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Tunisia is the only functioning democracy in the aftermath of the so-called Arab spring and that's why I'm very happy see the struggle of Tunisian people to be recognized internationally like this.

Every political organization would be viewed as controversial esp. in a highly partisan atmosphere so I am not surprised to hear this from you even if it contradicts the sentiment I get from my Tunisian friends online today.

By the way, I'd take a politically ambitious organizations and NGOs over military-backed rule anytime of the day. So count your blessings and have some leniency or leeway for these organization as the other alternative would a military hellhole like Egypt (Egyptian here)

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I have read the whole thing and I was really surprised that they didn't mention anything about individualism or non-authoritarian decentralized governance given the "libertarian" label in their name and unless I'm mistaken, they sound more collectivist-leaning than individualist-leaning and this is very troubling esp. for communists as they tend historically to favor heavy-handed measures to reach or realize their political goals even if it means to oppress and intimidate their opponents.

BTW: I'm a leftie myself but very skeptical of collectivists and statists whether on the right or the left.

I think that you should differentiate between state communism or statism in general and Anarcho-Marxism or Marxism in general

Can you please shed some light on what the genetic disease that your family is suffering from?

Mean world syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome

You never heard of the "Man bites dog" rule in news reporting?

   its completely incomprehensible.

With love,

Your non English speaking 3rd world citizen.

Just do it already without drama and stop busting our balls with this non sense.

Since Muslim literalists quashed non literalists such as Mutazila back in the Middle Ages and Islam is in free fall at least from an intellectual point of view.

Hajj & Umra esp. in Ramadan for Saudi is all about the $$ even if it hates to admit it so the consumerist side to these events or religious duties don't surprise me a bit as Saudis view them as an enterprise and are doing the best they could to collect as much dough as possible from these people to add to their coffers and make a killing in the process.

What would make you think that a non Muslim person would be interested in 'redemption' and 'have the thought of his Lord on him' whatever that might be when visiting or exploring Mecca?

Sorry to burst your bubble but non Muslims in general are only interested in visiting Mecca for the historical value and contents that it holds nothing more.

That's why I warned the OP that there is not much to see as the Saudi Wahabis destroyed virtually everything of historical value in the city and the surroundings in the same fashion ISIS has been doing in Syria or Iraq and even this is becoming a very sensitive topic for Hijazi people, the natives of the region since those Bedouins from the midlands and desert are destroying their heritage while they sitting idle and getting away with it.

Nothing to see there. Not long even Muslims get bored there. Wahabis are not really big on history and artifacts. If you think that this is some kind of an open air museum, think again.

  Well too bad, because async/await will work with promises.

I just don't really get these callback-intolerant people's averse reaction towards this construct when it's literally all over the place and those new abstractions are there to conceal them which is a good idea by the way but not to extinguish them completely as they might hope or believe.

Awesome project.

May I suggest a complementary feature?

Turn the estimated date of death into a countdown timer of days one has to live before they kick the bucket.

Did they run the same experiment but with people from different backgrounds and ethnicities excluding Europeans and then compare the respective results and come up with a conclusion?

Otherwise, it's just a hasty conclusion with unsound methodologies employed in the process.

Americans view everything in life through the race and skin color lens. It's becoming really exhausting and frustrating to deal with.

The other day I was watching a video on YT for the Daily Show after Trevor Noah took the helm. While all what I was just concerned about was the possibility that Trevor not to be up to the job and not to be able to fill Jon's shoes, in other words, he might not be funny, esp. since Jon was exceptional in this regard and superbly funny, unfortunately a great deal of comments on the video were about his skin color and ethnicity and whether he was black, bi-racial, mixed-race, coloured ...etc.

It's really nauseating and disheartening.

Americans need to be de-sensetized about this immediately because their heightened sense of awareness regarding this issue is getting to an extremely ridiculous level.

Back to the subject, America could be considered a relatively meritocratic economy compared to others but in general can't be viewed as such in absolute terms. There's a pecking order in businesses and while they love to blabber about diversity and inclusiveness esp in tech companies, this only applies to the lower ranks and if anyone wants to make his way up, they get to deal with the ugly reality and real strata that make up their organizations or the society as a whole.

  how are you going to give people free healthcare, free education...

It is not mission impossible like you make it sound to be

Isn't the word "disposed" more suitable to this context than "susceptible"?

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What makes yield collected from real estate properties any different from yield collected from bank deposits or dividends from shares on the stock market?

Also, I don't think that yield from real estate is classified under the "trade" item in the Balance of Payments

I think it's safe to assume that the rent is too damn high for companies relocating or setting up offices in SF. It would have been much more insightful of they could supply that graph with office or residential space data over time to get the full picture.

Freedom of association should be an enshrined right that is not open to negotiation or compromise, and a counterbalance to capitalists overarching influence in their lobbies and trade associations, and also a neutralizing force for the excess in labor supply as a consequence of population growth. However, unions desperately need some serious and urgent reforms to join the 21st century and leave behind these old habits and antics for it to succeed in securing workers rights.

Can we get Apple on board with RWD since they seem are up to their ears with "protecting" their users' privacy to the point of neglecting this crucial aspect of modern web design?

Don't we have the Olympic flag already?

Fucking up the planet like Shkreli the millenial and 21st century robber baron that thinks that $1k is too little a price to pay him to save your life for a course of medication that barely costs $100 total?!

I'm a millenial myself and I have a lot of strong opinions about previous generations but enough with tired meme that all baby boomers or most of them are evil people and we're the saviors of the planet esp when you see examples like that jerk from our generation blackmailing sick and people in need just to get a new sport car or jet to show off in front of his peers of the same age.

You're actually onto something that's very insightful indeed.

Religious zealots fit perfectly the psychological profile of the typical alphabet agency stooge.

They're dogmatic, conformists, traditionalists/conventionalists, authoritarians by nature (more specifically RWA[0]), malleable to chauvinistic rhetoric and propaganda, averse and hostile to opposition's rhetoric and dissenters.

That explains why these folks are attracted to these positions and why those spy agencies seek them aggressively and make no mistake some of them are very bright and innovative but unfortunately their brain is severely compartmentalized and the one chamber holding the religious and nationalist stuff is extremely deficient in terms of mental capacity and reasoning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism

  there are rogue nation-states and rogue actors

Israel maybe?

  I've never been so ashamed to be British.