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Reminder: The two Reuters journalists murdered in the video Manning leaked were public figures, but also real people with real relationships. Lamo betrayed the person who brought t…

> skills and professionalism can be valued by the free market by people competing for them; why, despite pure populism for the lowest common denominator, someone wants to return to…

> Or maybe people are naturally more attracted to the extremes (left and right) when given the choice. If by given a choice you mean people are usually not given a choice, but in m…

> Heredity can be measured via twin studies - if twins are adopted into two different families or cultures: what commonalities can we still find, beyond random variability. And how…

It is an old argument, and I think a correct one. Money at the top is mostly spent on capital investment. Capital investment makes commodities which are sold to consumers/workers. …

When the Russian Revolution took place, many of the areas you discuss were part of the Russian empire. So "Russian occupation", if that is what it was, did not start with the Bolsh…

Starting in 1945, Russia had a very strong desire to pull out of Berlin and east Germany, it never wanted to be there. England and the US had agreed that Germany would be demilitar…

> It was also the year of the Tet offensive, an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces, and of more than 16,000 American deaths in the Vietnam War, more than in any other year.…

There are two sides in every war, and in the war on poverty, those fighting to create and preserve poverty currently hold most of the cards. Harken back to 2000 and let us read the…

The example Ricardo gave for comparative advantage was Portuguese wine for English cloth. More than two centuries later, Joan Robinson reexamined comparative advantage using Ricard…

> What happened very quickly in 1917 was the development of committee power, so the development of local, direct democracy in terms of local committees, soldiersâ�� committees and,…

This is the sort of thing that led to the decline of the Soviet economy, which had been doing very well up until that point. People nowadays usually remember the creaking Soviet ec…

It's interesting what words are not in the article. Words like heir, inheritance, profit, interest, rentier. The word rent is there, but assumed as a tenant, not landlord. I assume…

The Quora link you put says the reason the 1980s report is no longer relevant is the drawdown from Cold War nuke levels. The Nature letter was written by Russell Seitz, who is also…

1) Capitalism is creating commodities, like corn, and then shipping them. Picking one billion corn stalks is a lot more cost and effort than picking one corn stalk. With software n…

It's great that these RFE's are happening, and Trump should have closed things up even earlier. There are plenty of people with skills out there who may not know every feature of V…

Different things can be shown by different measurements. Income disparity in Brazil is high, so you have a few people like Jorge Paulo Lemann worth tens of billions of dollars, and…

The percentage going to military spending out of total government spending is only as small as it is on the chart if it's decided to try to have a very narrow view of what constitu…

I suppose it's the fading light of England's imperial hubris that is oblivious to why a Chinese man would fail to appreciate that he is the "subject" of a monarch who lies over 9,5…

England's army occupies the six north counties of Ireland, so as to make its people subjects of the queen. Those who have stood up and fought back, to drive out this foreign army a…

> the "oppressed" Sure, how are they oppressed? In 1938 Barcelona was bombed because the army wanted to destroy the republic and what existed of Catalonia autonomy. So any existing…

The tech giants negotiations are relying on the monopoly that the state provides. Just to pick one piece of legislation, the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, the government disallows various…

> Standard Oil came about through mergers. This is the one where antitrust fits -- you break them up, problem solved. Problem solved if they're actually broken up. Exxon (Standard …

> I see no evidence that the CIA directly gave weapons to Al-Nusra or other Al-Qaeda affiliates. And zero evidence of any direct funding or support of ISIS You stick a very key wor…

Of the four gospels, it is generally said that Mark was written first, and John was written last. The earliest manuscripts of the gospel of Mark do not mention the resurrection at …