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You will note that people in poverty pour their used oil into the street sewer, burn wood and coal for heat and cooking, and simply don't have time for worries beyond their immediate needs. If you want people to care about the environm
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Therefore putting people into poverty may alleviate the risks of climate change. Have you ever thought of taking that option? Has anyone?
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There is no international oversight of nuclear weapons.
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They didn't have a logic department at this university.
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There are also many people that are vaccinated, but are against the mandate. I'm one of those and I refuse to show my vaccination status.
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"...dismissed concerns about the platform’s role in 2016 election manipulation." - A great deal of people dismiss those concerns, including myself. Is dismissing those concerns, because we believe they're insubstantial, now a
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What other options have there been? Apple? It's too expensive for the majority of people. For decades Windows laptops is what the crowds could afford.
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From the study: "For instance, in a report released from the Ministry of Health in Israel, the effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against preventing COVID-19 infection was reported to be 39% [6], substan
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Would Hitler's thoughts on bureaucracy make it to HN? Mao killed more people.
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Norwegian oil is vastly cheaper to extract and deliver to willing customers than Canadian oil sands. Canadian oil requires prices to be close to $100 a barrel to break even.
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Norwegian oil is vastly cheaper to extract and deliver to willing customers than Canadian oil sands.
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I live an hour away from Detroit and drove a friend into the city a couple of years ago to show her around. At some point she said something like "This city looks normal, like any other city. I can see living here." Then I drove h
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While in the video he compares the infrastructure provided in a Norway town compared to similar ones in Finland and Canada, he doesn't touch on the underlying financial situations in the three countries. In summary, Norway is loaded wh
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The sort of person sitting in US prisons is very different from those in Chinese ones.
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Why would you pay $65 for a used pair of outdoor hiking pants when you can get new pants cheaper? Talk about gross.
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If much of the stuff on the ships is not going to be used much, then eventually the stuff that is used will have higher prices and will therefore get priority on the ships. Moreover, if as you say much of this stuff is not important, then
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I downloaded the report. It's a survey that does not seem to have had some way to overcome the reluctance to criticize when criticizing is against the law.
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It is against the law to criticize the CCP in China. What mechanism did the pollsters and researchers use to overcome that? Moreover, as with democracy, it is more than having the right to vote. It is also the right to know what your electe
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The discovery of cheating by European manufacturers regarding emissions happened in America. But yes, the little guy can drive with a check engine light in my state without worries.
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I believe anytime you spend $250 million, the results, whether good or bad, should be clearly visible. In this case Gates could have burned the money and there would have been roughly the same results.
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It sounds like a joke, but for those not following online discussions of what's considered out of bounds opinions, it's hard to keep up.
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Thanks, but did you think any of them are attractive?
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I'm curious whether anyone finds the images of the beauties actually attractive. I'm counting one mildly attractive picture in the article myself. Completely puzzled by what was considered beautiful back in the day.
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There should be a dashboard somewhere on HN, updated daily, that clearly indicates which topics are off limits and which opinions are off limits within the permitted topics of discussion.
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In percentage, poverty is probably at its lowest in history.
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I would argue you're missing the point since he's arguing that the media never tried to confirm the story. It took the narrative that this was "Russian disinformation" and made it seem that that's probably what it i
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I'm personally skeptical of the dangers of radiation. This guy died when he was 87 and he's just holding onto things I would be worried to hold onto.
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Nobel winner Glenn T. Seaborg in 1952 playing with plutonium on a kids TV show(youtube.com)
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The actual tasks were different. Back then they built a railroad, but now we don't just build a railroad. We also have to employ armies of lawyers to fight each other, and they consume more time and money laying the legal groundwork f
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Sounds like the equivalent of Miami was missing, but isn't it incredible that housing the size of a city was just "missing" from the data? How is one to believe other data coming from the city offices? The article should be a

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