throwaway210222

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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 and Ethiopian athletes. Not so many affluent, well-fed Swis
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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% voted to maintain Apartheid, a mere FOUR years l
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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 mind when first given a real, unrigged vote. Now it only ha
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 proposing that - its what I wan
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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 as a racist. > Then how could the system have pe
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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 enough that the ruling National Party were pre
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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 citizens of the vote. God alone knows how they were going to
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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 Africans were actually offered a truly level-field, one-man-one-v
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 Apartheid and ruled from 1948 to 1994) merrily gerrymand
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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. *: GWa: 1 GW 24h/d, every day, for a year
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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, you have: a) read b) understood c) found errors in
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 doesn't change his language and culture to use
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
The dogy bit is knowing that a large institutional order is coming.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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: Legally-sanitised insider trading.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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, Doitsu Nederland - Niederland, Pays-Bas, Netherlands Zhōngguó -
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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. There is a nasty polemic (especially pre
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
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. Get out more.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
The Monroe Doctrine doesn't count? What do they teach at MIT ?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
Hope is not a strategy.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 and me. You can fix your kids mood with an ice cream; You
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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/mounting-evidence-suggests... [Even delta]
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
1. electric razor 2. 15% body fat (20% if you are tall) 2. six-back abs. All of the above is under your control.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> 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 mountains and water, etc. etc. to renewables in a decade.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> … getting people out of poverty. We have only ever managed to get people out of poverty by increasing their per-capita energy usage. Any once we do, their families demand to maintain said standard of living that can only be met with en
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> Cozying up to bad actors like North Korea and Iran? You'll probably feel a need to shit on a flag when you realise that an allied Swiss company (ABB) sold North Korea a two nuclear power plants when Rumsfeld was on the board of di
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> When these cars enter places like the US market, they are going to decimate the competition. Surely they will then become national security threats?
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> The Taliban tried to surrender 2-3 months after we first attacked them IIRC, and we said no. The problem with fighting people who may have wronged you but have not seized any of your territories, yet whose values and principles are far
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
I couldn't agree with you more - I'm not an American either. Perhaps you could take 5 minutes to ponder the assumptions you make about the nationality op anonymous posters.
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by throwaway210222 5y ago
> I checked gov.cn, and see it using "Mr. Xi" and "President". Yip, mainstream media gets it wrong. :) Here you go: https://qz.com/1112638/xi-jinping-title-xi-jinping-is-not-th... But yeah, its n

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