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by maus42 11y ago
I'd rather say that the support is not uniform. The most left wing party supports unrealistically generous basic income plan, some people in the (right wing) government parties support a much more modest plan (that might actually end u
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I have never tasted Turkish Delight, but it sounds like a unimaginably sweet exotic masterpiece of confectionery. I mean, I always imagined that it would be something a sultan in his majestic palace would order, and it would taste about t
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However, would they had been agreed to that some future historian century after their lifetime would spend their career studying their reading lists, if they once turned out important enough? Or that this data would be used to research what
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Justifying a tyrannical government by virtue of the previous government having been a tyranny too doesn't persuade anyone. For the US government, whatever it does is always about its interests, because that's what governments ar
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>ebooks ...or old-style internet tutorials formatted as static mostly-HTML webpages. Or what about printed books. After reading that kind of internet tutorial I got K&R and some less memorable C++ book from the local library.
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And 'science' as we know it today used to be called 'natural philosophy'.
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I'd replace the SAT score with some small, fixed amount of people vouching for you so that you could enter the lottery. (After all, there might be someone capable who because of some good reasons didn't manage to take SAT, and the
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Now that sounds quite weak argument: Where exactly goes the line? A quite small minority of DDR or Soviet (speaking of post-Stalin timeframe) 'citizens' actually were jailed or killed. I'd bet that also a very small percent o
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>Over and over, Dr. Cheryan and her colleagues have found that female students are more interested in enrolling in a computer class if they are shown a classroom (whether virtual or real) decorated not with “Star Wars” posters, science-f
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> What magic pixie dust would the Russians have to combat all this? Totalitarianism, imperialistic colonialism in their immediate neighbourhood, and total disrespect for their subjects' dignity, environment and life? Disappearance o
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Nothing to say on the culture issue, but what are your experiences of continental Europe? This sounds more of a question how the bureaucracy works and its traditions. Doctors putting fancy papers with ceremonial seals on their walls sounds
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Otherwise, article makes also a good point about services like Uber, that they are not really about sharing anything. A "sharing economy" version of Uber would be more akin to a car-pooling service.
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>A typical analogy for the sort of model people wanted to build was focused on household tools: if you own a drill, you likely don’t use it 364 days of the year; why not let others use it in the meantime? >In its purest sense, that is
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Well, here the kindergarten with child-led play isn't that much part of the education system. Even the pre-school year is fundamentally just preparing kids for the school, which is still very much teacher-led. The written Finnish being
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Exactly that kind of single by single digit mental multiplication is useful how in computer science? I do have some difficulty coming up the answer to 7 x 8: I have to work that out from 8x8. This takes a couple of seconds, tops. Assuming o
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Can you imagine why and how any of those powers -- or any of the others -- would agree to anything else? If the security council can agree on a policy how to represent Earth, they have armed might to back it up. If they do not, all the bets
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>To contrast against this, we may need a symbol against nationalism. The 'against-nationalism-ism' would just turn out like a nationalism. After all, it has a flag. Just look how the International turned out when they managed s
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It doesn't have an organisation or even a not-very-organized ideological movement or anything to back it up. Thus, all the symbolism remain meaningless because practically nobody cares about it. And those who care or say so (for whatev
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Well, usually people who are saying that are thinking about the everyday results of French engineering, like the electronics of Renaults and Citroens.
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Matlab does quite well?
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>And Apple would suffer no bad publicity for its cowardice because… ? Cowardice? Judging by the public reaction to case Snowden, I'd be willing to bet it would be considered patriotic. Regarding Apple's privacy policy ( http:&#
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But the previous commenter suggested winter olympics in Greece, too, and they replied to that. I don't understand the downvoting.
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In Sweden, it looks like these treaties at least are very similar to laws: extradiction would be handled by their judicial system and the decision would be ultimately up to their supreme court. Source: http://sverigesradio.se&#x2
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I agree that the library should make sure that there's up-to-date information around for this. However, surely one of the purposes of doing library research for school would be to teach to take things like "when this book was publ
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Well, it's a library, not a Wikipedia article. And these don't seem to be textbooks. Frankly, I'm not shocked that there are old, 'outdated' books around. Old books might provide some perspective that to science go
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>How is it unnecessary? This is a real theory Well, the way you put it does sound like a conspiracy theory: >I'm wondering what is the agenda behind this trend. The author seems to think that it is to make sure students remain ba
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Let me introduce to Swedish progressive income taxation and VAT percent. Folkshemmet certainly isn't paid by landed gentry.
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Yeah, urm, no. Okay, the "deal" part isn't that far off. The landed gentry lost much of its status and importance during 19th and 20th centuries, or joined (if they invested wisely) the class what the left likes to call &quot
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Well, Pandemrix was never used in US. The mechanism of narcolepsy was quite interesting. Note that it was linked to surface proteins of the virus itself: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24772-flu-vaccine-hel...
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The author has some good insight on many things, but the insight is mixed up with ...something else, and that makes a conflated spaghetti. For example, why I and most of people I know opposed SOPA wasn't exactly because of piracy; I&#x

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