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I've found the same in the US as a non-native (but white) - my ethnicity is discounted, I'm lumped into a very peculiar bucket and my opinions don't count. Pretty weird experience.…

I'm guessing you have a lot to learn about China.

Maybe he would, but all the experiments so far have failed for pretty much the same reasons and at enormous human cost. Meanwhile capitalism in whatever form it's tried has proven …

"instead I offered broad time ranges that would narrow down to more accurate ones as work progressed" Well, that is an estimate according to managers who actually understand what t…

Well I guess Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, while the US was attempting to find a peaceful solution, so Japan gets the blame.

There are likely some historical reasons. Here's a quote from The Times from 1860: If this [exodus] goes on, as it is likely to go on…the United States will become very Irish….So a…

Most countries discriminate between citizens and non-citizens. As a non-citizen here (US) I'm actually not too upset by this.

So following that logic, I guess if a "rich" person was to drive through Appalachia they would be inevitably doomed?

I think it's fair to say that in recent times "Ireland was enjoying a quality of life that could not be sustained" but the explanation you offered is incorrect. In reality it was b…

By bringing in QALYs?

Some of our best programmers are well over 40. They're too smart to join ramen startups.