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Not exactly. I'm saying that we do things for various reasons, and pleasure or pain are responses for our success or failure to do what we wanted.
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Isn't it the other way around? I.e., whatever we're determined to increase gives us pleasure when it increases, and whatever we're determined to decrease gives us pain if it doesn't decrease.
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If it is, at least it's short.
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Well, it is more OT, but I was also tired of meeting people thinking that it's OK for their neighbors to be sick without medical insurance because they have different views on how tax dollars should be spent.
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Maybe it's just semantics, and in fact CWII and WWIII aren't very different.
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Imagine a chuck of ice of mass m flying peacefully in space with the speed v. There are no forces, F = 0. The ice slowly melts. The momentum of the ice P = mv. Thus, dP/dt = mdv/dt + vdm/dt. So, either the chunk of ice is accelerating, or F = dP/dt is wrong. Or, I don't know what I'm talking about. Or, just maybe, I am a troll.
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G/h = 10number of Crocodilian species
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No. See Fresnel lens.
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(Speed of light) * (1 ns) = (1 ft) (Avogadro number) = (number of stars in the observable universe) g = (Human population in 2050)
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And, as I and, evidently, you know, it was Russians who defeated Germany, while allies jumped in when it got clear to them that Russian are winning.
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All Actions have Consequences. As do all Inactions.
Genady replied to sethoflagos's topic in General Philosophy
Yes, it's as much significance as you can have without committing major acts of sedition or heroism. But it only works once. After you've become part of a new community or nation, you are expected to contribute to its welfare, help shape its future. You no longer matter to the old one, but you still can matter. Only once? I think it works every day. I keep taking my money from a country A and spend it in the country B (B for Bonaire) for many years. Every time I do it, I transfer my economic activity, don't I? (Of course, I do other things also in the country where I live, for example, volunteer for the Animal Shelter, recycle, etc.) -
All Actions have Consequences. As do all Inactions.
Genady replied to sethoflagos's topic in General Philosophy
idk. I've never heard of such a parallel. AFAIK, conservation of quantum information is a consequence of unitarity of quantum system evolution. But this unitarity gets broken by an act of measurement. -
All Actions have Consequences. As do all Inactions.
Genady replied to sethoflagos's topic in General Philosophy
I don't think it is strictly so. There is always a (theoretical) observer for whom a specific piece of quantum information is still there, but for any given observer the quantum information disappears as soon as they interact with it. This is my understanding of it. -
Some hostile act added to the picture almost daily. Today (yesterday?) they suspended new nuclear talks...
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Disagree. Not slow.
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What is the difference among 90%, 99%, and 100% chocolate?
Genady replied to kenny1999's topic in Amateur Science
No Walmart here, but the situation in our stores similar. About a dime difference. (It could be double price if it were a dime vs two dimes, but it is not. About 5% difference in price.) -
All Actions have Consequences. As do all Inactions.
Genady replied to sethoflagos's topic in General Philosophy
All actions have consequences... do they? We don't know ahead if our vote will or will not have consequences, but we know afterwards. If our candidate won, our vote had consequences, otherwise it did not, I think.