Pirgo

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by Pirgo 3y ago
Actually they are not targeting big tech companies, EU made legislation to protect its citizens from being exploited in various ways, the big tech companies are targeting themselves by employing practices which aim to exploit users (includi
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by Pirgo 5y ago
Unfortunately XPU will not be available in non-commercial version.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
First of all, problem with fentanyl is that it's ~100x more potent than morphine, or ~20x times more potent than heroin. While many people read this as "it's got 100x times stronger high", it doesn't mean that (actu
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by Pirgo 6y ago
On one hand you have "penned an opinion piece in The Washington Post" and on the other you have pouring of tens / hundreds of millions of dollars into climate change denial (and setting up network of fellow billionaires who p
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Well obviously it's not title per se, but title in relation to the authors of the book.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Essential reading.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
"Mr. Koch has written (with Brian Hooks) a new book, “Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World,”" Can it get any more cynical than this?
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Bosnia basicaly doesn't have ports (besides Neum, which is not realy practical), so either Albania / Montenegro / Croatia. Most likely Albania - Kosovo - Serbia route, since it's already established heroin smuggling rout
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Regarding 4): Those croatian guys are just mules basicaly, 3 guys from seaside town proficient in boat sailing. Two younger guys in mid 20's and main guy who fell into some financial business / mortgage problems. They are not even
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by Pirgo 6y ago
In USA it already is legalized. It's called lobbying.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but regarding money laundering, it's not like drug trafficking and heists are only illegal streams of money which needs to be cleaned. Trafficking, prostitution, illegal gambling, depositing of toxic
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by Pirgo 6y ago
If eradication of 80-90% of population is "life improvement" for locals, then sure, their lives improved, only most of them died in the process of improvement.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Using "western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic" is more than "pointing out differences". It implies non western = poor, uneducated etc. aka of lesser value.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
By year 1500 world population was 500 million, so my point is that your claim how "before industrialization world population was in the lower hundreds of thousands" is completely incorrect. That's my point.
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by Pirgo 6y ago
World population by early 19th century was already 1 billion, what are you talking about?
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by Pirgo 6y ago
There were many "past people" who did absolutely nothing when faced with atrocities brought upon Jews in Nazi Germany, just as there are "now people" who risk their very lives by engaing in various forms of activism rega
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by Pirgo 6y ago
Kids these days!