ago
> bent on revenge and eager to kill. Could you clarify? Upon whom? My understanding is that neither the Afghans nor the Iraqi civillians that ended up being the majority of the victims of our subsequent actions were the perpetrators of
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by dm3730 8y ago
> China/India in particular What data are you basing that on? We and our Arab client states are the biggest polluters by far, on a per capita basis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di..
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by dm3730 8y ago
> reduce their quality of life further by using one of the 2 expensive and limited E-Ink displays out there Could you elaborate on above? I did not understand the logic behind the sentence. E-Ink displays by themselves do not generate an
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by dm3730 8y ago
> I definitely felt that Lianne was one of the "good" folks at the company, and I am very surprised and dissapointed by this news. People were saying the same thing about Bill Cosby, that he was one of the "good guys&quot
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by dm3730 8y ago
> It sounds like it’s more about her saying things about diversity that others didnt like. Where in the article does that "sounds like" come from?
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by dm3730 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sexual_slavery_in_t... http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1515
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by dm3730 8y ago
> No. There were brothels somewhere in Asia, basically forever. I believe you're intentionally misconstruing my argument. It would be ridiculous to claim that Europeans invented brothels in Asia. What I am pointing out, which is wel
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by dm3730 8y ago
> I see this as an East Asian phenomenon, I see this as one of the effects of European colonialists on East Asia and South East Asian colonies. The practice of colonialist generals/warlords, typically of a naval background of using
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by dm3730 8y ago
> I am Hindu, and I have no idea how you got this off track I have studied Hinduism and India in detail. I'm sorry that you feel my analysis is incorrect, but I can try to explain. Firstly, the census data you linked to still relies
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by dm3730 8y ago
Just reading about this and looking at a sex ratio map, https://www.mapsofindia.com/census2011/female-sex-ratio.html , there is a massive difference between a diagonal line between the North and the South. North India
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by dm3730 9y ago
> They are there to enable mass migration, putting out massive military infrastructures and shuttle the natural resources out of Tibet. > virtually no differences between British colonization and Chinese occupation of Tibet. There is
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by dm3730 9y ago
> You still have to pay market rate for professors, executives, maintenance, etc, if you want to stay relevant. I'll venture that it's the executives who are pulling in the big bucks. Looking at the glassdoor numbers, profs are
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DJI threatens legal action after researcher reports bug(engadget.com)
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by dm3730 9y ago
Would this also work for fitting non-rectangular images together? For example, lets say I have a whole bunch of irregular shaped pieces of flat paper (with pictures on them) and I want to fit them together in a single orientation to cover t
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by dm3730 9y ago
> America has reserved its most inhumane and destructive weapons to be field tested and then used without hesitation on Asian civilian populations. I think Africans and Native Americans would beg to disagree. Heck, experiments like the T
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by dm3730 9y ago
> You sound young. When you get older you'll find out that ability is only tangentially related to keeping one's job. You sound cynical and used a lazy argument. Can you justify the parent poster's demand that Americans be
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by dm3730 9y ago
> We've got Americans who need jobs. Well, that's all nice and stuff but you're wrong. Firstly, if you're good at your job, you wouldn't need to be concerned. Secondly, you weren't concerned when all those m
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by dm3730 10y ago
> Without protectionist regulation Japanese farming isn't competitive. Without protectionist regulation and subsidies European and American farming isn't competitive either. http://www.npr.org/templates/sto
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by dm3730 10y ago
> Geysers For those wondering, that term means hot water heater.
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by dm3730 10y ago
> yet overlook the fact that corruption is often how business works in these countries That seems interesting. I'd be interested to know whether that's true and for which specific countries. How much of it is powerful MNCs util

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