Engineers use thermodynamics to design machines that they have confidence will work because there are billions of examples of the laws of thermodynamics holding true. Those examples are evidence; their belief that their machines will work is based on evidence, not faith.
Having a pet theory is like having a favorite baseball team. You hope your theory/team wins, you can put some effort into defending your theory/team because it gives you pleasure if it is show to be superior, but to have faith in a theory - or a baseball team - is foolishness.
FWIW, in this context hypothesis is a better word than theory.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives. Most religious moralities conspicuously ignore the needs of human beings and proclaim that the purpose of man is to glorify God: if stupidity and hatred of mankind could be solidified into one sentence, that is it: "The purpose of man is to glorify God."
A proper morality starts by identifying the nature of human beings, and from that organizes a set of principles of behavior which will result in an objectively observable high quality of life for people. Science plays a role in helping to identify what humans are and what's good for them. Fictional creatures play no such role, and people who claim that fictional creatures play such a role often make life worse.
Attributing to lack of religion the mess that was 20th century Russia and China reveals a superficial and biased reading of history.
Fats are popularly divided into 3 categories, saturated (like lard), mono-unsaturated (some components of olive oil), and polyunsaturated (the main component of sunflower oil). You've probably also heard of omega-3 and omega-6 oils (fatty acids), which are polyunsaturated. Many fats are essential to human survival.
Without knowing the details of the kinds and quantities of fats and sugars involved in each group of this study, the results are not very informative.
Table sugar, or any of a number of equivalent names (properly sucrose), is the combination you cite. This is a technical forum, and so if you use the word "sugar" it will be properly understood to refer to a class of chemicals, not just sucrose.
The Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek had the military, the power and the international support, the communists had the workers.
Most of China was moderate sized villages. The communist method of takeover was to enter a village, kill the village elders and have the village assign a new set of elders. If that set didn't obey the communists, they were killed, and so on. There wasn't much of a workforce to be communist; the country was dominantly agricultural, not industrial.
Install sprinklers. Install smoke and other detectors. Have fire extinguishers.
FWIW, most house fires so thoroughly damage a house that everything that isn't concrete or brick has to be rebuilt. Fire departments save people and keep the fire from spreading beyond the house, but rarely is the house saved. Not their fault; by the time a fire is detected, the fire company alerted and reaches the blaze, the house is already mostly aflame.
Government is neither the only source of education nor the best source of education.
Government is not the source of food safety. Government does not make the food I grow safe.
Government is not the primary source of medical care, and in a free society very little medical care comes from the government.
Government comes into picture when the private parties fail and people die.
You got that right. When the government is in the picture, people die. For instance, in gas chambers.
Grow a brain, and stop spouting meaningless slogans like "Check your privilege."
The C.S.A. was in no way a limited government, its constitution mandated slavery be allowed in all states.
National Parks have become one of the most blatant thefts of private property imaginable.
The federal government should own no property other than military bases.
Did you bother to read Ted Cruz's reason? Two thirds of the money for post-Sandy aid was pork unrelated to hurricane Sandy. Such fiscal malfeasance is why the federal government should not be in the disaster recovery business.
Hillary has openly announced her opposition to both the first and second amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Like Obama, her intention was to just ignore any law she didn't like.
The publisher still making profit after 400 years is subject to competition unrestricted by copyright. The point of copyright is to have a monopoly for a limited time.
Your claims of profit are dishonest, and you've neglected the retailer. Distinguish gross profit from net profit. Retailers (book stores) frequently buy books for 60% of the retail price That gives them 40% gross profit, but after expenses they're lucky if the owner makes enough to live on. The same applies to publishers, although some of the biggest ones do make enough money to bribe politicians. Publishers have per-copy and per-run expenses that authors don't have.
By way of comparison, authors make a one-time investment of effort - writing and maybe a promotional tour - and receive royalties for many years. The legal protection of royalties is a tradeoff negotiated by the government, with the alleged goal of maximum benefit to society. As time goals on, the benefit of that protection decreases while the costs associated with enforcing the protection increase. Paying royalties to the descendants of Julius Caesar would not benefit society.
Do an honest survey of multiple tests reported on internet sites. Ryzen's base clock is lower, ryzen has lower IPC, ryzen can't be overclocked as far whether on air, water, or LN2.
AMD has greatly improved performance, so much so that in very heavily multi-threaded applications where AMD's core count advantage can be used, AMD is faster on about half of the applications. Good for AMD, I like seeing the company successful. Nonetheless, the Ryzen line is not as good as Intel's products.
Code an engineer writes for use once or a few times will be single-threaded unless the compiler can automatically convert it to multi-threaded. Write once, start it at 5 PM, hope it's done when you return to work the next morning.
Have the originator of the digital currency declare that all of the currency used to pay ransom will not be recognized as valid. Before you pay a ransom, notify the originator. The originator will verify the validity of the units of currency transferred to the ransomer, but any further transfers will not be validated.
Your point is valid, and even more. This is central bankers protecting their cushy jobs and their power.
A good money should be portable, durable, recognizable, divisible, uniform, intrinsically valuable, and scarce. I don't like digital currency because it's not intrinsically valuable, but neither is government paper money which has the additional disadvantage of being a tool for evil people.
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Faith is belief without evidence.
Engineers use thermodynamics to design machines that they have confidence will work because there are billions of examples of the laws of thermodynamics holding true. Those examples are evidence; their belief that their machines will work is based on evidence, not faith.
Having a pet theory is like having a favorite baseball team. You hope your theory/team wins, you can put some effort into defending your theory/team because it gives you pleasure if it is show to be superior, but to have faith in a theory - or a baseball team - is foolishness.
FWIW, in this context hypothesis is a better word than theory.
Religious moral codes are completely arbitrary. They are based on the pronouncements of one person or a small group of people, but they have no causal relation to what actually promotes human lives. Most religious moralities conspicuously ignore the needs of human beings and proclaim that the purpose of man is to glorify God: if stupidity and hatred of mankind could be solidified into one sentence, that is it: "The purpose of man is to glorify God."
A proper morality starts by identifying the nature of human beings, and from that organizes a set of principles of behavior which will result in an objectively observable high quality of life for people. Science plays a role in helping to identify what humans are and what's good for them. Fictional creatures play no such role, and people who claim that fictional creatures play such a role often make life worse.
Attributing to lack of religion the mess that was 20th century Russia and China reveals a superficial and biased reading of history.
Fats are popularly divided into 3 categories, saturated (like lard), mono-unsaturated (some components of olive oil), and polyunsaturated (the main component of sunflower oil). You've probably also heard of omega-3 and omega-6 oils (fatty acids), which are polyunsaturated. Many fats are essential to human survival.
Without knowing the details of the kinds and quantities of fats and sugars involved in each group of this study, the results are not very informative.
Table sugar, or any of a number of equivalent names (properly sucrose), is the combination you cite. This is a technical forum, and so if you use the word "sugar" it will be properly understood to refer to a class of chemicals, not just sucrose.
Humans do not have to consume sugar to survive. The body can break down starch (not a sugar) into sugar.
Most of China was moderate sized villages. The communist method of takeover was to enter a village, kill the village elders and have the village assign a new set of elders. If that set didn't obey the communists, they were killed, and so on. There wasn't much of a workforce to be communist; the country was dominantly agricultural, not industrial.
Install sprinklers. Install smoke and other detectors. Have fire extinguishers.
FWIW, most house fires so thoroughly damage a house that everything that isn't concrete or brick has to be rebuilt. Fire departments save people and keep the fire from spreading beyond the house, but rarely is the house saved. Not their fault; by the time a fire is detected, the fire company alerted and reaches the blaze, the house is already mostly aflame.
It wasn't funny the first time you posted that. Now it's just tiresome.
That statement is demonstrably false to the point of being silly..
Government is neither the only source of education nor the best source of education.
Government is not the source of food safety. Government does not make the food I grow safe.
Government is not the primary source of medical care, and in a free society very little medical care comes from the government.
You got that right. When the government is in the picture, people die. For instance, in gas chambers.
Grow a brain, and stop spouting meaningless slogans like "Check your privilege."
The C.S.A. was in no way a limited government, its constitution mandated slavery be allowed in all states.
National Parks have become one of the most blatant thefts of private property imaginable.
The federal government should own no property other than military bases.
The concept of self-responsibility is obviously outside your experience. Just how do you think it is possible to bribe yourself?
Did you bother to read Ted Cruz's reason? Two thirds of the money for post-Sandy aid was pork unrelated to hurricane Sandy. Such fiscal malfeasance is why the federal government should not be in the disaster recovery business.
Hillary has openly announced her opposition to both the first and second amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Like Obama, her intention was to just ignore any law she didn't like.
/dev/random is your friend.
The Washington Post must have meant cold sores
The publisher still making profit after 400 years is subject to competition unrestricted by copyright. The point of copyright is to have a monopoly for a limited time.
Your claims of profit are dishonest, and you've neglected the retailer. Distinguish gross profit from net profit. Retailers (book stores) frequently buy books for 60% of the retail price That gives them 40% gross profit, but after expenses they're lucky if the owner makes enough to live on. The same applies to publishers, although some of the biggest ones do make enough money to bribe politicians. Publishers have per-copy and per-run expenses that authors don't have.
By way of comparison, authors make a one-time investment of effort - writing and maybe a promotional tour - and receive royalties for many years. The legal protection of royalties is a tradeoff negotiated by the government, with the alleged goal of maximum benefit to society. As time goals on, the benefit of that protection decreases while the costs associated with enforcing the protection increase. Paying royalties to the descendants of Julius Caesar would not benefit society.
The area-to-intercepted-energy proportionality breaks down when the antenna is near or below one wavelength. It's complicated.
Citation needed.
Do an honest survey of multiple tests reported on internet sites. Ryzen's base clock is lower, ryzen has lower IPC, ryzen can't be overclocked as far whether on air, water, or LN2.
AMD has greatly improved performance, so much so that in very heavily multi-threaded applications where AMD's core count advantage can be used, AMD is faster on about half of the applications. Good for AMD, I like seeing the company successful. Nonetheless, the Ryzen line is not as good as Intel's products.
Code an engineer writes for use once or a few times will be single-threaded unless the compiler can automatically convert it to multi-threaded. Write once, start it at 5 PM, hope it's done when you return to work the next morning.
This is a poor description of how a (piezo-electric) crystal pickup works; and a crystal pickup is inferior to the various sorts of magnetic pickups.
Have the originator of the digital currency declare that all of the currency used to pay ransom will not be recognized as valid. Before you pay a ransom, notify the originator. The originator will verify the validity of the units of currency transferred to the ransomer, but any further transfers will not be validated.
Your point is valid, and even more. This is central bankers protecting their cushy jobs and their power.
A good money should be portable, durable, recognizable, divisible, uniform, intrinsically valuable, and scarce. I don't like digital currency because it's not intrinsically valuable, but neither is government paper money which has the additional disadvantage of being a tool for evil people.