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Comment #35240475
Poor countries are usually religious which plays an impact on the fertility rate. The last numbers I saw were 70% of North Koreans are not religious.
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Comment #35239921
How accurate are NK statistics?
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Comment #35239610
>US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy It is not necessarily hypocrisy. I haven't paid too much attention…
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Comment #35236803
I hope you were paid more than 50 cents for all the bootlicking you have been engaging in through this thread. If the West is as bad as you say, please just move to China and leave…
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Comment #35224019
>I don’t believe the average western person would care at all if they could afford fewer cheap products I don't think this is the case. The average person wants a lot of things for…
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Comment #35203828
I don't think he is doing it strictly because the remaining team can't handle the development. He talked about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm before he even bought Twit…
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Comment #35163696
They somewhat address that point by just saying they will figure it out later. >Some will say that this narrows the kind of roles that we can hire for. In particular, different rol…
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Comment #35146905
We don't really know that Whatsapp has achieved challenge #1. Regardless, here are two big reasons why Signal is superior. 1. Not owned by Facebook 2. Open Source
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Comment #35101688
Looks like it was as peaceful as other protests described as mostly peaceful that have happened over the last few years.
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Comment #35098551
Which Russian media has been banned in the US?
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Comment #35024599
Well it seems like they are better off than on social security >At the end of fiscal year 2018, the average annuity paid to career rail employees was $3,525 per month, the average …
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Comment #34989976
I agree there was no tangible evidence, but there was circumstantial evidence, the lab's proximity to Wuhan and also scientists from China making the claims. The problem is large c…
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Comment #34988850
I believe the poster is trying to say if you provide an objective assessment of the situation, a person who hasn't been tainted by the media would have the more accurate take. Larg…
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Comment #34987374
She was cancelled and then uncanceled. It is impossible to meet your standards of cancellation unless you wait until the person dies to ensure they aren't uncanceled sometime in th…
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Comment #34986463
Dr. Li-Meng Yan was banned on Twitter for the lab leak theory. I think her account is back now though. Do you think a Chinese born scientist is a white nationalist?
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Comment #34978729
>In our testing, we found that you can browse for 17 hours or watch YouTube for 18 hours I'm quite interested in how YouTube can give more hours than browsing. Is it due to the blo…
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Comment #34942956
>People were told something? by whom? I couldn't find the clip, but I think I saw it on CNN. It was one of the mainstream news outlets, might have been ABC or NBC or something like…
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Comment #34941447
I'm not sure what you are asking. People said disagreeing with the organization of BLM means you disagree that black lives matter. If you disagree with groups that use it is OK to …
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Comment #34940311
The problem is when people said they didn't like Black Lives Matter due to the organization they were told it doesn't matter because black lives matter. This is a double standard.
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Comment #34918190
It still wouldn't work. People will complain that either they are not properly checking people are who they say they are or they will say it is too difficult to get an id and it wi…
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Comment #34891865
Technology monopolies are bad since one critical vulnerability means everybody is impacted. Having a standard that people conform to is fine, but the monopoly on an implementation …
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Comment #34876440
How would you expect to implement a double blind interview? Have the interview over text or something?
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Comment #34863762
They need to fly to ensure that new pilots learn and older pilots remain polished. They don't need to blow up a pico balloon if that is what it was.