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That is a very curious reading of history not shared by the majority of military historians in either the West or East. For example, according to the US military (See The West Point Military History of the Second World War which is availa
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> That is why in most financial institutions, M means thousand, and MM means millions This is not the case in the United States.
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It's more complex, and I really wish people wouldn't try to look at this purely from an economic perspective. If you see excessive workers in any government run agency, whether it's Willie Brown appointing 100 "mayoral a
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There is no evidence that people have a higher overall level of education before entering the workforce over time. Rather, people know a different set of skills and accumulate a different body of knowledge. It is only if we define "e
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Both owning and renting will cost you money (on average). Generally if you are living in a place where you can't afford to buy, you also shouldn't rent in the same neighborhood. But that's not what happens -- e.g. people move
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Yes, that's a good point. I wouldn't be surprised if this goes back to the original Latin
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example: "We came across a camp with twenty braves." It's an unusual usage. Fun Fact: "brave" when referring to male warriors is assumed to come from Spanish bravo which means "courageous, untamed, savage&quo
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No matter the genius of German engineering, they are easily defeated by a bureaucrat with a long list of feature changes.
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Western kit is designed to have a long list of feature checkboxes and complex requirements, yet breaks down easily, is difficult to operate and service, and is produced only in small batches with high unit costs. In other words, it's d
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I enjoy all of these: * Geopolitics - "The Duran" [realist foreign policy school] (on youtube). Two Greeks, one a reporter and one a former lawyer/civil servant in the UK. Alexander Mercouris is fantastic and has his own dail
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I think most people are fine with a style guide discouraging "retards". That's not the issue here at all, and I'm really surprised that you think this is what people are objecting to. Do you really believe this is the pr
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First, getting flood insurance (because of recurring hurricanes) is something that you rely on the government for in Florida just as getting earthquake insurance is something only the government can do for you in California. When you are ta
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You need a permit to buy ammunition in Switzerland, just as you need a permit to buy guns. But the permit is available if you do not have a criminal record. Ammunition is not more tightly controlled than guns, both are controlled, but not a
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It's best to look at households because children generally don't own their own gun, and often if there is a couple, only one of them will own a gun (usually the man). 44% of US households have at least one firearm in the house. No
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California is cursed with an amazingly efficient agricultural industry and just went through a freak 100 year wet period that set people's expectations for normal rainfall and agricultural planning. The combination of long, sunny growi
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That is kind of you. I will take a look, but 35 minutes of John Oliver is a big ask. Last time I watched him -- years ago -- he spent the entire segment in 100% outrage mode with a sledgehammer wall-of-sound style rhetoric in which nuance a
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You said "stolen". That's a question of property rights. It's a legal definition. If the government takes my land via eminent domain, and pays me for it, I can criticize the government "morally", but I can&#x27
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> I don't think one has to identify whom something was stolen from to know that it was stolen. If we are talking about people, then yes, but governments are different. They are not people. Governments are law makers . So you are cl
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I mean, it's a tough call, because you can't really identify who something is stolen from. In some cases you can, but in most you can't. Say you have the necklace of some Pharaoh. OK, who is the rightful owner? The present da
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Calling it "range anxiety" suggests some unwarranted psychological condition that can be fixed with education and thus will go away, as opposed to people's natural desire to not be on a short leash. They don't want to sk
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If you want to know why, in the US, we call someone an "X-American", whether that is a German-American, Latin-American, Hispanic-American, African-American, then you need to know where these terms come from. Words always have a hi
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Argentina, for example, has a huge population of those from Italy. Brazil from Portugal, Mexico and central America from Spain. This is why you generally don't want to call an Argentine or Brazilian "Hispanic". My guess as to
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1970s BMWs - 2002 style -- are great fun as well. 1970s was the golden age of German Auto Engineering.
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You can usually find energy efficiency information for housing you purchase. You may not be able to find it for rental housing. Something like "mpg" will depend a lot on your lifestyle, how many family members, etc. It's not
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I think many of these places in Europe will, in fact, adopt the deadlines and ban ICE vehicles, as they have shown to be resistant to public pressure. There are two issues, one is state capacity both to administer complex infrastructure cha
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Toyota is more than happy to sell EVs to the UK. This is about not wanting to stop the production of other types of vehicles for Toyota's other markets, which they also want to serve. Toyota revenue by region (2022) in trillions of Jap
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As a whole, Russian nationalists were popping champagne corks when Western media and other influence operations left Russia. It was basically everything they wanted. Given to them for free. By their enemies. Everything that cuts a dependenc
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It will only hit those nations in the West that succumb to it. Eurasia is doing fine with stable and reliable power, continuing to both increase fossil fuel usage and build out nuclear power at the same time. Africa is ramping up. Latin Ame
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No, it's an argument against solar without storage . Include the storage, include reliability, and you can have solar. But no one wants to do that because storage is expensive, so they wave their hands and talk about "randomness
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Why do you think Delaware is a tax haven? Many business incorporate there because they have the legal infrastructure so that you are not in court in some boondocks with poorly established corporate case law if there is a lawsuit. But you do

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