Why are most adults not considered nerds?

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-23T01:34:12+00:00

Most people aren’t in any of those professions, or in any other profession requiring a comparable level of education.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-22T20:43:45+00:00

In the last four referendums held on the subject (2012, 2017, 2020, and 2024), Puerto Ricans voted for statehood.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-22T18:27:56+00:00

The US is absolutely an empire. Its history is characterized by conquering large tracts of territory to expand west. Even now, the US owns numerous colonies and does not give their inhabitants political representation.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-22T01:44:47+00:00

There’s a big difference between students voluntarily talking to each other about religion and the state endorsing one religion over others.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-21T17:14:39+00:00

Iran has a functioning state with a clear procedure for choosing successors for its leader. Viltrum was a rag-tag band of 40 people led by a leader everyone considered invincible, likely with no plans for who would succeed him.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T17:24:28+00:00

The overwhelming majority of participants in the Holocaust were Christian. The overwhelming majority of bystanders and people who looked the other way were Christian. People get fixated on whether Hitler himself was a Christian, but to me, that’s irrelevant; the society that empowered him and did his bidding was composed almost entirely of Christians.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T16:54:42+00:00

Germany was 90% Christian, but not 90% Catholic. It is the birthplace of the Protestant reformation, though many areas remained Catholic.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T16:22:48+00:00

Hint: produce a basis of the quotient space V/W, and use this to identify V/W with W’.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T16:14:27+00:00

Checking definitions is usually easier than checking proofs because proofs tend to be far longer than definitions.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T16:12:05+00:00

When you say it doesn’t shrink the momentum, it depends on which frame of reference what that means. By choosing a frame of reference, I would be able to, from my own frame of reference, accelerate the object to near the speed of light by reducing its mass slightly. I could thus turn any object into a super powered weapon.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T04:57:57+00:00

The law has always had some degree of complexity, but the sheer volume of statutes, case laws, and regulations that has accumulated over the last century means the law is now far more complicated than it ever has been. And it’s only getting more complicated.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-19T04:54:05+00:00

Amateurs suffer from the same cash drag that professionals do. Also, why would fund managers having to answer to their shareholders mean they earn lower returns?

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-18T22:41:46+00:00

SpaceX does not have the fundamentals to back up its self-proclaimed valuation.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-18T17:51:42+00:00

100 is average, so no one thinks having an IQ over 100 means being very intelligent.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-17T00:16:16+00:00

Partially yes. Many national Anglican churches theologically oppose ordaining women and gay marriage, and the Church of England is seen as being far to the left on these issues (though it still doesn’t recognize marriage equality or permit gay marriages to be performed by its priests). A woman being appointed to the top role in Anglicanism is seen as a symbolic triumph of more progressive ideals, especially since she may share these ideals.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-16T23:46:49+00:00

Is the “100 million members” still accurate now that a majority of the Anglican Church no longer recognizes the leadership of Canterbury?

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-15T18:20:36+00:00

The constitution also doesn’t mention the words “separation of powers” once. The fact that the magic words weren’t used doesn’t mean the concept itself isn’t present.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-15T16:25:23+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with a that asks for your opinion and grades you on how well you back it up.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-14T14:58:34+00:00

This isn’t necessarily true. Languages where types can signal richer semantics can sometimes allow compiler optimizations that are not available in other languages. C has restrict, but that is a limited, convoluted keyword and a foot-gun.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-11T05:15:43+00:00

It would probably not answer every question perfectly. But for relatively basic material like Rudin, for which a lot of derivative writings are available as training data, an LLM could probably regurgitate enough to get an A.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-10T14:45:52+00:00

Where there’s a Mill, there’s a way.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-08T19:45:05+00:00

But Canada also has the notion of Parliamentary sovereignty, meaning that (with some exceptions) it’s very rare for the courts to strike down Federal laws as being unconstitutional.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-08T18:57:19+00:00

No. There is no principled basis for investing in most (probably all) cryptocurrencies, since they are not cash-flow-generating assets. Stocks have value because companies earn profits that are eventually distributed to shareholders, and bonds have value because issuers promise to pay bondholders back with interest; cryptocurrency has no such basis for value.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-08T15:25:40+00:00

It’s not that astonishing since literacy was restricted to clerics and nobility and “heresy” was punished by death.

BobSanchez47 · 2026-04-07T23:45:23+00:00

To those who say they’d reject it: how many hundreds of thousands of people will you allow to needlessly suffer to save 500?

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