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According to [1] San Francisco has the most police per 100,000 residents in California amongst cities with populations 100,000 or more. According to [2] this is still less than the…

Mathematics is a vast subject and I can’t keep track of all developments. In 2010 there was a paper on meadows . I’ve never heard the term before. In that paper it is written: As u…

Are there any policies that Democrats could enact that would make them lose support? The answer is clearly yes. Is taxing vehicles enough to pay the true cost of road maintenance s…

It’s an issue that Republicans can attack Democrats on. Change is difficult for many people. Political calculations have been made to: 1. Not give an opponent an easy way to attack…

A 2000 pound vehicle driven an average of 15000 miles per year does $x of damage to the roads. X is a calculable figure. Tax the vehicle to at least pay $x. If it is in the pennies…

The one point compactification of the complex plane is not a number system in the normal sense of what that means. Calling the use of the notational convenience 1/infinity a true d…

I don’t think anywhere in the U.S. taxes for registering vehicles and gas are enough to pay for roads. These charges do not pay the “true” costs of vehicles’ damage to the roads.

You are correct that the desire to subsidize commercial activity plays a role. Republicans may not have power in a state like CT but there is still a desire not to be beat up on an…

In the U.S. the reason is the Republican party. If we pay an amount to register a vehicle based on weight due to the increased damage it does to the roads then it will be portrayed…

A child asked her mother, “Can I put my hand in the fire?”. The mother responded, “That’s a stupid question. Of course you can.”. The child put her hand in the fire and got severe …

This is getting very far from where the original question came from. When talking to a layman one would say division is always multiplication by the inverse. There are nuances invo…

I think I understand better where you are coming from. In computer science I don’t know what they typically mean when they say “division”. I’ll be more precise. In abstract algebra…

I'm having trouble following… I know. Please don’t become a teacher.

The word division means something in mathematics. There is general agreement in what that word ought to mean. You can define a binary operation in such a way that it doesn’t look l…

How does your pedantry contribute meaningfully? If something doesn’t behave like 0 in a ring or other algebraic structure then using that label is confusing and simply not done. Yo…

The definition of division is multiplication by the multiplicative inverse. It may be the case that some elements don’t have such an inverse but the definition is analogous to that…

Division is multiplication by the multiplicative inverse. Subtraction is addition by the additive inverse. Both division and subtraction undo their corresponding operation. Multipl…

The question has 300+ upvotes. That’s a proxy for how “good” it is. A person is curious about an aspect of mathematics and posed a well stated question. It is not a stupid question…

do we also say a judge going on vacation is delaying due process ? You are being deliberately daft. Obviously not. The situations aren’t comparable.

If you think overtime is the corruption one should be worrying about from what is described in the article then you either didn’t read it or you have seriously misguided priorities…

Did you read the article? I doubt it since the title is misses the egregious part of the corruption described. It is terrible to be policed by the dolts that were recorded.

The white, female Democratic legislator was not expelled but the two black male Democratic legislators were. The white legislator barely escaped expulsion. Legislators should not b…

Appeal to authority is not an argumentative fallacy. I say this in case you think it is. Almost all of what you believe comes from “authorities”. What is an argumentative fallacy i…

I understand what you are saying and agree with it but not as it pertains to JuJu’s comment and intent. A baseless claim says much about the person making it. A claim that is well …

I did!