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I found the post itself to be quite strongly ideologically leaning - which is why I said that.

I strongly doubt your assertion that Spanish identities pre-19th centuries are somehow so loosely related that they would have little in common with one another so as to not form '…

Not really, the locals in that area have never known good jobs.

" Such regressive developments can only be pauses in an ongoing forward movement." Trashy globalist arrogance. The 'Germanics' have been around for a few thousand years, it's not a…

Doctors and Executives are not 'pyramid schemes' in any sense of the word, and profs at elite universities represent a very small economy. 'Management' is a skill, not a 'market ma…

I wish there was more info on the drivers of this. Is it less demand from US firms due to slowdown? Market saturation? Shifting needs?

The irony is that while the words are stupid (“alignment”, “intentionality” and “end-state visions”) - this pretty good actually. Most white collar jobs are full of 'waking sleep' …

"Spiritual but not religious" Maybe you missed my point? I'm kind of saying spirituality is easy, less practical part. :) The 'work' of spirituality is hard. It's often done throug…

Spirituality and Religion are not quite the same thing. Even hearing Angels is not necessarily very religious (and of course, we may hear a lot of things with chemical help ...). S…

Yes, technically there were 'people who wrote music' but we wouldn't really call them composers, and we were not attributing anything to them. And it wasn't a 'maslow' thing - it w…

Yeah, I see what you are saying. But I'm coming to think they may go: Lincoln, Washington, Obama as the 'big 3' over time. Again, a 'Black leader of the free world' is historically…

" Name a composer from 1300s or 1100s." There were no composers then ... Musical theory only developed during the renaissance and was basically formalized by the baroques i.e. Bach…

Obama was the 'First Black President' - this is, on a historical scale - massive. Just massive. Also, America is kind of a 'world leading' country, so 'leader of the free world' - …

Ramses was probably only recorded on stone tablets for quite some time, they stopped that a while back and he is still remembered :)

A) It's the power centres that we remember, because they make the decisions - most notably, Royalty. The articles comments are off on this - maybe 80% of UK Royal heads of state ar…

Setting qualifications and standards is a reasonable form of discrimination. Assuming that someone is stupid because they didn't go to Ivy League is a dumb form of discrimination.

I fully get what you are saying, but pruning code is a valid thing to do on it's own, and it doesn't necessarily mean changing tech or whatever.

I love throwing out code. It makes me feel clean. :)

"regulatory hurdles" those may be in place because the citizens want it that way, which is kind of their right.

There can nary be such a thing as a 'housing crises'. California does not have one, in general. If California municipalities 'don't want to enable building' because their residents…

People in California are generally not voting for this. Most people would rather cheaper home prices, given the choice.

"It's not about arguing whether he does his job, it seems like you've already stated that he does." Not really - what he 'does' is 'writes code that solves problems we are facing' …

It should probably be 'one month' and it should go both ways. Also - if you've ever been a manager, you'd realize that what is 'bs' is that you think you can just 'do your job' in …

" Libya had the highest per-capita GDP / quality of living/(?) in Africa" Except for the part where Gaddaffi was using his military against half his nation in revolt.

" dying for somebodies else cause." False. 'Proxy wars' is a misleading title. The Korean war was not a 'proxy war' it was a real war, that happened to also be a proxy for other po…