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Has this been proven? I mean both conditions, ie: that everyone of sub-Saharan descent having no Neanderthal DNA? Also, the percentages are really low, eg: my friend from China did 23andme and his Neanderthal percentage was 0.1%.
Your sentence is missing a clause. Please explain.
british were infamous for their destruction of indian metal art by melting it down for sundry purposes of their army
prior art.
Why do you think this is the case?
[1] https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning
Sorry, but I have to challenge your authority. You're saying "measurable impact on learning outcomes" and then linking to same site which doesn't give any evidence of this. As far as I can tell, these prizes are being awarded by people who are all in the same social circles and even their peer reviewed papers don't seem to carry serious outcome analysis. The whole Nicholas Negroponte-Epstein-Ito scandal just shows these people are not interested in the outcome. Again, as he self-described himself "a rich white guy", Negroponte didn't suddenly wake up and care about the welfare and education of children in the third world, nope, not believable, as shown by his subsequent actions.
Negroponte's OLPC wasn't his first debacle either. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71fe/5e987a89dfb7a6e7dbb3dd...
Negroponte and his gang of destroyers went from developing country to developing country intent on destroying simple proven-to-work schemes and replacing them with his costly OLPC. He knew that local NGOs desperate requests for funding would be bypassed in favor of his large contracts which could be utilized by bureaucrats to hide corruption.
I'm sorry that you wasted your time working on the software. I was tasked to work with the XO-1 and it was an utter waste of our time. We'd have been far better off if those funds had been spent on providing vaccinations, and lunches at school which have been proven to have a vastly better long term outcomes than a underpowered unconnectable amd-geode board with a wonky unusable pixelqi LCD.
Honestly, when I first heard of OLPC, I was so excited by all the claims. I remember they sent us screenshots of MIT engineers designing a pulley type charger and they told us the OLPC would run for hours from a few minutes of pulling. It was all fake and total marketing BS. Honestly, after the OLPC, my respect level for MIT Media Lab went down the drain. I realized these people aren't really significantly different than a reasonably educated grad student in a developing country. They just use their accents and mannerisms and social circles to get themselves perceived as being capable of delivering something superior, when in reality they delivered a barely passable netbook. The whole Joi Ito-Epstein pedo scandal has further reinforced my opinion. Developing countries would be better off not buying into the whole MIT aura as it does not seem deserved. It is sad that MIT continues slurping funds from developing countries to do jobs-for-the-boys club type projects. I had thought better of such an institution but I was completely wrong.
Negroponte also goes around demanding people refer to him as the father of the netbook. This is not the first time Negroponte has destroyed institutions. Media Lab Asia was a disaster. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/71fe/5e987a89dfb7a6e7dbb3dd...
OLPC was an unmitigated disaster, not just for Negroponte but also for the world. The level of wastage of money at all levels. Just incredible.
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Yes, the authoritarian regime that bans women from having equal rights and access to basic medical services or control over reproductive rights. The authoritarian regime that continues to enslave, murder and in general treats part of the population as subhuman based on their skin color. The authoritarian regime that has a track record of financing terrorism, of enabling corporations to create banana republics, of creating false flag attacks, invading other countries willy nilly, of dropping atomic bombs on other nations, of testing nuclear weapons on tribal populations. I hope we can have regime change in that tyrannical place.
You've misunderstood the point. Here's a simple proof. A Western black person speaking Malay fluently would not get the attention or celebrity that Mat gets. That proves that it is about worshipping white skin.
There's a term for that, it is called beg-packing. It is not irrelevant as it has been suggested in the comments that Mat was originally a beg packer. The article itself states that he was a back packer travelling South East Asia. http://www.popularyoutube.com/video/HYkgwRJvc2s/Dear-White-B...
> It's also not about "worshipping white skin", but about being amused and/or feeling validated by the western internet.
Thank you for clarifying. I'm using the term worshipping perhaps to oversimplify "feeling validated when a white person gives attention/time". And yes, it is about skin color, as a Western black person who is fluent in Malay would not get any attention.
I have visited Terengganu. The Malay spoken in Terengganu is the same as the Malay spoken elsewhere. It would the equivalent of saying Arkansas English versus American English.
"'What's the difference between Mat Dan and a Bangladeshi worker who can speak Malay?'"
Mat is white whereas Bangladeshi people are black. Malay people worship white skin and thus they even give money to beg-packing white people who exploit this to travel South East Asia for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEGFARCfQUU In fact, Mat himself was one of those. "Rather than just spending his time travelling with Western backpackers".
That's interesting. I guess it depends on the definition of country which is a relatively modern concept, and the meaning of "gain". If I take it loosely, then your question could be defined as which first peoples have managed to retain the land that they were the first to populate. Is that a fair interpretation? For example, it was interesting for me to realize that Vietnamese, Thais, Malays, Indonesians, Phillipinos, actually extinguished (meaning genetic/cultural extinguishment through assimilation or genocide) the aboriginal people of those lands (Papuan-like peoples) and the Australians, New Zealanders are quite far along in that process as well.
The Sentinelese of India have managed to hold on to their island, albeit it is a fragile hold, and credit to Indian establishment for holding steadfast to that policy of allowing them to completely self-determine their lives. Although I do fear that period may come to an end if CNFC (China) explorations and fishing vessels continue to pursue that region.
I'm realizing I'm ill equipped to answer your question. It is definitely interesting.
hmm... just for clarity for a non westerner, is Germany and France not part of the default West, as they are not anglophones?
That is a nice thing to hear. Is this common or is it an exception?
Victors get to write history and portray themselves as they desired. Everybody else gets to be the bad guy.
A captain that demands changing colors of the sinking ship on a whim may not be the cause of the sinking but certainly isn't addressing the sinking.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...
For months, the team had settled on blue and gray. If users were going to read emails on their phones all day long, the thinking went, it was best to choose the most subtly contrasting hues. But now, Mayer explained, she wanted to change the colors to various shades of purple, which she believed better suited Yahoo’s brand.
According to one senior executive, Sharma’s body language changed the moment Mayer issued her request. He looked deflated. Altering the color of such an intricate product would require that members of his team spend all night adjusting colors in thousands of places. He slumped off and prepared to tell his staff the bad news.
western values? that's an interesting term, care to elaborate?
Took a cursory look at his/her's other comments and spotted "Google, which doesn't respect users' choices in Android not to collect location data and yet the company wants others not to deal in that data from its other services"
Wasn't there a country that alleged yellow cake, WMD and other things in order to facilitate a grand mess in the Middle East. All perfectly legal according to the law, right?
People of any region tend to be antagonistic towards crude attempts to force a foreign language and culture upon them. Hindi has no common ancestry with South Indian languages like Tamil. In fact, Hindi-Urdu-Farsi is from the same language family as English. Therefore, Hindi is just as foreign as English to South India and therefore it makes much more sense for South Indians to speak their native tongues and a useful foreign language like English or perhaps Mandarin in the future rather than be forced to learn Hindi.