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by kabouseng 6y ago
Wow! Not sure how to even start with a reply...
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by kabouseng 6y ago
"It is not that being optimistic leads to success..." How do you know the casual relationship?
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by kabouseng 6y ago
I have also had these same thoughts, and in some ways the USA is today where South Africa was in the late 80's. Time will tell how the USA handles its domestic crisis.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Absolutely agree. But to be fair, the problems started with the appointment of useless political cronies as heads of these organisation's, who then used the consultants to help themselves with paybacks, commissions and corrupt deals.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Really??? Which borders? What seperates Germany from France from Turkey? Why not throw all of them together. Why not go all the way, and add Russia to the mix? Do you foresee this being practical in the real world? Which takes us back to my
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Ok so please enlighten me on what basis nations should form? The whole basis of a nation is the creation of an in group and an out group.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
*Response to your edit "That's not nationalism." No, what follows is your definition of nationalism. From the Oxford dictionary: Nationalism: the desire by a group of people who share the same race, culture, language, etc. to
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Well sure, but that is a bit of a simplistic take on the matter. If you could trust in the goodness and decency of external actors, or if all of humanity was super-rational, then there would be no need for nationalism or perhaps even nation
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by kabouseng 6y ago
And by writing the appendix, he re-enabled that time line since everyone was assured of the inevitable fall of English socialism...
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by kabouseng 6y ago
For example someone like Obama...?
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Reminds me of a tale here in South Africa. An ostrich farmer contracted an electronics company to develop a product to determine which of his ostriches were sick. The company realised that a sick ostrich do not eat, and as such developed a
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by kabouseng 6y ago
The problen with Stellaris is the 101 add-on pack sold seperately. It feels like they are milking the customer and getting all add-ons can be very expensive.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Jerky easily gets stuck between the teeth, requiring flossing to get out. Children ain't great at daily flossing, leading to tooth cavities.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Don't compete on salary / money alone. Make the company attractive by providing other advantages, such as an interesting problem to work on, interesting technology, being part of a great team, the excellent experience the engineer
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by kabouseng 6y ago
James Damore certainly lost.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ But in all seriousness, best of luck to you. I hope you create a truly revolutionary product.
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by kabouseng 6y ago
Let me be the one risking your ire and criticize your and GP viewpoints... Let me start off by asking if either yourself or GP have kids of your own, and just mention for a short moment, talking about how hypocritical parents are, while jud
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by kabouseng 7y ago
I think you have a very Hollywood view of African societies...
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by kabouseng 7y ago
Well it's passive radar. So you don't have to outperform the stand-off range of the target, since you are invisible to the plane too.
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by kabouseng 7y ago
>>In reply to child post by oneplane Hey welcome to the culture war :D The trick is not to take it too seriously. Also South park is an amazing resource / commentary on it... :D
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by kabouseng 7y ago
And then something like Trump or Brexit happens, and the left had no idea it was coming because a lot of people's viewpoints were silenced / deplatformed....
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by kabouseng 7y ago
This might sound mean because it is text, but it isn't, it's just answering your question. But the word (actually term) you're looking for is social justice warrior.
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by kabouseng 7y ago
Or... toxic might be someone who is oversensitive, unable to accept other people have different viewpoints, and retreats to their safe space whenever someone disagrees with their world view...
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by kabouseng 7y ago
Do humans / animals require viruses like we require bacteria to function?
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by kabouseng 7y ago
Well to be fair, the same is true of films and tv. Story arc# 1234, character development #2, twist #3. I am not sure though if it is true of books though. Possibly because the information is much more in books than can be fitted into a 2 h
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by kabouseng 7y ago
"Do you not think that the ordinary people in South Africa have a better life today as a result of those sanctions and the collapse of the apartheid regime?" Yes their lives are much better, just like the Zimbabweans.
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by kabouseng 7y ago
>>This actually matters a lot, because other than this, mirrors are superior to refractive glass lenses in almost every way No. Reflective designs (mirrors) are usually of the casigrain type, and casigrain designs offer very narrow bu
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by kabouseng 7y ago
I understand that these tests require withdrawing amniotic fluid to analise, and / or getting genetic material from the fetus itself. And my understanding is also that to get the amniotic fluid carries fairly moderate risks of infectio
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by kabouseng 7y ago
And copyright infringed.
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by kabouseng 7y ago
A strategic cache is typically set up not to support normal economic activities or consumer manufacturing, but war time supplies of military equipment.

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