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by omonra 10y ago
Why? Increase in supply will affect the entire curve, thus making housing cheaper for everybody. Ie that's like making one part of the room warmer.
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by omonra 10y ago
The word scapegoat implies being blamed for something they are innocent of. Here Ireland is clearly complicit with Apple in the tax evasion scheme and thus isn't a "scapegoat".
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by omonra 10y ago
First thing that jumped at me. He also says "I wish I could pay off the mortgage". From what he described, he should be able to pay it off in a year or two. Doesn't add up.
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by omonra 10y ago
No, I don't think that. But I'm enough of a realist to see first generation asians / indians operating laundromats or chinese restaurants and their children becoming doctors or lawyers. So to my mind US is the land of high so
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by omonra 10y ago
Because they won't be admitted to the SWPL heaven? Your ideas actually remind me of the barely literate from the middle ages who believed that the world was sitting on 3 whales or something like that. Preponderance of evidence to the c
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by omonra 10y ago
1. The 10% of Danes that are migrants are all recent arrivals and hence I doubt there are generations to study inter-generational mobility on. When they will have been in the country for generations, I would be extremely surprised to find
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by omonra 10y ago
It's a silly conclusion. If you are born in the bottom 20% of household income you in the US you are probably from a different ethnicity than the top 20%. Meanwhile in Denmark they're all ... Danish! So essentially that study disc
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by omonra 10y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... US and EU make up 22% of world's carbon emissions. So if we (ie the people addressed by the article) stop to exist, the population will
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by omonra 10y ago
I imagine the store keeper had enough experience with arab kids breaking stuff that wasn't paid for by their parents. So it's not a call on clumsiness of one set of kids vs another but personal experience on whether their parents
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by omonra 10y ago
Mongolia is one of the 22 countries in the world that Britain did not invade, so unfortunately they don't have the benefit of the British post code system :) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-
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by omonra 10y ago
I guess the point is that some benchmark should be used to determine whether a country is rich enough to take care of it s citizens. You and the commenter above disagree whether space program can be considered such metric.
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by omonra 10y ago
His point is that if India can afford their space program, UK should not be sending them aid. Ie just like if your cousin decides to buy a Ferrari, you probably should not have to to support him financially.
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by omonra 10y ago
I think the purpose of this device is to provide context to the problem. If you are about to provide the scientific explanation for something all of us experience every day "Why do things fall down" / "Why is sugar sweet
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by omonra 10y ago
This report provides relevant background on US navy ship naming: https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22478.pdf For ship types now being procured for the Navy, or recently procured for the Navy, naming rules
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by omonra 10y ago
Those figures are not for tech roles but company-wide. Apple does not provide figures for % of engineers who are black. If you want to prove that companies discriminate, look up percent of engineering PhDs (like CS) who are black that gradu
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by omonra 10y ago
The only other clear thing is that Trump would be President.
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by omonra 10y ago
Sorry - that's an overview of how ONE company find value in diversity. We are asking for research that shows that companies like Etsy outperform (on any metric) companies that don't really care about diversity (judged by their act
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by omonra 10y ago
Ok sure - then go ahead and do that. Say 'Have a look at X or Y'. By saying 'That's racist' you come out meaning to stop the conversation because you have nothing more substantial to say.
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by omonra 10y ago
You're absolutely right about Egypt - but when people talk about Africa they usually imply sub-Saharan part of the continent (not the mediterranean civilizations).
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by omonra 10y ago
What I meant was not a civilization in the abstract sense of the word but rather what we consider modernity (as brought to us by Europe). My understanding is that Asia is widely expected to get there without Europe - but it's not clear
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by omonra 10y ago
I find it rather hilarious that all you can muster is 'that's racist'. It pretty much means 'I can't produce a coherent argument that counters what you said but I don't like it, so I'll call it x-ist'
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by omonra 10y ago
Volvo XC90 has this feature. It's basically lane keeping with automatic cruise control that works between 0 mph and 30. It also requires you to keep hands on the wheel (that's not a problem, imho). The only drawback to me is that
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by omonra 10y ago
Who decides who was 'wrongfully' killed? For example to me (as well as grand jury) MBrown was rightfully killed. To the BLM he was not - so we're stuck. Even if that can somehow be quantified, do we have statistics for the nu
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by omonra 10y ago
I actually did a similar kind of back of the napkin + Google exercise the other night, here is what I wrote down: --- Recent MN incident is definitely horrible and seems unequivocally wrong, no questions about it. It's very sad. It&#x2
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by omonra 10y ago
I was talking about homicide rate rather - ie if poor whites commit serious crime at the same rate as poor blacks.
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by omonra 10y ago
Do you happen to have (or ever looked at) the statistics for criminality of low-income whites? I'd be curious for that comparison - let's say murder rate (as these things are less likely to be covered up) across bottom 10% of inco
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by omonra 10y ago
Good point - but people explain that it is due to political reasons [1]. Ie same way that people in Luxemburg want to point out that they have their own language different from German, rulers of Morocco (who are Arabs - majority of Morocco&
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by omonra 10y ago
My understanding is that if you have a country, you get to have a language (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish_language ) Therefore the argument 'How come X is a language while Y is not' doesn
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by omonra 10y ago
Exactly this for me. I simply don't want to deal with new interfaces. I feel that Windows has reached its interface peak around Win7 and Office around version 2003. Everything since has been driven by the need to justify having a team
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by omonra 10y ago
It's the modern version of 'mongoloid' which has gone out of fashion. Interestly enough, in the UK 'asian' refers strictly to people from India/Pakistan.

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