yakitori

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by yakitori 9y ago
That's pretty much how most countries made money. Opium wars, slave trade, etc.
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by yakitori 9y ago
The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc. It really isn't. It's a tourist trap, especially with the completion of the High Line. The food isn't good and it's overpriced to take advantage o
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by yakitori 9y ago
"Conquered".
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Cumulative return for the S&P 500 over the past 9 years (conveniently leaving out the 2008 crash), with dividend reinvestment, is equivalent to a YoY gain of 16.25% That's a bit disingenuous to use the generational market lows
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by yakitori 9y ago
Tesla didn't pioneer nor kick off electric cars. The only thing they did is market well. They are the kings of marketing.
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by yakitori 9y ago
We get these type of fads every decade. Cholesterol was bad for you then fats were bad for you. Then it was running. Then hiking. It never ends. My grandparents lived well into their 90s. All you have to do is eat well and try to be active
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by yakitori 9y ago
> I'm on the fence on this one. What's there to be on the fence about? It's terrible and a infringement of free speech. But reddit has the right to ban it as a private company. It just make reddit look terrible and hypocri
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Are they? Yes. > If you distribute movies and media to the public, you normally are breaking laws. That's not what we are talking about. You can transform any public image for parody, criticism, etc. Porn is considered speech s
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Same thing that happened to PCs. What happened to PCs was market saturation followed by people choosing smartphones over PCs. It is inevitable that smartphones sales will stall and the growth will decline because the smartphone market
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by yakitori 9y ago
It's really sad how little we are taught about the opium wars. It is easily the most important war in the last 500 years. The wealth that was taken from china as a result of the opium wars provided capital to britain and the US to fund
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by yakitori 9y ago
It's amazing how these greedy people destroyed millions of lives and they get to live the life of luxury. Sell weed and you are a felon. Peddle addictive opiates to the masses and destroy countless families, you get to be a billionaire
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by yakitori 9y ago
> The most significant to me is that all the death destruction and suffering was all to further enrich some 5ish rich dudes. The opium wars were about more than enriching 5ish rich dudes. It was about transferring a significant amount of
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by yakitori 9y ago
> I think there's good intentions by Google here. There isn't "good intentions". It's almost pointless to talk in that terms when it comes to multinational companies. Corporations don't work that way. They
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by yakitori 9y ago
> The eternal human obsession with death explains our intense interest in the experiences that come as close to it as possible. You could argue that "existential crisis" is the fundamental bedrock on which we all stand. From ea
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by yakitori 9y ago
That's a form of appeal to authority. Something you are taught as a freshman not to do.
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by yakitori 9y ago
And what caused the mass hysteria? The greedy news media out for clickbait ad money. Just off the top my head, I can list a few hysterias caused by the news media just in the last couple of years... "Trump will end the world" hyst
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by yakitori 9y ago
The long answer. Nope. The short answer. No. Wish they would work to find the evidence first rather than asking History Channel style of clickbait questions.
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by yakitori 9y ago
What's the point of this article? Is it news? Is it interesting? Is it HN material? It's not hard to quit amazon prime. I only sign up for amazon prime once a year during christmas and then cancel the membership at the end of the
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by yakitori 9y ago
> European colonisation was about exploiting the natural resources of the Africa and the Orient, not the women. I meant for the entirety of european colonization ( its duration ), that the mass rape of women from africa to china was the
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by yakitori 9y ago
> The media in the US has historically been 100% controlled by rich people, and all major media still is. Things have gotten worse as capital consolidated all the industries. Now we have an illusion of choice. When you go to the supermar
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Allies are no exception. Absolutely. As Robert E Lee eloquently said: "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." In war there is no good. It's just evil. The only difference is between
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by yakitori 9y ago
A lot of these supposed studies can't be reproduced and are just bunk. It's a result of the publish or perish busy body model. And most of these studies show the results that the people want it to show. If there is an epidemic, it
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by yakitori 9y ago
> I never bought into this argument that gangsta rap, violent video games, porn, etc have NO effect on our society. I never argued that. So you are building a straw man. Of course everything has an "effect". But it didn't
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by yakitori 9y ago
Neither are threats to either. The only way google or facebook or amazon loses anything if they lose customers visiting their properties. Amazon isn't even entering google or facebook's domain. This is just another in a long serie
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by yakitori 9y ago
> It is really kind of crazy, if you think about it, how closely the quality of our healthcare and the healthcare of our dependents is tied to the company we choose to be working for at the moment. It's insane when you think about
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by yakitori 9y ago
> This is ridiculous. It's not. It's just your daily anti-facebook/social media propaganda. Every day there is something about the "evils of social media". It's the new gangsta rap or violent video games. Th
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by yakitori 9y ago
> It's hard to believe nonsense like this still exists in the world. What's even worse is that nonsense like this is becoming more popular and people are now actively supporting, not just in china but around the world. Look at
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by yakitori 9y ago
> If you need that whole paragraph to understand (* ++argv)[0], you might be an awesome programmer, but you're not yet a reasonably experienced C programmer. ;) That's the beauty of C. It can both amaze and terrify you at the s
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by yakitori 9y ago
> Attorneys’ fees and costs made up more than 75% of the total." This is all you need to know about Prop 65.

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