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andi999

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    Comment #36300685

    Read my lips: Han. Shot. FIRST.

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    Comment #33230913

    I am listening...

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    Comment #33230909

    Thats interesting, are you saying there are serious people who claim that the wrongness of theft depends on the emotional frame (and havent been paid by russia over the last decade…

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    Comment #33230893

    Yes. If you use e. g. numerical libraries, and wonder what really does this algo do often you look at C. If you dig too deep then you look at fortran though...

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    Comment #33227166

    Serge Lang, Undergraduate Analysis.

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    Comment #33227091

    A) define better B) the article doesnt really say that

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    Comment #33213372

    Isnt the stereotype 'deutsche Gruendlichkeit' which is not efficiancy but thoroughness, which just mean that a few thousand pages need to be filled out, signed and countersigned fo…

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    Comment #31887407

    Are you ever proven wrong as the questioner. The original method consist of extending the argument so far that at some point some contradiction will show up. Instead of blaming it …

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    Comment #31886601

    In the sense that the whole is more than the sum of its parts? Of course!

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    Comment #31886298

    Lopsided economic system is not a problem, it is a feature.

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    Comment #31885778

    Society can only give what it takes (from you and others).

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    Comment #31885519

    Na, just introduce a social safety net, like most of europe had for some time.

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    Comment #31884980

    Yes, but this was not asked for, isnt it. (especially since china was mentioned)

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    Comment #31884832

    Define western nations. Looking at the hdi (and experience), I think both countries qualify (of course they dont top it) . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

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    Comment #31884746

    Well, any position becomes indefensible when the socratic method is applied to it. So it doesnt seem too useful.

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    Comment #31884432

    Malaysia and Thailand are also not poor anymore.

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    Comment #31881641

    What is your evidence? Especially machine learning is done a lot in industry and I think nobody has even heard of Julia outside academic circles.

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    Comment #31876816

    If you look at the promo videos of boston dynamics one can gauge the progress, which is not classified

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    Comment #31875807

    You need a human in the loop, otherwise there would be no legal recourse on war crimes.

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    Comment #31875797

    I think currently no other country is even close to the level of autonomous weapon systems the US is developing. An arms race where you are miles ahead cannot be used as a reason w…

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    Comment #31858787

    Does the company praise programmer A whose programs run without error, or programmer B whose code crashes in production at night, but the 'hero' (B) is coming in at midnight and fi…

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    Comment #31854811

    Maybe they all were right.

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    Comment #31847196

    You cannot compare these two situation.

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    Comment #31841374

    If it was so clear, then tell me, why did putin wait for so long.

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    Comment #31841359

    While this sounds convincing, what about if there is just a little inflation and no real growth, only nominal growth due to that inflation. Wouldnt the motive of lending 1$ today f…