hectord

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   by hectord 5y ago

   Men tend to suicide more often than women. Men are also more likely to killed/be killed (although this is slowly changing). Is it because men are intrinsically more violent than women? Or is it because of the way we bring up our kids?
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   by hectord 5y ago

   Both you and the author of the blog post assume that rationality is better than being able to show our emotions. The scientific paper doesn't say anything about it. A few decades ago we expected women to "show emotions" and m
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   by hectord 5y ago

   The number of Chinese students is already already in decline for various reasons [1]. It means less money for the American universities. It also means less tensions between students in the future. I don't think it's good news for
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   by hectord 5y ago

   Please don't generalize. Far-right parties are not mainstream everywhere. Europe is complex, as much as the US. The issue with this way of thinking is that you look away from countries which might have good policies. These policies cou
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   by hectord 5y ago

   If you think from an economic standpoint, Amazon should price AWS only a bit cheaper than the on-prem options. It's a way to maximize their profits. Then you have competition (GCP, Azure, Alibaba) which will tend to lower the price, bu