criticism When we talk of a person over their lifetime, then they can have many opinions and ideas which can be contradictory. One characteristic...
a strike against Rand I think the best reason to dispute Ayn Rand as a "greatest thinker" is that she deliberately rejected a number of other...
original thought? This concept seems poorly defined. First, the thoughts I have in my mind aren't exactly duplicated elsewhere. They are original in...
matter of degree Perhaps, the people who claim on this board to be autistic are. However, I can say that autism can be really harsh. A friend of...
assumption about ln(x) Looking at the original way you did it, I think also you need to handle the assumption that ln(x) is the inverse function of...
teleportation If you're a data-based entity (eg, the AI in your post), then teleportation is pretty trivial. It's just a matter of copying yourself...
Devil's advocate OTOH, I feel that some of the beliefs in Post-Modernism are valid. For example, local knowledge in the form of stereotyping has...
Another way is to first calculate the coefficients of the powers of x in the sequence and show that they converge to the corresponding term in the...
Sounds more like a buggy program or a hoax to me.
comments on manned space, terraforming I have a couple of things to mention. First, if your goal is science, there's no reason for people to leave...
puhlease... I'd say that his tech and programming skills, actual research work, and leadership in technical clubs should be quite ample. I'd shop...
on problems This may be so, but competition already is a strong aspect of education. I think there is natural competition in environments where a...
XP woes My beef is that even after all this time, Windows XP has some really terrible flaws. I worked (doing a little part time tech support) on a...
the Moore method R. L. Moore, a US mathematician of the early and mid-20th century had an interesting <a...
Well, when you said "monster" I thought you meant something like a really big light bucket. :-) It's a 1880 refractor telescope and probably worth...
sound advice The "Letter to Menoeceus" sounds like advice given perhaps to a ruler or respected member of society. Epicurus spends curiously little...
In a sense, we are playing with semantics. There's are categories of objects that are usually considered alive (sentience, animals, plants, etc), and...
There's a couple of ways to look at this. First, you have points of the time coordinate (which I'll lazily just call times) to match up with those...
a few comments I said (prior to this edit): I see my concern is better addressed in later messages. Second, this effective poll is limited...
That's too bad since this was my favorite thread since I joined recently. I'm not sure where the seven traits of life list came from, but I've...
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