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by mieses 8y ago
The first few sentences are silly. Biking and running are on opposite ends of the tinkering with gear spectrum.
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by mieses 8y ago
These people could explain why an apple falls from a tree using a psychological study.
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by mieses 8y ago
solar power produces more waste than nuclear. https://www.energycentral.com/c/ec/are-we-headed-solar-waste... https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2017-08-...
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by mieses 8y ago
no true scotsman? perhaps another 45 million would have done it.
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by mieses 8y ago
wow. the chinese internet propaganda warriors are all over this thread.
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by mieses 8y ago
Yet China had good reason to be impressed by Marxism, also a Western import, because it killed 45 million. In that sense, I understand why Marxism would be more impressive than Christianity to a people who never had freedom. It won and kill
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by mieses 8y ago
organized religion keeps the organized state that you worship from organizing us to death.
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by mieses 8y ago
the absence of HN comments is deafening
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by mieses 8y ago
Give one example of a non-ethnic Chinese person who is considered to be culturally Chinese. It's the norm in the west to not conflate culture with race. But to think that this is the norm in the rest of the world is to project your va
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by mieses 9y ago
the alternatives will probably be more dirty when you factor in energy, waste, non-biodegradable plastics, etc.
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by mieses 9y ago
Social cohesion is not the issue or a goal. There will be a lowering of freedom, individualism, and other "western" values at the expense of becoming "rich", "developed", and other metrics than can be measured
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by mieses 9y ago
The self-correction needed is cultural and will take too long. Decades of progressive indoctrination will not be be undone overnight. It's a safe bet that it's too late.
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by mieses 9y ago
utterly shocking that this story did not get instantly flagged.
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by mieses 9y ago
It is fair to bring up Polish state media and the tendency of Poles towards nationalistic bias. If anyone didn't get that then this comment is useful. Just bear in mind that Google PR is on the other side of the argument. It was usua
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by mieses 9y ago
a rational site unlike HN and Reddit would have about 10 users. it takes more effort to write a rational political comment than to make a ycombinator pitch.
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by mieses 9y ago
Probably this liberal Scottish author would be happier with more Syrian refugees in the UK and fewer Polish migrant workers.
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by mieses 9y ago
Rail is a bad idea wrapped in shiny engineering. Read Randal O’Toole http://ti.org/antiplanner/ .
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by mieses 10y ago
That looks like a good site. I might go with their recommendation of a firm base mattress and a separate/replaceable comfort layer. I don't understand how people can report no sagginess when the point of memory foam is to change s
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by mieses 10y ago
It may depend on the weight of the person writing the review.
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by mieses 10y ago
By definition memory foam is a bad idea. It is a foam that does not spring back into it's original shape. Thus when you sleep in one place for a few weeks, a rut develops and eventually you feel like you are stuck in it. I like to b
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by mieses 10y ago
A world view that relies upon censoring and denying an attack on a news crew that actually occurred...
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by mieses 10y ago
This site is badly needed.
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by mieses 10y ago
This is useful. It would be good to list whether the mattress is all foam (rolls up into a small box for shipping) or has metal springs. I would pay >2k for a good spring mattress without any memory foam.
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by mieses 10y ago
Nice idea. Conservative attention seekers could sue over inherited debt.
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by mieses 10y ago
Are SSD and RAM user-upgradeable or soldered on?
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by mieses 10y ago
Yet the author trusts Tox. https://archive.is/t9VQY
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by mieses 10y ago
Nero's alt-right followers "actually meant" to ridicule her. Twitter actually silenced him.
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by mieses 10y ago
That policy is used to silence dissenting opinion. Don't spread this PR. It's equivalent to police claiming they detained you for a broken tail light. Dorsey and his Saudi owners are on a purge.
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by mieses 10y ago
They did ban him for his political views. But it's clever how you snuck in that one subjective statement into an otherwise objective line of reasoning.
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by mieses 10y ago
I stopped holding my breath after hearing that the function keys in a "Pro" laptop might be replaced by a touch sensitive strip like Lenovo tried on the X1 Carbon.

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