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		evidencetamper 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with A... Singapore has been independent since 1959, while the USA got its own in 1776, and Britain has been around for more than a thousand years. I don't think we can, yet, call Singapore a lastingly successful system, considering most of the time since its independence has been under a father or his son.

zemvpferreira 7 months ago [–]

Fair, I won't pretend to know much about Singapore. But feels like a better way to set things up than what came before.

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