david_herdson

Or that while it is impossible to write a constitution that could not be taken over by a bad actor dictator, the fact of such an impossibility cannot be proven - but that the combination of the conje… (View Post)

Sorry, but I'm afraid that's exactly the kind of lawyerly-academic thinking that's proven misleading in the past. Dictators don't give a damn about legal precedent, nor do their lackeys. This is not … (View Post)

That one's easy: he just runs for VP under a surrogate, who then either acts as his proxy or - more probably - resigns in his favour. The bar on more than two (or strictly, more than two-and-a-half) … (View Post)

I did write a section about the comparison with Fermat but it didn't make the final edit as the article is already really too long. However, the difference is that whereas a mathematical proof has to… (View Post)

The two were both used. 'Happy Christmas' was a 19th century religious / behaviourist campaign that wanted people to be more abstemious and less 'merry' in an inebriated sense. To them, wishing peopl… (View Post)