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C8 was a stinker. I had to look at Wayfarer's video link for that rearrange, and then suddenly it was easy. So we are on the same page, but I'm going ...
August 31, 2023 at 18:55
It's rather separation that is impossible. My gravitational field extends indefinitely, at the speed of light Excuse me, mind your backs, coming throu...
August 31, 2023 at 18:22
Tomatoes are too watery. I saw a great article on how to make sun-dried tomatoes in the oven, but I don't have it to hand. Or you could use the sun, I...
August 31, 2023 at 08:39
The simplicities of abortion. If anyone claimed abortion was a good thing worth getting pregnant for, I would think them insane. However, society is s...
August 31, 2023 at 08:02
If i cannot touch my coffee, how does it wake me up?
August 31, 2023 at 07:42
My vague and distant impression is that he didn't drain the swamp, he didn't build the wall or make 'them' pay for it, didn't lock her up, didn't de-r...
August 30, 2023 at 21:47
Yup. Stupid, keeping it simple! :yikes: And look, it works!
August 30, 2023 at 15:37
What is… Being Yes. Being is what is. Being is, and nothing happens. Awareness ...is the relation of responsibility. X is aware of y, iff x is able to...
August 30, 2023 at 14:42
Excellent. Once I had that one, I had little trouble up to C6. C7, 8, & 9, I'm still struggling with.
August 30, 2023 at 13:47
I think maybe the main confusion is that for a proof the result is set out at the beginning as the target; you have to take one side and turn it into ...
August 30, 2023 at 12:59
Ok. the rest is easy, use J1 to stick another nothing expression inside c1, to produce the next line. and then use J2 the right way round this time, t...
August 30, 2023 at 12:51
I think it's the layout that's confusing you, along with the strange fact that we already did this by substitution of a, which was easy. This time we ...
August 30, 2023 at 12:16
I know how you feel. It looks pretty daunting. But I'm hoping to at least get a feel for how the formal system can apply to living systems. Maybe... Y...
August 29, 2023 at 13:51
"a" is a circuit, that operates the cross (switch) it is under. If "a" is live, it switches the circuit it is under off. This is how a cross under a c...
August 29, 2023 at 12:36
Small is Beautiful.
August 28, 2023 at 15:57
:ok: when we're done with this book, we can maybe look at http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/VarelaCSR.pdf And perhaps it might start to convince...
August 28, 2023 at 14:02
Thanks for that. You have summarised many of the points of interest, that hopefully we will eventually get to. That it seems to make a connection betw...
August 28, 2023 at 11:57
Make up your mind whether you think it is too boring or too interesting. If you can't keep quiet, get involved! Uninformed and self-contradictory crit...
August 28, 2023 at 11:25
I think most people in the West do not really appreciate how far both Russia and China have progressed in a very short time. This. And yet also there ...
August 28, 2023 at 11:05
:100: https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-desalination-system-inexpensive-0214 If you think it through, Global warming is a crisis of too much free energy...
August 28, 2023 at 10:54
I agree with you these might have a small place in the green energy network and hopefully the efficiency might be improved a little. If I was king of ...
August 28, 2023 at 10:21
That truism has no force. People also want quality things. Of course, no one wants low quality expensive anything. Of course people don't want sufferi...
August 27, 2023 at 18:38
Oh, well in that case, you are wrong. Covid has clearly shown that most people are very willing to make quite radical changes and sacrifices as long a...
August 27, 2023 at 18:19
Of course we do. This thread is about climate change. Anyone else care about that? Or shall we tell a few jokes and shoot the breeze?
August 27, 2023 at 18:12
I don't expect other people to care. But I care. that's all. I'm just some guy railing about what I care about. Nothing for you to concern yourself ab...
August 27, 2023 at 18:08
"Fuck off, you self-satisfied, ignorant blow hard!" Mickey Mouse.
August 27, 2023 at 16:44
It really isn't at all okey dokey, pardn'r. It’s a scandal, an outrage, and a looming catastrophe. And you are gaily peddling ignorant bollocks. Your ...
August 27, 2023 at 16:38
It is, as a matter of fact, but the warming comes mostly from the sun; but the insulating effect is comparable, particularly in the way that it takes ...
August 27, 2023 at 16:29
So once you've put your coat on, you don't get any warmer unless you keep putting more coats on?
August 27, 2023 at 16:18
That's Putinworthy!
August 27, 2023 at 15:19
Chapter 6. The Primary Algebra. J1. \left. {\overline {\, \left. {\overline {\, p \,}}\! \right|p \,}}\! \right| = . J2. \left. {\overline {\, \left. ...
August 27, 2023 at 15:02
So if we stop burning fossil fuels now, and stop increasing livestock now, the climate is going to go on getting warmer, at a gradually slowing rate f...
August 27, 2023 at 08:54
It is closer to being correct than it is to being incorrect. Greenhouse gases act like insulation. So global temperatures start to increase when the i...
August 26, 2023 at 21:16
T9. \left. {\overline {\, \left. {\overline {\, pr \,}}\! \right|\left. {\overline {\, qr \,}}\! \right| \,}}\! \right| = \left. {\overline {\, \left....
August 26, 2023 at 17:57
Yes. somewhere in the introduction/preface he says that this all developed backwards to the way it was written as a way of trying to understand why wh...
August 26, 2023 at 10:34
Of course it would, if application is what you are looking for. My sister used to work for the electricity board on their very early computer that ran...
August 26, 2023 at 08:20
It's all part of Baldrick's Putin's Cunning Plan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wdynZ0iWg&t=3s to make us misunderestimate him.
August 24, 2023 at 12:30
That would be really useful. I had a little go at getting an empty cross and failed miserably, but that sort of confirms the thesis that the world has...
August 24, 2023 at 09:24
Yes, I deliberately started at chapter 2, because that's the point at which something happens. I could liken it to a new game we have to unpack - fun ...
August 23, 2023 at 21:01
'Let' is a command from on High. This how it shall be henceforth. 'Let x be the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin. 'Let' happens ou...
August 23, 2023 at 08:49
Yeah arbitrary limits to your terms to allow your mantra to be true. One tries to engage, but eventually one reaches the outer limits of denialism. 12...
August 22, 2023 at 15:00
Gentlemen, ladies! in another place, we are having some dialogue about a book that is concerned with foundations, which I suspect is part of what phil...
August 22, 2023 at 13:48
The long run includes all the already captured carbon in the Earth, and human exploitation of it too as part of the biogenic cycle. the question is wh...
August 22, 2023 at 12:59
Ok, I'm just going to say a few things by way of my own 'introduction' and then start. First, we have the text, and we have the videos from Wayfarer a...
August 22, 2023 at 12:47
Indeed. A desert is carbon neutral - the environment is balanced. But for a farm, that balance has to extend beyond the farm to the community of human...
August 22, 2023 at 10:04
Every plant (bar a very few and rare parasitic ones) is carbon negative. Every animal and fungus, by contrast, is carbon positive. If a cattle farm is...
August 21, 2023 at 12:25
The above is a very simple example of how to insert environmental costs into an economy that does not account for them, and thereby incentivise the mi...
August 21, 2023 at 10:57
Yes, 2 steps, to be precise. A subsidy on the equipment required to collect the gas, and a tax on allowing its release. Bish bash bosh. Farmers cannot...
August 21, 2023 at 10:41
Here is a slightly more reliable source than the meat industry, with links to scientific papers and consideration of all the various routes of entry a...
August 21, 2023 at 09:11
It can be net zero in terms of carbon, but if you double the number of animals, you double the methane released. in 12 years time all the first year's...
August 20, 2023 at 21:13