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> in the sense that "mathematical entities are abstract, have no spatiotemporal or causal properties, and are eternal and unchanging" oh THAT sense, why didn't you just say so? but seriously what does that sense have to do
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> the picture of the circle isn't clutter - in a very precise sense it is the definition (platonic ideal) Which precise sense? I get that language is slippery, but I can't follow you if you get philosophical, bring up fields (m
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> You'd have to be slightly insane to say that "x^2 = y^2 + z^2" is a more intuitive way to explain what a circle is than a picture of a circle. I would expect any freshmen STEM student to recognize sqrt(x^2+y^2) as the di
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Smells like a steak and seats 35! https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA
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I taught intro programming twice this year. Having never taught a CS class at all (I am a math phd)... I would just like to point out that at least at "satellite state U", most students are not like you. The class almost went off
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Agree... but fentanyl wasn’t mentioned.
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Prince changed his name to a symbol. “ After the change, Warner Bros. had to mail out floppy disks to news organizations featuring a font that allowed for reproduction of the new Prince symbol, because the symbol itself cannot be replicated
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> I see people stealing, doing hard drugs like heroin or meth, prostitution, and doing other anti-social behavior daily but we all just accept it now. Uhm... opiates and prostitution have been around for quite some time. Large scale pri
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Thanks for sharing this, I have never heard of VRU or the American versions in Boston and Cincinnati. Though I'm no fan of reliance on stop-and-search.
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"They can kill the Kennedys but they can't make a decent cup of coffee?" Army Man Magazine: https://armymans.tumblr.com/
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I will drink to that.
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A lot, and increasing. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/923844907/when-shoplifting-is...
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> unhelpfully reductive I can see an argument for this in any particular case. But then I think about the makeup of the US prison population and realize that I'm correct. You only go to jail for certain crimes in this country (not t
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> how are they enforced? I can guarantee these rules are not enforced uniformly across socioeconomic class.
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I would place more money on her being of lower socio-economic class than her peers. These "zero-tolerance" policies are rarely applied equally across class.
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Virtually no one goes to jail for wage theft. https://www.gq.com/story/wage-theft
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You have a collect call from Rikers Island, do you accept the charges? Edit: the "joke" is the number of people (notoriously) held in Rikers island for ridiculous "crimes". https://www.newyorker.com/magaz
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It’s almost as if the justice system is designed to protect the owners of capital... same reason you can go to jail for shoplifting but not wage theft.
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> Morally, I want to say this style is good, but I don’t really have any idea if it’s the best way to lecture something. I think the entire point is that it's not a lecture. The internet allows us to share a video showing how the
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This really gets to the core of my love/hate relationship with the "weird" internet. I was an Ars-poster ~20 years ago and hadn't heard any of those rumors. Never ventured into 4chan for more than 5 minutes at a time. Bu
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A strange determinant – Timothy Gowers solves a problem [video](youtube.com)
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I never learned the usual way to tie shoes. I kind of do the "two loop" but double it up. I'm a five-year-old at heart. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/twoloopknot.htm Professor Shoelace kind of looks l
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> Are you arguing that Iran is more safe due to the fact they lock up less people? No, I'm stating the fact that the nytimes (and the like) will repeat US gov propaganda about how Iran/terrorist-org-du-jour is so authoritarian
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I would argue that police in inner cities are a bit like the drunken reveler looking for their keys under the street light because they can't see anything elsewhere. Could certainly use a few more detectives poking around Wall Street..
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> Am I mistaken? Yes, we can defund them. Here in Pennsylvania, numerous rural (read: white) communities have disbanded their local police departments. Lack of tax dollars and, as I like to think, it's stupid to pay for overtime, SU
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> Because an enormous swath of its population is dangerous, unfortunately. I know! Wage thieves, environmental criminals, bankers, the Sacklers...
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People are very unaware of the egregiousness of this "training".
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> Just because it doesn't happen as often in other wealthier western countries doesn't mean it only happens in the US. Ok, but you're looking at the rank #1 member of a power law distribution. https://www.prison
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The uniformity of police violence is almost completely unexamined in the large news outlets. Why do our tax dollars go towards "killology" bullshit?
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What does a close-to-100% top marginal tax rate have to do with workers owning the means of production? Yes, I’ve met a lot of people from former Soviet states that say the same things. But I also know even more people who lived in the USA

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