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by omonra 10y ago
Look at performance of Chinese all around South Asia - Malaysia, Indonesia. Or just compare Singapore with Malaysia: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+per+person+singapo...
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by omonra 10y ago
I'm afraid the 'asians are smarter, work harder and have better culture' makes a whole lot more sense. Let's leave US and look at Asia instead - compare performance of Japan/Korea/Taiwan (can also through in Si
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by omonra 10y ago
I would not be surprised if this is related to the Gawker debacle.
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by omonra 10y ago
So basically nothing good ever happened before NOW because people held views you disagree with today.
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by omonra 10y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Why rig up some online simulation of a store when they could just get a reak store to try both ways while timing it.
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by omonra 10y ago
It was part of the American History 11th grade course I took in HS in the early 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
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by omonra 10y ago
No - I'm saying that when she said to the border agent 'I'm going to give a talk at a conference' the situation became 50-50. He could have nodded along and said 'I hope you have a good opening joke' or he coul
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by omonra 10y ago
But - given the rules in place, she actually did not have the right paperwork to give a paid talk at the conference. Ie I think the majority of the ordeal stems from this - not ill-handling on the part of staff who work there.
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by omonra 10y ago
Yep. It's human nature - if the people she faced deal with people who are trying to scam the system 90% of the time, they will be conditioned to deal with such individuals. Then when the 1 out of 10 comes across who is genuinely NOT tr
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by omonra 10y ago
When dealing with a rigid system built on stupid rules it's better to avoid direct confrontation. She would have a 0.1% chance of being denied future visits vs the 50% chance of going through the experience she faced.
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by omonra 10y ago
Same way you account for the time your car is not being driven - you consider the total cost of ownership vs benefits and your ability to afford it.
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by omonra 10y ago
What difference is there between this and other nonprofits like ACLU or HRC? I'm genuinely interested, not claiming to know. My understanding that donations to any nonprofit are not taxable.
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by omonra 10y ago
And low taxes.
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by omonra 10y ago
Is there a benchmark for measuring racism or xenophobia? Ie the terms are so vague and subject to personal interpretation that I think they pretty much mean 'Someone's whose views I disagree with'.
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by omonra 10y ago
I think it's actually quite interesting - as a non-insignificant number of people are probably supporting Trump because they are tired of being told that holding a particular belief is 'racist' or 'xenophobic' (some
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by omonra 10y ago
Yes - it may be more 'playful' than insulting. But I definitely sense a general tone that it's ok to insult white / straight people while prostrating oneself in front of any kind of ethnic or sexual minority. This is a p
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by omonra 10y ago
I find it funny that some self-hating SJW came up with the acronym WEIRD to describe the population of the first world. Ie it's pretty clear they started out with the acronym and then searched for the letters to finish it off. Would th
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by omonra 10y ago
"I think that imagining two fully equal candidates only differentiated by their volume of personal projects isn't a particularly useful exercise." But that's precisely the point - two candidates will not be equal if on
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by omonra 10y ago
But did we have this information during any war? Ie that seems to be the standard MO for any theater of war. We as a society just write a massive benefit of the doubt check to the military and hope for the best.
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by omonra 10y ago
The article is long on opinion and short on data. I appreciate that's why it's in the opinion and not news section - and that the actual #s are hard to come by. For me to have an educated view on the matter (as opposed to just cli
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by omonra 10y ago
If two people are equally smart, the one who spends more time practicing will be better. Is it not in the primary interest of the company to hire the more qualified candidate? Do basketball teams sit around worrying that they ought to not p
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by omonra 10y ago
'Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) US Government agency, with the purpose of protecting investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices or fraud, by requiring full and accurate financial disclosure by companies offering
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by omonra 10y ago
The data should bear it out. If women are promoted less often due to discrimination (as opposed to other factors), they would also be paid less while they are at the lower rungs of the organization. Ie you don't pay someone the same am
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by omonra 10y ago
Yep. Same applies to rogue traders. They usually start faking profits after a run of success ends and they need to keep up the appearances. Nobody (that I heard of) just started rogue trading from zero.
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by omonra 10y ago
What makes you think that the 'billionaires, wall street bankers and venture capitalists' don't want broad prosperity? The data on billionaires appears to be fairly mixed (50-50): http://www.politifact.com/tru
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by omonra 10y ago
Ok - re #2 - look at what % of political movements succeeded despite most of their leaders being killed. I'd say that since majority of political movements succeed with live leaders, it must mean that the ones whose leaders were kill
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by omonra 10y ago
1. The goal of US drone assassinations is not to effect political change but to keep the status quo. That's a different question than one you asked. 2. On a more general level, your question can be rephrased as 'has violence eve
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by omonra 10y ago
That would be racist.
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by omonra 10y ago
Apple probably doesn't 'get out of bed' for a profit margin smaller than X%. That number is probably an order of magnitude higher than the profit margin of component makers.
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by omonra 10y ago
Can you cite a prominent contemporary conservative who says "We think that progress is going back to a previous state of affairs"? Because it sounds like a caricature that makes it easy to say "Oh yeah, of course we can'

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