I didn't realize that open math problems were a finite resource. I recall a story about some famous mathematician (Gauss?) dismissing interest in Fermat's Last Theorem claiming that he could crank out problems of…
What worked was getting people stirred up to the point that some would turn to violence. Even now a majority of their party believe they were justified. That helped them take control of politics. And so that tactic will…
If the extremes are unelectable, the center party should split eventually. They'll find something to disagree about. As long as they are more terrified of losing to the extremists they'll try to keep it together as long…
The grammar is more straightforward. It has some extraneous words, and makes conspicuously bad choices of vocabulary, but it's still a more direct statement.
It is remarkable how much it resembles the medieval T&O maps, including putting Jerusalem and the Mediterranean at the center of the world. (Which is what Mediterranean means.) And the East at the top (where we get…
America won Iraq and Afghanistan in a walk. They didn't do a great job of nation building afterwards, but the actual war part was very successful.
The jargon term "exercise mimetic" is really badly named. It means only that it mimics some of the effects of exercise -- in this case, appetite suppressant. So the term does distinguish it from the GLP-1 drugs, which…
“Give House Democrats an ounce of power, and they’ll use every bit of it to fundamentally transform America into an unrecognizable socialist hellscape,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the House Republicans’…
I'm unclear on why you're asking. You're written the question to presuppose an answer, but I'm not clear on the point you're making. It doesn't seem germane to my comment above.
America's far-left is marginalized, with practically no power. Whereas this is about the Minister of National Security. American right wing propaganda loves to describe anybody who opposes them as "far left", but…
I thought that untreated rabies was almost invariably fatal. The symptoms are quite obvious. Is it possible that there are a lot of asymptomatic rabies cases, who end up dying from some other cause?
I thought the entire point of a jury is that they do live under a rock. You seek out people who know nothing about the case, and then (if necessary) sequester them to ensure that they continue to know nothing. As I…
OK. And now you've spent that notoriety. What now? It's clear that the US attack did not cause regime change. It may have delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions again, but they will presumably restart immediately after the…
It includes children, who were not aware that the law was being broken. We used to have a carve-out for them, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The administration eliminated that. For them, the analogy is…
Why not? When the world is ending you take what joy you can, while you can. When all you have left is having been right, there's not much else to keep you busy.
And whatever they imagine "imperial democracy" is. They should ask some indigenous people.
They had factions, which turned almost immediately into parties: the Federalists and Anti-federalists, which morphed into the Democratic-Republicans. There were always two after that, until the former died off and the…
A non-hack I learned about yesterday. I was taking apart an IKEA dining room table. The screws and bolts were obvious, but the top would not separate from the frame. After much parsing of the assembly manual (which took…
It explains why you end up with two parties even if you start with more. The two largest will woo minority parties until they get a majority. And minority party members know they will be marginalized unless they are…
The smaller parties are all aligned with one of the two major parties. In a lot of ways they act more like caucuses than separate parties. Like Bernie Sanders being "independent". That's overstating it, but it's why the…
I think it does largely explain it. Congress can't do even necessary things. On the rare occasions they can, they create an executive branch agency and give it the power to write regulations. They know that Congress is…
We have them because the Founders thought it was a good idea. Then they thought it was a good idea to have two houses with different criteria, giving two chances to quash legislation. Plus the veto. Plus the Supreme…
The "dark ages" were also thousands of years after the Sumerians. Even the Greek Dark Age postdates Sumer by a millennium. So you're not really filling me with confidence about your idea here. Perhaps you can provide…
Sure do. It's back up around 80,000. Maybe some of that get-rich-quick money is getting spooked by AI and flowing back into crypto.
I did a bunch of door-knocking, for Obama and Clinton, and it didn't feel like I was doing any good. Everybody had long since made up their minds. It's not like these are hard choices. Either you view the differences as…
I didn't realize that open math problems were a finite resource. I recall a story about some famous mathematician (Gauss?) dismissing interest in Fermat's Last Theorem claiming that he could crank out problems of…
What worked was getting people stirred up to the point that some would turn to violence. Even now a majority of their party believe they were justified. That helped them take control of politics. And so that tactic will…
If the extremes are unelectable, the center party should split eventually. They'll find something to disagree about. As long as they are more terrified of losing to the extremists they'll try to keep it together as long…
The grammar is more straightforward. It has some extraneous words, and makes conspicuously bad choices of vocabulary, but it's still a more direct statement.
It is remarkable how much it resembles the medieval T&O maps, including putting Jerusalem and the Mediterranean at the center of the world. (Which is what Mediterranean means.) And the East at the top (where we get…
America won Iraq and Afghanistan in a walk. They didn't do a great job of nation building afterwards, but the actual war part was very successful.
The jargon term "exercise mimetic" is really badly named. It means only that it mimics some of the effects of exercise -- in this case, appetite suppressant. So the term does distinguish it from the GLP-1 drugs, which…
“Give House Democrats an ounce of power, and they’ll use every bit of it to fundamentally transform America into an unrecognizable socialist hellscape,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the House Republicans’…
I'm unclear on why you're asking. You're written the question to presuppose an answer, but I'm not clear on the point you're making. It doesn't seem germane to my comment above.
America's far-left is marginalized, with practically no power. Whereas this is about the Minister of National Security. American right wing propaganda loves to describe anybody who opposes them as "far left", but…
I thought that untreated rabies was almost invariably fatal. The symptoms are quite obvious. Is it possible that there are a lot of asymptomatic rabies cases, who end up dying from some other cause?
I thought the entire point of a jury is that they do live under a rock. You seek out people who know nothing about the case, and then (if necessary) sequester them to ensure that they continue to know nothing. As I…
OK. And now you've spent that notoriety. What now? It's clear that the US attack did not cause regime change. It may have delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions again, but they will presumably restart immediately after the…
It includes children, who were not aware that the law was being broken. We used to have a carve-out for them, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The administration eliminated that. For them, the analogy is…
Why not? When the world is ending you take what joy you can, while you can. When all you have left is having been right, there's not much else to keep you busy.
And whatever they imagine "imperial democracy" is. They should ask some indigenous people.
They had factions, which turned almost immediately into parties: the Federalists and Anti-federalists, which morphed into the Democratic-Republicans. There were always two after that, until the former died off and the…
A non-hack I learned about yesterday. I was taking apart an IKEA dining room table. The screws and bolts were obvious, but the top would not separate from the frame. After much parsing of the assembly manual (which took…
It explains why you end up with two parties even if you start with more. The two largest will woo minority parties until they get a majority. And minority party members know they will be marginalized unless they are…
The smaller parties are all aligned with one of the two major parties. In a lot of ways they act more like caucuses than separate parties. Like Bernie Sanders being "independent". That's overstating it, but it's why the…
I think it does largely explain it. Congress can't do even necessary things. On the rare occasions they can, they create an executive branch agency and give it the power to write regulations. They know that Congress is…
We have them because the Founders thought it was a good idea. Then they thought it was a good idea to have two houses with different criteria, giving two chances to quash legislation. Plus the veto. Plus the Supreme…
The "dark ages" were also thousands of years after the Sumerians. Even the Greek Dark Age postdates Sumer by a millennium. So you're not really filling me with confidence about your idea here. Perhaps you can provide…
Sure do. It's back up around 80,000. Maybe some of that get-rich-quick money is getting spooked by AI and flowing back into crypto.
I did a bunch of door-knocking, for Obama and Clinton, and it didn't feel like I was doing any good. Everybody had long since made up their minds. It's not like these are hard choices. Either you view the differences as…