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Science, Politics and Gnosticism: Two essays by Eric Voegelin, https://www.amazon.com/Science-Politics-Gnosticism-Two-Essay... I found it to be a very interesting and deep take on …

Hey I suggest you try installing it on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I tried it just last week to do some hacking different from my usual C#/Visual Studio development and was …

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Isn't MCT saturated?

Tell me about it, I had a 2007 1 series BMW and its transmission computer became dead. Now, I was quoted 4000USD at the dealership (the car was worth about 5000 at that point). I w…

Yes, I was thinking it also on the other side? Why are minorities withdrawing (pretty much the opposite attitude they took in the 60's no?)?

Isn't that trend a bit worrying? I'm not an American but it reminded me of (the little I know about) the segregationist policies before the Civil rights movement.

Yes, but then they probably use the trimmings to make cord, other materials, if not feed it to the dogs. Trimmings and their processing sounds disgusting, of dubious nutritional va…

Oooh, those companies will build the superyachts of the future! Or alternatively we create a policy that: 1) no superspacecrafts are allowed. Not one 2) no individual owners are al…

Wealth IS the accumulation of resources and it is naturally unequally distributed. From Oxford's Dictionary: "1 An abundance of valuable possessions or money." "1.1 The state of be…

Totally agree, the problem with that kind of thinking is that it ignores the creation of wealth. A world without superyachts would probably be a world where they did not exist i.e.…

As I Mexican I am only surprised by how building a wall came to be this hate crime by the USA. The majority of Mexicans support building a wall on our southern border and the distr…

Life is too short to read 99% books.

This is the most racist thing I have read today. Different races come from different backgrounds and have different ideas of reality? I think you meant different cultures which is …

Hey, as a Mexican I am offended that you think this is good for the emerging world. I prefer to live in a world dominated by the US (as my country's has been almost since our indep…