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Yah man. We need to celebrate space agencies/scientists even less.
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thevardanian
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So... Don't announce scientific achievements by your national space agency during an election? Talk about skewed perspectives.
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But he's the one coordinating it all. Which is impressive. It's often difficult to run a single small business let alone a single large project/company. It's quite outstanding to be able to run multiple of them simultane
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Yah... With that same logic so is the untouched forest from which we get our rarest mushrooms from, or wild game from.
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No. There's a distinct difference between rural and urban, which has only grown since industrial revolution.
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There's a huge confrontation. One is a agrarian and the other urban. Two types of completely different civilizations clashing.
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In the dairy industry, for example, organic milk would mean you have to either let the cow die if they get sick, or give it antibiotics, cure it, and then send it to the slaughterhouse as you can't milk that cow anymore, worse still yo
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You're acting as if "the general anti-China slant" isn't justified. The only reason China was tolerated so far is purely due to economic reasons, otherwise what China is today as a government shouldn't have been tol
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People used wash their dishes with the ash from the stove. It acts both as an abrasive, and an absorbent.
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>2) foreign investments are something we want because trade and more resources makes our economy grow much faster and >A large portion of India’s economy is informal, and entirely cash based AND also below the taxable slabs - this is
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Most people who had "black money" deposited their cash with albeit with a heavy penalty. The government allowed people to deposit their cash, but taxed it something like 50-70% if it had NO accounting at all.
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Yah. Some people like their celebrities, however those celebrities are also now facing competition by other stars which have far greater community outreach, and influence. Who do the kids of today look up to? Those are your next celebrities
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People often forget that at the beginning none of the current giants were "mainstream", in fact what made them attractive was the fact that they had a unique audience that formed a strong community amongst each other. The idea of
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India has been in a downward trend in terms of freedom of press since 2011. Unfortunately. Rather than being prentious and accuse others of being half asses, or ignorant, I suggest you only stick to facts as you claim you do. I am most defi
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Yes. Go ahead and publish them. I dare you to. At best there are only marginal negative shifts. So please list all the data that you have. Furthermore you’re behaving as if having ambitious goals for a government is bad. I would rather have
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The recent additions are not just laws, they're tangible initiatives, and infrastructure the government has built. Creating infrastructure, and reducing friction is the only thing a government can. The government is merely a mediator,
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What are you talking about? There are very few metrics that you can list that show a decline. So how about you show me the data for decline.
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1. Business Ranking "India climbs global business ranking. But it's not that simple" https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/india-ease-of-... 2012 - 132 2013 - 132 2014 - 134 2
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Across almost all metrics, infrastructure, corruption, ease of business, electricity, even cleanliness India has improved on. This isn't just another election year innovation, this is just another list of innovations that have been add
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A paper ballot system is just as terribly ineffective as electronic voting. Look at Russia. They have a paper voting system as well. I know in other poorer nations thugs just straight stuff the ballots with votes, some even steal the box, s
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So is San Francisco actively trying to kill their golden goose?
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You need to first prove you have a personality, before you can compare and contrast and label something distinct to it. So already we are an order of magnitude more complex from even arriving at any sort of conclusion about "personalit
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You don't run your website, necessarily, on a local home computer, why would you assume the same for this?
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What is the evidence that happened?
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You listing out a bunch of decentralized, protocol based solutions means that there's competition in the market, which is evidence of a new market that is GROWING. The opposite of a dead market. Youtube is also a the result of such a c
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Exactly. Youtube isn't a means to monetize, necessarily, that comes with audience regardless of platform. If a majority of people switched off of youtube, and began doing their content independently the monetization would inevitable ha
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I think it's dependent on how much profit you're actually making. Revenue is irrelevant if you're in the red, as "start-ups" often are. That's what "growth oriented" means, imo. As companies mature ce
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Value comes before an exchange. How can you buy something without an established value? So, yes something can, in fact MUST be worth something before an exchange happens. In this case the company itself has raised $8 million in capital with
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The reason we don't accuse Buddhism when a Buddhist commits violence is because very rarely do they explicitly say they're committing whatever they're doing in the name of their religion, nor in anyway to propagate their reli
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Pranayama is a specific set of asanas in yoga. That is to say these are Yogic methods, in addition to physical activities, and further philosophical activities that are encompassed within the Yoga system/school of thought.
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