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This is a very interesting paper on the subject. Thank you, @"Count Timothy von Icarus"! :grin: :up: Too bad that the basics of category theory aren't...

Just like with alchemy, people could forge metals well and make tools, weapons and armour, but we aren't reading those antique or medieval scriptures ...

So now Israel hit Iran by going after it's air defense. But not the nuclear sites and, of course, not yet the oil installations, which would bounce oi...

How would we perceive them?

Oh yes, many times scientists stumble into something new. And obviously we can use trial and error to get things to work and many times we can be stil...

I think the major problem is that our understanding is limited to the machines that we can create and the logic that we use when creating things like ...

I think that one thing would be obvious in the realism of dreams. If you don't have any idea or experience of something, you likely won't have that in...

Ok, I perhaps I could have better defined the axiom of choice, but in the latter you get the point. That basically was my question. And I think comes ...

Hi javi, Yep, even the Finnish media noticed this. But we can agree that there's countries with even worse public health sectors. But it's the general...

I think it's quite obvious that where UNIFIL has stations and observation posts is known to everybody and in the maps. Let's take for example just som...

Let's try an example to clarify this idea: What would be the mathematical object behind/described by the "well ordering theorem", which can be describ...

I think the one issue in mathematics is that defining a "mathematical object" can be difficult if there are equivalencies, multiple ways of representa...

What seems not to have been discussed is the possible nuclear weapons test made by Iran. If the earthquake in a region where a testing site is would h...

Formation of the Hezbollah was the result of the last occupation of Lebanon. That in itself shows how obvious this is. In an intelligent debate this w...

Whether UNIFIL is successful or not isn't the question here. It's attacking UN blueberets. It's just shows how absolutely reckless Netanyahu has come.

Well, Israel banned the UN general secretary. Since you will have the backing of the US (Biden sent just more US soldiers to protect Israel and deploy...

Ummm....have you noticed that it's colder when the sun isn't up? Especially in the desert it's so. And when the highest temperature recorded temperatu...

I think it's quite reprehensible for IDF to attack UN peacekeepers. A Finnish officer that I know who was in Lebanon in UNIFIL just last spring commen...

Thank you for the response. I don't think we have any real disagreement here and I think you got my point. Well, that article basically states what th...

Good that you agree with the Fischer equation. Yet it's actually very important to understand it, because the increase in the money supply doesn't aut...

Right. But in truth Judea was a vassal of the Seleucid Empire, then become a client state of the Roman Republic, then a client state of the Parthian E...

Remember that now from last June, even officially North Korea and Russia have a mutual defense pact: North Korea had a similar treaty with the Soviet ...

Is that decolonization, really? What's the Roman colony that they wanted to decolonize? Actually those colonial efforts of Rome came later when the re...

? This is quite funny, or as Benkei puts it, false. As Benkei said, Zionism started in the 19th Century is linked to 19th Century nationalism. Also th...

Was in reality the one trillion, doubling of the Fed balance sheet, flagged instantly? Nope. We actually only later found out close the system had bee...

Not actually...money doesn't work that way. It's not about scarcity, it's money moving in the economy and being used to buy stuff. Assume a bank would...

Don't forget South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The Continent of America isn't just the US. ? You mean Latin America and North America ...

Not actually. There's no scarcity of let's say the US dollar. Only that the Central Bank won't do this. But with a few pushes on a computer, they coul...

Somebody is a bit exaggerating here. :snicker: I think the colonization of a whole large continent would still count as the greatest settler-colonial ...

Just scarcity isn't a reason for demand. If people think something is valuable and are willing to buy it, it's valuable.

This is a very good observation. Trade unions have had (and have) both positive and negative effects. Rise of Thatcher has to viewed upon the events o...

It's the common way to seek culprits, but I try to go a bit further here than just say that politicians have made lousy decisions. The question is why...

I'd say terrorism is simply a method of warfare usually done by a non-state actor, sometimes just by a single individual (example of Anders Breivik co...

Thank you @"unenlightened" and @"mcdoodle" for your good comments. How the Conservative party went through Prime Ministers was astounding. The inside ...

We can all believe this. And since people are mathematicians, they can understand the effect when the dean or the higher ups in the universtity or res...

But they do have an effect. Well, It's not like the Catholic Church going against Galileo Galilei and others (or what happened to scientific studies i...

I didn't mean to react strongly. And do note that I said I opposed the kind of thinking. I tried to give the example that in many social sciences (and...

You ought to think about this a bit more: You can hold on to the technical fig leaves, but hyperinflation is similar to default, even if the governmen...

In the US, I assume. But for example in @"Benkei"'s country it was introduced earlier. Yet first income tax was introduced in Ancient Egypt and in Chi...

More like that the truths in mathematics are tautologies: a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form. Wouldn't that descri...

We simply don't understand the logic behind infinity and hence continuity. It's the really big thing missing. The math is already there with calculus....

And unfortunately we do need that thing called "taxation". Also the ruling mafia also defends their monopoly legal tender. Which cryptocurrencies aren...

Yet this fact of life is hardly given any thought now. Bibi's transformed into a wartime leader. He doesn't have to face the earlier political problem...

It's quite telling that cryptocurrencies marketed as "freedom from governments and the central banks" then will have these shady frauds etc. I think i...

Hence the question was stupid, as I assumed. It being a logical system would be perhaps more fruitful, but the notion would still be in the set of sel...

The basic issue is here: what is the objective in the landwar in Southern Lebanon? The political reasoning is to get back the tens of thousands of Isr...

Perhaps a very stupid question: why isn't Math referred simply to being a system?

They can come close ...assuming they get the needed airspace to launch an attack. I assume that Israel has it's Jericho missiles for nuclear deterrenc...

As Israel and Iran are distant from each other, there is a geographic reason that limits warfighting capabilities. Hence both sides will talk about li...

This is a wartime politician on a roll. Fighting Hamas is now a mopping operation and the spectacular pager and the killing of the Hezbollah made like...