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2,427karma·3,106submissions·February 19, 2008
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I thought I would check out your comment against other opinions: " Mozart’s contact with the mastery of the German contrapuntal tradition opened a completely new musical horizon. He produced a nu…
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The Art of Fugue itself was unfinished but if as the story goes, he died as he was penning the last bar of fugue 15, then he kind of signed himself out in the sense that the notes corresponding to the…
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Why not just say to yourself, - "I don't think that's funny" - instead of generalizing on behalf of others with a word that is in essence, meaningless or rather, it means what you …
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And line I really liked: 'But really, I like cybernetic psychology because it stands a chance of becoming overturnable.'
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OK, that's your experience. On the other hand, https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/05/07/why-the-... offers some pointers as to why a fair…
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Here's an oddity: apparently Noam Chomsky doesn't fully agree with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSJnuF7_zg …
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No comment on Trump's view but meanwhile what going to happen to the 1$trillion trade deficit? How long can that reality be denied? Is that a sustainable position? I'm an economic ignoramus …
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Incidentally his co-author AN Whitehead was not an atheist as a reading of Science and the Modern World (from lectures at Harvard in 1926 I think.) makes clear.
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"jack booted militia" is a nastily evocative & suggestive phrase that lingers like a rotten smell. I am worried & want to know who and where. Which are the ideas that we all agree ar…
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Do you have an example?
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Yes, they could make more use of the Uyghurs. https://www.state.gov/forced-labor-in-chinas-xinjiang-region... not to mention other slaves. https://worldpopulationreview.co…
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You think this is a good analogy?
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You mean bang on.
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What, non-migrant Americans are not up to it?
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As does Gordon Chang "The Coming Collapse of China" (2001)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_in_China
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Definition: Peasant: 1. A member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture. 2. A country perso…
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'India imports most of its energy'. So what's happened to the extremely abundant 'free energy' available from the sum in India. They have the expertise, they could make the fu…
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Technically we're subjects but the King has zero executive powers. His soft powers are perhaps another topic. Point being we're in effect, citizens and subject to the (very variable) laws of…
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It certainly got him attention.
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I'm really do appreciate all those on HN who comment either for or against these tariff measures by including cogent arguments and relevant facts. As against ...
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Priceless! Maybe you should move to the UK. Might be a job opening on the Guardian newspaper where you'd be welcomed with open arms. They think much the same about the British Conservatives and a…
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Suppose you've inherited genes which contribute in varying degrees to brains, beauty, longevity and charm. These are arguably advantages rather more significant in life than money. If there was a…
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Well of course Shakespeare got it wrong with ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’. At least, that's seems to be the acceptably prevalent vi…
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Whether mere incompetence from those whose job it is to check such installations for failure or bad actors, other 'bad actors' will have gained a useful indication of how vulnerable Britain’…