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by w00pla 17y ago
Romania is actually one of the fastest growing countries in Europe and is upper middle income. In my country (South Africa), 2/3rds of the population voted for a president who is known to be corrupt . He is on the verge of giving his frien
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> International isolation worked fairly well for South Africa. Not really. South Africa's main exports were mainly commodities and anything it imported it imported through proxies (such as Taiwan or Israel). Disinvestment was a major bo
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> First off, prison labor hasn't been phased-out in the United States, quite the contrary; it's at an all-time high. AFAIK, all labour in USA prisons is voluntary and paid (i.e. it is not part of punishment). Most countries (including t
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Have you seen incarceration rates for the US lately? The amount of people locked up is insane (760 per 100k, in Europe it’s between 70 and 200 per 100k). Yes. This means that the system isn’t an effective deterrent. What changed in th
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by w00pla 17y ago
> and tend to favor phasing out prison terms for non-violent offenders, So, white collar criminals shouldn't serve prison sentences? How should we punish non-violent white-collar criminals? Take away their holiday homes? > It's the
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Google appears to be only accepting e-mail customer queries, to which it pledges to reply in one to two days -- far too long, say most people who are complaining online. This is the classic sign of bad service. You can see this with a
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by w00pla 17y ago
IMHO mopping isn't really an issue - it is fairly fast. What is a drag is sweeping or vacuuming the room before you mop. That is surely something that can be done by an ordinary roomba?
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by w00pla 17y ago
Fair trade is a first World scam. What fair trade does is mandate the price of certain commodities. This in effect negates the biggest advantage of developing countries (cheap labour) and allows the products to be manufactured in developed
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by w00pla 17y ago
> insanely, hysterically excited about it's own deindustrialization. Yeah, I tried to get a bunch of 16 year old Americans to make a bunch of shoes. Apparently they were not interested :( American deindustrialisation is not only caused
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by w00pla 17y ago
> 1) People in USA/Canada/Other western world are _addicted_ to products made in misery (in China, for example) The act of buying something made in a third world country greatly reduces the misery (by providing a job and an income to a
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by w00pla 17y ago
English second language speakers (like myself) often use words out of place or the wrong words. The reasons for that is simple - often you think of something but there is no direct translation (there aren't a one to one mapping between word
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by w00pla 17y ago
This is one aspect of the USA that is extremely good. There is space for states to do different things. If something doesn't work, people have the ability to vote with their feet. Another aspect of this is the right to work laws vs. pro-Uni
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by w00pla 17y ago
I have a huge problem with this edition of IEEE spectrum. It seems as if the editor tried to turn the version of IEEE spectrum into a political activist magazine (it is supposed to be a technical magazine for electronic and electric enginee
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by w00pla 17y ago
> The stereotypical example is wars in the names of deities. Another stereotypical example is oppression and murder in the name of state atheism. > specifically the anti-atheists I've never met an anti-atheist. Yet social sites such
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by w00pla 17y ago
Really? Why? Most churches take care of homeless and the helpless and help members of their congregation (in whatever situation, including bereavement). In the USA, a lot of the top tier universities were started by churches. Surely this is
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by w00pla 17y ago
> 2. Allow any doctor in a country with reasonably competent medical standards to practice in the United States. Not even that. Canada gets many South African doctors (most of which are fairly competent). In addition to this, they conti
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by w00pla 17y ago
Smoking isn't antisocial at all. Smokers are usually the most friendly people I know. Some of the best social things I have done is smoking a cigarette on a train station in a 3rd world country - it brings people together. If someone offers
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by w00pla 17y ago
As soon as the dollar pegged.
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by w00pla 17y ago
This is referred to as Carbon Intensity. The problem is that China is less developed than the USA and therefore has a higher carbon intensity. But the government promised to lower it by 40 percent by 2020.
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by w00pla 17y ago
I agree with your sentiments but not your facts. > For example, consider the Maldives, with 300,000 people making about $5k/year. The sea level of the Maldives fell by more than 20cm since the 70ies. If the worst of the IPCC predictions
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by w00pla 17y ago
> If white males were being treated differently so were being held back, that would be a major problem, but that's not the case In some cases this is a problem. A larger problem is the gender preference of studies. White males tend to s
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by w00pla 17y ago
Isn't the stereotype that India is more "lazy" than China?
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Is anyone a little disturbed about that website? From the title "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal". On the sidebar: "The Rise of Atheism, Global Atheist Convention". This guy is some type of
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> one of the main industries in Iceland due to Iceland is a geologic freak which allows for geothermal energy generation. Even though it has this, the energy production isn't that great. AFAIK, Iceland generates about 1336MW total capac
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Of course there are other reasons. The United states is more affluent which means that more people will drive cars. The USA also has a lower population density which means that CO2 caused by transportation would be lower. Many countries (su
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> For example, US's GDP is slightly less than the EU's but our CO2 emissions are double the EU The biggest reason for this is France which generates the majority of its power (80%+) from nuclear power stations. The environmentalists we
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by w00pla 17y ago
Hmmm... this is difficult. Usually when they talk about Africans it is a pseudonym for black Bantu groups (San excluded). That is why statements such as "Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth" is meaningless. It is
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> First, please don't give German lessons if you don't speak German. I did not claim to speak German. (I can understand German when read or speaken slowly to, btw). Also note that your German "translation" is not a translation at all, b
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> When totalitarian hellholes call themselves "people's democratic republic of whatever", Because all those groups professes a Marxist philisophy (e.g. The democratic People's Republic of Korea). I personally attribute most of Africa's
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> You do realize that "what Marx actually preached" and "what happened in Soviet Russia" don't have to be the same thing, right? Looks like the no true Scotsman fallacy?

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