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by vivekd 10y ago
>While BIA has not yet evaluated the performance of their children in Uganda, in Kenya BIA found that is students "outperform their peers in public schools in basic literacy and reading." I have a hard time believing that the q
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting we stop taking care of the planet and just find a new home to exploit once the Earth is used up. All we're saying is that we want to explore, colonize and seek out new places. It's what hu
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Well it's certainly a good thing that we never see such incidents of malpractice with licensed professions like medicine and law.
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I'm sure every horrible person did some good and charitable things sometimes. Hitler started the first anti smoking campaigns, was opposed to animal cruelty and did many charitable works to help the poor in his nation. That doesn&#x2
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by vivekd 10y ago
I still prefer the windows, they are much less likely to malfunction than a dispaly. Can you imagine going down the highway and having your display suddenly stop working.
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Were it true that you had control over your governments you would have control over the companies would you not, as it is the government that regulates and controls companies.
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I don't think this is true, corporations do bad things, and there are bad corporations, but no corporation has anywhere near the power of a state. Corporations can't force you to give them an arbitrary amount of your income the w
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't know how things would work with a larger database such as reddit as I never worked on one. But I imagine if he had access to the database, he can just go in and change the comment on the database without writing any special pr
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I would imagine that this database is going to be used to supplement police work rather than substitute it. I don't think police or prosecutors will try to press charges based on the database searches alone because it is very unlikely
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by vivekd 10y ago
Just so I understand this right - from my reading of the article, the researcher is saying that the Earth is currently in a warm interglacial phase and the warm temperatures make it more sensitive to green house gases. From what I can find
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by vivekd 10y ago
> currently exceeding previous records by over a full range. What is a full range? does that have a number, is it a million kg per year? 5 million? And how does that compare to the actual atmosphere composition given that the atmospher
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by vivekd 10y ago
I think you can with regard to climate change - no one is saying that the termpreature isn't getting warmer, what they are arguing is whether human released CO2 is the cause. It's probably not going to be a popular opinion on this
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by vivekd 10y ago
All you are saying here is "people who disagree with me about vaccination and climate change are extreme because they are blind to evidence" Obviously these people have a very different interpretation of the evidence and the concl
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I'm saying that "extreme" and "extremist" are not things with an objective reality, but rather things defined with reference to an existing group. What is extreme for one group may not be extreme for another group.
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by vivekd 10y ago
But how do you define extreme? Consider this, believing non-whites are morally and intellectually inferior would be considered an extreme and fanatical position. However this was not considered an extreme position in the 1800s because, unf
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by vivekd 10y ago
Amazon link to the book https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Myth-David-Sacks/dp/0945999... The book is not arguing against multiculturalism or diversity but rather it is arguing that multiculturalism and diversity ar
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree with gnarbarian. Being an extremist is defined as being far outside the norm. Even with a low voter count, it seems irrational to suggest that the majority of the people who voted in this election are people with views far outside
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by vivekd 10y ago
That's simply not true, that is not what the diversity myth was about.
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If there is anyone I want at the helm of America, it's Peter Theil. If I was going to bet on anyone to solve the nation's problems it would be him. But then, I would be surprised if he accepts the role. He seems like a very pri
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Of course Phytoplankton was always the biggest contributor to oxygen. Jurrasic was the age when flowering plants were first coming into being, to suggest that these plants could compete with plankton in oxygen production in any meaningful
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by vivekd 10y ago
This research is obviously bullocks, there were several periods in Earth's history that were a lot warmer than in the current age by a lot more than 6 degrees and oxygen production didn't stop. For example, temperatures during the
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by vivekd 10y ago
There are dutch people in this comments section saying that laws are too lenient and that harsher prison sentences are needed. That should count for something. There was one commentor talking about how someone had assassinated a front-run
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by vivekd 10y ago
Well, there are a lot of people who try drugs, even very hard drugs, and can go on without getting hooked. But addicts tend to get hooked because of a desire to escape themselves. I can't put my finger on it exactly, or point to a sc
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by vivekd 10y ago
I used to think this way before I started practicing Criminal law. But after interacting with criminals, I'm starting to realize that these are not just otherwise innocent and good people who fell onto hard times or had trouble with a
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I say we Canadians build a wall and make America pay for it.
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I wonder if this problem could be solved if governments participated by making roads friendlier to automated cars. Teaching a car to drive like a human seems to be something that will take centuries. But if governments installed transpond
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I used e-cigarettes to quit smoking and I can attest that they did work for me. Although my friend and brother tried it as well without any success - so I guess its an individual thing. Although I would recommend e-cigs as a temporary quit
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To be fair though, Steve basically did it three times, once with Pixar, once with apple computers, and a third time with rejuvenating apple with mobile tech like the ipod and ipad. There has got to be something to it when someone can pull
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That sounds great and all, but I wonder if there were alternative ways of learning to "think laterally and critcally and have your ideas of creativity exhaustively challenged" without going into massive debt and dedicating severa
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>Western culture, for example, has this innate fear of death. This is not a fear that other cultures share. go outside and try and kill an ant, you will see it fight and struggle for life. To suggest that other cultures are more differe

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