Everything posted by StringJunky
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Requirement for two "nows" to grasp the idea of Simultaneity
It's because c is what it is that requires time to dilate and distances shorten the amount they do. The way you put it, the tail is wagging the dog...it seems to me.
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Anthropology and Gender Identity (split from Jordan Peterson's ideas on politics)
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
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Parthenogenesis in condors
Maybe that's a species-survival insurance mechanism when the chips are down, at the expense of variation.
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Total newb question
The notion of 'fixed point' is abitrary.
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What experimental verification exists to substantiate that light from a receding light source travels at c to a relatively stationary destination?
Define 'relatively stationary'. It doesn't matter from which position you take, in time or space, even moving with uniform velocity, you will measure c.
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Understanding Evolution
It's not the size of the virus that facilitates their evolution, it's their sheer number and reproductive rate that allows the chance of many more mutations to occur in a shorter space of time.
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Deforestation and Climate Change
The countries that hold globally-critical resources need to be 'levelled up' with support that means they don't rely on those critical resources. That means we rich countries will have to start taking responsibility for what the have-nots don't have. When they are living largely hand-to-mouth, what can we expect them to do alone?
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Jordan Peterson's ideas on politis
Germaine Greer, J K Rowling also, don't like the concept of transgender because I think they think it threatens, dilutes or confuses the feminist position. In a nutshell, they seem to want gender to be binary. To be clear, male to female transgenderism, feminism and lesbianism are uncomfortable bedmates when discussed in the same breathe.
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Requirement for two "nows" to grasp the idea of Simultaneity
Adherence to commonsense is the ailment.
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not science so much as user feedback
With computers, you should ignore what you don't need. Every app is useful to someone.
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not science so much as user feedback
IIRC Win 10 is being supported until 2024-25, so there's no rush.
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would you help me with future perfect?
Joigus In twenty five years, I will have possessed 14 cars. If you notice, it is from the perspective of the future and looking back.
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Induced nirvana
I'm sure you will crash in some way. You may not get physically addicted but could well get habituated into being compelled to keep doing it.
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Tachyon condensate=hydraulic inertia post breakpoint nodes.
Poppycock
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Mystery Domestic Object
A bureau. I can just picture those securing the curved brass tracks having them on the drop leaf door.
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Mystery Domestic Object
The raised section the threaded part stands on suggests it fits snugly into the same size groove. Maybe a sliding locking nut.
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What is entanglement, both classical and quantum and what is the difference between these ?
That's a neat example of emergence.
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Where are these “unaccounted” for memories?
They may arise with a trigger, like a smell, piece of music etc.
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Jordan Peterson's ideas on politis
Nice condescending style. I always forget to avoid issues of racism and feminism here. It always ends the same. Sorry guys, I'll stay out.
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Do you believe in God?
Still thinking about it, although I'm not religious.
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Jordan Peterson's ideas on politis
But that's not the way it goes between more distant social relations, is it? We can all find a data point of one.
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Jordan Peterson's ideas on politis
So why can't white people use it in the same context?
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Jordan Peterson's ideas on politis
I find it perplexing that some/many black folk refer to themselves as "Nigga"; they aren't helping themselves if they want words like that to disappear from the 21st century lexicon. Many blacks have straight blond hair and yet call out white folk for 'blackfishing' (cultural appropriation) when they braid theirs. I read thiis morning Nicki Minaj had to defend a white co-singer for blackfishing. First thing to do is to check for hypocrisy.
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The other Titanic...
I'm not sure conspiracy threads are allowed. Anyway:
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Bottled Water: Is it better for you? What about the environment?
I think you just need to lower the resolution of the image - downsample.