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Comment · 6 years ago
It is not too hard to install a remote ignition system or have one installed.
Comment · 6 years ago
I would say that ‘herbal tea’ is a valid term, but that whatever is a ‘herbal tea’ is generally not viewed as ‘a type of tea’, and rather, as ‘a type of herbal infusion’. ‘a type of tea’ is generally viewed as ‘type of tea plant and its dried leaves’.
Comment · 6 years ago
The title could do with more punctuation.
Comment · 6 years ago
The problem is that because young people in places like London and New York normally live in abject shitholes, they are forced to go out to socialise, which implies drinking and expensive food.

I’ve temporarily moved away from London to somewhere a lot smaller, but I live in a much nicer and bigger place for less than half the price.

I invite people over and am invited over. We talk and things, or sometimes watch something and talk about that. I can make a cup of tea or maybe even coffee, and I don’t have to pay through the nose for it. I can cook for a group for less than the price of a single meal outside.

No one gives a fuck if you’re not drinking in your own home. I’ve been drinking a lot less. It’s a sobering experience.

Comment · 6 years ago
These are generally known as herbal infusions or tisanes, and not tea.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't view it is a refutation either. I meant that the proof destroyed the greater feeling of romance I had towards mathematics.
Comment · 7 years ago
It would be interesting to see an analysis where the most fundamental results in mathematics are looked at under the light of their discoverers' ideological beliefs and psychologies.

I wonder whether Gödel would have pursued the Proof if he did not believe in an omnipotent god.

Comment · 7 years ago
Nietzsche pulled his books from his publisher after finding that it published anti-semitic books.
Comment · 7 years ago
Gödel’s Proof, by Nagel & Newman gives a good explanation for the semi-layman or undergrad coming across this for the first time.

Before picking up this book as an undergrad in pure maths, I still had romantic ideas about a separate platonic universe and the divine authority of mathematics to explain all human thought.

This book, along with studying the various geometries, each with a different choice of axioms not necessarily based in ‘reality’, destroyed the majority of that romance.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Is there anything similarly anonymous with a similar culture on the light or dark web? I guess there is/was Usenet, but that seems to have dried up somewhat. IRC is anonymous, but doesn't have the memory aspect.

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