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by jack6e 9y ago
This is absolutely correct and I think the same thing whenever I read suggestions that Roman defeats are/were significant to its decline. Rome's major strength from the beginning was an indefatigable political will. Hannibal did n
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This was also a period of time when the USSR was attempting strange, non-traditional methods of espionage and intelligence gathering, which, like the space race, arms race, and everything else during the Cold War, prompted imitations and a
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I was thinking this myself. For all of Musk's braggadocio about not needing, and even being hurt by, subsidies, Tesla, whose profits only become more negative every quarter, has had its sales decimated in the countries that ended tax b
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It will be interesting to see what effect Xi's increasing consolidation and even amplification of power has on China's, particularly the Party's, stability in coming years. To apply an old maxim from Nathan Rothschild, "
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I remember reading somewhere about some organization (not Google) hoping to map the entire ocean floor by sometime in the 2020s, but it is truly a gargantuan undertaking. As you say, we have far better mappings of the moon than we do of the
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I was going to say the same thing, but we can't both be right.
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I think the two views of his tour are inextricably linked. Protecting Facebook's image protects Zuckerberg's image, because, as the author says, "Zuckerberg is Facebook, and his image is his company’s." Regardless of whe
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This looks interesting and potentially really helpful! I have been keeping my eyes open for something along these lines. As the author, how do you see this project's relation to Conda? And if you see it working alongside of, rather tha
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> Just because people have accepted something doesn't mean they deem it "acceptable". Actually, that is exactly, literally what it means. Perhaps you mean that just because we find something acceptable, we don't dee
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Sorry, I think in editing I deleted my intermediate sentence. You are right, it measures under-representation, but the narrative and assumption is that under-representation in university is problematic, worrisome, an issue. I think that ass
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The presentation of these statistics is misleading and reads like a common case of "find some numbers to support this great narrative I want to write." Comparing total college-age population with final enrollment assumes that all
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Interesting observations on the sad state of Korean society, but the UBI hook turns it into a poor piece. There is nothing unique or novel about suggesting communism as an "antidote" for capitalism. The author suggests the evils o