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by syzarian 3y ago
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 number of police per 100,000 people in London. Given the
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 usual in field theory, the convention to consider p &#x2
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 such an issue? I don’t know but it may be one that Democra
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 you that requires the masses to employ nuanced reasoning
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 then tax that amount. That a heavier vehicle does more
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 division operation defies the common usage of the term
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by syzarian 3y ago
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.
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 issue that will play well to the masses. For instance, Mi
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 as a radical environmentalist plot to get rid of SUVs and
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 burns on her hand. She learned then that instead asking “Ca
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 involved that a lay person simply can’t appreciate or understa
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 division means multiplying by the inverse. All of the
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by syzarian 3y ago
I'm having trouble following… I know. Please don’t become a teacher.
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 like what we normally think of as division and label your
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by syzarian 3y ago
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. You are free to use any symbol you want but mathematics is a
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 of subtraction. The analogy is not perfect because every
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by syzarian 3y ago
Division is multiplication by the multiplicative inverse. Subtraction is addition by the additive inverse. Both division and subtraction undo their corresponding operation. Multiplying by a (provided it’s not zero) is undone by dividing
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by syzarian 3y ago
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. From their perspective mathematicians appear to do som
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by syzarian 3y ago
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.
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by syzarian 3y ago
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. Overtime is a red herring.
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by syzarian 3y ago
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.
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 be expelled as a result of nonviolent civil disobedience. I
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 is an appeal to a false authority. I have some expertise i
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by syzarian 3y ago
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 reasoned and supported by the facts says very little about
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by syzarian 3y ago
I did!
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by syzarian 3y ago
VoodooJuJu said: …this historian's personal impositions onto this ancient deity… This gives me the impression that VoodooJuJu thinks the historian had an ideological agenda and was making a square be a circle so to speak. If the his
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by syzarian 3y ago
I did not know this. It seems like an apt bit of knowledge and context given current events.
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by syzarian 3y ago
I was responding to your response of dude, come on . That response said much about your frame of mind. You didn’t know about the research article that weakfish linked to when you made it. It appears you had no context or knowledge on th
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by syzarian 3y ago
Your comment makes me think you didn’t read the scholars’ paper. I think you might be imposing your own, baseless, assumption on the scholar’s intent. I think a person writing a research article intended to be read by experts isn’t going
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by syzarian 3y ago
I’m no expert on the precise definition of gender fluidity. Groneberg used the terms transvestism and androgyny . In colloquial language that’s an aspect of gender fluidity , right? Maybe gender fluidity is the wrong term but it’s ce

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