MisterPC

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by MisterPC 9y ago
I don’t think you can really blame 3 conservative politicians for the home price boom in most western countries over the past 20 years! They weren’t even in power for a major part of the boom in the UK (Labour were in power from 1997-2010).
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by MisterPC 9y ago
This always seemed a bit strange. Provoke a nation into war (e.g. Britain with the opium wars, America when they wanted to annex California) and you get to keep the land you took, but if you didn't use violence to get the land you have
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by MisterPC 9y ago
I'd say this is a bit misleading. It's centre-right. In the UK, centre-left or centre-right tends to be in terms of economic policy anyway. Nearly all UK parties have mostly centre-left social policies.
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by MisterPC 9y ago
It also makes you wonder on the ideal size of a country and whether separate smaller nations or at least regions would be a better structure. Although large countries are the most powerful in the world, it doesn't seem to benefit the c
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by MisterPC 9y ago
No, I wasn't making any remark about French colonies as I was replying to a direct question about Hawaii. I actually think unification is preferable to independence. Independence mainly seems to benefit the people in control.
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by MisterPC 9y ago
Semantically no, but in reality it is. Like many parts of the US, if they hadn't been flooded with American citizens they would have eventually regained their independence. Not that I think independence is necessarily a good thing.
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by MisterPC 9y ago
Yeah. Is it correct to say that the only reason she could prove her innocence from the rape charge though is that she at that point revealed she was a women?
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by MisterPC 9y ago
For the car analogy, what will happen when self-driving cars become the norm and the contained software becomes so important? I'm going to be annoyed if my car becomes useless after 10 years because they dont have to patch it after tha
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by MisterPC 10y ago
I feel the party system completely corrupts the democratic process. I'm not sure how it works in other countries but in Britain, MPs pretty much have to vote as they are told by the party (it's even called the whip!). Here the 2 m
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by MisterPC 10y ago
Robert Sedgewick's course [1] and associated book/booksite [2] have a good overview of Union-Find problem and various algorithms to solve it. [1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1 [2] http:&#x2