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by gragas 10y ago
That's too bad. Cyrillic, especially in the context of Russian, has always seemed compact and almost cute to me. The alphabet is very regular; it's easy even for non-fluent speakers to perfectly guess the spellings of words.
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by gragas 10y ago
Here's the official White House video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVp3yFNEYQ
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by gragas 10y ago
Your conjecture says nothing about the people already living there. When you only take people who meet the H1-B requirements, of course it is the case that the percentage of foreign-born people is strongly correlated with upward mobility;
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by gragas 10y ago
> Trump was essentially a five million dollar contrarian put option See, this is what distinguishes the SV circle jerk bubble from Peter Thiel. Trump was not , in fact, a contrarian put option. Many companies are extremely hopeful about
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by gragas 10y ago
>I can imagine the early adopters: male actors, As if female actors would use a male contraceptive? It's interesting to me how so many people point out gender and race---almost in a derogatory way---when the gender is "male&quo
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by gragas 10y ago
But what does being white have to do with it?
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by gragas 10y ago
link is dead
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by gragas 10y ago
>If America explicitly gives up on even pretending to be good, what is the point of respecting America? Putting your own needs first != bad. I greatly respect those who solve their own problems and have a sense of nationalism, rather tha
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by gragas 10y ago
I almost burst out laughing. China and India are nowhere close to the US movie industry's influence around the world.
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by gragas 10y ago
>The most remembered phrase of the orange demagogue inaugural address was "America first, always" I feel very good putting America first. Countries that do not protect themselves are exploited and overrun. Always. It has always
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by gragas 10y ago
The whole "Islam says freeing slaves is a good deed" is untrue and extremely misleading. Everyone always quotes the first part of the sentence from the Quran, but the last half is left out: > This is a command from Allah to sla
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by gragas 10y ago
While we're discussing aspects of widespread religions and how they relate to slavery, it might be useful to understand how slavery relates to Islam. > In the early 20th century (post World War I), slavery was gradually outlawed and
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by gragas 10y ago
I think 1. We need more radical ideas like distributing heroin. 2. I'm not by any means convinced that distributing heroin will actually solve the problem. Clearly, nothing we've done so far has worked. Perhaps this will work. 3.
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by gragas 10y ago
So what can be done? I usually update my theory about the situation when I read new articles, but now I'm really at a loss. I'd love to help these people, but I can't see a fool-proof solution. Some questions come to mind: -
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by gragas 10y ago
It's pretty amazing that that website emails you your password in plain text when you register.
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by gragas 10y ago
I would guess that's the effect. It's not as if women outperformed men to such an extent that all the men in Saudi Arabia conspired to oppress women; I'm quite certain that Wahhabist culture---"justified" by the Qur
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by gragas 10y ago
>No wonder this is the only country that takes rand seriously. Most of the people who show no empathy to rural America are actually extremely left, self-righteous city dwellers who hate Rand. I often get the feeling that most left-lean
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by gragas 10y ago
I think you are right that "automation is the ultimate triumph of capital over labour," but I'd really like to point out that knowledge capital is a huge part of this. Having an employable skill these days is becoming more an
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by gragas 10y ago
What makes you think so?
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by gragas 10y ago
Alright, I'll continue to live in my OCD fantasy world where staying in reasonable shape is normal.
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by gragas 10y ago
I wouldn't consider maintaining my health a "self optimization fanatic" trait.
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by gragas 10y ago
Is there actually no documentation whatsoever?
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by gragas 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Travis didn't mean that his apology was particularly insightful.
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by gragas 10y ago
I completely agree with Travis and I don't think he did anything wrong. I think it was a bad move on his part to apologize for the video.
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by gragas 10y ago
Sure, but why is it deemed racist to empower white children?
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by gragas 10y ago
>whites are a non-diverse group of people Even if we assume that this is true (despite the fact that it's not) what does it have to do with printing articles with headlines that read "{INSERT NON-WHITE RACE HERE} miraculously s
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by gragas 10y ago
Why do you think so? Could you not also say that almost every article caters specifically to Jewish people? Or would that be anti-Semitic in your mind?
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by gragas 10y ago
If there is no identity tied to being white, then how are there hundreds upon hundreds of articles in WaPo and the New York Times which almost literally say "White Men Ruin the World" and contain detailed accounts of how white sup
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by gragas 10y ago
I find it demeaning to make it a point that someone from a certain race " actually succeeded this time! " It seems to me that in doing so, one also indirectly makes the point that most people from race X don't succeed. It&#x2
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by gragas 10y ago
Then why is it strictly forbidden to write an article with a title that caters specifically to young white children?

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