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   by mbid 9y ago

   An anecdote on this: After the second world war, 93% of Volkswagen's equipment was still usable ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_AG#Nachkriegszeit ).
2. 122.▲
   by mbid 9y ago

   Don't mid-sized and large companies benefit from this alike?
3. 123.▲
   by mbid 9y ago

   I've heard the argument that, with high inheritance taxes, the heir of a family-owned company has to sell parts or all of the business in order to pay the tax. I don't know enough about the issue to say whether there is some truth
4. 124.▲
   by mbid 9y ago

   > post-WW2 policies to ensure that Europe could be at peace What do you mean by this? According to Wikipedia, the other Western European nations semm to have received more funds from the Marshall Plan than Germany did. > most of Germa
5. 125.▲
   by mbid 10y ago

   Honestly, the result hinted at in the wikipedia article caught me by surprise as well: There are some flavors of constructive mathematics (notably CZF), that are still consistent if you also add the statement "There is a subset A of th
6. 126.▲
   by mbid 10y ago

   I don't understand this. For a constructivist, "¬A" means "from A, falsity is derivable". You can derive falsity from the statement "there is a countable enumeration of the real numbers". A diagonal functi
7. 127.▲
   by mbid 10y ago

   Mathematician here. If you mean to say that you cannot constructively prove "the real numbers are not countable", then you're wrong. As a rule of thumb, you can usually prove negative statements constructively as you would pr