None of the above is the reason, IF the US would get into a war with Iran. (As Fishfry said, there's still no war) You should have one reason: "Lack o...
I'm not sure if you have missed it, but this is a total disaster. So now the US is basically attacking militias that are at least theoretically under ...
Yeah, Jeffjo, how isn't it what you said? (Hint: see first line in the quote above) Great! So you admit that what you said was a philosophical stateme...
Infinity is quite useful in mathematics. Doesn't everything in math exist in our minds? Yes, what does it indeed mean? What is the thing that transcen...
I fully agree. The whole notion of talk at the 'national level' is difficult. After all, the whole idea of nationhood is invented, yet however 'artifi...
The existence of national sovereignty or the existence of the state is usually that "higher value". After all, extremely seldom does the enemy literal...
Lol. Well, they took it back so I guess that the cadre was very small. And as Fishfry commented earlier, this experiment wasn't just limited to my cou...
Countries can explain and justify made decisions by a moral stand, but that justification hardly is the reason why they would do something that puts t...
Look, we've got your point, Jeffjo. Hope you would get the point of others too and not just make strawman arguments. No. It's the inconsistency betwee...
I've always said that Trump in his ineptness of leadership, inability to govern or make his own administration to work makes everything so evident, cl...
The problem is that no math course has enough time to really take the time. Usually it's just "here's the proof, there, I showed it to you, now use th...
I agree. Even if math follows it's own logic (no pun intended), it's still something that people do and it does evolve. Early 19th Century Mathematics...
I would give a 4 to Eisenhower and 1 to older Bush and improve Reagan to at least 0. Johnson would deserve a 2. (-5, if he was in the plot to kill JFK...
There are two very basic falsehoods and obvious myths that persist in US politics and with a large section of American voters. 1) The idea of the Omni...
So why vote for either party? A What legislation you specifically have in mind? He has a history of other quite dubious things, but who cares about th...
If you have record low unemployment, then salaries ought to rise. Yet then again it's a sign that the business cycle is reaching it's peak. Playing it...
Well, real median household income is higher than in the end of the 20th Century. Whopee. Of course this rise started during the last Obama years, but...
Exactly. The problem in populism is the juxtaposition of 'us against them'. To think that the so-called 'elite' is some unified group with a clear age...
You mean debt relief? Well, I think the trick was to stabilize the global monetary system, but NOT to get that trillion dollars into the real economy....
I would go with the more narrow definition of it being the juxtaposition of "the elites" being against, oppressing or forgetting "the people". And the...
Great, we both agree on something. And notice the word "could". Could doesn't have the same meaning as is. I've only said it could be a possibility th...
Creativesoul, you have just aptly defined the landscape where populist movements and basically populism, be it from the right (or the left, in some ot...
Yet the erosion of people's agency is seldom solved by those with extremist views. In my view the cure is good governance and solutions that work, not...
But it's the Party, all those superdelegates etc, that make the decision. So let's see what happens. Biden the "boring" might indeed just what only yo...
First, there's a great difference between an individual consumer and aggregate demand. And all those finished goods and services demanded in an econom...
Yes. Taxes and wealth transfers have been invented. But how you calculate 'public harm' is quite difficult when you think of it. In my country one of ...
Remember that the market isn't made just from the producers/suppliers/industry owners. That's just one side of the coin. There's also the aggregate de...
You are forgetting the most important way that proper systemic incentives are created (and to forget this is typical for our time). That is the market...
Right. So you don't do anything with them. Well, neither do I. And that was my point. But from the following it's obvious you don't get it. No, the se...
As typical, voters vote basically on the economy, which actually hasn't so much to do with the Presidency, but has to do with the business cycle. What...
Here's a question I even thought to start a new thread, but this one comes so close I chose to ask it here: Can the Democrats learn from the UK electi...
At least I'm trying to understand your point. (Which you think is impossible, I guess) That geometry is different in two dimensions and more dimension...
It isn't about the skills of the employess or adaption to new organizations and work. It's more about a serious cultural issue. Some French person wor...
And I know that I may not be the sharpest razors here when it comes to math and hence I'm happy if I am shown to be wrong. Yet I think there still is ...
This part of the the article says it all: Civil servants cannot be fired the same way as ordinary employees. That's the problem. Companies and corpora...
Oh I agree totally with you, Harry. Yet we have to answer questions about ethics. Even if we cannot escape our subjectivity, the questions are many ti...
So changing the axioms isn't changing the way think about math? Right. So are against something the idea that if something is inconsistent (in math/lo...
Feel free to think that there is nothing that we could understand better in mathematics any time ever. All I said that what one could easily see even ...
Do you understand Turing's answer to the Halting problem? Just as Cantor's diagonal argument shows that not every infinite set of numbers can be put i...
Very nicely put. Republicans do know where they have to stand. During Nixon's time, they were far more confident where they stood. They could throw aw...
Quite circular reasoning you have there, Jeffjo. The axiom of infinity could be wrong in the way that it is inconsistent with the other axioms of ZF, ...
There is ethics, you know. Science doesn't anything about what would be ethically right or wrong. Science also doesn't answer normative questions. Obj...
True jorndoe, in my view it's a field we likely could find something new. The Church-Turing thesis is quite vague in my view. I think the most importa...
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