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many more people say the same thing about cocaine... funny thing: cocaine is the better environmental choice among the two. in its basic form it also naturally grows on planet Eart…

On the other hand Apple (to name one) piled an enormous amount of money thanks to slave labor in China. Paying peanuts in taxes How Apple avoided paying $40 billion in taxes https:…

Do dollars really melt over time?

They definitely did not escape any recent war. The WWII in Scandinavia was particularly bad, including the occupation of Norway and Denmark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati…

> I find it hard to take sweeping statements like this seriously. They are hard to take seriously because they are not earnest, it's cherry picking to prove a point, based on false…

Why is dang allowing this person to bully everyone? Is this the new normal on HN?

Have you ever heard of anger management? Can you disprove the data without spewing all that bile? I'm honestly worried about your health. Here's a WSJ article about the topic https…

On the other hand, people using cheap devices usually don't rely on them so much, so the higher consumption is compensated by the lower overall usage, or have made the real environ…

If that was even possible, you would have to wait at least 10 years. At that point who knows if tablets as a form factor survived. To be clear, I think that a tablet (not specifica…

@modeeators so it is now ok to offend people and blame the poor? Even if I was poor, which is not a shame outside of the US, I live near the Colosseum in an historical buildings ol…

What does this have to do with the fact that the majority of old people in USA live alone because they are left alone? Are you saying that most elderly have no family or kids? And …

Coming from a family where I am the first generation who could afford going to college, I disagree. OP was talking about Vietnam, my experience is in rural Italy and matches the id…

China is the largest producer of cultural products in the World right now, Hollywood itself made blockbusters there, financed and co produced by China. It has already changed, befo…

Yes and no. First of all, I'm European. Use of English as a second language, it might surprise you, dropped in the past 10 years, it was spoken by 52% of the population in 2012, no…

> Groan. Alright buddy. I'm probably too old to be your buddy. Keep calm and read stats. > Those three combined have a GDP almost double India's Italy alone has the same GDP of Ind…

> This is so intensely boring and stupid. It's reality though. > Secondly, Apple is selling as many or more iPhones than ever in Europe Again: it's simply reality The iPhone's mark…

> Apple -- at 20% or so in most of the world's economies Apple has 17% (and dropping) of the mobile market share in Europe and around 9% in computing. There aren't many other riche…

> English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local. There are "only" 379 million people speaking English as a native language. But there are 1.2 billion…

Welfare plays a big role as well.

> they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can. Not in the EU I was born and raised.

English isn't an official EU language anymore, the only country that chose it was UK. https://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-offic...

Thanks for the question. I'm saying it should be easy to solve for the richest country in the World given the sheer amount of resources it possess. It looks impossible for the same…

Homelessness as "a problem to deal with" means society is selfish, means exactly what you wrote. A society where people refuse to see it as a social issue, like sickness, and one t…

Wow. Thanks so much for teaching me how to live. I'm sorry that the city where you live is such a terrible place, I come from a poor country in Europe and homeless people here are …

Wow. I didn't know the homeless were to blame for making the World much worse for others. Thanks for opening my eyes.