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That is naïve and blatantly not true.

I'm an Irish-American myself! That's not what I'm saying at all! I'm pointing out that racism has existed towards Irish-Americans and that racism still does exist towards African-A…

If you are a black person looking sketchy in certain neighborhoods of Chicago, a cop is going to detain you. If you are a white person in certain neighborhoods, there is a very goo…

>Unless you are, you know, a woman. Or homeless. I don't understand your point about women in Japan. Regardless, the issues you point out are essentially irrelevant when compared t…

Am I wrong? Is there not strife in the US between ethnic groups? Does Japan not have the one of the lowest crime rates in the world?

I'd much rather live in Japan as a Japanese person or in Switzerland as a "Swiss" than in a country where my demographic is being overrun by another. I truly hope Japan keeps its d…

It will be very hard to tear down the walls of peaceful homogeneity, since Japan takes so many steps to preserve its culture. Of the very few people who successfully naturalize as …

>It's easy to say that we should take every opportunity we can to fight Nazis. That seems to be the meme of the decade. Do you think all republicans are Nazis too? You're living in…

The subtitle is misleading. >How a tiny country with high government spending bred a large number of vibrant young businesses The article then goes on to attribute almost all of Sw…

The problem isn't taxation. The problem is Orwellian control over yet another major part of everyday life.

>large amount of regulations that are involved with gambling, due to how addictive and potentially harmful it is. Regulation in the gambling industry is not there to protect you. I…

I mean, say what you want. There is obviously a gradient between starving to death and over-eating. If you eat zero calories, you will starve. If you eat N calories, you will be ob…

>"Fat hatred" as an epidemic has largely disappeared since 2015, for example. It doesn't really matter, though. The great thing about the "fat hatred" epidemic is that voicing an o…

I'm glad we're not a tech savvy state. A huge portion of the people I've met in tech are class-A douche bags. They are obsessed with salary, or the fact that they work for X instea…

There is obviously a gradient of how impactful laws are on businesses. Federally insuring speculative businesses directly affects who wins and who loses in an industry. On the othe…

>lobbying(bribery), capital concentration, anti-union legislation, anti-small business legislation We've learned through the decades---and especially through the bailouts in the la…

From Wikipedia on the Expedia CEO: >Ten years later, in 2015, Expedia awarded him $90 million worth of stock options as part of a long-term employment agreement, stating he would s…

I'm probably too harsh, but I can't think of a single developer who would welcome such a large PR with open arms.

I'm not saying that your implementation of Git is bad. I didn't look at your code at all; it could be perfect, for all I know. What I'm saying is you are not using git effectively.…

I'm unconvinced. >Means no more downtime, no possibilities of censorship, be it from states or from companies. Wrong. >historically, patch-based systems have been very simple to le…

This is a +19k -8k line pull request. That is dumbest thing I have ever seen. For having written something that interfaces with git, this person obviously doesn't know how to use i…

I'm a US citizen. Banks are very nice when you know everyone who works there.