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What do you mean by "dishonerable" here? Is this an instance of how Americans love the military so much that it's difficult to understand for people from other countries (where bei…

I was reading up on the history of Iran the other day and thinking: "wow, how can a relatively educated and secular country end up with such fanatical laws?". This sounds likes it'…

Maybe the germans had the same excuse? This is a reason that has been given for centuries to justify invading and occupying countries. But if you're in favor of colonization then y…

German occupies (French occupies Morroco)

I dislike this scene for personal (?) / historical (?) reasons. The French are singing this nice liberation / freedom song against the germans. This is nice and all, but they are i…

Are you including Japan as part of the "west"?

>integration has huge costs The point is whether is has more immediate benefits than costs. My sense is that it usually does (immigrant population contributes more economically tha…

It seems you've picked the weakest version of what I said (which means communication becomes less likely) Two points 1) the glue code you HAVE to write to make the composition in o…

There was this pedophile in my neighborhood that received water, gas and heating from companies. People were upset because without water he wouldn't have been able to become a pedo…

We need to think about alternatives. It's easy to find issues and weaknesses in what Julia does, but we should consider what we would do with a different language to make a fair co…

Maybe this is a way to do anti DMCA activism? You send thousands of takedown notices to big companies until they realize that's it a stupid system?

Younger taiwanese people think of themselves less and less "chinese" or "han" or whatever label we would like to use

For many chinese people this is such an emotional issue because the chinese government has been very keen in promoting these emotions. They let go Mongolia and no one is still cryi…

Not trying to nitpick, but as far as I know, Taiwan was occupied by Japan starting from 1895, so China didn't inherit it in 1911. I guess this shows how unfundamented is the curren…

I think all tools that allow you to externalize thinking can have a similar effect (not trying to diminish how novel AI / ML can be, just making a few connections) For example: whe…

>Netanyahu may be good, or not, but he is most definitely not a dictator He's not a dictator for the israelis, but let's not forget that he rules over an apartheid state and for th…

Why do you think it's fundamentally fragile? The soviet union lasted for about 70 years. China has had a unique party for around 70 years (and no signs of ot changing anytime soon)…

Is "topological dependency order of cells" different from what an average person would understand from saying "dependency order of cells"?