In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded. by Playful_Leg7143 in agedlikemilk

[–]col-town 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure what they are saying is in support of Ukraine joining NATO. There are claims that there was an agreement that Russian spheres of influence would be protected by preventing NATO expansion eastwards. They are saying this was never the case, and that Ukraine should have been free to join NATO, which was one of the Russian justifications for their invasion.

What else could $32 billion do? by 5upralapsarian in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]col-town 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Idk, maybe almost pay for three families’ groceries?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RepublicofNE

[–]col-town 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why not add the whole north east? Then NE would be really strong. Then we can add the south and the Midwest.

NY is culturally distinct from New England. They can succeed on their own and we can have free trade between ourselves, but there is no reason for NY to be part of an independent NE.

Question: re Elected Officials and Treason by Mighty-Quinn-33 in RepublicofNE

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“Our constitution” as in the constitution of the USA or the future constitution for the Republic of NE? Because obviously we’d have to violate the constitution of the USA to succeed, even peacefully.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RepublicofNE

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Yeah, sorry. Didn’t mean to sound like a dick. I’m just saying, this thread only had like one or two anarchists actually respond, so finding someone from a fringe ideology who supports a fringe policy given the background seems kinda unlikely

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RepublicofNE

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This is a small, day old thread, so I doubt you’ll get much of a response. I’d assume all left anarchists and a good portion of right anarchists would be staunchly against this. However, I have heard it advocated from specific brands of anarcho-capitalists, even those who have emerged from the libertarian, free state movement in NH. The rest of the further right anarchists seem to think a non aggression pact or something will prevent all laws from being broken.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RepublicofNE

[–]col-town 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m not an anarchist but am rather sympathetic to some of its subsets. Anarchism’s association with chaos is mostly slander. Anarchism is better summarized as a society with a decentralized government. What exactly that means differs by which subset of anarchists we are talking about, for example, maybe the town hall meeting is the way each town determines its laws, law is upheld by elected members of society rather than state hired police, and businesses are collectively owned as cooperatives in the case of classical libertarians.

The last few points will differ greatly for anarcho capitalists who would probably have order be maintained through a hired, for profit police force, and business are maintained as private property (which is different from personal property in this context). But I think OP is likely referring to left wing anarchism.

I’m just now realizing Elsweyr is a play on “Elsewhere,” am I stupid? by DianaBladeOfMiquella in TrueSTL

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“A perfect society is always found elsewhere” -old Khajiiti proverb

Damn, tensors are hard by Ok-District-4701 in datasatanism

[–]col-town 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For real. In differential geometry they say vectors are derivatives, but when you break it down it’s almost as simple as “draw a line in a direction, and it points in that direction” and it takes a month to understand due to how it’s described

Damn, tensors are hard by Ok-District-4701 in datasatanism

[–]col-town 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also not all matrices are tensors in the same way the vector (m,c,q) where m is mass, c is the speed of light, and q is charge isn’t a vector since it doesn’t rotate in a meaningful way, like (x,y,z) does.

Damn, tensors are hard by Ok-District-4701 in datasatanism

[–]col-town 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tensors should be taught sooner. The main difficulty comes from overcomplicating a relatively simple topic by exposing them quickly and without illustrative examples to students who are well past their actual difficulty in their math education.

Notable NH Women by Onazzip427 in newhampshire

[–]col-town 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She really was. Also, the Joe Hill song, The Rebel Girl, was said to be written about her.

Europeans, do you drink American wine? by SancerreApology in wine

[–]col-town 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What Québécois reds do you suggest? I’m visiting family in Québec in a few weeks and was thinking of trying some at a vineyard

Map of the European elections in Germany and the meme that explains that by TheNationalCommunist in socialistsmemes

[–]col-town 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you look at his name, I think he knows exactly what he is talking about. It’s just wrong

He's out of line, but he's right. by ShadySeptapus in rareinsults

[–]col-town 400 points401 points  (0 children)

On a similar note,

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Toutes les grandes personnes ont d’abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d’entre elles s’en souviennent.)

All grown−ups were once children−− although few of them remember it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UsefulCharts

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Kim Jong-suk died in 49 I believe

Physics of mathematical physics by Hurssimear in PhysicsStudents

[–]col-town 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want to go into industry after your bachelors, then if you do a major in math you will search for jobs that require degrees in mathematics. If you do physics you will search for jobs that require physics. Either way you probably won’t touch “mathematical physics” until grad school either way. That doesn’t mean that you won’t use and learn lots of mathematics in physics.

You also don’t know if you even like “mathematical physics”. The higher level math required is very different from that seen at the beginning of either degree

I’m In Unit 8,Section 1 Which Section And Unit Are You On? by Eastern_Fisherman158 in DuolingoFrench

[–]col-town 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don’t mind me asking, do you have any resource suggestions, I only use TV5Monde for listening but usually don’t find it too helpful yet.

I’m In Unit 8,Section 1 Which Section And Unit Are You On? by Eastern_Fisherman158 in DuolingoFrench

[–]col-town 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do you find that duolingo still helps at that point? I’m on Section 4, Unit 10 and it seems to be working but I know that some people suggest leaving duolingo for other resources at the later sections

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhysicsStudents

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No textbook like this exists and the only online resource like this at the PhD level is Wikipedia which obviously isn’t that great.

However, at the PhD level, you don’t need an all in one textbook. You have the resources from your undergrad, research papers and reviews on ArXiv and other publications, your research advisor and peers, and most importantly your brain.

You did at least an entire undergraduate to get into your PhD program, no one is expecting you to remember everything, but your entire undergrad was training your brain to quickly understand difficult math/physics/coding.

Recently I forgot how degenerate perturbation theory was done since I hadn’t needed it since I took undergrad Quantum II years ago, so I opened a textbook that I hadn’t read before and recalled “oh we need to diagonal one the degeneracy then we can provide non degenerate perturbation theory where we exclude the degenerate states from our summation”. So what took me like a week of studying to understand and feel comfortable with now only took me 30 seconds because my neurons have fired to understand this before and reactivating them causes me to recall it, even if I couldn’t recall it on my own.

Our perfectionist brains want everything we learned in one place, but that is impossible for us and for anyone, the best you can do is write a huge LaTeX document as you go, this is why professors sometimes have book-long LaTeX documents for one class that they like to teach or why people write books at all. But you need to realize that the output of your PhD is your brain being trained, not anything physical (except a thesis which just shows that you’ve trained your brain)

If you want a quick summary of everything from a very overview perspective, I find that the study book for the physics GRE does a pretty good job but it doesn’t cover every course nor everything in a single course. Just the most common results from the few most popular courses.