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by eighthnate 9y ago
> A critique of a novel proposition is agenda-pushing? Yes? Especially when it disingenuous and cherrypicking data. As I said, people with an agenda tend to do this. Whether it is the people on the left trying to compare us to norway or
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I'm ancient (late fifties), but even so, I'm struck by the somewhat creakingly defensive tone of several comments in this thread Nobody likes the idea that they are growing older and slowly breaking down mentally/physica
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Is that a rhetorical question? Is there anyone who is afraid of makefiles? Makefiles exist to make your life easier.
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by eighthnate 9y ago
The article is a bit disingenuous because saudi arabia's population increased from 5 million in 1967 to nearly 35 million today. It's a 600% increase compared to the US's 50% increase in the same time frame. It's the sam
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> I don't know a whole lot about economics, but I do know that semi-knowledgeable people like myself are usually wrong about economic issues. The knowledgeable people are even more wrong about economic issues. The history of econom
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> My best guess is that there are common old databases that did not have a first class null type where it was common practice to use the string "NULL" for that purpose. It isn't a DB issue. It's more of a front-end or
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by eighthnate 9y ago
They are more socialist than capitalist. Besides, there is no pure socialist or capitalist society on earth. Using that logic, the US isn't a capitalist nation and venezuela isn't a socialist nation. And the guy's assertion t
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by eighthnate 9y ago
> However he has been proved devastatingly wrong about Venezuela and as of today won't admit the problems with state socialism. I hope his new students realize this. Doesn't the problems with state socialism result from being a
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by eighthnate 9y ago
Neoliberalism is colonialism via money rather than bullets. After the fall of european colonialism in the mid 20th century, neoliberalism replaced it as as a tool for the elite/banks to extract wealth/resources/labor from the
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by eighthnate 9y ago
They can hate. It's called freedom. As long as they don't act on it and commit a crime, they are allowed to hate as much as they want. > Ask that of the Germans who were alive in 1920 if they could foresee 1941.. Too bad german
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by eighthnate 9y ago
But airline stocks have skyrocketed in the past 5 year as have their profits. After the mergers of airlines, they realized that they have a captive market and don't have to care about service since there is only a limited number of cho