snowgrove

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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   Sankara took power in a military coup himself. While he led positive reforms such as literacy and vaccination campaigns, he also banned trade unions and the free press. His Committees for the Defense of the Revolution and Popular Revolution
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   Pear Ave and the restaurants next to Sports Page are directly adjacent to buildings on the south end, but Maps does say you’re right about the stuff north on Rengstorff (about 20 minutes from building 42). I guess time flew and I didn’t min
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   This is also hyperbole. Mountain View is very dense compared to most of the suburban USA. There are numerous non-Google burrito, taco, Korean hot-pot, etc. places all with a few minutes’ walk of the Googleplex. I know because I’ve walked to
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   For non-Valley insiders: the above is hyperbole. For one thing, the massive Intuit campus is right next door to the Googleplex. For another thing, the industrial areas just across Highway 101 (a quarter mile from the ‘plex at most) are full
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   History and the Constitution provide for a solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   But that’s just it. How is 5G-based rural broadband a significant improvement on LTE-based service?
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   You missed the “once-” before “Marxist:” Sowell described his serious study of Karl Marx in his autobiography; as a former Marxist who early in his career became disillusioned with the philosophy, he emphatically opposes Marxism, providing
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   >you're confusing what communism is about and what people did The trouble with communism is as ever that it has to be implemented by people. Communists as ever tend to gloss over this detail. As once-Marxist economist Thomas Sowell
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   by snowgrove 5y ago

   I haven’t read any of David Graeber’s books. Your comment doesn’t make his thesis clear, but I do know what’s written in the Code of Hammurabi: “If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.” https:/
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    I’ve read that the magnitude of punishment has less of a deterrent effect on crime compared to the certainty of receiving punishment at all. Softer consequences that you will probably face, as in parts of Europe, are different from harder (
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    Obviously, but that isn’t what the GP comment asserted and it isn’t the statement I replied to.
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    *in America. Not a reason why they shouldn’t work in Japan, Switzerland, Norway…
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    >The trains are clearly being robbed out of desperation by the poorest citizens. That isn’t clear to me at all. In Washington DC, for example, much of the recent increase in theft (grand theft auto especially) has been committed by unsup
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    The right to protect oneself and one’s property goes at least as far back as the Code of Hammurabi. Every ancient civilization from Babylon to Tenochtitlan had some variation of this idea. It is practically the definition of civilization it
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    I left Amazon after 11 months as a new college grad in engineering. As others have noted, Amazon’s RSU vesting structure is blatantly designed with the expectation that many (most?) new hires will leave after only 1-2 years. When I was ther
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    Not altogether uncommon, especially among Americans born to 1960s flower children. For instance the current mayor of Madison, Wisconsin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Rhodes-Conway
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    I agree that Africa is a huge continent, and one person’s experience in one country at one time may differ enormously from others’, yours included. I disagree with your assertion that user scabarott made anything resembling a “substantive p
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    Maybe their experience wasn’t representative of Ghana, but it was representative of recent history in Rwanda, Nigeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad, Mali, Angola, Eritrea, Somali, Uganda, the Central African Republic, the Democr
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    by snowgrove 5y ago

    >The movies don't get published here (for obvious reasons) I saw Wolf Warrior 2 at the AMC cinema in Sunnyvale, California. There weren’t a lot of showtimes but the theater was packed for my showing. Chinese audio with English subti