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They're different ethnic groups, different "racial" groups... If you want call them different sub-groups of the same race go ahead but you're blatantl...
July 28, 2017 at 23:33
I think that racial categories are much more complex than just "black/white/asian/etc...". For instance, the Pygmy people are ethnically different fro...
July 28, 2017 at 23:23
Thomas Khun's theory that scientific knowledge does not progress, that it instead just shifts from one arbitrary paradigm to another without ever maki...
July 28, 2017 at 23:08
Skin tone, height, hair color, eye color, body mass are some examples of statistically relevant differences that come to mind and are immediately appa...
July 28, 2017 at 23:04
I'm skeptical that you're yet informed enough to understand what genetic differences between individuals actually means or look like let alone between...
July 28, 2017 at 21:59
If reproductive capacity is diminishing, it probably has something to do with modern medicine helping infertile women get pregnant along with modern m...
July 28, 2017 at 21:47
It must be, or we're back where this all started: staring at amorphous shadows projected on cave walls. When it comes to the "post-modern" rejection o...
July 28, 2017 at 21:33
The AAA aren't the one's looking into the verifiable genetic mechanisms which actually produce the trends of characteristics we call "race", they're n...
July 28, 2017 at 20:55
Elon Musk criticizing someone for not being scientifically inclined is rich even for Musk... In other billionaire news everyone's favorite continues t...
July 25, 2017 at 22:22
Taking exception with a handful of aspects of modern society isn't really a strong enough argument to convince everyone that "progress" is not progres...
July 22, 2017 at 21:17
I find this topic very interesting but I also find it very difficult to just rush into it without covering some ground-work to begin with. The first i...
July 21, 2017 at 21:25
Originally liquor had some value to us because it's a liquid that keeps for a very long time, whereas water tends to go stagnant, but whatever our ori...
July 19, 2017 at 09:59
You need to use the code function in the Post Comment editor it's between quote and strike out (looks like this: <> )
July 17, 2017 at 00:45
The examples of code you gave are both sexy and terrifying. I think programmers moved way from languages like these because they can be harder to read...
July 16, 2017 at 23:42
Here is the best I can do in short time and without loops! public int makeChocolate(int small, int big, int goal) { int remainder = goal%5; if (goal >...
July 16, 2017 at 23:41
If you need to actually hit all of those index values then dividing the work pf two nested loops into a single un-nested would just create a loop of p...
July 16, 2017 at 22:19
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with nested loops other than it carries the chance of iterating through index values which are redunda...
July 16, 2017 at 21:55
Well, nested loops are the bread and butter of writing concise code! Can you show me an example solution to that problem which does not use a nested l...
July 16, 2017 at 20:49
Right now I'm building a thermodynamics simulator as a learning project, it's coming along fairly nicely. You mentioned web development, have you used...
July 16, 2017 at 20:20
Whiles and elses just to be different (this code is called "processing", which is a library of functions for javascript)... int count= 1; float sum = ...
July 16, 2017 at 19:07
When force is applied perpendicular to an arch structure, it should provide great resistance if it's a true arch. Likewise, when we have thoughts whic...
July 16, 2017 at 01:04
Give me an example of a "non-empirical first principle" of causation which does not involve a fundamental particle or force.... ... ... I'm trying to ...
July 10, 2017 at 21:18
Give me an example of a "non-empirical first principle" other than a fundamental particle or force. These are the only things necessarily constrained ...
July 10, 2017 at 21:05
So then Tchaikovsky was a failed and sub-par human because he divorced and failed to have children or be successfully intimate with a woman. What make...
July 10, 2017 at 20:37
When you're in the MAD club and you notice one of your counter-parts is building anti-missile tech, it might start to make you nervous that should the...
July 09, 2017 at 19:34
I don't agree that our "telos" or "final causes" are morally obligatory to pursue or uphold. Your moral argument from teleology indicates that I shoul...
July 09, 2017 at 05:08
You're presuming too much: "what she thinks" is not irrelevant and describing sex as my "sole intention" is a bit misleading. It might be a main inten...
July 08, 2017 at 07:24
If love isn't designed then the necessary ends of love (what you suggest are morally necessary to uphold) become the result of evolutionary dice rolls...
July 08, 2017 at 06:21
Sacrifices are always innocent, that's what makes them pure and worthy of god's appreciation. The guilty parties are the one's the sacrifice is for. I...
July 06, 2017 at 22:17
I wish you would communicate your arguments as clearly as your insults... More virtue ethics.... O.k, let me rephrase your position: "approaching wome...
July 06, 2017 at 22:02
I bring God into it because that's the only other source of "why love is what it is" (with it's specific telos, etc...) that I can imagine you have in...
July 06, 2017 at 21:31
"disposed of?" Isn't that an arbitrarily negative way to look at one night stands? The woman leaves of her own accord, or I do. Nobody is disposing of...
July 06, 2017 at 19:18
Juxtaposing sex and cannibalism does not actually demonstrate that sex is inherently harmful, it just rhetorically (via sophistry) compares the two an...
July 06, 2017 at 18:20
This is perfect. :D
July 06, 2017 at 00:01
Saying "agreeing to have casual sex with someone is like agreeing to eat someone alive" is comparing them. Why bother making the juxtaposition if not ...
July 05, 2017 at 22:06
By this logic it's never moral to ever approach a woman with the intention of pursuing a romantic relationship because that sexually objectifies her a...
July 05, 2017 at 21:00
By comparing the two situations you're mplying that "sex" is harmful on some level of comparison to which "handing out cyanide" is harmful. By saying ...
July 05, 2017 at 19:58
Can't say I disagree with any of that. In this humble discussion Aug and I have been having, "casual sex" and sometimes "meaningless sex" is just shor...
July 05, 2017 at 00:43
Well I've already been through my tom-cat days, and compared to some of my friends from child-hood I've led a somewhat conservative sexual life-style ...
July 04, 2017 at 23:38
Almost forgot the obligatory music video. This one should be educational for both of you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxlB_RFrB0
July 04, 2017 at 23:31
Well once I was drunk and a very sexually aggressive chick took advantage of me. That's the only sex I actually regret, and while I hold myself only p...
July 04, 2017 at 23:24
Not quite. I keep reiterating that if a woman is dressed sexually and at a bar then it is reasonable and appropriate to think that sex might have some...
July 04, 2017 at 23:10
O.k, to be fair you compared sex and cannibalism to denying intimacy sex to one's spouse (which is somehow equally disturbing), although you do later ...
July 04, 2017 at 22:18
You didn't catch my bit about glory holes? If you want to argue that there's always some emotion during sex, that's fine and I'm not a psychologist wh...
July 04, 2017 at 01:18
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July 04, 2017 at 00:16
If someone stares at you and invades your personal space, then they're in the wrong. Merely approaching you and speaking to you however isn't somethin...
July 04, 2017 at 00:02
People do drink for pleasure, that's why they pay extra money for all kinds of flavored and carbonated beverages. This is common sense Aug... The orde...
July 03, 2017 at 22:54
If a man makes a a pass at a woman and fails he needs to move on or risk committing sexual harassment (same goes for a failed female aggressor)... Doe...
July 03, 2017 at 01:24
What's the host of other things that makes casual sex "bad"? So like, the transcendent metaphysical third party acts like a conduit for the spiritual ...
July 02, 2017 at 22:50