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It isn't the "indentured servants" that make china attractive, it's their huge market. I love how the internet trash also spout the same idiotic nonsense. China may have a lot of w…

If that is a human rights violation then what do you call the US, Australia, etc? The native americans, aborigines, etc are in far worse situation than the tibetans. I love the hyp…

> 3. I’d be for a submersible carrier that could surface to launch and retrieve drones that act as missile trucks for both air-to-air and strike missions. Agreed. If we are going t…

If you think the off-shore worker is 10% as effective, then you are either over-valuing "on-shore" worker or under-valuing the off-shore worker. >I'm not so sure about considering …

> Congrats to anyone who was holding LinkedIn stock. Microsoft's bid of $196 per share has LNKD up $63 bucks a share or 48% in premarket Or tough luck to those who bought LNKD at $…

"Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction" (McClellan, Dorn) lays out an interest overview of how technology led science throughout world history. We naively think …

> "Bernie Bros"? seriously? The NYTimes endorsed Hilary 6 months ago... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/hillary-cli...

Anti-semitism and racist speech is free speech. Hate speech is free speech. If we are going to censor "hate speech", then we would have to ban atheist speech for being hateful to t…

> What I don't see is why this is worthy of an article on the NY Times. You left Twitter for various reasons, none of which are newsworthy. Lets be honest here. It's newsworthy bec…

Wait til TTIP and TPP becomes law. Times are good now, but once hilary gets elected and these "free" trade agreements gets signed, the monied masters will immediately raise interes…

Money. Hollywood is running out of ideas and they've rebooted/re-imagined/re-released/sequelized/etc everything. So while we are debating whether to watch ghostbusters or independe…

> Lots gets published negative about those groups. Lots? And you name one book that was marginalized more than 20 years ago. > Lots of people are at least somewhat willing to be pe…

Licensing is old news. The hip new thing in business is the social media model. Businesses are now trying to give you things for free in exchange for rights to your data. That's th…

That's amazing. It's both awe-inspiring and unnervingly depressing to be reminded that we are ultimately just biological machines. Reminds me of that procedure where a surgeon can …

> What in heavens name are you talking about? I was fairly explicit and straightforward. > There are countless books and articles published in this country, in and out of academia,…

Yes it is easy to use. But too bad it also fails "transactions" silently so that you don't even know if your changes were "committed" or not. Don't worry, it only happens every onc…

> If you're EVER going to read the data back and do anything with it, it has a schema. You are giving the NoSQL crowd too much credit. Some abominations have no recognizable schema…

> Something that is unusual about modern West is we make it possible to publish all the different perspectives I think we have to stop patting ourselves on the back. Yes, we claim …

> While it is true that complete unbiased understanding of past events is impossible, that does not therefore make it unimportant to try for. Agreed. But as long as you understand …

It's not even a chinese invention. It's a human invention. We do it in the US. And so do the brits, europeans, etc. After "historians" were paid to write histories extolling someon…

Actually it wouldn't be. You are buying an asset for 50% off which will continue to go up in price. And you get to pay a rentor a cheap rent to take care of your asset their entire…