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by graemep 5mo ago
I am not American. In fact I was born in Asia. The biggest group of people that believe in any God believe in an Abrahamic. The next biggest group are pantheists which is a different concept of God but still distinct from magic.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Western mass media has not been Christian in any meaningful sense for many decades. Much of the ruling class has not been more than nominally Christian for much longer. Maybe less true in the US than in Europe, certainly true in the UK. Eve
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by graemep 5mo ago
> The West's Christian media are largely silent What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I do not think the two should be lumped together. They do both need storage but solar is more predictable. Winds can be low for extended periods.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Just before the referendum. The lead at the time the referendum was called was much wider. One poll even had 66% remain in June 2015, while the Referendum Bill was in parliament.
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by graemep 5mo ago
There seems to be no reason given for why this would be good, nor does it address the reasons why enlargement has not happened. Would people in the EU be generally keen on the largest EU country being a not quite white enough Muslim majorit
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by graemep 5mo ago
Polls before the Brexit referendum also showed a majority for remaining.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Yes, i think the right wording is something like "the power of understanding the concepts" or "having the right mental model" rather than "low level".
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by graemep 5mo ago
Both at about 8 or 9. I taught them a lot before that age because of unsatisfactory schools - especially when we were living (provincial Sri Lanka) at the time I started. The older one went in an out for a bit though. Especially with maths
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by graemep 5mo ago
You cannot have an infallible system, but my point is that Kagi keeps getting highlighted, but no-one else seems to.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Kagi seems unfairly picked on here. Lots of people do business with Russia. Multiple EU countries import gas from Russia which, the UK just dropped sanctions on Russian oil, lots of countries do not have sanctions on Russia at all so buyin
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by graemep 5mo ago
There is an important distinction (more than one, but this is what is relevant here) between the powers of God and magic. God is a being who decides whether to do anything, so is intrinsically not testable. Magic is testable. God exists out
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by graemep 5mo ago
I doubt anyone would debate some of the implications of that. For example, it would be immoral to be deliberately or negligently cruel to them, for example.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Copernicus How exactly? By saying the earth was not the centre of the corrupt and debased part of the universe. Saying it was elevating humanity is looking at it from a modern perspective. For the previous view of the universe conside
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by graemep 5mo ago
I also love A Mathameticians Lament. I did not know about Benezet so thanks for that. I found your blog post interesting too. A lot of this reflects the approach I took to teaching my kids maths (and everything else), both before/along
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by graemep 5mo ago
Iran attacked the British base in Cyprus with drones so has directly attacked British territory. Iran has also been sponsoring terrorism in the UK. Iran has also attacked an American base on British territory. > one of the most corrupt
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by graemep 5mo ago
I do sometimes get blocked as a bot. I have no idea how many false positives there are, but there are some and CF does assume there are none in all their numbers (e.g. email saying they block x bots).
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by graemep 5mo ago
> I can't actually see any text. Turn off JS
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by graemep 5mo ago
Artifacts of any sort, especially technological ones, are subject to such changes over time. House size/living space is far more constant. It would make a good and proxy for riches in a contemporary society too.
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British or European. Inventor was British, working for a European organisation.
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Its always been hard to know. "about one-half the money I spend for advertising is wasted, but I have never been able to decide which half." dates back more than a century Some spend is just in case. Some spend is for prestige (we
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by graemep 5mo ago
Varies between countries, and card company rules are not quite as threatening as actual laws.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Countries that don't collect much tax have real problems with both of these. Nothing like as bad as the potential problem of your economy grinding to a halt. There are other ways to deal with tax evasion. Those countries usually
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by graemep 5mo ago
Or an enemy state of criminals attack centralised systems. Or even just a failure. I think Sweden's biggest concern is the threat posed by Russia.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Syntax is not that important to me. I prefer Python style indentation, but its really not that important - its just something to get used to for me. Is static typing that important for a scripting language? From the intro to the book: >
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by graemep 5mo ago
> As a result, governments continue to strengthen and expand laws in that direction. Which creates national security and sovereignty issues. Cash is robust and decentralised. There is a good reason Sweden went from pushing cashless to ad
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by graemep 5mo ago
> but instead they charge extra for using electronic payment methods. That is illegal in the UK. That is why many trades people here will accept bank transfers but not cards.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Then maybe my other point applies. Secularism can exist within many cultures
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If you constrain it that much it becomes very niche.
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Secularism can mean a wide range of beliefs. A secularist might be a communist of fascist or a libertarian or a socialist or..... How does race come into it at all? Religion is about belief and most religions welcome people of any race.

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