rocknor

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by rocknor 3y ago
Are you like 20? Your own country and allies have probably thrown fuel into some of these fires historically. > It’s getting a bit boring to be honest. Learn some empathy. Or next time something happens to your country I'm gonna fee
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by rocknor 3y ago
This is all you need to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9UyPurVok
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by rocknor 3y ago
You are not as important as you think you are. Not all HN users are in America/Europe, stupidly ignorant about the rest of the world. To us, Ukraine/Russia is the same old tiresome story.
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by rocknor 3y ago
It definitely crossed 8M, but not sure if it crossed the previous highest (Felix Baumgartner freefall) which is also around 8M.
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by rocknor 4y ago
Can you clarify how is history being rewritten here? All I see is a discussion of historical events to the best extent possible using available data. Everything can be googled for references. Are you discrediting the BBC? And where is the a
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by rocknor 4y ago
QoL != wealth. For example, many Americans live in Europe and more would gladly do so despite significantly lower per-capita income.
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by rocknor 4y ago
Yeah, people who think jobs being shipped to other countries is bad should realise that in the long run this increases their own mobility. The quality of life gap between the US and these countries decreases, because higher per-capita incom
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by rocknor 4y ago
Despite continuous cries of "capitalism bad" these days it continues to uplift people all around the world by offering skilled people a fairer chance to compete, while also promoting long lasting world peace. We need more of it, n
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by rocknor 4y ago
While I somewhat agree that progress has been slow, a decade is hardly anything considering the scale of a country like India.
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by rocknor 4y ago
> Indians are only good at talking a good talk. Citation needed.
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by rocknor 4y ago
Seriously, it has become a pattern now in every thread related to India. Really shows how HN techies are clueless about real world trends and live in their small bubbles.
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by rocknor 4y ago
These nonsense generalizations have no place on HN. Similar cultural norms exist in many European countries, but they are never brought up. Such thinly veiled racism against Asians is nauseating.
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by rocknor 4y ago
The creation of Pakistan is one of the biggest mistakes in modern history. The only country created on the basis of religion, thanks to the nonsensical Two Nation Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-nation_theory .
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by rocknor 4y ago
The Pakistani government even removed the word "Muslim" from his headstone. Sick backward country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdus_Salam#Death
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by rocknor 4y ago
True, but in this case it absolutely is.
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by rocknor 4y ago
> The Hindu explains why poverty doesn’t upset her. So according to the author me and my community are not upset by poverty and hence are not doing anything to fix it. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india&
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by rocknor 4y ago
I hope they close down permanently. At least it creates more incentive for countries to invest in reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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by rocknor 4y ago
> You lost me at Churchill is worse than Hitler For Indians*. It's not hard to understand, Churchill caused more harm than Hitler in India. > people flooding into England have minimal respect for the British culture Wrong. I resp
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by rocknor 4y ago
Wrong on every point. Luckily right now I have the patience to correct you. > Every country on the planet fought tooth and nail for all of our existence Ah yes. Killing hundreds of millions and siphoning off trillions over couple hundred
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by rocknor 4y ago
> who died in wars defending England, people who have shed blood for England Boo fucking hoo. 1/6th of all British forces in WW2 were Indian, of course you don't count them. All this is ironic considering Britain murdered and r
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by rocknor 4y ago
I see it as capitalism working as it should. There is a huge supply of competent labour in the developing world but hiring remotely was infeasible until recently. This resulted in inflated salaries in developed countries, which is now being
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by rocknor 4y ago
> Also, didn't Liz Truss's cabinet not have a single English man on it recently? Out of 22 spots not one English male. Is there an exact definition of an "English man" you know that we aren't aware of? Most of th
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by rocknor 4y ago
Population reduction is good, but once the world population falls to say 500M and you want to maintain it, you need ~2 babies per woman on average. If conceiving becomes difficult, we may not achieve that and hypothetically end up in a Chi
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by rocknor 4y ago
> history was rewritten Hundreds of millions of people still use it regularly in India, it's everywhere. It's pretty innocuous. Unless you stop them from doing so somehow, history is not rewritten. Attempts to colonize ancient
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by rocknor 4y ago
And how exactly is that "fascist", can you explain? The word has no meaning now.
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by rocknor 4y ago
Reducing the population by having a low birth rate is good. But mathematically it cannot be so forever. To maintain a non-decreasing population you need 2 children per woman on average, doesn't matter if your country has 10^4 or 10^8 p
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by rocknor 4y ago
You don't need to have a high HDI society with free market principles and individual civil liberties. The requirements for limiting population are even lower. You just need to eradicate extreme poverty and provide decent healthcare a
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by rocknor 4y ago
It sounds bad for India, but isn't really because birth rates have been in free fall (only since independence, no thanks to Britain) and have recently dropped below replacement [1]. In 4 decades or less, the population will peak and st
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by rocknor 4y ago
If by "control" you meant "limit", then there's no problem at all. With free market and civil liberties birth rates fall below replacement, causing stagnation and eventually depopulation.
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by rocknor 4y ago
It's sad to see how many people don't know this simple fact. India and China actually have a smaller share of the world population now (around 1/3). In most of human history it was bigger [1] It would've been even sma

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