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If you happen to live in London or ever go there, you can see one of the oldest surviving New Testament Greek manuscripts. It's called Codex Sinaiticus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

It's worse than that. As the next paragraph says: "The online data were collected in two stages. In the first stage, the participants were recruited via several open internet discu…

There's a lot of trust of the government here[1] and in general[2] -- though, as that Gallup link shows, it MASSIVELY depends on which arm of the government you're talking about. A…

Two responses to that. Firstly because, well, that's just the way it is sometimes. Putting a gate in your wall can let in bad guys who can plunder your city, yes. But it can also l…

It feels like everyone would be better served if the tech community admitted the legitimacy of the government's (and many, MANY people's) security concerns and stopped pretending t…

Ah, yeah, you're right. My bad.

Ah How does that work with Norway and Switzerland? Or is that different because they're members of the Schengen?

Gove's statement today -- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-... -- sounds to me like he'd also like the UK to leave the ECHR.

True.

I'm one of those Commonwealth nationals resident in the UK with the right to vote in this referendum. I had thought the case for the UK staying in the EU was obvious until I starte…

Eh, what? Hasn't the ROI had a say up to now? What's about to change? Is the EC about to invade the ROI?

Uh, no. Neither Ireland nor the UK is in the Schengen. The UK didn't want to be, and Ireland opted out because of the UK. From the BBC[1]: "The UK and Republic of Ireland have opte…

Do you know what the estimate is for the proportion of monozygotic twins that are discordant for schizophrenia?

> There is also a quote of Gandhi I cannot find. So I'll paraphrase: If you are angry at someone, and he did not intend to hurt you, you should not be angry. If he did intend to hu…

Wait. So, on your view, it's fair -- "Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination" or "Just or appropriate in the circumstances", according to oxforddictionaries.…

On one version of retributive thinking, retribution isn't really about restoring fairness, about balancing out cosmic scales of justice. It's about giving a person what's due to hi…

That's an extremely narrow view of "secular". Not all secular societies or people are consequentalists. Some are at least as interested in the moral righteousness of a system -- in…

So if imprisoning people for beyond 16 years doesn't provide better opportunities for rehabilitation or reintegration, isn't that a reason to continue imprisoning them beyond 16 ye…

So 16 years is the magic point (for Danes? for [Western] Europeans? for all human beings?) beyond which imprisoning people has no impact on crime rates. Do you have any evidence th…

> "Coming from Denmark where life is max 16 years..." What's the rationale for that limit? Is that the maximum time it takes to reform someone? The time after which anyone's being …

That's not being bad at abstract thinking. That's thinking abstractly (and well), but just differently from you.

> I also read in an article that the order to shot it down came from the turkish president. Can you link to that article?

I don't even know where to begin. And I mean that literally. I started typing about five different responses, each beginning differently. None of them seemed to work, and besides I…

> SCOTUS acts like a classic common law court: the law exists independently of the courts, in the people, and the task of the court is to discover it I hope, for the sake of Americ…