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andi999
Joined 7 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
Read my lips: Han. Shot. FIRST.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am listening...
Comment · 4 years ago
Thats interesting, are you saying there are serious people who claim that the wrongness of theft depends on the emotional frame (and havent been paid by russia over the last decades with the intention to subvert western society?)
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes. If you use e. g. numerical libraries, and wonder what really does this algo do often you look at C. If you dig too deep then you look at fortran though...
Comment · 4 years ago
Serge Lang, Undergraduate Analysis.
Comment · 4 years ago
A) define better
B) the article doesnt really say that
Comment · 4 years ago
Isnt the stereotype 'deutsche Gruendlichkeit' which is not efficiancy but thoroughness, which just mean that a few thousand pages need to be filled out, signed and countersigned for the 400 mill order.
Comment · 4 years ago
Are you ever proven wrong as the questioner. The original method consist of extending the argument so far that at some point some contradiction will show up. Instead of blaming it on the extension then one claims victory and that the original statement was wrong.
Comment · 4 years ago
In the sense that the whole is more than the sum of its parts? Of course!
Comment · 4 years ago
Lopsided economic system is not a problem, it is a feature.
Comment · 4 years ago
Society can only give what it takes (from you and others).
Comment · 4 years ago
Na, just introduce a social safety net, like most of europe had for some time.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, but this was not asked for, isnt it. (especially since china was mentioned)
Comment · 4 years ago
Define western nations. Looking at the hdi (and experience), I think both countries qualify (of course they dont top it) .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Comment · 4 years ago
Well,
any
position becomes indefensible when the socratic method is applied to it. So it doesnt seem
too
useful.