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Or get Huel. It's pretty much 80% of my diet now. Cheap, nutritious, tasty, quick, and convenient.
September 25, 2019 at 13:10
A small semantic point, but you should be using the term "sexual behaviour", not "sexual orientation".
September 25, 2019 at 13:05
According to Schiff, Trump didn't ask Ukraine to find evidence of wrongdoing but to manufacture it (although I'm not clear how he would know this). Th...
September 25, 2019 at 12:50
It didn't need to mention it because the information it gave – that the motivation was to discredit Trump's campaign – was sufficient to establish bia...
September 24, 2019 at 18:29
It says that the motive of the research was to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign. That’s sufficient information for the judges to come to a decision o...
September 24, 2019 at 17:35
Yes it was. Page 16 of the application (if we’re talking about Page). Although it doesn’t name the DNC because it’s standard procedure not to identify...
September 24, 2019 at 17:05
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Seeing how many issues the U.S. has over the Second Amendment, I'm glad we don't have a written Constitution.
September 24, 2019 at 10:54
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The Thick of It and In the Loop. Love 'em.
September 24, 2019 at 10:10
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Not just her. There were 2 cases being discussed and I think one was by a group of MPs.
September 24, 2019 at 10:08
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True, but I hope it gets cancelled. I'd rather watch something less interesting.
September 24, 2019 at 10:00
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11-0. The Supreme Court is unanimous that prorogation is justiciable. 11-0. The Supreme Court is unanimous that this prorogation was unlawful. Parliam...
September 24, 2019 at 09:36
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Would you vote for AV rather than PR?
September 24, 2019 at 09:27
My current standard is simply that the Inspector General (a Trump appointee no less) considers it credible and of urgent concern (whether criminal or ...
September 23, 2019 at 17:53
We know they want it investigated. The issue is over why they want it investigated and what they’re doing to push it to happen. If Trump is using taxp...
September 23, 2019 at 16:48
You have more faith than me.
September 21, 2019 at 18:42
I didn’t say I don’t know what Trump did wrong. I said I don’t know what law, if any, is broken if the accusations are true. But whatever happened is ...
September 21, 2019 at 18:09
I don’t know what the crime is, but the Inspector General considers it an urgent concern, and the White House considers it bad enough to order the DNI...
September 21, 2019 at 17:25
Using $250 million of military aid as leverage to pressure Ukraine into investigating Biden’s son.
September 21, 2019 at 17:14
If the accusations are true then doing the things he’s been accused of warrants the accusations.
September 21, 2019 at 17:09
There’s enough there to know that this isn’t “Dems inventing fake crimes”, so I ask you again to explain the reasoning behind your accusation.
September 21, 2019 at 17:01
Apparently. There’s an official whistleblower complaint that the Trump-appointed Inspector General believes is credible and of urgent concern and the ...
September 21, 2019 at 16:52
How is it a Democrat invention?
September 21, 2019 at 16:43
It wasn’t deleted: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6681/what-happened-to-my-ignore-list/p1
September 20, 2019 at 11:22
You'll have to ask @"SophistiCat".
September 19, 2019 at 17:30
I don't understand trolls. They know what they're saying is bullshit. So they enjoy their opponents correctly calling them out on the rubbish they say...
September 16, 2019 at 17:48
It’s also responsible for investigating federal crimes. I suspect it was limited in scope because the Republicans who control a majority didn’t want K...
September 16, 2019 at 17:27
Bit more than just pulling it out. And the point is that the first investigation was hardly an investigation at all.
September 16, 2019 at 16:40
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/book-reveals-allegations-brett-kavanaugh-fbis-handling-probe/story?id=65625607
September 16, 2019 at 16:31
The trick is to look at the references section to see where the information is coming from.
September 16, 2019 at 09:31
How does that work? An earlier publication referencing a later publication?
September 16, 2019 at 06:11
You and jamalrob, both in Russia? Have the KGB bought us out? Where's my cut?
September 14, 2019 at 12:00
Hanover does bring the average down. That's why we hired him. Gotta fill that diversity quota.
September 14, 2019 at 11:48
I am, and I'm the best of us. :wink:
September 14, 2019 at 10:21
Nah, they’re shit.
September 14, 2019 at 09:43
No, because the computer could have removed your guess (if it’s wrong), and so the logic isn’t comparable to the Monty Hall problem.
September 13, 2019 at 16:17
If we're playing 99 games then in 33 games the car is behind my door, in 33 games the car is behind the door the computer picks, and in 33 games the c...
September 13, 2019 at 15:50
Actually, you're right. It's 50% for the OP's modified version.
September 13, 2019 at 12:23
I don't think that's right. There's a 1/2 chance that he picks door 2 and a 1/2 chance that he picks door 3. There's a 1/3 chance that the car is behi...
September 13, 2019 at 12:00
33 times the car is behind "my door". 33 times the car is behind "other door 1". 33 times the car is behind "other door 2". If I don't switch then I w...
September 13, 2019 at 11:17
You can win all 99 by switching as well. That's not right. Probability dictates that if we play 99 games then I am likely to pick the correct door 33 ...
September 13, 2019 at 11:05
Forget about Monty opening a door and just look at the initial selection where I have to pick from doors 1, 2, or 3. If we play 99 games then that fir...
September 13, 2019 at 10:46
See my post here. You're right that it's no longer 1/3, but it isn't 1/2 either.
September 13, 2019 at 10:29
There are 3 unnumbered doors. I pick one at random. That door is then numbered "1". The left-most of the remaining doors is numbered "2" and the other...
September 13, 2019 at 10:28
I've changed my opinion on this after running some simulations. Unless I'm doing it wrong, there's a 43% chance of winning by not switching and a 57% ...
September 13, 2019 at 10:21
If we play the game 99 times with 3 doors then we'd expect our initial selection to be right 33 times because the car has an equal chance of being beh...
September 13, 2019 at 10:12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem /uploads/files/z0/sbyjvafvzk7n9l42.png /uploads/files/xp/rn1bnl13x5r7e5su.png
September 13, 2019 at 09:31
The admins and moderators were definitely better at the old place.
September 13, 2019 at 09:28
Still 2/3. The door you chose retains the initial 1/3 chance and the other door must have a 1 - 1/3 chance, i.e. 2/3.
September 13, 2019 at 09:15
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Opinion from the Scottish court: I was right in what I said earlier.
September 12, 2019 at 18:34
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If it's not justiciable then short of a violent rebellion, what stops a malicious government from proroguing Parliament indefinitely? For the sake of ...
September 12, 2019 at 11:00