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If Hitler and his followers had been more apathetic, they wouldn't have displayed the zeal that they did in trying to change the world according to their ideals. The problem with i…

Up until 1865, the United States made extensive use of slave labor to grow its economy. It also made use of foreign innovations, stealing others' intellectual property. Both were i…

Miss Thatcher? Not Mrs? Or Ms?

8th. http://www.ccsce.com/PDF/Numbers-July-2014-CA-Economy-Rankin...

Well that phenomenon must go back thousands of years, given the fact that many pre-modern civilizations involved such things.

The GP said between the establishment of the papacy to Napoleon, so he's speaking about events well before there were 50 sovereign states in Europe or an EU.

This particular fund might be acting a bit more aggressively than some others, but big pension funds are huge investors. Calpers (the California state pension fund) has over $300 b…

The UK is still in the EU - at least until Farage gets his way.

Of course, there is a planet that astronomers and others are very familiar where 747s appear all the time. They just happen through complex chemical reactions. Apparently they do t…

Some renewables are "baseload" sources of power. Things both proven, like geothermal and hydro, or more experimental like OTEC. They can work 24/7/365.

Yeah, I was just trying to communicate the parent's argument. I appreciate your introduction of actual numbers.

I've been reading Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy , and I just finished the chapters of Hellenistic philosophies. Of those discussed, Stoicism seemed the least a…

In a lot of states, including California, non-competes are illegal as a matter of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California A lot of other states have rest…

I think the GP is saying that they wonder if an equivalent Northern European with identical stats would have been rejected. They're not disputing the fact that some white people ge…

For reference the parent is from Tunisia, which is really only third-world in the Cold War sense. The HDI is 0.72, ranked globally in the "high human development" tier. It is just …

Wouldn't the market imbalance of the price of Uber drivers vs regular drives be resolved naturally? Why don't regular drives switch to Uber?

For anyone who is interested in Ontario's GDP numbers, I found some data. Excel so beware. http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/ecaccts/oea_hist.xls

Washington DC would be the obvious example, but it's organic growth is more of the reason for its success as opposed to governmental action.