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sremani
10y ago
One is a Political statement and other is a Political submarine.
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10y ago
Every strongman is not a hitler, mao or stalin. Especially, when they come through with largely "free" elections. Abuse of power as President is different from putting 6 million people in gas chambers and marching around and being
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sremani
10y ago
Of course, it is. If Assad loses Chrisitians and Alawites will be massacred in Syria. A more honest assessment is, Gaddaffi, thanks to regime change, you have slave trade live and well in Libya. Pick your poison. Its always easy to say, rep
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10y ago
Nope, US needs more Turkey, not less. Erdogan is democratically elected leader, and yes, he is changing and breaking things, but he is still ELECTED. Turkey is going through transformation, and it will come out of it stronger and mostly bec
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10y ago
Best of affordable cars. I get your point, but none of the Tesla's available on the market are really outside high end luxury segment.
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10y ago
The Volt with most miles (in real life) is 379201.03 and its has 132643.18 ev miles, so you are about right for that one. edit: https://www.voltstats.net/Stats/Details/1579 There may be longevity tale unfolding wi
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10y ago
Before answering the question, I would love to know what is evil in your words.
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10y ago
A very nice write up ruined by very partisan ramblings in the end. There is nothing wrong in believing in liberal cause, but to consider the other side as devil incarnate is a bit disturbing.
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10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Taliban_Emirate_agains... Taliban is not mujaheddin, they are different entities. Taliban rose in the 90s and swiftly took over Afghanistan with a lot of support from ISI. Mujahedd
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10y ago
Taliban is not Mujahideen. Taliban deposed many promiment mujahideen warlords on its way to power.
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10y ago
You make too many assumptions, but Taliban is by-product of Pakistani obsession with India and Strategic depth.
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10y ago
>>If you want to debate capitalism vs. communism in the glory of full generality, this is not the website you're looking for. I respectfully urge you to confine the justification for your action to the comment itself, rather than
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10y ago
Is apprenticeship where you do not get into debt but not remunerated for you work any worse form slavery than the 4-year degree that leaves the student with 100K debt, which the student has to service the next decade or so of his life? Not
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10y ago
>>varying degrees of success. Examples and references on this one. This cop out is amazing from Marxist apologists, you show 40 countries with 40 flavors of Communism for a span of 40 years basically screwing their societies, the answ
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10y ago
People esp. promoting Marxism, do not even footnote mention the human cost of Soviet gulags or Mao's cultural revolution. If Marxism is so awesome, why did the Chinese reform in 1979, did any one care to understand? What was the state
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10y ago
If you want to say, Babur was first Muslim Emperor of India, bring the argument with references. Tuglak had bigger Empire than Babur, and he was well into Deccan and even moved the capital there. This was 200 years before Babur. https:
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10y ago
Babur is not first Muslim ruler, first battle of panipat was 1527 (or near that year), he fought against Delhi Sultanate, which is already Muslim. Babur was king of Fergana Valley, and half-turkic and half-mongol, who lost his kingdom becau
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10y ago
Booth Capturing and Ballot Stuffing were violent practices esp. in 80s and 90s in some places during Election. People actually died for every election cycle either perpetrating or protesting these kind of things. Given the logistics, introd
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10y ago
IndieHackers is an awesome sight, and with Stripe Atlas, I see a good vertical developing. IndieHacker is an inspiring high quality source. Definitely, agree with Patrick of Stripe, the execution was stellar.
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10y ago
In 2010, JA/Wikileaks were Saints of the Left, until they went rogue in 2016 with DNC leaks. I would reconsider my stand if you provided a better example.
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10y ago
I will reserve my kudos and thanks, of course its easier if you take the high road when the account concurs with your political views. If they can take this road, esp. when they oppose those political views then respect, kudos and thanks wi
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10y ago
One of the best ways to put life back on to long unused desktops lying around is 1. 1050Ti ($150) 2. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I did this to a 6 year old Dell XPS 8300, and now that thing rocks! (I do a little bit of Tensorflow playing around on it
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10y ago
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/30/countries-where-you-coul... Not condoning what's happening in Russia, just pointing out how prevalent similar practices are around the world.
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10y ago
YouTube is my overwhelming choice, you want to be on a platform that is in some form substituting TV. Twitter, FBLive, Amazon, AppleTV, XboxLive etc. are all nice but are sideshows. YouTube and Netflix are the only two real games in town, b
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10y ago
Every one does not start with a blank slate, that is a luxury Tesla has as an upstart. GM is "saved" to save jobs by US government. GM has paid back, but its operational reality depends on selling "profit-making" vehicle
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10y ago
I am an Volt owner and I approve your comments. GM with BoltEV and Volt has demonstrated they are up with the EV tech, did they make miscues? Yes, no doubt. But the market needs to educated and for now Tesla is the Apple of Cars and the onl
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10y ago
Its not the impact itself, but with activism people can influence local outcomes much better than national and much much better than international outcomes. Almost any one can go to City council meeting and let their presence know, and with
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10y ago
You are trying too hard, even if I subscribe to the evils of brahmin priests you are talking about Sentalese who are far far away from Indian mainland. India claims Andamans on technicality, those islands were at best a way point for Indian
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10y ago
Cannot comment about China, but again from anectodal personal experience in India, the component of street justice in some places cannot be totally ruled out. If you are caught by a mob while stealing .. brace for Impact! edit: The broade
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10y ago
Many reasons.. but it ultimately comes to one thing, Cops do not give hoot to bike theft, so the rist-reward in bike theft is favorable.
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