throwawaygal7

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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Actually if there are consistently 10% migratants with a fertility rate above the average, this will cause a growth in whatever ethnic groups are migrating - even if you just consider them 'french' or 'spanish' in the se
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I think north west India would be a huge Muslim country if taken as an independent country, so dismissing it as 'just 13%' is kinda a funny dodge. Some European countries already have a plurality of births to migrant groups, I thi
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
There's actually not a lot of evidence for this- it's a theory of comparative religion studies which has little support. For instance, it may be appealing to say Christianity has drawn from the zoroastrian idea of a good and bad a
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I think you're onto something, there has been a trend from protestantism to apostolic Christianity among some. For instance, various conservative mainline protestants have become Catholic, and the Orthodox have a western branch for pro
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Christianity absolutely has core doctrines that existed before the nicenene council- you're advancing a fiction. This idea of Christianity as a state religion is not historical and has no foundation. Most of the major Pauline Epistles
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I don't know if the complex fulfillment of messianic expectation can be reduced to 'love thy neighbor' or if that principle really can be stretched as far as you'd like it to go. As far as the Inquisition, the historical
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
people in software tend to be introverts who sink a lot of their life and self worth into the job. We see the effects of this in the gatekeeping by elite software engineers who firmly believe the vast majority of degree holding, gainfully e
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Doing a part time masters was a huge mistake I made in my early 20s. Sure, I learned a lot but I lost a lot of time and picked up a few grey hairs. It really took a toll on my family and social life. It has not benefited my career at all, w
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Bashing immigrants and bashing immigration are different ; Usually accusations of the former serve to allow the later. I would point to China as an example of nationalism paying dividends.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
We must be talking past each other ; I spoke of immigration to replace or replenish the working class labour pools - then you point to other sorts of migration entirely.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Sure, and it is easy to find a way to support a policy if it also serves your profit motive.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I never called anyone evil, but if you think we liberalized the USSR by making them a major trading partner and moving our industrial base to the communist block... well, all I can say is I don't believe that's what happened, but
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I think it's obvious that the policies you highlight as being 'enlightened' are not universally popular, and also create instability. Off shoring and massive immigration are never popular with the working and lower classes, t
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
The 'liberal order' was very happy to open up China and then enriched themselves selling off industry and manufacturing to China and elsewhere. They seem to have thought that this would liberalize China, and that failed miserably
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Mao won the Civil War only after getting US backing during WW2, and allowing the nationalists to do the bulk of the fight againsg the Japanese while gathering his strength.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Building and packaging desktop apps is a huge pain, and a maintenance nightmare. Ask anyone who does it. Fixpack releases, bug fixes, packaging and dependency management over N operating systems... it's a special he'll. Now, do it
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
100mish people are born on two dollars or less a day and it's not slowing down , that's what.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
This is a fantastic hack. This week I watched tech demos where AWS services like kinesis were used to articulate services processing on the order of .3 to 3 jobs per second. Lol. CLOUD
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
There's a lot Id like to discuss about the logic in this comment, but one thing really struck me 'the Chinese know tienamen square was a bad thing'... I have a number of Chinese friends from college and they universally view
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
If the entire world had south Korean levels of fertility it would take... 70 or 80 years to end up with a couple billion people again. In reality the problem right now is we are adding about 100m people living on two dollars or less a day e
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
If you count social monogamy it's pretty fair to claim we have
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
This is still monogamy - its just social monogamy rather than genetic. Many animals are socially monogamous, especially among primates and some monkeys are even genetically monogamous. Let's be honest you're trying to use a nature
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Many of the popular examples are hotly contested and based on acendata
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
They have to sell it as power to keep in step with a prior worldview about sexual liberation
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
This is a similar (I think slower) pace than you'd see at CMP bolt gun matches. It's typical for even average participants to at least get all the rounds on target.
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
Religion does have some upsides , at a communal and individual level. If we weigh those along with the negatives who is to say what's best? Clearly, it's a human meme that has some positives and no dramatic downside that would hav
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
There's something to holding a child. I look at Israel as an example. The ultra orthodox have exploded as a percentage of the population and together with conservative Jewry have completely dominated secular Israel- it's clear tha
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I have always found this 'religion justifies war' argument to be somewhat weak. I guess you can say Islamic expansion and the crusades were examples of this but I don't feel these sorts of conflicts would have been prevented
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I'm trying to think of examples, for instance is this a main theme in any Eastern religions? Islam? I guess you could kinda say that about the conquest of the Holy land in the Old Testament, but I think that's a specific case not
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by throwawaygal7 5y ago
I think there is a pendulum effect, but it's dominated by a leftward cultural trajectory. The republican party really just takes democrat positions from a few years ago on social issues, adds some murmering about trying to reign in th

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