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You're wrong in agreeing that it does not, democracy is a perverted form of government (see Aristotle). That's why most countries implement a constitutional republic or something similar instead.

You mean increasing life expectancy with unparalleled standard of living? Why would anyone want to prevent/change that?

Awesome read btw :>

This is precisely not what Brooks meant by 'plan to throw one away'. Brooks point is, that you gather information while writing your prototype and incorporate the new-found knowledge into your second, hopefully sound, design.

Rees never learned anything new from the first system (what could he learn anyway, what he described sounds like a nightmare), but proceeded to implement it from scratch.

Funny thing, I'm reading 'The Mythical Man-Month' right now :D

Also there is no language barrier in the US.

The GDR was socialist and arguably a tyranny.

Edit: As was The Third Reich.

woah, that's a lot of shells ^^

How can you not name this 'hashell'?

Doug Hoyte - Let Over Lambda

Last Week Tonight is a great show, but this piece made me think about it... if he misrepresents Ayn Rand so blatantly, how accurate is he on other topics?

edit: fixed name of the show

I haven't read Atlas Shrugged, instead opting for her non-fictional works. I'd recommend Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal as a reasonably concise introduction to her philosophy.