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by namarie 8y ago
Well, it might make more sense in context. You can't litterally read a random sentence on a random page of a book and expect to have a reasonable opinion on its quality.
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by namarie 8y ago
Why would it ever be ok? It's dehumanization of non-americans at its worst.
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by namarie 8y ago
> No, it's vastly easier for Chinese to learn English (or French or German) because they're generally phonetically-spelled languages. Interesting of you to make that claim as english spelling is usually a nightmare to learn (a
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by namarie 8y ago
Do you really think learning chinese won't be economically helpful in the coming decades? Also, what makes you think learning a different language is just "learning different ways to say a word"? This only makes you seem unin
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by namarie 8y ago
Do you have any sources for that?
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by namarie 8y ago
Not a real option for some of us.
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by namarie 8y ago
Ooops, my bad.
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by namarie 8y ago
Why is your first instinct to think he will get worse?
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by namarie 8y ago
Sure, but I mean, "Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you"? I'm not sure how that helps at all.
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by namarie 8y ago
> For people with the lowest wage striving to make the ends mee the problem is of course lack of knowledge, time to acquire it, and time to get out of this local minima. Also lack of opportunities for many.
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by namarie 8y ago
This should be titled "how not to write". It's terribly vague.
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by namarie 8y ago
Most of us brazilians see ourselves as western... It's not a question of being a member of a club, it's how most of us define most of our heritage, so somebody denying that seems at best very awkward and at worst very offensive.
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by namarie 8y ago
> Would the downvoters care to explain why? It's not a surprise :-) but hearing why would be....enlightening. Thanks. Your comment has a condescending tone towards the people you claim to like. As if they're some king of exotic
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by namarie 8y ago
> Western is just some huge bucket now that doesn't really have meaning. I sincerely think it just means "northern european" to some people.
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by namarie 8y ago
So? Isn't Italy western?
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by namarie 8y ago
Only on that site? Most comments on this thread are quite cringey as well to my ears...
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by namarie 8y ago
Is ethics an impractical subject?
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Letter to the Undead of Geekdom (2012)(humaniterations.net)
1 points by namarie 9y ago|0 comments
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by namarie 9y ago
Thank you for this! I'd forgot the name of the talk, and I spent some days looking for it, with no success...
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by namarie 9y ago
It's only moving fast when they're breaking someone else's business model, not their own one.
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by namarie 9y ago
Why do you think historians don't study the context of a particular topic? They certainly don't pick and choose quotes.
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by namarie 9y ago
I think it should be at least heavily taxed and wouldn't be very much opposed to it not actually passing down.
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by namarie 9y ago
Then people should save money they made from their works and pass it to their children. I've never heard of someone continuing to work after their death to provide for their children, which is what the current copyright system basica
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by namarie 9y ago
Didn't they start it all by playing atari games?
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Why philosophy is so important in science education(aeon.co)
2 points by namarie 9y ago|2 comments
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by namarie 9y ago
What good would destroying a pyramid do in regards for self-preservation?
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by namarie 9y ago
Wind energy in the south, solar in the northeast - both closer to major population centers.
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by namarie 9y ago
No, because there was a system (the Tychonic system IIRC) where the sun orbits the earth and the planets orbit the sun. It seems to have been popular at the time also.
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by namarie 9y ago
That's a pretty big "if".
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by namarie 9y ago
Neither can human population. At some point everyone would have houses.

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