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by ooooo00000 10y ago
> It's called "law enforcement". If you try to pull off a bunch of smash&grabs in Bandra or Colaba the cops will beat you with lathis. Where I live thieves are often beaten to death. And the rate of theft is still high
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
But unfortunately Minnesota consistently ranks among the worst regarding the disparity between white and minority educational achievement.
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Zugzwang(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
Why?
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
> I could be dirt poor in a third world country and people will not avoid me like I am some sort of defective, repugnant, morally challenged person; I am still normal. Very good point. I have been living in a lower-middle class neighborh
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
Now it's ~55 GB uncompressed and as you said that's without images, audio, and more.
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
You're really misinformed on this topic. > The reason I think it's linked to Marijuana is how easy it was to obtain Marijuana is easy to obtain just about everywhere on the planet. I knew around 20 drug dealers at one point i
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
But it's not clear why you think that homelessness in Vancouver is strongly connected to the availability of marijuana. Any evidence?
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
> But to me it makes no sense to allow anyone to profit from a substance that causes this much harm. It's possible to use heroin daily for the remainder of your life and have a better health outcome than a cigarette smoker. The drug
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
There is a phenomenon where individuals with hydrocephalus, a condition where the brain cavity is filled with fluid, can still exhibit normal intelligence. I suppose the two broad explanations are that brain matter is either denser in these
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
I'll stick with "an area with many civilians" as my definition of a civilian area. These people weren't wealthy, and it's where they happened to own land and build houses. It becomes a choice between being homeless
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
I also have to add that there is no reasonable "why" to excuse bombing largely civilian areas. Undoubtably the VC were crossing over the border -- the Cambodian side of the Vietnam-Cambodia border is ethnically and linguistically
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
The bombing happened all over the country. A few weeks ago I was in Kompung Thom (right in the middle of Cambodia) and talked to quite a few people about this. The members of these communities were farmers, not combatants or VC sympathizers
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
> Cambodia had help from U.S. on Khmer Rouge, too. >> Never heard of this It's true right up until the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh. Then US diplomats and officials were evacuated in helicopters, while the city was left
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
The US provided training, enormous air power, and weapons including land mines to the Lon Nol government. It may be in the realm of conspiracy theory still, but some would contend that the CIA installed the Lon Nol government and helped ous
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
It's also that intentionally leaked information and special access tend to be given to journalists who share the views of the organization or individual at hand, and will be more likely to put a favorable spin on the story. Of course i
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
You are wrong, because this comes up ALL THE TIME, and the simple answer is that it's not off-topic if enough HN members find it interesting enough to upvote.
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by ooooo00000 10y ago
My girlfriend grew up poor, in a country that is one of the world's poorest, yet between the two of us I'm the one that obsesses over food.