A boycott is a hostile action which leads typically to even more tense diplomatic relations between two countries when the boycotts are made on the na...
Yet what energy policies we choose on this planet is the aggregate sum of the various energy policies the nations states choose and what competition o...
Likely at the global scale, energy production will always be a "diverse mix", that's for sure. In my view, geothermal has been used quite a long time ...
Yet that is the very promising aspect of this technological development: alternative renewables have come down dramatically in price. I think the reas...
Cheaper to whom? Likely sooner or later the iron laws of free market capitalism will take charge, but the transit isn't usually so quick. I assume tha...
Actually now they are coming to grasp how utterly stupid this is. So just several coal plants are under construction. But they do also have two nuclea...
Limited yes, but never forget the price mechanism: with higher price, more costly production methods and resources become profitable. And here is wher...
Yet the Bronze Age collapse didn't mean that humans became extinct. The wording which many here use of an "existential" threat in my view shouldn't ta...
@"Kasperanza" Sometimes it's hard to even face the facts how these things work. Like a Democrat administration banning guns in the current political e...
Well, then we should not say that the goal is to save the World, but just to say to help us and the few next generations of humans after us. A holisti...
This is the problem. And that those who have a lot to lose (who even might face legal suits) then being on the WHO team looking at the Wuhan lab possi...
Then the solution is simply to create a cheaper energy resource that burning fossil fuels. Even in aircraft design they are looking for using other fu...
No, the sun will not kill all life on this planet for some 5 billion years or so. The future after that is bleak for life on our planet. https://www.r...
Well, I don't think you are a racist and in my view that you perhaps benefit from the existing social structure doesn't make you a racist either. And ...
Love to know? I doubt it. If racism was defined to be that all Australians are racists (because let's just look at the obvious history of Australia), ...
You will? Yet I'd disagree. I think that racists will just abuse the findings of Murray, which is quite obvious: they will pick what they want to hear...
Sometimes I don't understand Americans. Here is Glenn Loury, a black economics professor, talking to Charles Murray, a white nationalist according to ...
I don't think so. What I am afraid about is the effect that my death will have on other people's lives, like my children, and of course what I would b...
Great article. A lab leak happening in the Soviet Union (or China) will automatically create a discussion on how safe our laboratories are and if they...
That is a good start. Yet my main point is that a "religious" approach is easy, but can be very counterproductive. Our society and nature are so compl...
What we really DO NOT NEED are religious awakenings, mantras that repeated as pseudo-religious chants without much if any thought given to what actual...
Great! Here's my two questions. Due to the language, American and British philosophy are usually linked together (especially when people talk about th...
I'd agree with this if one important and logical field of mathematics is taken into account: the uncomputable and the incommeasurable. Then math expla...
If you would just erase away the US debate and just focus on what it has been in other Western countries (and somehow they wouldn't be influenced by t...
Why? Since the emergence of the idea of "Free Speech", the limits and the abuse of this right has been debated and thought about. It's shouldn't come ...
I think we ought to think about the reasons why free speech has become such an issue in the first place. In my view there are several reasons for this...
Or maybe not. The perception that we have (those who are outside the university and it's campuses) is based on various narratives picked up in the pub...
Great answer. Schuringa seems more like a name dropper who is saying "I know my analytic philosophy" and to the amateur interested in philosophy (me, ...
Then there simply is no time for philosophy. You have to go through all the work done by mathematicians and get to the sophisticated ways mathematicia...
As so many Republicans talk about the lab theory, the unfortunate will happen and this topic will irredeemably be made a US political partisanship iss...
If I'm true to my word, I'll have to postpone my buying of cryptocurrencies as not six months, but just two months went with inactivity on this thread...
See, that's the problem here. I think math is filled with a lot of things that a) work b) are totally obvious at some level and c) to make a rigorous ...
Don't forget the contribution from Dedekind. Yet that doesn't differ actually so much from what either Newton or Leibniz said, even if they didn't inv...
Your stereotype of the "leftist moralist" doesn't represent at all the actual debate that happened prior, through and after the US invasion to Iraq. 1...
I might be wrong, but I think Math is so beautiful, that to a such essential part of mathematics, there perhaps is a simple intuitive and beautiful re...
Good luck with that, BC. That will be hard even here. Of course there are various levels of authoritarianism, yet we know that authoritarianism, just ...
On the contrary! That we have calculus and these thought experiments still show that we don't fully understand basically infinity (or it's interesting...
How about against the backdrop of Western industrialized democracies? The Swiss don't seem to have much problems. (Having difficulties with the EU sho...
In my view even without living organisms the universe is quite complex. When you add to complex systems more complexity, that is what you get: more co...
As I said earlier, the intelligence establishment has been there well before the current terrorism scare. Yes, the NAFTA deal. The time when the Democ...
Good point, Tiff. I would make the same point too. A vast security system has been already in place for long time. The security oriented approach to e...
And who has really tried it? Nobody. Try to win and depict your opponent in the worst light has been the approach. That hasn't been "trying to reach a...
That other pay homage to you or want to be in good terms with you isn't leadership. That Trump can vouch somebody and be against somebody isn't leader...
Yes, to hell with any kind of desire to reach consensus: the Majority rules, so just crush the minority! That will surely work... ...just as it has wo...
Never underestimate how quickly people can forget the old if something new and more interesting comes up. Trump can very quickly look as old as he is....
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