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> put others in a low income country shantytown with no access to any facilities, coaches, with poor nutrition … When we actually do do that, we seem to get world-beating Kenyan an…

Genuine question: why as a HN reader - so probably quite scientific - why is it "striking" to you that after learning on this very forum of referendum where you found out that 30% …

I never know what the next step in these conversations is meant to be: a nation of people did a really bad thing. They - or their children their grandchildren clearly changed their…

> Well, sort of, except the National Party was campaigning for a 'Yes' [to end apartheid] vote. I'm not sure how that minimised anyone who then voted "yes, I'm glad you are finally…

Hi techrdan - can you lighten up on the insults. I'm really trying to discuss a topic with a teeny, tiny Overton window and I don't deserve you continued efforts to caricature me a…

s/1990/1992/ - thanks. Of course a hell of a lot of people supported it - most of them now long dead. [This mandatory prelude is so tedious] However, as I have shown, clearly not e…

Not only that, but the National Party were so rabid that in 1948 D.F Malan - their new prime minister - proposed in an actual parliament speech to deprive white English-speaking ci…

At the risk of exposing myself to some more sanctimonious insults, let me complete the half-told story here by showing - with the requested sources [1] that when white South Africa…

> I never thought I'd see an impassioned defense of apartheid South Africa on Hacker News. But here we are. Good news mate - you still haven't. But nice try

> It takes a lot of people contributing to uphold it [Apartheid]. Actually it really, really didn't. Students of history will know that National Party (which assembled Grand Aparth…

> about 1200 GW of capacity Since 1GWa* ≈ 8 million tonnes of CO₂ †, this is about a billion tonnes saved every year. Sadly, we're about 3,000 Gt of CO₂ in excess in the atmosphere…

> Your mistake is weighing superstition vs tangible harm. Care to share which of the thousands of peer-reviewed papers on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's website, y…

>Why in the hell would you believe climate experts? a) because we don't have a spare planet, and b) we kind of like our children. Like Russian roulette, its the risk of being wrong…

> Framing the differences here as disrespecting other people's culture is a bit of a stretch, though. What would you call the insulting hysteria that occurs when an English speaker…

The dogy bit is knowing that a large institutional order is coming.

The uses of advanced laser networking kit is to to gain an advantage in front-running. Which is to say, to get your brokerage's orders in ahead of a large institutional order. IOW:…

Nonsense, there is no legitimate way another language can tell English (or another language FWIW) what its name for a place must be. Examples: Deutchland - Germany, Allemagne, Doit…

I disagree. I think you'll find high-income finance/law/medicine/entrepeneur types are even more time and energy constrained. Yet, I doubt the poster would be bleating about them. …

Sorry mate, the fact that you could ever consider a consistent $100/day wage to be poverty trumps the OP for the most spoilt, uninformed comment - on any forum - I have ever seen. …

The Monroe Doctrine doesn't count? What do they teach at MIT ?

Hope is not a strategy.

> My daughter has spent nearly half her life wearing a mask 50 hours a week for a disease less risky to her than the Flu or RSV Aw, shamples. Good. Because it is deadly my parents …

> The vaccines have only ever been effective at reduction of symptoms. They have never prevented transmission and never promised to. Sigh, https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mountin…

1. electric razor 2. 15% body fat (20% if you are tall) 2. six-back abs. All of the above is under your control.

> go straight to green energy can they not? No they cannot. We cannot even get Switzerland - small, rich, smart, friendly, good infrastructure, top class law, surrounded by mountai…