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    Comment #48902267

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    Comment #48902135

    Mughal India was roughly 20–25% of global output. It was British colonial rule that exploited and stole insane amounts of wealth and led to India’s economic decline. Comparing cent…

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    Comment #48902118

    "700 years of Islamic occupation" is just false. Some Muslim dynasties began through conquest, as many dynasties throughout Indian history did. But over centuries, Muslims integrat…

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    Comment #46265952

    There's something very visceral in being attacked by Zionists, rockets, and bombs (for 70+ years) which makes some folks quite enthusiastic about resisting ethnic cleansing and gen…

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    Comment #45932666

    The primary threat to Palestinian civilians in Gaza remains the IDF. And in the West Bank, it's the Israeli settlers.

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    Comment #45932606

    >80% of the dead are civilians. What world are you living in? https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc... (Journalist from Israel)

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    Comment #45374732

    Why is it surprising? Fwiw my Jewish friends have also been quite vocal in opposing Netanyahu/Likud, usually more vocal than Muslim friends.

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    Comment #41764986

    Looks like they are using molecular methods on post-mortem brains - all sorts of bugs can grow post-mortem and molecular methods can give false-positives as well as detect non-viab…

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    Comment #40268368

    There are indeed restrictions on western foreign media. "Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel, CNN’s Jerusalem bureau is subject to the rules of the Israel Defen…

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    Comment #38623888

    Before the Sharon/Netanyahu/extremist takeover, Israel was serious about peace. But in the last two decades, Netanyahu has seen Hamas as an asset to undermine the PA, block moderat…

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    Comment #38623718

    From the article you quote, 51% of Gaza supported a 2 state solution, 75% face food insecurity, only 23% had a great deal or quite a lot of trust in Hamas, 52% had no trust at all …

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    Comment #32601000

    https://openstax.org/ has been working on this.

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    Comment #31656324

    Link to the preprint: https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf Coindesk articles: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/new-research-unea... https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07…

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    Comment #31656322

    Link to the preprint: https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf Coindesk articles: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/new-research-unea... https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07…

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    Comment #29492379

    These days it costs <$1000 to sequence a de novo genome (not cents). For human genomes it's cheaper of course, but that's because we have a reference sequence to compare to. The Hu…

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    Comment #28630847

    Slaves in the Arab/Ottoman world could purchase their freedom, were not enslaved by race (rather as POWs), their children were free, had some legal protection, and had the potentia…

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    Comment #28630565

    Same in the Arab world/Middle East.