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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 …

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, …

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…

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 …

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 m…

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 tha…

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?

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 afte…

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 th…

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/alg…