There seem to be a lot of articulate Indian voices amongst these Comments. I wonder what others feel about the comparison with Chinese voices on the articles on China.
1861 to 1865 is 5 years. As far as I know, Taiwan was under Japanese rule for the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the current government in China, the Chinese Communist Party, has actually never set foot in Taiwan.
The value of a theory lies in its ability to make accurate and precise predictions about the future. Religion has very little value in this sense, because it places few constraints on what to expect in the future; even if it is accurate, it is very imprecise. Evolution is the best theory we have about life because it makes the most accurate and precise predictions about life.
I can imagine that for people who do not know what it means to be accurate, or precise, this whole brouhaha about science must be a great mystery. I would recommend reading Eliezer Yudkowsky's Excellent Introduction to Technical Understanding , especially the paragraph on the dragon.
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Anyone remember the self-assembling, fire-fighting tube / triangle things in Metropolis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(2001_film )
Are you saying that coming up with mathematical proofs does not require creativity?
There seem to be a lot of articulate Indian voices amongst these Comments. I wonder what others feel about the comparison with Chinese voices on the articles on China.
1861 to 1865 is 5 years. As far as I know, Taiwan was under Japanese rule for the first 50 years of the 20th century, and the current government in China, the Chinese Communist Party, has actually never set foot in Taiwan.
I wonder how easy would it be to route non-US IPs to get around Skype's IP filtering.
You mean people are free to copy the signatures?
How hard would it be to fork wikipedia?
The value of a theory lies in its ability to make accurate and precise predictions about the future. Religion has very little value in this sense, because it places few constraints on what to expect in the future; even if it is accurate, it is very imprecise. Evolution is the best theory we have about life because it makes the most accurate and precise predictions about life.
I can imagine that for people who do not know what it means to be accurate, or precise, this whole brouhaha about science must be a great mystery. I would recommend reading Eliezer Yudkowsky's Excellent Introduction to Technical Understanding , especially the paragraph on the dragon.
was just a VM rootkit for human brains, no?