Biology consists of functional parts, each of which has its own needs and performs a vital function as part of the whole. "From each according to his ...
The first was descriptive, the second predictive, the third proscriptive. That said, "cancel culture" is overstated. No one is obliged to give you a p...
That is incorrect. Enjoyment of the film may be emotional or intellectual, but the decision to stop watching half an hour before the end is illogical,...
As I said, many might wear it anyway for cultural reasons, but while that threat of violence exists, it can't be dismissed. Remove the threat of viole...
A misreading, then, as ANDs instead of ORs. There are lots of things I love. Travelling and scuba diving are quite expensive. Reading is quite cheap. ...
So there's two distinct things here: context-dependence, and categories. We can discern the difference between 'book' in "Do we need to book a table?"...
Of which you counted me among. So yes, that is what you did. I think it's because, as Gus has pointed out, he doesn't field answers he's not predispos...
Spot on, but in 4D instead of 3D. A good analogy is Bloch waves: these are steady-state waves in periodic structures such as crystals. Stationary Bloc...
I've been like this since I was a child. I grew up with a single parent in council housing at a time when that was considered immoral. Your equating o...
It's not entirely under my control: I cannot stop someone from murdering me, for instance, if their heart is set on it. But it's not entirely outside ...
Ah, I see what you're saying. Yes, in a sense the overlap between retarded and advanced waves that 'realise' the particle trajectory is a kind of inte...
Probably not a lot, since I will have been kidnapped and deprived of the things I love about life. I have heard and experienced that people who don't ...
Exactly right. What the low-frequency experiment tells us is that it isn't one photon from the beam interfering with another photon, but each photon i...
My country has been effectively bankrupt since WWII, doubly so since Thatcherism. Before the pandemic, we were still the fifth largest economy and had...
That would be quite corrupt (and therefore you're right, that's what will happen). Congress has already answered the question of whether an ex-Preside...
The double-slit experiment holds for light too. If you fire individual photons through the slits, you still get the interference patterns. It's not ju...
This is called 'the measurement problem': wavefunction evolve deterministically according to the many-body Dirac equation, but those wavefunctions cor...
I take credit for nothing. On the contrary, I'm well aware that being alive is a privilege and I intend to fully exploit it. If you're not only not en...
If you're enjoying doing something, and you have the viable option to keep on doing it, why wouldn't you? Because one day you'll have to stop anyway? ...
Aye, I genuinely think they'd expected that ending freedom of movement would somehow only effect brown-skinned people. I mean, we're British! Surely w...
Well, that doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does. People do have the ability to split when a relationship is bad, which ups the average for ...
IG have stopped trading GME and AMC again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55871381 I saw an interview with the RobinHood CEO in which he suggeste...
There was a Daily Express (I know, but it's good) interview yesterday with a woman in exports bemoaning the amount of bureaucracy, the amount of parke...
I'm not sure any scientist would appreciate your adjectives. If God did not exist, he could not have created the universe is sound enough. Goes a bit ...
Yes, consensus is encouraging. This is why it's important to have e.g. scientific consensus so that you can't have people just making stuff up. Howeve...
There's an error here. Yes, a remarkable event is likely to be remembered, but you're not assessing the event: you're assessing the memory. The conver...
I like it. Why would I stop? I get to meet people, have interesting conversations, make friends. Sometimes I get to have sex with them. Sex is excelle...
... your point was utterly irrelevant, yes. Depends how much you care about democracy, I suppose. For people who do, a President that courts foreign i...
Historically, women worked, and children were raised by entire villages. That arrangement doesn't work now, so different arrangements are judicious. I...
So women (since you specified women, not "one of the parents) can empower themselves so long as that empowerment looks identical to being trapped in d...
Of course you could(n't) care less. He's your man, and anything he does is fine by you. He said it himself: he could shoot someone in the street and h...
The comparison is apt imo, the key features being: convincing the public that certain people present an existential threat to them; convincing the sam...
It seems consistent with your disregard for evidence that a Special Council investigation finding a President welcoming and benefiting from Russian in...
They maybe had to take it down because it's unethical for a television journalist to use his platform to actively try to devalue the stock price of a ...
Hell of an insight into how you rationalise Trump from the vile, pathetic human being he is to the American hero you see him as. Usually people consid...
Yeah, this is my understanding of it. One of the principle consequences of low stock value is an inability to attract loans and investments. As the gh...
Your assumption appears to be that the brain is a reliable and high fidelity piece of equipment such that if it says you remembered a thing before it ...
My understanding is that deja vu occurs when your brain glitches and processes the same thing twice, meaning that the second time you process it it fe...
Let me stop you there. Equality in this context is not about an Arkansas inbred being given the same job and pay as a prodigious scientific genius. Eq...
I'm not sure I'm seeing what you're seeing. Seems like the usual array of backgrounds in industry, law, politics and the military. Well, I don't know ...
Claims of fact do demand evidence. Otherwise "fact" and "making shit up" become the same thing: the post-truth philosophy. Anyway, proof not required ...
Which individual? If you mean all individuals, that's a group. Unless those that are not empowered are just a random sample, it's difficult to avoid g...
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