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by skhunted 2y ago
Can you point to evidence that NATO troops are fighting in Ukraine?
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by skhunted 2y ago
This has been the biggest disappointment of the Biden administration. The U.S. policy in this war has been to give Ukraine just enough weapons to keep the war going. It’s pathetic.
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by skhunted 2y ago
There are no NATO troops fighting in Ukraine.
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That would help. A better way of tackling the issue is: Governments must introduce permanent income and wealth taxes on the top 1 percent, ban or punitively tax carbon-intensive luxury consumptions —starting with private jets and superyac
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by skhunted 2y ago
I mostly comment on my iPad. When using an iPad it’s hard to get spelling correct. Also, language changes over time. For instance, “I could care less” is starting to mean “I couldn’t care less”. When enough people say or use a phrase inc
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One influences the other. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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by skhunted 2y ago
The point I was making is that this phenomenon occurs in other languages. Arabic and its phrases involving "allah" first came to mind. So how was this "needlessly"? I needed to give an example of this occurring in ano
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Nice. I think it would probably be more effective propaganda to say the "jihad on Christmas" than the "war on Christmas".
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by skhunted 2y ago
It was pointed out that in American English we overuse "war". I pointed out a language that overuses a different word. I imagine most languages have a bunch of phrases involving an overused word. My point was that this phenomen
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Please spare me that "war" simile, it only shows you're an American who can not write too well. It’s understandable that you don’t like the desensitization of war that comes from our over usage of the word. Perhaps it spea
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by skhunted 2y ago
People can be convinced that vaccines are bad and that they shouldn’t vaccinate their kids against polio. You can convince someone of just about anything. Sometime in the future measures against false information will need to be taken to
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Terry Tao in one of his analysis books writes: Functions are also referred to as maps or transformations, de- pending on the context. This after defining a function in essentially the same I did.
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It’s strange to hear a fellow mathematician say that if I’m in set theory class then a functional is a function but isn’t one in functional analysis. In Rudin’s Functional Analysis book he proves that linear mappings between topological spa
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by skhunted 2y ago
I never expected some obsessive user to make 6 different replies to one of my comments. Wow. You have 6 posts in the thread started by my top comment. I had multiple replies to one of your posts because HN requires one to wait a while to
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by skhunted 2y ago
This checks the meaning box because Peterson is doing something meaningful that I agree with and identify with on the world stage, which I’m afraid is where the bar is for me if I’m not going to be the frontman. That's definitely a w
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Students don’t like “real world” problems. They say they want more of that but when you actually do those types of problems they complain or do poorly on them. Word problems are even more confusing to students than non-word problems. The
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by skhunted 2y ago
Calculus 3 in the U.S. is multi-variable calculus. Sometimes and introduction to linear algebra is given in this course. Calculus 4 is differential equations. It’s almost never officially called Calculus 4. Sometimes an introduction to
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by skhunted 2y ago
If one has a “thing” that “maps” elements of one set to another that satisfies the condition I previously gave then that thing is a function. Every functional satisfies that definition. Therefore every functional is a function.
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by skhunted 2y ago
In general, instead of resorting to name calling it's best to just walk away. It makes you look bad and unreasonable.
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The word "function" in the analysis namespace defines it to ONLY EVER be a mapping S -> R or S -> C, where S is a subset of C^n or R^n. The word "function" is not allowed to be used - within this namespace - to de
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by skhunted 2y ago
[edit] I've finally blown it. You're a moron. Your definition of "function" as some subset of AxB is how it's defined in foundations. It's not how it's defined in analysis. In analysis, your definition wo
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by skhunted 2y ago
You genuinely don't know what you're talking about. .... I find it aggravating how you're so confidently wrong. This is a fine example of irony. Let V be a vector space over the reals and L a functional. Let v be a partic
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by skhunted 2y ago
The removal of such emotional baggage from a subject greatly nerfs the ability of people to manipulate public perceptions by tugging at heartstrings with phrases like "underclass of migrant labor whose human rights are always in jeopa
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by skhunted 2y ago
Everything I wrote was assuming set theory as the foundations for mathematics and applies only to that setup. At any rate a functional is function since the definition starts with: a functional is a function from… Some books will say:
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by skhunted 2y ago
What argument? I’m not making an argument. I’m pointing out what I think are facts. Apparently you don’t have enough wealth provided you are in the U.S.
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By contrast, the term "function", as used in mathematical analysis, explicitly excludes functionals. The two definitions of the word "function" are both common, and directly contradict each other. This is incorrect. I
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Every healthcare system rations care. In the U.S. that rationing is largely based on quality of employment or how much wealth you have. To some this is a largely immoral way to ration care. As with all healthcare systems if there is a sho
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Don’t know if you are a mathematician or not but mathematically speaking “function” has a definition that is valid in all mathematical contexts. Functional clearly meets the criteria to be a function since being a function is part of the d
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A functional is a function.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Humans are a stain on the world. We are rapidly turning the world into a shithole. There are far too many people.

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