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by spitx 14y ago
Well. That never stopped them from turning nuclear - more than a decade ago - in the face of international sanctions.
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by spitx 14y ago
Spread the dollar as in a welfare nation? I think they could use less of that. They are just emerging now from decades of central planning and control which has stagnated growth. As are the Russians. If anything, they need a larger ampule
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by spitx 14y ago
Perhaps you should look into solutions that could stunt the Croydonization, Shoreditchization and Finsburyization of the UK instead of turning cynical and bitter about the increasingly diminished role that the UK plays on the world stage. T
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by spitx 14y ago
Corroborated. http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article3775271.ece
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by spitx 14y ago
Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions. If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...E
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by spitx 14y ago
Perhaps we should try the same with ESA. The first question that emanates would be on the order of "What's ESA?" No one in the world knows what it does. Cheap shot making with pejorative intentions doesn't move forward the debate that we ,a
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by spitx 14y ago
Something akin to the evolution of the peppered moth, perhaps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution But then again, the "original experiments behind the peppered moth story" were known to have "widely acknowledged flaws."
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by spitx 14y ago
Only if anecdotal, I find people from English speaking nations outside of North America being incredibly opportunistic in these things. This observation purely emerges from my experience.
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by spitx 14y ago
The approaches to education in the past five decades or so have produced mediocre results in producing a more civic individual. I wonder if the fundamentals of logic are imparted in any elementary school curriculum. Our electorate is alrea
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by spitx 14y ago
Despite the in-vogue arguments that come with sparse evidence to support that a vegetarian diet can indeed match the athletic predisposition and performance of a non-vegetarian one, I find it highly suspect that regions of the world ( inclu
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by spitx 14y ago
Interesting observation.
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by spitx 14y ago
"This is not true for China. Or Korea or Thailand. Because they are a single ethnic group." Well true for the most part. China's largest ethnic group being Han which outstrips the far fewer Zhuang, Manchu & Uyghur etc (order of billion
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by spitx 14y ago
It would seem so. Although lentils, millets and cereals constitute a sizable portion of protein consumed by the average person.
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by spitx 14y ago
Anomalies aside, it would be interesting to observe correlations between a largely ( >51% ) non-vegetarian diet and athletic predisposition and performance. Holding every other factor (race, geography, culture etc) constant, the exponen
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by spitx 14y ago
He seems like one of these folks every generation produces who are wistful for things gone by. Plus the sentiment isn't without its plugs, albeit subtle. "The new bike lanes are half-built then they disappear. Cars choke the city and cover
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by spitx 14y ago
"The history of Groupon’s chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, was also unearthed, showing a lawsuit-prone entrepreneur who flipped a dot-com company in 1999 only to have it lead to bankruptcy a year later for the firm he had sold it to. And Groupon’s
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by spitx 14y ago
On Andrew Mason and Eric Lefkosky : "Groupon's chairman, Eric Lefkofsky has a history of financial scandal. One time he sold a startup called Starbelly to a bricks-and-mortar company that later went bankrupt. In a lawsuit that followed, an
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by spitx 14y ago
An informed observer would supplant his anecdote with a smidgen of studied data. My-grandfather-lived-to-be-99-and-hes-from-swine-country is spectacularly useless. Make an effort. Add detail. We are not demanding khi-square tests just so
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by spitx 14y ago
Please refrain from making these anecdotal observations. Your observation is the equivalent of this from the movie "Get Him To The Greek": "British mother fu##ers don’t die. You ever heard of a British rock and roll star dying? No. They don
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by spitx 14y ago
Its not useful to include the British to imbue some meaning to the conversation. I single out British because although they claim to a governance described as unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy they have some of the most decided
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by spitx 14y ago
What I find elusive is this polite society's fevered need to stomp down any finger-pointing in the direction of certain sections of society. If one were to take a look at their irrational phobia of discussion concerning these sensitive top
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by spitx 14y ago
Whatever "Essential Frenchness" is, it most certainly is not centered around the milieu of the "beur". We agree that visitors don't come to France to be greeted by the likes of Galliano but they don't come looking for the likes of Salafists
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by spitx 14y ago
The reason I or anyone else would have, to bring up their ancestry is because of the apparent disconnect between the essential Frenchness one expects and the consistently abrasive conduct of some of these implanted peoples. Take Mahiedine M
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by spitx 14y ago
Just so we are all on the same page, the males look of distinct North-African extraction - Algerian, Moroccan, Egyptian or Libyan.
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by spitx 14y ago
You guys should come by the Mission district or China Town or Lower Haight ( here in San Francisco ) or take public transit (any of the BART stations - 16th, 24th, Civic Center or Glen Park). The foulest stench of excrement anywhere. Some
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by spitx 14y ago
Is it fair to call it quackery or should it be more fairly called a placebo-based remedy system? Can it be slotted in the same league as naturopathy? After all naturopathic formulations don't always have the same efficacy in controlled tria
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by spitx 14y ago
As much as I dislike being asked to pay up to access WSJ content, I am consistently surprised that the paper has managed to retain its readership even in these increasingly hard times for publishing in general. At one point you got access t
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by spitx 14y ago
It's not a smear campaign. It's the unspoken truth. Unkempt and maladjusted hacker types are still social pariahs. People on HN whine about the necessary evils of hustling but fail to tie into issues like the one at hand the contiguous is
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by spitx 14y ago
I never meant to assail his intentions in this case. However you can't refute the PR implications of what kind of candidate he throws his support behind. As much as personalities like JW want to be associated with Net Neutrality initiative
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by spitx 14y ago
A not-so entirely tangential thought: Would Jimmy Wales have taken up this cause if Richard O'Dwyer wasn't a put-together specimen? You know if he was a socially-awkward, not-sure-of-himself, social-grace-lacking and all around clumsy-looki

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