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There is extensive evidence beyond even just writings including death records, genetic records (1 in 200 men, around the world, are direct descendants of Genghis Khan), and much more. And when you reach such a tremendous scale there is just
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I completely agree with you, but I also think you cannot hand wave away the small differences. Islam is such a perfect example of this. Sunni and Shia Muslims have been literally killing each other for about 1400 years now. Why? One side be
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Tea is also a phenomenal example here since it's been so globally traded that it no longer even has a cultural identity. And then when you get into the age of sail you suddenly see a massive intercontinental trade of sugar/cotton&
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Integration is such an interesting term. Before we got to see what the internet actually became, it was a realm of endless idealism. It was going to be something that would finally unite people across cultures and any sort of boundaries. Pe
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I found it extremely surprising that this company didn't mention the new trend towards "public" companies. For instance Zuckerberg controls the majority of voting shares for Facebook, at Google Page/Brin control the majo
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I agree with you, but I think there is an even more fundamental issue. P-values really don't tell you anything. They can refute a bad hypothesis but they cannot validate a good one. This [1] is such an awesome site. It lists a large nu
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And 63% of all people in the country are white. In 2000 that was 69%, in 1980 it was 80%. In other words white people should still make up the clear majority of every single demographic, lacking any biases. In terms of wealth they should be
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The Hadza in Africa are an interesting people. Quite a lot has been written about these hunter/gatherers. [1] The have the physiques you'd expect of hunter/gatherers, but not the lifestyle. They work around 2 hours a day in m
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Consider Brexit for a minute. The most recent polls show support for leaving, but throughout it's been extremely close. However multinational corporations are universally against Brexit - a global world is a more profitable world. And
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Another issue is that as a small company you generally lack the resources to effectively contest violations. Google can, and will, drag these things out in court for years. And ironically for free. Their legal costs are going to be covered
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Governments are likely walking a much finer line than we might imagine. Imagine they carried out your idea. The EU is a political organization manned by a large number of mostly professional politicians. Google is world's largest data
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Yeah, I think the tangential successes is what many people miss about technology. Computers are by far the best example of this. At one time they would have undoubtedly been seen by many, perhaps even the majority, as a waste. Governments w
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I fully agree with you that certain uses are by far the worst, but something that smartphones in general have done is remove boredom. And I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that boredom is/was good for mental health, i
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I completely agree and do not understand why anybody would choose to post under the actual identity in this day and age. Unless you're completely posturing (which, granted, I find many who post under their own names do) then you'r
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Somehow this post ended up way longer than intended. Apologies, I haven't the time to write a short one! But rather than tuck some link down at the bottom of this post (which I expect many will disagree with), this [1] piece from the G
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I'm sure there are many different reasons but I expect a common one is because our worlds have become deeply intertwined with online stuff. And online stuff is, almost entirely, fake. Not fake as it not real (though there is plenty of
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It's quite unusual how little this is really necessary. For instance a read I found incredibly fascinating was Konungs skuggsjá - The King's Mirror [1]. It was a book written for the education of the heir of King Haakon IV of No
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The median donation to Wiki is, of course, $0. By giving anything users would be giving infinitely more than the regular user. It'd be quite interesting to know what your aggregate CPM is. One way you could probably determine brave use
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I think that ship has pretty much sailed, but in either case that has nothing to do with Firefox's decision. If they wanted to use Google, for whatever reason, they could do so while supporting user privacy by piping it through e.g. St
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Just to be clear you opted in to the program? Top right menu icon -> Brave Rewards. By default no ads are shown.
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Free money isn't free money? Sure it's only a few bucks a month but look at that in terms of your user base. What are you going to assume your marketshare of Brave users is? For context consider the marketshare of Firefox is in th
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It's true the same species implies fertile offspring, but it does not go the other way as you seem to be implying. In other words fertile offspring does not imply same species. For some examples, chihuahuas and wolves can produce ferti
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Giving rings, frequently of precious metals, as a symbol of marriage is, once again, a cultural value and one that dates back thousands of years. De Beers simply increased the popularity of one rock. They didn't even invent the traditi
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Nothing was ever propping smoking up. We've been smoking for literally thousands of years, long before any notion of formal marketing. Nor was it killed by some sort of marketing campaign. A large part of what happened was we had a gen
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To emphasize the flaws of this argument, flip it around. You are effectively arguing that you can change the views, values, and beliefs of an entire nation by marketing. This doesn't sound so unreasonable when it's an 'us vs
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I'm not "engaging" because I'm not taking any specific position. In my experience debating moral values is about as productive as punching yourself in the face. These are issues that people should come to their own pers
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That's up to you. The reason I asked the question is because it's one, based on the comments here, that I think many people weren't asking themselves. And that's akin to condemning a man for 'x' without ever as
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A scientist believes he can potentially meaningfully improve the world and nature of mankind with his research, but he's having trouble obtaining funding. He's offered funding by the worst human imaginable with no strings attached
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The easiest solution of all is simply to live in a place where the dollar goes a lot further, which is like 95% of the rest of the world. I don't really understand why more people don't go this route. It confuses me to see things
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The difference is in the magnitude of work. When contracting he's going piecemeal which gives him substantial oversight on each and every piece to ensure it turns out the way he wants. For a full time artist, this would be micromanagin

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