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I agree with you which is why I got downvoted too. People with nothing better to do in their lives than get paid to downvote on public forums. My solution I guess is to leave this …

Yeah, you're right. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/758803/Oxfam-scandal-sex-a... https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/918425/OXFAM-SCANDAL-chari... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…

At least some of life for some people is luck in the real sense that undeserving people (Joe Biden's son, say, merely to cite one example) are lifted up thanks to who their parents…

How about the future value of dollar spent today? What the best and brightest do is advance science, including the science which later alleviates the issues plaguing the the bottom…

2). If you include civil war and if you allow that civil war to be a war of factions within the CCP then you're wrong. There will be a new leader of the CCP, call him / her China's…

Consumers are expert at detecting what has value for them. Putting the "correct" price on it means locating it on the can-pay / will-pay / will-pirate normal distribution of price …

Someone, a woman, I forget her name, a physicist has lately questioned the parsimonius assumption or more accurately the whole beauty assumption, meaning, roughly, the most beautif…

Not parsing it quickthrower2. I get two possible parses: Bisons (Buffalo) bewilder (buffalo) Buffalo bisons (Buffalo bisons) confuse (buffalo) annoy (buffalo) and vexate (buffalo) …

Sure. In Java a class named : ArraysOfConcreteParameterizedTypesAreDisallowed The body of this class is a proof of this fact.

>>But once we reduce things down to simple logical axioms and constructs, these exist as much as anything can be said to exist. I agree. But this assumes logic and at least the pri…

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Bisons hailng from Buffalo, N.Y. confuse confound and befuddle more of their own kind.

I always hear this back from people, but it's a failure in understanding what's being said. You can't conceive of any future "knowledge" or state of being or most broadly, "configu…

I have a folder named "proofs" on my machine which is just this. About 1500 and counting little programs that demonstrate or prove that something works some way or another. The cla…

This. It is discovered in the same sense that humans "discover" facts about humans via science- we're not born with perfect self-knowledge. It is "created" because there is no guar…

All religions have a mystic branch which describes an awareness , usually transient, of a higher order to reality in which the suffering of people is "redeemed" or put into perspec…

Luxottica is an unusual case. Most monopolies aren't that durable and Luxottica has challengers now. Also, the law in the US which says you can't buy glasses unless you have had an…

Not to be cruel, but the preexisting, running total of human suffering and tragedy in this world points to the fact that transcendent reality, the realm of God or a God, must have …

I find I just can't relate to what you're saying although I can tell you're perfectly sincere and what you say makes sense insofar as its coherent and on topic. I get your point, I…

OK let me get this straight, just so I understand. It's flamebait to recite the material and relevant facts about the Chinese Communist Party / dictatorship including the fact that…

You're conflating ideas. The virus started in China. The virus spread from China because of of the Communist Chinese Party's denial and lack of response. Those are, in turn intimat…

A treatment will be the first through the gate. Then a vaccine. But a treat will be enough to get people out again. That and the discovery through testing that people are immune.

Yeah those three nations are not that different from each other relative to the spread that exists between them and other nations. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-daily-ca…

What you're describing is "the best way to do science, so we can make some progress". That's all well and good but what other people are talking about is the nature of reality whic…

> and yet it doesn't seem to trouble anyone. Do mathematical things exist independently of the minds who conceive of them ? The ontological status of abstract things, right? My poi…

>What is an illusion? To my mind, an illusion is a perception or inference thereof that, taken at face value, entails a falsehood. But that is not the part of the illusion we're in…