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US spends over $8,000 per capita on healthcare, compared to about $4,000 in UK and Japan, both of which have universal health care. This isn't a problem tech can solve. It's a prob…

The headline reads: "the costs outweigh the benefits." Except there's no mention of the greatest benefit: improved quality of life for all participants.

I explained very clearly why the circumstances surrounding the expeditions pushed the Europeans to be more greedy than their Chinese counterparts. The fact is that the Europeans pi…

Don't be so sensitive that any hint of criticism as taken as a condemnation of your culture. I don't see how "opposing arguments" add anything to the conversation. I know very well…

"the English, which didn't have all that wealth" What? The British mastered the slave trade and its Caribbean slave colonies were perhaps the most productive of the era.

I neither wrote not implied that Europeans are evil -- you assumed that. The fact is that colonialism and the slave trade, despite creating massive amounts of wealth for some, were…

This article ignores decades of scholarship about the roots of the industrial revolution and capitalism. The short answer is that the Europeans (maybe for some of the reasons given…

Wage theft causes American workers to lose an estimated $50 billion dollars per year. Usually low-income workers, many of whom are not in a social class where they're friends with …

This guy is an absolute douchebag. He's a disrespectful piece of shit and anyone involved with Soylent in any capacity ought to be ashamed with his antics. For those who don't know…

There's no such thing as reverse racism. There's only racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M

Give it up. I left out an important part in my original post: this guy only got media attention in America. No media attention in the Arab world, because being a Google employee di…

Please, cut it out with the bullshit. This guy played a negligible role in the Arab Spring. The only reason he received the media attention he did was because he held a prominent p…

This mentality was necessary for national survival given their history. From being doped up and murdered by imperialist westerners during the opium wars to being occupied and raped…

The comparison is apropos. I've lived in Hollywood most of my life and have to spend time in SF for work. The entertainment people get a bad rap for being superficial douchebags an…

Right, and many of the pirates become pirates because they were fleeing the autocracy of legitimate merchant ships. And the newfound freedom of pirates was a direct threat to the s…

Thanks, added to my reading list.

Yea sure, those terms were used by Westerners in 1761. I bet the Africans would have seen it differently. Nevertheless, it is our duty to correct the terms they used to better refl…

No, not at all. Freedom does not occur in isolation. Commemorating the end of WW2, German president Joachim Gauck said, "On May 8, 1945, we were liberated — by the people of the So…

This article is full of misnomers. First of all, the "slaves" were actually kidnapped Africans. They had yet to do a day of forced labor and had not yet undergone the years of cond…

Walmart has been pouring money into RFID as a replacement for barcodes since the mid-90's. Analysts have said that by mid-2000's, every product package would have an RFID chip. Fas…

It was probably edited by a crisis management firm.

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Generally the way slaves were captured was that the Europeans would approach a west African tribal chief and give him an ultimatum. Either you bring us a boatload of slaves from th…

The barbarism began 200 years prior when Africans were stolen from their homeland. Slavery in Haiti stood out as particularly brutal, even by Caribbean standards. The white landown…

No, that was their final destination. Brazil had by far the largest slave population in the world. Haiti was the crown jewel of the French empire and the envy of all nations. The c…