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dragonmum

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    Comment #17252525

    > - e-ink displays are incredibly fragile. hmm, i have the opposite impression. compared to lcd, eink displays seem pretty robust.

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    Comment #16901033

    I'm not sure what point you're communicating or who you're quoting. Initially, you were alleging that my statements were false and not based on facts, but now, you're trying to say…

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    Comment #16900176

    > North America is in fact nothing like the Third Reich. No one said that North America is like the Third Reich. The point is that Hitler aspired to lebensraum (breathing room) for…

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    Comment #16900037

    > It's impossible to be proud of a nation that is only a land of opportunity for those who are white and middle class. I had a conversation with a black man who pointed out that No…

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    Comment #16769826

    > the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate. Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made th…

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    Comment #16590131

    > What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india? The British aggressively codified, intensified and encoura…

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    Comment #16559364

    > Tharoor sits at the sharp edge of nascent Hindu nationalist resurgence The link you gave does not substantiate that claim at all. > is known to have a bit of an axe to grind wher…

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    Comment #16558641

    > the colonial plundering of the third world, At the time of the plundering, the countries that the East India Company plundered were not the third world. They were literally wealt…

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    Comment #14567000

    > We're never going to run out of lime. Ever. It is literally everywhere. Not true. Limestone suitable for mining is a limited resource. That's why cement companies like Lafarge pa…

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    Comment #14566997

    > limestone mining destroys the landscape just like any quarry does In South East Asia, limestone quarrying and mining has destroyed the habitat of many species. There are dozens o…

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    Comment #14272790

    > It's hard to deploy such LCD/LED sign (you require power and lots of it to be visible in sunlight) but it's possible. What? Most of the signboards you see on the road are LED sig…

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    Comment #14264195

    > Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs. You're also the poster of the article which is an ad from your company. > In many applications, it ca…

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    Comment #14001685

    > Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee. Lets not forget that all Australians except for Aboriginal peopl…

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    Comment #13193607

    > we are vastly over-represented by any standard. Population India in 2013 : 1.3 billion Number of Indians in the technology sector = ? Lets be generous and say that all Indians in…

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    Comment #13120606

    > Hardware is tough, but we all need it. As the 2016 market has shown, "need" is perhaps too strong a word for a smart watch.

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    Comment #13033865

    > a dubious charge Given what has come out so far, is the charge of criminally misrepresenting the efficacy of the product really dubious?

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    Comment #12298512

    > I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts Sadly, the Ian (Ian Murdock) in Debian did pass away (death had something to do with police). http://arstechnica.com/in…

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    Comment #12274079

    Yes, please see: https://books.google.com.my/books?id=dlvNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&l...

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    Comment #12266612

    The Southern part of India happens to be the actual point of origin of the banana plant and would therefore be the site with the greatest genetic diversity of both edible and wild …

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    Comment #12217704

    As someone who has actually lived and worked in Shenzhen and Beijing, I'm surprised by this article. It doesn't reflect the reality I experienced. "Beijing might be of historical i…

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    Comment #11969423

    Please read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a sy…

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    Comment #11967705

    The EU's common agricultural policy was actively favoring and subsidizing large EU based multinationals and blocking entry into the market by small scale farmers and producers in d…

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