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by skh 8y ago
Vote and encourage others to vote. Also, it’s worth pointing out comparisons to Europe and Japan to help dispel the myth that we are a shining light to the rest of the world and that we are number 1.
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Unfortunately humans by nature like to compare. I teach at a community college and for my level of education I'm paid much less than my friends in industry. I don't begrudge their success and I'm comfortable with my situati
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Perhaps this will become a new joke. Sort of like the ones about being an atheist, vegan, or being into CrossFit. Yogi Berra's quote comes to mind. I'll paraphrase. No one goes on Facebook anymore because there's too many
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by skh 8y ago
I couldn't find one of the statements you quoted. Specifically, Better share this transcendental experience on my blog. is not in the post. Have you misquoted? Are you deliberately misquoting to prove a larger point? I gather from
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I can give you many more examples of specific computable numbers than I can of noncomputable numbers. This is a bit surprising when one learns that the set of noncomputable numbers is much larger than computable ones. Most of the numbers
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In case someone is wondering about your wording. A computable number is one whose decimal approximation can be computed to arbitrary precision with a finite, terminating algorithm. All algebraic numbers and some transcendental numbers are
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That is a more apt comparison. I was trying to think of one that didn't have the appearance of being anti-religious. Yes, they are like anti-vaxxers.
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At this point in time people who deny climate change is occurring are impervious to logic and reason. They are like people who deny evolution or the people who believe the Earth is around 10,000 years old. Nothing is going to convince the
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Nicely written. Thank you for the link.
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I see your point now. I thought your nonsense comment referred to having teachers be engaged in the fight against food insecurity.
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Republicans have actively sought to undermine Obamacare even though it is mostly a Republican plan from the 1990s. They actively seek to undermine Social Security and Medicare. From my perspective they do not seek to genuinely improve on
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My experience is often times the high per capita costs result from deliberate inefficiencies to benefit some industry. I’m all for making things more efficient but usually that just means, to certain politicians, making it private and thus
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My response is a quote from this article [1]. Although community colleges can decide on their own how to address hunger, California’s community college system offers on-campus training for faculty and staff so they can help students qualif
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I see. The difference in our views comes from me being a mathematician. Curry’s Paradox is not a paradox in mathematical logic due to my objections. In mathematical logic we don’t allow statements that don’t have a well defined truth val
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by skh 8y ago
I teach at a community college. Increasingly we are becoming a business and we now actively recruit people who realistically can’t get a college degree. Due to lower per student funding by the government we rely on tuition and need to mar
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The thing that shocks me is how Americans casually accept that government will pooprly run some programs. It’s almost expected that this be the case. Indeed, one of the two major parties sometimes actively seeks to prove incompetence.
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by skh 8y ago
The P, in your original post, is not a valid formula since it does not have a truth value. You can construct all the proofs and whatnot you want but if P is not a logical statement (one that is either true or false but not both) then the a
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by skh 8y ago
Your reasoning only works for valid statements. That is, statements that have a truth value. As you’ve demonstrated P does not have one. For no admissible statement is P equal to not P.
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by skh 8y ago
If P then Q is a true statement when P is false. (Assuming standard two valued logic.). The statement If P then Q being true does not mean Q has to be true. I don’t think you can conclude Santa Claus exists based on your argument.
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The Fed has been raising rates and is expected to raise rates in each of the next two quarters. They hope they can raise rates high enough, fast enough to give them leverage for when there is a crash. Of course they don’t want to raise ra
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by skh 8y ago
I don’t understand your point here. I did mention in my comment that I was talking about the world's professing Christians. Do you have evidence that amongst the world's professing Christians the idea that the Earth is young but
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It’s fringe in the sense that a large majority of the world's professing Christians don’t subscribe to it. It also seems to me to be a fairly new take on the belief that the Earth is young. Back when I was a fundamentalist Christian
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by skh 8y ago
My brother-in-law is a fundamentalist Christian. My sister homeschooled all 8 kids from kindergarten through 12th grade. His view is that since God made Adam as a full grown man then it's possible that God created the world “with age
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It’s hard for me to understand how an increase in price - in this case through taxation - wouldn’t adversely affect demand. I’m talking in general. If this were the case then sellers would have infinite pricing power and they clearly don’
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The PRC is younger than the ROC. The PRC, the government, have always considered Taiwan part of China. It’s in their constitution I believe.
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What I meant was, didn’t the “Chinese people” (deliberately put in quotes) think of Taiwan as part of China? Japan took over Taiwan from China, didn’t it? As far as I know the PRC has always thought of Taiwan as part of China and I don’t
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I think the point is there are different perspectives that have some merit to them. Both sides have compelling points. But one thing is clear, the PRC have always considered Taiwan part of the China and currently they will not countenance
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I never gave my opinion on the matter. I just stated that the perspective was understandable and it seems you largely agree with that statement. We have the same views on the situation.
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Prior to the Japanese takeover of Taiwan in the 1930s people considered Taiwan part of China. After Chiang fled to Taiwan and placed himself in power he called a Taiwan the Republic of China. The PRC constitution makes it clear that they
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It’s possible to understand a perspective while not agreeing with it. When Chiang fled to Taiwan wasn’t Taiwan considered part of China? You can’t understand why the successors to the victors of the civil war in mainland China want to con

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