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I got permission from the math department at Rutgers to skip the proof-writing class... I think I must have picked up the skill elsewhere, because I didn't feel like I had any trouble with the proof-based linear algebra and real analysis classes that would normally require the proof writing class as...(read more)
I think this is an ad.
Incest aversion seems to be an evolved predisposition, perhaps a "terminal value" akin to a preference for sweet foods...
In practice, unless such a group is small, won't it just develop large status gradients anyway?
There's no consensus here that American Libertarianism is correct politics.
There is still coca extract used in Coca-Cola, but the psychoactive ingredient in the coca leaf is removed from the extract. (Cocaine still sees legitimate medical use as a local anesthetic, by the way.)
Well, if you want to go into details, Mao had a lot of help and he didn't explicitly plan to cause the famines. The person who personally killed the most people that he specifically intended to kill is the guy who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
I got permission from the math department at Rutgers to skip the proof-writing class... I think I must have picked up the skill elsewhere, because I didn't feel like I had any trouble with the proof-based linear algebra and real analysis classes that would normally require the proof writing class as...(read more)
I think this is an ad.
Incest aversion seems to be an evolved predisposition, perhaps a "terminal value" akin to a preference for sweet foods...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
Counterpoint: would you be okay with a future civilization in which people got rid of the incest taboo, because technology made it safe?
Challenge Accepted! ;)
https://youtu.be/OztGJhiBQTo
In practice, unless such a group is small, won't it just develop large status gradients anyway?
There's no consensus here that American Libertarianism is correct politics.
There is still coca extract used in Coca-Cola, but the psychoactive ingredient in the coca leaf is removed from the extract. (Cocaine still sees legitimate medical use as a local anesthetic, by the way.)
Well, if you want to go into details, Mao had a lot of help and he didn't explicitly plan to cause the famines. The person who personally killed the most people that he specifically intended to kill is the guy who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!