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by rmxt 12y ago
Yet another opportunity taken to bash Europe! Try harder next time: Income inequality (Gini coefficient, CIA Gini): EU: 30.4 US: 45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq... Life expectancy at bir
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by rmxt 12y ago
The United States may be the most prosperous depending on how you define that, but it's not any of the other three. To call it those is to blatantly ignore other countries doing certain things better than the United States. Furthermore
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by rmxt 12y ago
The fact that you looked at it wasn't what I was commenting on... It was the fact that you brought it up as a way of deriding the commenter's point and their person. You (childishly? bitterly?) searched the web for the person&#x27
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by rmxt 12y ago
>Is this the kind of attitude you promote on IamSignificant.ca? Seems pretty negative, to me. Even though the comment you are responding to is brash and unfounded, this comment is even worse. Is it really necessary to search out a poster
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by rmxt 12y ago
Your first paragraph reeks of confirmation bias. It's a truism (and/or a pat on your own back) for you to say "and people who go into extreme depth on the subject [...] tend have much more nuanced opinions." Such thinkin
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by rmxt 12y ago
Sorry, but favorite restaurants or dietary habits aren't likely a cause for discrimination or divisiveness in the corporate world, unlike sexuality. That's definitely a distinction of note. Yes, his sexual orientation is not stric
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by rmxt 12y ago
My gripes are that these extrapolations and inference from a select audience, "Everyday Sexism", to the general public are both tenuous and myopic. The "Everyday Sexism" people have their concerns, prostate cancer advoca
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by rmxt 12y ago
There is no global mandate that says everyone has to be outraged by all "real issues". Plain and simple, that is the fallacy of relative privation. A person isn't a hypocrite if they post a tweet against this poster hubbu
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by rmxt 12y ago
This article totally misses the forest for the trees. Frankly, both prostate cancer research and disparities in wealth/power/self-determination between men and women deserve greater attention in public discourse than they currentl
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by rmxt 12y ago
Interestingly enough, while it looks bizarre in a video game, this is functionally how left/right turn bays work in some large urban one-way streets in real-life. See, for example, this NYC intersection: https://goo.gl/
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by rmxt 12y ago
I think rush hour travel on NYC's subway might put your "transport happens in constant time for grade separated trains" notion to the test. New York City's subway system is quite impressive, given that it's pushing
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by rmxt 12y ago
Poland jumped to my mind as well, but at least there is some public pushback on the issue within European states and in the European Union. [1] The United States government itself, and the Middle Eastern countries that are on their "fr
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by rmxt 12y ago
Is there any depth to your assertion? Or is it just a passive-aggressive swipe to denigrate Europe(ans) while derailing deeper discussion about critiques of the United States? I will give you credit for acknowledging the "backward&quot
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by rmxt 12y ago
Just to bring the analogy back to tech... when, if ever, do you think you'll feel the same way about Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc. regarding "relentless market, shareholder dividends, and large corporate salaries&quot
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by rmxt 12y ago
Warhol's right, of course, but the bum on the corner is buying the Coke at a much higher relative opportunity cost. The nickel spent on the Coke, was a nickel not spent on "x" other thing that results in personal improvement
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by rmxt 12y ago
Your successes are yours . Don't let anyone get under your skin about them. There are good reasons to be grateful for any good fortune that has come your way (e.g., parents that helped you get through college, scholarships, connecti
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by rmxt 12y ago
I agree that that seems like a bad choice, or at a minimum, one is choosing to do business with a company that has to internally negotiate an apparent conflict of interest. (Or, vertical integration if one has a generous take on the situati
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by rmxt 12y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to assume that ISPs in the US won't go above and beyond the "call of duty" now, or in the near future. ISPs in the UK [1] and Denmark [2] have already shown willingness to do more than what is lega
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by rmxt 12y ago
Information can most certainly be conveyed outside the use of precise formulas, lest you think that entire fields of human endeavor are bunk (merely "long discussions"): art; music; aspects of philosophy, anthropology and sociolog
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by rmxt 12y ago
>well if you love democracy so much you need to recognize that the majority is against you on this point. Amazing how quick some people are to dismiss already acknowledged issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrann
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by rmxt 12y ago
I agree, but the tech-savvy market slice isn't the target one. Don't doubt the mass appeal of shiny golden objects. These are jewelry first and foremost. The watches will end up impressioned on exponentially more eyeballs, I'
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by rmxt 12y ago
Not an accountant, real estate expert, nor a NYC landowner, but (as ever) the NY Post is juxtaposing topics that could genuinely use some reform, with good-old FUD that is thin on analysis. Here's some info I found useful: [1] - It see
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by rmxt 12y ago
> It is always the person who makes a claim who has to provide evidence for it - it is NOT the person who disagrees with the claim. Yes, and the claims being made in this case are that "women can do whatever they want," and &qu
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by rmxt 12y ago
Do we really need to judge the quality of her code in order to evaluate her point of view? One doesn't have to agree with how she continues to handle things, or take offense at the joke oneself, in order to perceive that another might
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by rmxt 12y ago
Thanks. Not my shining moment and the sibling comment to mine expresses my gripe more eloquently. The original post doesn't say "woman", it says "girl" -- a diminutive. It speaks of easily manipulable men, rather th
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by rmxt 12y ago
Thanks for the mansplanation -- glad that you can tell us all about how voluntary it was from up on your high horse of rationality and the saddle of free will. Now, whole bodies of academic work, and whole fields of science, would suggest t
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by rmxt 12y ago
Taking potshots and calling for his head isn't going to convince anyone of your stance. Since when is America at war with China or Russia? What evidence is there that "enemies" were aided by anything Snowden released, bluster
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by rmxt 12y ago
Your example isn't very convincing. I don't see the use case of these as being a simple north/south side difference in light. I think the intended use case is for cramped urban environments (NYC, London, HK, Paris, etc.) or b
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by rmxt 12y ago
This looks quite nice, but the cost seems to be prohibitive for all but the highest end customers. Let's face it, if you can afford a $65k+ light fixture, then you probably won't be settling for an apartment that is in some dingy
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by rmxt 12y ago
>The whole global warming hysteria is FUD. Where does global warming come into play with respect to the GP post or the submitted article at all ? Though the topics are closely related, the submitted article isn't attempting to spre

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