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blind to the history of scientific racism Slavery is much older than the period that the term "scientific racism" refers to. Older slave holders had no trouble justifying slavery. …

From the quoted article: - "modern Europeans and East Asians apparently inherited about 2% of their DNA from Neanderthals" - "African individuals on average had [...] more Neandert…

What credibility do the RAINN numbers have? The Wikipedia article [1] leads to [2], a RAINN page which links to itself (quote: "Please visit https://www.rainn.org/statistics/crimin…

I completely agree with you. That's why publicly saying "you are wrong" is so powerful (and so dangerous). The powerful are not used to be challenged in public. They typically resp…

Praise in public, criticize in private In my (considerable) experience of working in large organisation (private and public), whether this works or not depends strongly on the powe…

What you are saying is that classical should appeal more to popular tastes. Maybe we should restrict classical rhythms to 4/4, ensure that all songs are around 4 minutes long, 132 …

Classical music is fine as it is, no need to change. Why should being based on improvisation and unique personal expression be the be-all-and-end-all of analysis? Not everybody wan…

The OP didn't suggest she had better data, the OP said that there is no consensus. in another post the OP said that is no serious, solid research.

To paraphrase Brecht: Who fights for XYZ must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to …

There is an interesting related paper " Copy and Paste Redeemed " [1] that is based on the assumption that a lot of copy/paste happens (and discusses why this is not necessarily a …

Interesting. Have you got an 'official' link for Calacanis' proposal?

I'm curious: why and how do you think Exterior Algebra will have such an impact on programming in general? What programming constructs that EA capture that are currently not well-a…

You keep ignoring the elephant in the room: that she was wrong (in the charitable interpretation). Why? I'd appreciate it if you could state clearly whether you think - F. got it w…

The section you cite does not mention that F. explicitly campaigned against the helix model for a while. Why? If we exclude the option that she deliberately lied about it and publi…

Might this criticism have been politically motivated? For a while she actively campaigned against DNA being a double helix, see e.g. her 'obiturary' for the double helix [1] which …

Adultery is a reason for divorve. The "bad times" refers to calamities beyond the partner's control like illness, accidents. The marriage contract is only valid as long as both par…

The discussion here is whether women have more rights than men, or not. Sexual violence against women is irrelevant here, since it's illegal (unlike sexual violence against men). Y…

And child support mainly takes into account who's the parent of whom Actually it mainly takes into account the woman's wishes. If the woman states that X is the father and for some…

Yes they do. I take you, ..., to be my husband and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful wife, as long as our lives shall last. I will se…

you promised to take care of your wife It's not an unconditional promise. The promise assumes that the partner does the same. Yet only men are being punished (via taking their chil…

Safe havens are about saving babies’ lives, not their parents. No, they are about women's convenience. Also, no one can force anyone into parenthood You are kidding, right. Sperm t…

Still they make less money, Wrong, they make more money for the same work. bear the cost/burden of child birth, With modern contraception tech, children is a lifestyle choice, like…

Your doctrine would in practice massively disadvantage both women and kids Your doctrine does in practice massively disadvantage both men and kids! Why do you insist that women nee…

Let's look at the facts! The original Marshall plan was worth 5.2% of German GDP (of 1952). Greece has already received 185% of its GDP, in other words, other countries have given …

Sinn, Hans-Werner, "The Greek Tragedy", CESifo Forum 16 Special Issue 2015 (June), 2015, 5-35, downloadable from https://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/publications/docbase/...