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The history section of the book price index is incredibly america-biased. History of america, american natives, japan after ww2 and vietnam in the last century.

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just a pedantic detail, strings are passed in javascript by reference, they are just immutable

Doula (δουλα) in modern Greek is female slave.

Wikipedia: "Socialism is a political, social and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of productio…

It does try to convey something in words in the next chapters, no?

I felt the english version was ambiguous so I read the original finnish version. It says that press reports that the trial is aborted earlier than planned is false, and for the tim…

> Yes, I am aware that this is likewise no accident.

What do you mean by more than 100% margin? If you sell something for 150$ and it cost you 30$ your gross margin is (150-30)/150=80%.

The problem is not if someone merges a PR before you push, but if someone branches off of the current tip of master, works on it, you remove that tip, and your colleague now is bas…

And Google participating in EU market is voluntary. If it doesn't like the laws or the power of the EU investigators, it can choose to take its business elsewhere.

I don't believe they are entirely independent, but there's nothing you can look outside your window that will change any mathematical theorem.

But if at some point further decimals cannot be experimentally proven to be right, at best you can say "pi is such and such for such precision" and any definition that gives the sa…

At some point mathematical objects are defined with meta-mathematical definitions (axioms etc), so we can accept definitions based on those terms. But in any case. You obviously do…

The concept of prime numbers and the prime numbers themselves is a different thing. Unicorns don't exist but statements about them aren't meaningless. Fictionalism accepts the conc…

If a mathematical statement did not have a corresponding experimental test would you dismiss it? What about those?

You think that they are confusing the term exists but the reality is that what "exists" means is very hard to define. Where is the line between abstract objects and the real world …

One of the problems with the Canadian tax law, was that Canada has to remain competitive to the same-language speaking country south of its borders that has a bigger and more advan…

> A good start would be a readable and round-trippable format that Excel documents can be saved as What happened to CSV? Edit: Maybe you want to be able to save the equations etc?

We already have regulations for things like safety, so it all depends on how seriously you think of the matter, and how well you think the government will be able to regulate it.

Patch on chrome that enabled ffmpeg networking https://codereview.chromium.org/1391383002/patch/1/10001

It isn't at all different. The amount of money the entrepreneur didn't invest into the next company or spent, is the amount he will be taxed as wealth. This way, the entrepreneur h…