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This is such a stark contrast to the lifestyle I have lived for the past 28 years.

They won't have stark poverty forever if they learn from the examples of other countries, just as Taiwan did.

Seems clear he is doing this to increase his personal brand as the "real life tony stark" as opposed to it actually being useful for engineering.

For me, the most crucial and eye opening is the stark contrast of the relatively open ecosystem we had back in 2005 to what we have today.

It's pretty clear that Apple is positioning themselves in stark contrast to Google, they want to be the privacy/security company.

" As if one has to be stark raving mad to use a modern toilet from Japan, instead of the old fashioned toilet which was probably imported from China anyway.

How much Apple benefit by preventing a competitor from placing a product on the market is, in stark contrast, essentially unknowable and thus difficult to compensate for if Apple turn out to be wrong.

The consequences are obvious and stark - a political system with single-digit approval ratings, where nobody feels represented and nobody feels responsible.

There is a stark difference in hiring a cook to come over and cook - and when he's not cooking for you be able to have his own family, hobbies, political motivations and all the rest of his life - and having a cook who 'serves' you - full stop.

Come on, ladies and gentlemen, the fine submitted article is about stark conditions in India, where "Western capitalism" was specifically rejected, and socialism embraced, as an economic model after independence in 1947.

The newness of computer networks, the ascendancy of Japan, the aesthetics of computer hardware -- boxy, whirring things with stark, green CRTs spewing masses of indecipherable alphanumeric incantations, big clunky cables, heavy briefcase-size mobile units; it's all there.

But sometimes one is dominant, and if the gray beast gets its teeth all the way into you, it takes away not just positive feelings but everything until you're just a walking shell so empty you can't even fully comprehend what you've lost.> The converse, when the black beast has you, can be much like you describe - you can still feel a kind of dreadful, frenzied joy in short moments as you cling desperately to the edge of the sucking dark hole in yourself, trying to ignore the beast's whispers that any pleasure is a lie that will just make the coming pain more stark and inescapable and utterly deserved.> They're liars, but they're good at it.