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It's just that the universe is ordered, and math is the study of order.

As you move up levels starting from physics (eg. physics-> chemistry-> biochemistry-> biology), each layer has several "laws" which are generally pretty established, but a causal c…

Even AOC doesn't believe what she said. She's saying it because she has a startup of her own which sells ideas, and gets paid in votes. It may not be 93%, but she's had a pretty go…

I think he makes two points: - This change of what used be a functional object into a brand was done to appeal to one-upmanship (my watch is more expensive than yours) rather than …

What are these contradictions and hypocrisies? Maybe I'm just old, but I've never understood the angst younger people seem to have these days.

> People feel hopeless, and powerless. Some people, I guess. Looks like more than half the people approve of what he's doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-a…

The effect of the shifting is minor. China's exports (to all countries, not just the US) make only a small difference to their emissions growth. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/…

There were more wars and disasters before capitalism, not fewer. In recent times, both wars and fatal disasters have dropped drastically.

Whether or not degrowth can be made to work, what this guy is talking about is fantasy. For example: ...That creates some pressure on planetary boundaries. So that means that the G…

A core element of socialism is that all industries and natural resources are state-owned. European countries are capitalist, not socialist, and got where they are by being so.

Sure, there are all sorts of problems with capitalism. But as Churchill said about democracy, it the worst form of economic organization except for all the others that have been tr…

There are several fundamental differences between a democracy in a nation and one at a workplace: - Someone owns the workplace. No citizen owns the nation. - If you don't like a wo…

Just wanted to add to the many voices who felt they got way more than the $25 they paid for the content on the site. Wonderful videos, and your passion for cars got me to working o…

Isn't that the same as not identifying it at all? A random guess would be just as good.

Yes, they actually run at near main-line speeds in the UK (60-80mph). Riding one of those at that speed (particularly at night) must be an awesome experience.

The point was that there was just the one legal case, and even that isn't decided. Before creating a law to fight an evil, shouldn't there be some examples of the evil in operation…

This may sound crude, but I think is pretty close to reality. This is Indian activists trying to muscle in on the massive DEI industry in the US, from which they are currently excl…

If it was "the slickest con artist of all time", that would be an achivement of Artificial General Intelligence that the AI community can only dream of.

That because of about 1500 years of strict endogamy. It's only in very recent times that inter-caste marriages have become more common.

The blockchain continues to be a solution looking for a problem.

What Pirsig said about the analytic knife is philosophy.

As a work of popular philosophy, I think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is unequalled. I think it got many people (including me) to an interest in philosophy where they …

We did exceed 50, though it took a while. We produced about 75 of them all together in a batch, and then took 2-3 years to sell them.