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by waps 12y ago
And even that is only an advantage if America then decides to attack. That's just one thing you fail to include in the calculations there. > That's what I call complete dominance and control. You have a complete lack of imagina
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by waps 12y ago
Okay, compare the muslim/"Mughal" invasion of India to oh, say 100 Hiroshima's. Then tell me which is worse. I think you'll agree that the invasion was much, much worse. ICBMs are not the world-enders their reputati
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by waps 12y ago
This is bruto pay. It is massively wrong, almost deceitful. I think they're presenting average pre-tax income. Singapore tax is between 0% and 20%, and there's 7% VAT. In Germany you're going to be paying between 42 and 45% i
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by waps 12y ago
Since most people at that point would declare bankruptcy, if house prices dropped by enough to make it really worth their while to do that, banks would be screwed (since they have at most 2% reserve). If banks are screwed, companies and cou
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by waps 12y ago
You know, I doubt that's the case. Greece and Cyprus have crossed the EU, lied to them, and committed acts that should have meant getting kicked out of the EU. Nothing happened. If anything the EU keeps giving them more money. So now e
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by waps 12y ago
That's what always amazed me. Are the banks rich ? When inspecting their balance sheets, assuming (probably wrongly) that they're not hiding anything, I'm richer than they are percentually. Now what I mean by that is that if
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by waps 12y ago
http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/tag/south-china-mall/ TLDR: Not empty anymore, but they must be making a hell of a lot less than planned, and have taken a huge hit to their projected profitability doing this.
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by waps 12y ago
Anyone who is smart enough to calculate the differential of equations is smart enough to see there's little money in those jobs. You see this in practice. STEM graduates do 3 things, in my experience. Work in management, work in IT, an
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by waps 12y ago
ISIS seems mostly to be western "idealist" muslims, recruited by extermist imams where those can operate (ie. in the west, mostly Europe, in Saudi Arabia, and not very many other places). The locals found them, well, what everyone
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by waps 12y ago
The India you're talking about starts in what we today call Iraq and ends about 1/3rd into what we currently call India, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and never reached the south of India or Madagascar.
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by waps 12y ago
Of course not. I think he wants the ottoman empire back. He wants a non-wahhabist (but still quite strict) caliphate centered in constantinople. Most of all he wants the basic property of the caliphate : a theocracy. He has, after, said exa
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by waps 12y ago
Your chart could be summarized as Sunni versus Shi'a, and muslims versus the world, with the religious cleansing in Sunni-Shi'a warfare taking priority. Which is kind of accurate.
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by waps 12y ago
Exactly the distinction I wanted to make. Iran is a theocracy, with a population that has at least a significant secular fraction.
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by waps 12y ago
Not really. Let's say that Erdogan and ISIS agree on goals, absolutely not on means, and Erdogan stands to lose a LOT if ISIS doesn't back down. They are not enemies, even if you have a point that they're absolutely not frien
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by waps 12y ago
With Saudi Arabian provided mercenary tanks (because Bahrain's own army is at least partly Shi'a), and this was definitely not "blessed" by the USA. Tolerated, maybe, in the sense that the US was not going to create a sh
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by waps 12y ago
No ISIS is Sunni, Hezbollah is (mostly) Shi'a (and works mainly in a country that has a long history of religious toleration). Hamas is sunni. Egypt is also Sunni, but hamas and the muslim brotherhood are somewhere between allied and t
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by waps 12y ago
> If cultures interact a lot, they often end up with the same religion anyway. This is what people always seem to forget. "Diversity" within a culture does not bring diversity, ironically, but merely causes one side to be assim
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by waps 12y ago
Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are only friendly because they have done religious cleansing 30-50 years ago (all three used to have significant Shi'a populations, Saudi Arabia still has some), and back then nobody was watching. So not th
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by waps 12y ago
Different religions. Turkey is "sunni"/secular. Iran is Shi'a/secular. (but the other way round, Turkey's population is "moderately" sunni muslim, the state is aggresively secular. Iran, the populatio
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by waps 12y ago
There is no good and evil. There is only economics. Anything that is not a Nash balance WILL die. Including any definition of good that does not meet the bar. Which is I think where your problem is. Evolution provides one definition of &quo
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by waps 12y ago
A lot of dupes were removed, but not the original discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048083 (doesn't have a reference to MH17, no idea where B772 comes from)
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by waps 12y ago
And if Ukraine stops fighting now ... all will be solved. Oh wait. Besides if we got rid of "self-damaging instincts", there'd be other, equally horrible problems we'd hit. Competing, of course, is why evolution works, a
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by waps 12y ago
And you can implement C as a set of assembler macros and a preprocessor step (which can be part of any C compiler). That does NOT make C and assembly the same language. The same is true for large C++ codebases. Nobody claims they're va
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by waps 12y ago
The problem with this is that to some extent, the content business effectively sponsors the internet business. The same is true for the phone business. It gives them pops, "free" capacity (meaning they have to buy dark fiber, and
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by waps 12y ago
Some more discussion about this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Europ... And yes it passes the parliament, however 1) treaties can be adopted without a parliamentary "yes" (has happen
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by waps 12y ago
As I understand it, Google does not write apps in javascript, at all. The language closest to javascript that they do use is closure [1]. Closure is technically a javascript to javascript compiler but it makes the language 1) compiled, not
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by waps 12y ago
EU citizens ? Why do they matter ? The EU fought hard to get two legal precedents : 1) that international treaties preceed the constitutions of member states (and any and all other laws). 2) that the European Commission would be allowed to
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by waps 12y ago
Actually there is backwards compatibility in the same sense as there is binary compatibility. Have a mechanism to force upgrades, ideally conserving state. Leave the old call in place for 1 version. This is not difficult. Protobuf/JSON
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by waps 12y ago
But the big thing missing is the old javascript pain point : if your frontend is in javascript, and your backend in C++ or java or php or python, you will have translation issues between the two. Things will go wrong. Server and client don&
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by waps 12y ago
3d would be pretty hard to see. But there's plenty of empty spots on the earth that are in the middle of all economic centers. Ideally bordering every economic center ... since economic activity (and land mass, which is likely why) is

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