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So, in a universe with just 7 numbers, { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }, the subset { 2, 4 } is represented as 0010100. So, the binary representation is as lon...
February 26, 2020 at 05:37
Psychology and economics were never blindly trusted and are widely considered to be mostly conjectural. Medicine has also always been distrusted to an...
February 25, 2020 at 18:20
The problem is the definition of the term "ideology", i.e. "beliefs held for reasons which are not purely epistemic". There is a legitimate justificat...
February 25, 2020 at 16:11
Well, that would even turn breathing into an ideology. A lion has to hunt for larger animals of prey. So, he is forced into a survival-through-hunting...
February 25, 2020 at 16:00
What a Faustian pact: destroying the boys because that makes the girls look better. Well, I guess that is how we ended up with all these beta-orbiting...
February 25, 2020 at 15:28
Well, not necessarily. Most people I meet on a daily basis here in SE Asia are just like me, digital nomads and location-independent entrepreneurs. Th...
February 25, 2020 at 15:13
Well, The first four search results for search?q=feminization+of+boys+in+school How the Schools Shortchange Boys. In the newly feminized classroom, bo...
February 25, 2020 at 14:26
I just wrote a post about the bi-interpretability of PA and HF. The worst problem I had in investigating this idea was to find examples of how to tran...
February 25, 2020 at 13:33
People also become aggressive just because they can. Especially armed men in conquered territory are notorious for that. (or just any man during a bre...
February 25, 2020 at 11:02
The only means are men who are NOT feminized pushovers. So, yes, keep feminizing the boys and see where you will end up. The practice of recruiting se...
February 25, 2020 at 04:27
It is still civilized here; much more than what it will most likely soon be in your corner of the world. Look at what kind of guys are going to lead t...
February 24, 2020 at 14:04
There is nothing to conceptualize. It just is what it is. Once the now disfunctional societal framework will have collapsed (the sooner the better) it...
February 24, 2020 at 10:51
I don't know.
February 24, 2020 at 04:36
Islam is something that I downloaded from the internet, just like my current linux distro and my bitcoin wallet. I wasn't born with any of that. I may...
February 23, 2020 at 20:34
It is the fake news itself that will educate the public on fake news. That is actually an excellent thing. After 70 years of television culture and un...
February 23, 2020 at 18:06
For male biology, procreation is a privilege acquired through either violent combat ("mating season") or possibly through civilizing hacks such as mar...
February 23, 2020 at 15:34
Analytic a priori knowledge are definitions and possibly axiomatic rules. Synthetic a priori knowledge is what you can deduce by using analytic a prio...
February 23, 2020 at 15:15
Seen in a more financial context, it may actually be the other way around. Men may easily hand over 70% of their income for dependents. So, if he make...
February 23, 2020 at 05:37
That is indeed a potential problem. In this case, I would be re-purposing an environment of existing licensing regulations to solve a problem, regardl...
February 22, 2020 at 11:13
Agreed. It is backed by witness depositions vetted by means of the historical method. Somewhat agreed. It is true in every model-universe-world that s...
February 22, 2020 at 10:00
And now you are even an amateur psychiatrist publicly practising medicine without a license. Apparently, I would need to do the following things: I th...
February 22, 2020 at 07:34
That is a jurisprudential question for which I am not the right person to produce a religious advisory. Which one of the 200+ governments on this plan...
February 22, 2020 at 05:29
You are not the only one doubting things in that context: The "creating evil thinking" problem is about the following sentence in the Indian research ...
February 22, 2020 at 05:12
Islamic law forbids enslaving Muslims. Therefore, I do not run that risk by giving a proper education to daughters. In fact, external signs of Islamic...
February 22, 2020 at 04:50
Well, you did, by turning it into a personal affair. It is not a personal affair. I personally believe what the Jewish scholar Hans Joachim Schoeps ob...
February 22, 2020 at 04:22
Gang rape is a lapse in discipline and a violation of Islamic law. There is absolutely no religious scholar in Islam who would ever approve of that. I...
February 22, 2020 at 03:55
I think that there is no need to become too personal in these matters. That is just going to cloud our insights. In fact, these Yazidi women were in p...
February 22, 2020 at 03:38
Yes, I guess that this is probably quite correct. It is a bit a similar situation to what you see in mathematics. There is no justification whatsoever...
February 22, 2020 at 02:43
There is still an uncanny similarity between the pretty much biology-wide mating season and war. In an agricultural society, there would probably stil...
February 22, 2020 at 02:18
Ha aha ha! ;-)
February 22, 2020 at 01:51
Possibly, but only when born in slavery; not when originally free men. Controlling free men requires a prison structure. Otherwise, it is too dangerou...
February 21, 2020 at 19:40
That remark sounds like word-salad rhetoric from someone from the liberal arts. It is not about "preponderance of evidence" or any "burden of disproof...
February 21, 2020 at 17:01
This is possible but not necessarily sure. Still, I would not dismiss it as impossible either. ISIS actually did exactly that with the Yazidi follower...
February 21, 2020 at 16:44
Well, we will have to agree to disagree. Knowledge without any possible application, ever, not even in a deep downstream domain, is in my opinion ulti...
February 21, 2020 at 16:24
I am absolutely not that sure that that world is permanently gone. It may just be gone for the time being. If the framework that prevents it, collapse...
February 21, 2020 at 16:05
Well, concerning "very minor evidenciary gaps", I do not think that the speciation problem would be minor. The problems that Darwin mentioned in Chapt...
February 21, 2020 at 15:49
I actually did. Does that non-human technology even support speciation? The only way to provide evidence for such claim consists in triggering such sp...
February 21, 2020 at 15:22
Well, that just means that it cannot be done. That does not mean in any fashion, however, that it is not necessary. The impossibility to do that, does...
February 21, 2020 at 15:08
Well, no, I just thought that @Artemis objection was more interesting than your disconnected remark about (Barrack Obama's and Aung San Suu Kyi's ridi...
February 21, 2020 at 14:46
Charles Darwin asked the following questions about his own theory in "Difficulties of the Theory": Evolving modified apples out of the original apples...
February 21, 2020 at 14:08
The knowledge database of religious advisories keeps growing every day. Look for example just at this one site: https://islamqa.info/en. Every time th...
February 21, 2020 at 10:58
There are ineffable numbers. Just look at Richard's paradox. The short of the story is that language expressions are countable, while real numbers are...
February 21, 2020 at 06:46
It's a really long article ... Visual thinking is undoubtedly a staple in those areas in mathematics, such as geometry, that end up downstream in cons...
February 21, 2020 at 06:20
It looks nicely falsifiable. In my impression, it looks like genuine science. Any reason why it would not be? I only mention it when it is relevant to...
February 21, 2020 at 05:10
February 21, 2020 at 04:53
There is still a very serious difference between: versus: Producing different dog breeds is not exactly the same as producing a dog out of a single-ce...
February 21, 2020 at 00:12
STEM is not about dealing with useless verbiage. The core question is : What can you do with evolution theory? What applications? Where is the money? ...
February 20, 2020 at 17:22
Proving God from what axioms? I am not interested in any of that. I am only interested in religious law as a formal system. I find the most interestin...
February 20, 2020 at 16:47