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pirate787

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    Comment #48744674

    You can't be bitter because Europe squandered technological and capital market parity with the US in just 20 years.

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    Comment #48584162

    Krugman so badly wants this to be true. But handwaving away massive difference in IT innovation and in practical data like housing size and vastly greater American consumption does…

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    Comment #48549294

    Piketty is just a marxist flailing around, backfilling data to fit his belief that communism is the solution for every problem. He's been spectacularly wrong in his predictions so …

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    Comment #48493126

    This is the real issue: "Uber received over 400,000 sexual assault and misconduct reports between 2017 and 2022" https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/uber-liable-pay-8-5-million-...

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    Comment #48437938

    Also interesting is that the US didn't need the base and was able to operate command and control from South Carolina.

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    Comment #48002079

    In the UK the establishment is generally unsettled by the display of the English flag. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/uk/st-george-flag-england...

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    Comment #47869746

    Mississippi is one of the recent education success stories though.

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    Comment #47869730

    The change was in fact designed to make the scores jump. The purpose is compressing the top scores to allow universities to be more subjective and still have high averages

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    Comment #47707841

    Part of the replacement is declaring white Americans don't have a culture. Would you say the same about black Americans?

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    Comment #47707747

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    Comment #47707696

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    Comment #47614846

    The center has already shifted to Musk, SpaceX is 83% of global lift capacity. Artemis is flying an obsolete rocket at insane cost, and higher risk.

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    Comment #47614572

    Maybe more people should listen to Musk's political message. The Biden Administration was playing nasty games, blocking progress on both SpaceX and AI generally.

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    Comment #47403005

    No the downvote is from smearing an individual for the political activities of his grandfather.

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    Comment #47349546

    While this leak may or may not have happened, for this type of exposure there should be criminal liability for developers and executives. Criminal negligence and prison time.

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    Comment #47266852

    either you allow a democratically elected government to do everything they want that is legal, or you insert private corporate decision-making into every government decision which …

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    Comment #47197700

    Your take is a call for civil war. You're obviously wrong about "treason" since even larger majorities voted for Trump in 2024.

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    Comment #47188312

    It's almost like the democratically elected government gets to decide the name, not Google!

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    Comment #47188297

    Don't deadname the Gulf!

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    Comment #47116738

    He also elected the guy who did a 180 on AI regulations and stopped FAA harassment of SpaceX.

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    Comment #47007292

    A big driver in increasing entrepreneurs in the US has been DEI and H1-B driven racism against white men. For example in 2021 only 6% of all the people hired by major US companies …

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    Comment #46992987

    Plenty of Americans are ready and able to do the work if the conditions and wages are at the market rate. We're addicted to abusing the illegal immigrant underclass. Returning undo…

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    Comment #46858724

    Import substitution has failed consistently as an economic strategy.