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2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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Hegel still has a really bad reputation regarding atrocities and his Philosophy of history. "History as the slaughter-bench" - and yet the aims of reason are accomplished." But there ar…
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Couldn't have said it better.
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"We are living a time with a multi-faceted war between the US, China, EU, Russia and others." The only way to win this war is to deescalate. Everybody wins. And AI competition is a good thin…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analysis_(finance... My experience: even when it comes to only implementing financial products, banks prefer mathematicians/physic…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_the_North Always thought that Mark E. Smith would sing about it. I must have been wrong according to Wikipedia.…
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Hitler admired the British Empire. https://www.quora.com/What-was-Hitlers-opinion-of-the-Britis... …
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Haskell has strong monads, missed this in the article. It makes Haskell even more procedural, you can use intermediate variables in do blocks. http://blog.sigfpe.com/2023/08/…
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"In 1971, official date of the birth of topos theory, unfortunately the dream team at
Dalhousie was dispersed. What happened, that made you go to Denmark ? Some members of the team, including mys…
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Part 2: Symmetries and semicartesian cubes https://home.sandiego.edu/~shulman/papers/hott-cmu-day2.pdf …
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Reminds me of a story in Germany: Verfassungsschutz moles have procured weapons for Nazi terrorists(1999-2011). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalsozialistischer_Unterg... …
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I see a lot of retrospective know-it-all attitude. There are many alternative scenarios. Gorbachev could have acted more skillfully. "Deng Xiaoping thought Mikhail Gorbachev was an idiot." A…
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Angular will overtake React in terms of version number. International Debt will crash in 2025. (Worldbank INTERNATIONAL DEBT REPORT 2024)
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Too little, too late. Dunkelflaute was a problem recently in Germany, but the nuclear industry keeps you in the dark.
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It's no excuse. But many people just don't know about it. I read Annie Ernaux's book, Algeria was far away and there is propaganda and misinformation and ruthless suppression of people …
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Sure you are right. But he saved France from the coup generals and was responsible for the withdrawal of the French from Algeria. In the summer I saw the Algeria memorial on the Seine, in France they …
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De Gaulle was a cool guy. He was afraid of no one. "After Washington rebuffed his proposal to overhaul the Western alliance and once he ended the war in Algeria, de Gaulle launched a forceful att…
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What kind of reasing is he talking about? Why should it be unpredictable? Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Abductive Reasoning
Analogical Reasoning
Pragmatic Reasoning
Moral Reaso…