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by pimmen 7y ago
> There does not seem to be a unified long-term goal among the protesters. Universal sufferage has been trending as another talking point too among protesters. This would be very long term because if Hong Kong would allot all seats in th
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, to that I agree. I have a colleague from China and in her experience, moving from her smaller city (population 300 000) to Shanghai was a big eye opener for her. She was exposed to more educated people and more sources of information
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by pimmen 7y ago
The problem is when the local official is clearly implementing policy from the central government, such as the case now with Lam implementing an extradition treaty with the PRC. If you replace Lam and try again, the same protests would appe
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would also like to hear from biologists or and agricultural scientists. Beneath the frozen tundra, there's vast reserves of natural gas and other fossil fuels, does this indicate that the soil has a lot of nutrients? If animals dies
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yes, I think we actually would because I don’t see much evidence that the number of talented kids who were pushed into it because of their obvious talents is greater than the number of kids who were talented but lacked the opportunities or
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by pimmen 7y ago
Those politicians who promise you the world are humans and in the long term humans switch jobs, switch political stance, mess up and get fired, get sick or die. Hinging your investment on specific politicians is more risky than hinging it o
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would argue that does affect the market’s aggregated value a lot. Investing in China could become more risky than investing in the Philippines, Brazil or India in the future simply because you can better estimate how your capital will int
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by pimmen 7y ago
I watched a video with Saul Levmore where he said that China was a bit of a mystery to economists, they have economic growth even though the market is far from as free as in the West. His guess was that since China is so big and local polit
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by pimmen 7y ago
> Will this make me stop flying? Not really, but I will be pretty sour about it so I don't see how it offsets anything Someone else who flies just as much as you and could make an effort not to will also feel sour about it and maybe
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by pimmen 7y ago
You can have a kickback, like Canada. Basically, you pay the carbon tax as a middle class person and then you get a decent amount of money back from the government to cover the damages, and everyone gets up to the same amount (which is like
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by pimmen 7y ago
I agree, learning calculus does enhance one’s life. Statistics enhances your life even more though since you will actually use it. I use calculus sometimes at work and I use it when learning new mathematical concepts but it still doesn’t ev
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by pimmen 7y ago
The math in high school was more relevant 50 years ago than now, though. Most students who learn calculus will never, ever, integrate a function again in their life. Most people who don’t learn statistics will get bombarded with arguments b
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would say that the motivation non-English speaking students get from being immersed in English language media does more than half the work, though. Speaking as a Swede who took high school German and can barely introduce myself.
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by pimmen 7y ago
It’s not that hard, I watched Captain Planet as a kid and I swear one of those villains did something similar.
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by pimmen 7y ago
”Fossil fuels doesn’t change the climate, humans change the climate, we merely provide the means and are not liable for cleaning up this mess.”
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by pimmen 7y ago
Fossil fuel is causing a whole lot more damage per kWh that we have to clean up. BP estimated 61 billion USD to clean up its oil spill in 2010. I would say nuclear is already competetive when compared to that.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Have you made any progress?
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by pimmen 7y ago
Sometimes, it just makes no sense at all. R.E. Howard had no children, no wife, no parents, no siblings and no busines when he took his own life 83 years ago. I think the original Conan books are completely public domain but I know that ”
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by pimmen 7y ago
One person has been confirmed to have died after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The fatal design flaw of building cities next to water however killed thousands of people from the tsunami.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I have been spending a lot of time reading English language classics lately (I'm Swedish, so I only read two classics in my high school English class) so I will recommend one I recently read, Catch 22 . I read it so that I knew what i
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by pimmen 7y ago
Masters of Doom had a much bigger impact on me then I thought it would. Can really recommend it!
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yes, pretty much. And the investments we make into long term stability are more fragile than we think, because our will to maintain it is unreliable. Whether it's an independent judicial system, freeways, water reservoirs for drought,
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by pimmen 7y ago
It could be that they're setting up some new category related to tech or something, that would probably be my first attempt to rationalize why they sent the request to me. However, I think that a few minutes later I would've thoug
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by pimmen 7y ago
I have some empathy for them because having a college degree is becoming less optional if you want to partake in today's economy, especially if you want to move up relative to your poorer parents who probably don't have the suppor
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by pimmen 7y ago
In Sweden we prize consensus very highly. To the extent that's possible, we try to debate things and do what everyone in the organization agrees to do rather than having a manager decide by him or herself and then execute. Our minister
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by pimmen 7y ago
I work in the media industry, which is in full panic mode because of the competition from Facebook and Google. They have viewed software as an investment, we’re hiring more and more devs but we’re slashing the newsrooms and ad-sales departm
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by pimmen 7y ago
I'm not arguing that the black sites weren't horrible, however thousands of people being kidnapped by the CIA is less than almost a million people kidnapped by China in Xinjiang. And this is only talking about what China has knowi
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think most countries criticizing this don’t have an active organ harvesting and internment camp operation against ethnic and religious groups, though. I would rather compare it to a drunk driver judging a serial rapist, at least if we’re
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by pimmen 7y ago
We can't go too far with this logic, though. Nobody's perfect yet I wouldn't want to live in a world where everyone reflects on themselves, finds out they aren't perfect themselves, and just passively watches human right
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by pimmen 7y ago
I think the reason they are doing that is because if people do notice that all their rights are gone waking up one day in 2047, what would happen then would dwarf the protests we see now. They would rather portray HK as bickering over somet

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