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by vilmosi 9y ago
You're not imaginative enough :) You may not be able to spend your money at Walmart but you could invest in startups, fund charities, buy property you'll never see etc. After a point, that's what rich people do anyway. There&
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by vilmosi 9y ago
I have no idea if that's true in general, but, in this case, Estonia is the one with the lower population density.
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I thought the fiber was good because it made you feel fuller and you don't eat as much, not that you somehow interacted with sugar to "disable" it. What's the connection?
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Let's be frank, R&D costs are not the problem here.
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Economies of scale would make the opposite true.
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>>> Ming dynasty rulers felt that China was culturally, technologically, and economically superior to all other nations They most likely were at that time. >>> Obviously, that turned out to be a total failure of a policy a
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You're just talking about different time periods. But when talking about "ability" to influence distant nations, having a bigger and better ship than Columbus at the time kind of means they had the ability. [0] They just didn
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>>> Yes. I don't want to increase my attractiveness regarding a house robbery, as I live well below my means If you live below your means, why would robbers target you? They don't care how much you make, they care what TV
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The point is you're reinventing the wheel.
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That's not exactly the same code as above but yeah, use module loaders.
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I used this pattern when you had multiple files extending the same global state. For example when lazy loading based on the page you're on. It can definitely be overused, which is probably why it's an anti pattern, but it had it&#
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I think most blog platforms have that...
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>>> the pretense that the URL should somehow be readable is increasingly difficult to defend I think I have a defense for this. I consistently long press links on mobile to see the url before deciding whether to load the page or no
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>>> If 98% took my approach, then it would be much more work for to be among the highest paid ones who have never had any trouble getting or keeping a job in the software development field. The problem is, in my opinion, is that ar
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Not entirely but the vast majority. It's empirically obvious writting existed 200 years ago therefore someone somewhere knew how to write. What do you think people did before the industrial revolution?
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IQ just means potential not capability. Given enought time I believe most people can be trained to do almost any job. I don't think our brain suddenly evolved in 200 years from illiterate peasants to software engineers. We just have m
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>>> That's a cute idea, but it doesn't take more than a few minutes of reading the news, or a few hours of first hand observation, to find plenty of examples where people very much do not treat everyone outside their ≤ 20
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I didn't say that (although I disagree with that too). But I'm addressing the comparison between European Americans and actual Europeans.
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That's just the difference between justice and revenge. That's why we have a "justice" department.
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>>> So, the 75% of America that is 'Ethnically European' is already very varied Maybe genetically (although even that is debatable). But after a few generations you kind of iron out the differences between, say, a German
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So white people who speak Spanish shouldn't count? It's 73% white, not that different practically speaking. I get that white in the US means a lot of different things, but it's not like Spain or Germany are a homogenous glob.
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Humans are tribal though, as in maximum 200 people. Everyone else is an "outsider". Everything above that number is the treated the same, regardless of ethnicity, as a foreigner. You can't seriously suggest millions of peopl
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I don't know about extreme outliers. Many countries are more diverse.
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And? How does this relate in any way to the parent comment?
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>>> But has the conservative party moved to the right after Cameron resigned? Yeah probably, I don't know. But I'm not gonna trivialise what far right means. >>> May courted the voters of one extreme right-wing p
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>>> Gay marriage: David Cameron introduced that, but more Conservative MPs voted against it than voted for it. It passed because of 90% of the Labour MPs supporting it And how does that contradict anything I said? Did Labour, with

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