Yup. That original post had several factual errors. I am not a supporter of alcohol, but I find it kind of funny when some people demonize alcohol (which I agree is bad for one's health and has many negative…
But that is also because it has been used much more often than other drugs. Don't get me wrong, I agree that alcohol has some very bad effects. But if you ban (or decrease consumption of) alcohol, but that gets…
Exactly. And I am appalled by the level of injustice and stupidity (I will explain both) demonstrated by so many comments here. Injustice, because they refuse to see the other side of the coin, or the full picture, and…
You are mistaken on several grounds, but the most glaring issue is that you do not properly understand the concept of property/ownership. For all practical purposes property/ownership is a service provided by society,…
An observation from within the system: A year or so ago I completed a PhD in theoretical high energy physics. I did that after working for about 5 years outside of academia [the reasons for that were financial issues in…
Thank you for your reply! Yes, I fully agree that meaning of "derive" and other related concepts are non-trivial. (And I actually changed my own "working definition" between my two posts; while in the first one I was…
Well, exactly, and I think that that is in line with what I originally wrote, and which is that you need the general relativity principle (by general I don't mean the general relativity but the concept of the…
Nitpicking: It is not possible to derive the theory of relativity from medieval knowledge. At least not in any way resembling how the development actually happened, that is, heavily influenced by observations (or rather…
Yup. That original post had several factual errors. I am not a supporter of alcohol, but I find it kind of funny when some people demonize alcohol (which I agree is bad for one's health and has many negative…
But that is also because it has been used much more often than other drugs. Don't get me wrong, I agree that alcohol has some very bad effects. But if you ban (or decrease consumption of) alcohol, but that gets…
Exactly. And I am appalled by the level of injustice and stupidity (I will explain both) demonstrated by so many comments here. Injustice, because they refuse to see the other side of the coin, or the full picture, and…
You are mistaken on several grounds, but the most glaring issue is that you do not properly understand the concept of property/ownership. For all practical purposes property/ownership is a service provided by society,…
An observation from within the system: A year or so ago I completed a PhD in theoretical high energy physics. I did that after working for about 5 years outside of academia [the reasons for that were financial issues in…
Thank you for your reply! Yes, I fully agree that meaning of "derive" and other related concepts are non-trivial. (And I actually changed my own "working definition" between my two posts; while in the first one I was…
Well, exactly, and I think that that is in line with what I originally wrote, and which is that you need the general relativity principle (by general I don't mean the general relativity but the concept of the…
Nitpicking: It is not possible to derive the theory of relativity from medieval knowledge. At least not in any way resembling how the development actually happened, that is, heavily influenced by observations (or rather…