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  1. PolyHedral

    School wants to beat your kid.

    But in both of those cases, violence is being used as a last resort. With childcare, it is often used as a first resort.
  2. PolyHedral

    Free Will and the Soul/Spirit.

    We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
  3. PolyHedral

    School wants to beat your kid.

    That just means that nobody understands what a given qualification represents. Since the value of having a qualification derives entirely from that understanding, the more diversity you have in cirricula, the more it detracts from that value. Imagine if large employers had to ask not only what...
  4. PolyHedral

    Is the Universe perfect or imperfect?

    When is purple? Why does Thursday?
  5. PolyHedral

    Free will and self awareness

    Quantum mechanics cannot be made deterministic in that way - Bell's Theorem forbids it.
  6. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    Counterfactual measurements? ;)
  7. PolyHedral

    Free will and self awareness

    Quantum mechanics is also quasi-deterministic.
  8. PolyHedral

    Free will and self awareness

    QM is obvious?
  9. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    You're doing it again! You're quoting things that look like they back you up, but actually don't. :p Row interchange preserves the system, but not the matrix. I proved that earlier - equal matrices subtract to form the zero matrix, and those ones - which do represent the same system - did not...
  10. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    Oops, I meant the multiplicative identity.:cover:
  11. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    Oh dear, I think I get to the source-quotign thing now. :p Intuitively, a field is a set F that is a commutative group with respect to two compatible operations, addition and multiplication, with "compatible" being formalized by distributivity, and the caveat that the additive identity (0)...
  12. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    So why are your responses not matching what I've said? :p
  13. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    Actually, I just missed it. Legion, have you read post #646?
  14. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    No. Intelligences learn.
  15. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    That's not how the wave in question works. ;)
  16. PolyHedral

    The flaw in the argument that feminism is bad because it ignores men's issues

    Calling for evidence is good, because it's not possible to acquire statistically significant numbers of anecdotes. :p This, OTOH, IMO, defeats the whole point of tipping. You might as well say, "No tips are required," increase all the prices 15% and increase everyone's wages by the proportional...
  17. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    ...I was just about to post asking Legion if he'd seen a response I made, but apparently I made it in the universe next door. Oops.
  18. PolyHedral

    The flaw in the argument that feminism is bad because it ignores men's issues

    The claim isn't that women are more attractive, but that they appear more attractive, because culturally, women in general place more importance on their appearance than men do.
  19. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    The physicists' explanation is that the photon is wave-like, takes all possible paths (including through both slits) and that's why the two slits can affect the results. This doesn't make any sense with point-like, counterfactual definite photons.
  20. PolyHedral

    The flaw in the argument that feminism is bad because it ignores men's issues

    I think it's a lot less reasonable to think that tipping is equal genderwise than it isn't. Even assuming that the "average" attractiveness is the same either way (which I doubt - I think culture means that women will appear more attractive on average) then there could reasonably be other...
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