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Over the last 50 years Israel has killed, jailed, maimed, and forcefully removed from their homes far more Palestinians than vice versa. The Palestinians have no navy, air force, t…

There is no obligation for others to evaluate the claims. The line quoted by the parent suggests that it was written by a mathematical crank. I doubt AI would make such an unecessa…

Ok, it’s the first mass extinction event caused by a single species in the last 1.99 billion years. We are shitting all over the planet. It’s not a matter of warm or cold but of to…

Same for me. I wanted to major in physics and I quickly realized that I have no intuition for physics. Math made sense to me and I went to graduate school in math and still don’t u…

He has interesting perspectives in math which is an area I know about. I assume the same for physics. People should read his answers.

We are in the midst of a great extinction event. It’s the only extinction event caused by one species. We are quite bad for the planet’s ecosystem and things like factory farming o…

A system that prices in cost of negative externalities is better than what we have now. A system that caps how much wealth a person can have is a better system that what we now hav…

That Xiaomi has been able to accomplish this in such a short time is quite impressive. The U.S. should allow Chinese cars to be imported. A car centric society ought to try to make…

People used to jokingly say that the way to prosperity is for the U.S. to defeat you in a war. Soon people will jokingly say the way to prosperity is for you to defeat the U.S. in …

I think the essence of the question you responded to is: The U.S. has a gigantic navy and couldn’t force safe passage through Hormuz. Why is this the case? Is the U.S. wasting its …