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I'm not sure which of the two brothers caught fame first, but at least Bret Weinstein was dragged unwittingly into the public eye with the incredible ...
April 14, 2021 at 21:49
I'm too considering getting getting a new computer and ordered a new one. They said they don't have any clue when the new computer will arrive from As...
April 13, 2021 at 20:32
Those groceries are what is counted in the indexes. And there are ways to make the costs appear smaller. For example, if you buy any tech gadget, they...
April 12, 2021 at 11:28
The basic problem is that any academic debate or the people of an academic or scientific field once drawn into the public media discourse (as Weinstei...
April 12, 2021 at 10:04
Sure. The economy will be just different. Barter isn't the only option, if you have other things that replace the role of money and give the informati...
April 10, 2021 at 23:05
Eric Weinstein is full of theories. You might be more specific just what your referring to and perhaps open it a bit to those who haven't read or hear...
April 10, 2021 at 22:58
Well, a historical collapse of globalization is when antiquity and the Roman globalization collapses into the Dark Ages. A trillion tears for that one...
April 08, 2021 at 09:25
Globalization didn't start in 1980, it might be called an era of de-regulation. Also here it's important to see also the reasons of American dominance...
April 07, 2021 at 21:47
A tiny cabal of people or even single persons that adhere to violence can have huge in consequences if they are successful. The most successful terror...
April 07, 2021 at 21:14
Interesting option to view this like Platoon. Just replace the word "the right" with "the left": "If the left wants to bury the hatchet, they need to ...
April 07, 2021 at 09:31
If I can get in the winter a fresh banana here in Finland, that basically makes us here "winners" thanks to globalization. I even have the option to b...
April 07, 2021 at 01:25
The Trump crowd hadn't been violent before. And of course, Trump didn't respond to the riot, obviously, but just looked at how events unfolded. Simple...
April 07, 2021 at 00:57
I think many did care. This isn't a thing that is new as globalization, which outsourcing is part of, and technological advancement are phenomena that...
April 06, 2021 at 22:36
More courage and less brains? Hmm. If you look at the reality, the American security apparatus has kept tabs on every kind of domestic group there is ...
April 06, 2021 at 22:13
What I think we have is more self censorship and people believing that the society is far more totalitarian than it is. And of course, few know what a...
April 05, 2021 at 23:11
And what actually comes of the Trump brand? You see, the era of social media has made us even more short sighted than ever. We lose focus even more qu...
April 05, 2021 at 22:59
Be it called Miller's Law or principle of charity isn't so important. And also for those of us who have been here for years, every thread, especially ...
April 05, 2021 at 22:46
Donald Jr or anybody of Trump's family has his or her chance if daddy isn't around anymore. You see, it is still Trump himself that has the delusional...
April 05, 2021 at 22:27
Let's remember that Trump was in charge of the executive branch and the commander of the military, hence this would have been a self-coup. Donald Trum...
April 01, 2021 at 08:36
I think nearly all, if not all, of those car manufacturers above listed manufactured cars prior to WW2 with Skoda being the most famous...a rare car i...
March 31, 2021 at 23:58
? The Czechs didn't have it so bad. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire wasn't so backward as let's say Russia. What I remember is that the country (Czech...
March 31, 2021 at 22:27
The obvious example of technology increasing population growth is of course the emergence modern medicine. When fewer infants and children die, it's o...
March 31, 2021 at 10:51
True. At least Trump didn't go to war. What he did was to send some cruise missiles to Syria and killed an Iranian general, to which Iran responded by...
March 30, 2021 at 23:37
Well, if labor creates all wealth, the guy who taps the computer at the central bank and creates a few billion dollars with a few keystrokes must be t...
March 30, 2021 at 23:25
? This is about Marxist theory. Not about reali... hm, better leave it to that.
March 30, 2021 at 23:12
It seems that even if the WHO made the investigation jointly with China about the Covid outbreak and was very diplomatic, some things that the UN agen...
March 30, 2021 at 22:45
Think about it the other way around. What is the opposite of randomness? Something that repeats itself somehow, that has a pattern. How can you know t...
March 30, 2021 at 09:53
Generalization of it being good or bad isn't the best way to think of this. Far better is to make more specific questions about it. There are negative...
March 29, 2021 at 09:55
Ok, Seeing that the excitement of having the new administration has worn off. That took, uh... two months. I'll think the anti-Trump crowd will be on ...
March 27, 2021 at 10:21
As with so many issues, such things are complex in a society and have both good and bad sides to it.
March 27, 2021 at 10:12
I think one positive thing is that it seems the media finally has understood not to focus on the shooter itself and especially not to publish any "dec...
March 27, 2021 at 10:05
Thanks for correcting me, and . Learn bit more every day. Yet of course, in math something important can be said in many ways.
March 26, 2021 at 11:22
I think that what you say is the diagonal argument. A REAL NUMBER that is NOT on that list. That's the negative part. And how do we get that real numb...
March 26, 2021 at 06:48
What? Cantor's diagonal argument is a reductio ad absurdum proof. The link to incompleteness results should be obvious.
March 26, 2021 at 06:33
Yes, you got the point exactly. I would say that the issue has more than just a superficial relation, but that is just my personal view about the subj...
March 25, 2021 at 10:18
I think that the incompleteness results have an effect on a wide range of things not just in the set theoretic realm and with the foundations of mathe...
March 24, 2021 at 10:00
Uh actually.... I think you don't know Finnish history. The story during WW2 and later being non-aligned, not in NATO, never getting the Marshal aid. ...
March 23, 2021 at 20:51
In my view Gödel's incompleteness theorems, as the other incompleteness results, aren't roadblocks. The problem is that many view them as like that: h...
March 23, 2021 at 20:25
Smaller makes it's far more easier to have that feeling of togetherness, social cohesion and to have that "direct democracy". This can be seen from th...
March 22, 2021 at 20:44
Incompleteness theorems. Even if there are the obvious nonsense (just think how much nonsense there is about quantum physics etc), I think there are v...
March 22, 2021 at 15:15
Typically it becomes an issue when the nation state is formed. There are ample examples from history about this. Then one basically has to create a na...
March 22, 2021 at 14:39
Finland. Even if corruption does happen, it is in some countries a bigger problem than in others. It actually defines a lot how people behave.
March 22, 2021 at 01:30
Not in my country. In fact, the more you go back in time, the deeper and bitter the divide was. In the US it's a bit different, because you have only ...
March 22, 2021 at 00:16
19th Century nationalism was about the nation state, that people sharing a common language, culture and perhaps religion would be the ideal state. Whe...
March 22, 2021 at 00:12
In my view, no. What Gödel's incompleteness Theorems and other Incompleteness results (Turing, Church) simply show are the limitations of giving a dir...
March 21, 2021 at 23:43
Actually some people would handle the situation by faking that they have no memory of their past deeds. Would be far easier to go along with the "new ...
March 21, 2021 at 23:39
I somewhat disagree. I think those who change wildly the parties they vote are actually a minority (even if they are a very important minority). Polit...
March 21, 2021 at 23:30
Is it easily acceptable? It's actually telling that people who are critical to the idea of the nation (or nation state) being this common collective e...
March 21, 2021 at 23:22
Of course. This is the normal procedure. I don't think that there is any moral dilemma in this.
March 21, 2021 at 23:14
Actually, I think they simply want radical change. When they are young, they want rapid change. When they are older, they have seen how difficult it i...
March 21, 2021 at 23:10