randy.mcdonald
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Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
Feedly looks like it will be decent....
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Commented on The permanent revolution
16: That question remains to be answered. There is no globally homogeneous tech level on Earth, but rather exceptional lumpiness. Certain societies are broadly high-tech (at a first approximation, urban East Asia, North America, Europe, enclaves elsewhere), but these societies...
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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
"I tend to "get" the point of view flowing from those peoples a lot more readily than, say, for example, the Chinese concept of nationality (which is strikingly different and totally bizarre to someone steeped in Western education)." What's so...
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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
If the United Kingdom ends up leaving the European Union because there are too many migrants coming from EU member-states, then the likelihood of a meltdown n UK-EU relations is severe. Why would the European Union grant Britons access to...
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Commented on Dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century
People in strongly Roman Catholic societies have seen mass disaffection from the Roman Catholic Church. Here in Canada, Québec was institutionally very Roman Catholic but nowadays Catholic norms are honoured in the breach. Cardinal Ouellet of Quebec managed to...