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by yequalsx 15y ago
But computers can only work with recursively ennumerable axiom systems. Humans do not have this limitation. The Incompleteness result shows that the natural numbers as defined by the second order Peano Axioms is different than the natural
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Thank you for your comments. What you said about subtle, constant pressure made a lot of sense to me and put things into perspective. I have a better understanding now.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I don't know you personally. I've read the majority of your essays. Your essays are well thought out and that what you write is purposeful. However, it isn't entirely unreasonable to think that you may[2] you have conveyed something in y
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Well it wasn't as bad in Panama under Noriega as it was in Romania under Ceaușescu. Panama couldn't be called a benevolent dictatorship but it wasn't the worst of them. Times were tough in Panama and this includes being tough for the cops.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I know that it was a Supreme Court ruling that Americans had an absolute right to come into the country. But in the present time we live in a situation where being labeled an enemy combatant or terrorist is grounds for indefinite detention
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I grew up in the Canal Zone during the transition to full control to Panama. It was during the Noriega years and I had quite a few Panamanian friends and went into Panama City a lot. It was a dictatorship. Not at the same level of Romani
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I'm a white middle class U.S. citizen. The only country's borders that I get nervous crossing are America's. I've gotten harassed quite a few times. I'm at the point where I wonder if I'm on a watch list. Last time I was in Germany for 3
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I do not get the lax jail sentences for violent crimes in Europe either. For me it's not about punishment but about preventing such people from perpetrating their violence again. I don't get it but here in Europe (at least until recently)
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The second link hardly endorses your view. It says Although our estimates delineate a wide range of potential savings, systemwide savings from aggressive malpractice reform could approach $41 billion over five years. According to one sou
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Insurance companies don't have a great incentive to lower the cost of their biggest expense? Um, ok. They only have such incentive if it increases their profit margins. There are a number of scenarios where this wouldn't be the case. Th
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The article you linked to doesn't show this. The pie graph at the end has a big green chunk which refers to, "Remaining health care spending". It doesn't say this only pertains to patient care. Also the chart is about spending higher tha
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by yequalsx 15y ago
As I understand it now, doctors have largely invested in testing companies. When they (not all doctors obviously) - I probably thinking primary doctors - order tests the test is a money maker for the doctor. Wouldn't a calculation of the e
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Do you have evidence that you are normative in terms of comparison shopping for healthcare? It seems to me that costs won't vary much between providers and that comparison shopping would be a mostly useless thing to do in the U.S. Indee
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Addition is a function and so functions would be a more basic concept. But functions are sets and sets are a more basic concept. Thus we should study sets. Everything comes from sets. Replace addition with sets and your first sentence wo
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The article is, at best, heavy on the hyperbole and at worst factually wrong. The first sentence is: "So, California is cutting library funding instead of, you know, anything else." The state budget has forced cuts in many departments. We
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by yequalsx 15y ago
"If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer’s certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it’s been installed. " Yeah, it's not a great reach to think that in
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I don't see how installing key loggers being easy is germane to whether or not enhancing Gatekeeper to delete unapproved programs is a future possibility. I read the comment as being, "China's key logging exploits are evidence that it likes
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by yequalsx 15y ago
If option 3 is removed then how is this so? It's not in Apple's interest right now to do this. In five years? Maybe China decides that in order to get access to its market Option 3 must not be available. Maybe Gatekeeper gets enhanced i
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I guess I missed your point. In which case it seems you missed my point. If only approved programs can run on a computer then it is quite easy to disable undesirable programs. There's obviously a kill switch involved. If social unrest get
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Yes. Unfortunately control of citizens' computing is one area that China leads in. Other national government appear to be envious of this control seek to emulate it.
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Right now there is no need to take the option away. You are certainly correct about that. Microsoft is going to soon start pushing its users to buy from its app store. I can see a future in which only 'trusted' programs can be run on new
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by yequalsx 15y ago
We have to define what is meant by "infinity". Do you mean the infinity symbol one encounters in calculus with regard to limits? Do you mean infinite cardinal number? Infinite ordinal numbers? Do you mean the symbols added to the reals i
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by yequalsx 15y ago
The article deals with the infinity symbol as it is used in calculus courses. With such a usage in mind the infinity symbol is not a number and does not represent a number. The usage of the infinity symbol in calculus is merely a shorthan
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I'll discuss various aspects of the issue. I think it is fair to say that a number should be an object of a ring. I'm an algebraist though. That is, there should be an addition operation and a multiplication operation that satisfy certain
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I think Apple's strategy is to provide the best user experience. Clearly they don't always succeed in this but this is their focus. And they have shown over and over again that they can deliver a very good user experience without using th
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by yequalsx 15y ago
You are incorrectly interpreting what I've written if you think it has been belligerent. I'm not an expert and have not claimed to be an expert. I do have extensive experience with developmental learners of mathematics. Think adults who
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by yequalsx 15y ago
"This clears up confusion, or rather prevents it from occurring in the first place." Not in my experience and I venture to guess that you haven't taught developmental learners. Obviously one discusses the order of operations and the fact
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by yequalsx 15y ago
It qualifies you to have a worthy opinion about what works for you. Are you sure that what works for you scales well? I don't remember much of day to day activities in elementary school. I did go to elementary school. But I don't think m
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by yequalsx 15y ago
I've found that most people will correctly do 1 - 4^2 The answer is -15. So what is 0 - 4^2 Most will say -16. To be consistent we must agree that -4^2 is -16 since it is the same thing as 0 - 4^2. It takes a while for students to understan
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by yequalsx 15y ago
Of course it's my opinion. I think it is a worthless activity. I would never use it. Others would be successful with it. That was my point to Patrick. He found some activities worthless and abstracted that to an opinion about worthles

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