@Danu Lemme know how the whiskys are. I am assuming you are probably a few deep when this message is getting written. I have an unopened bottle of Corry but Laph 18 is literally impossible to find here.
Though I should note that the debate re: Sunday liquor laws in MN was not on puritanical ground but rather because the smaller liquor stores complained that allowing sales on sundays would put them at a disadvantage
relevant bit: "Each year a proposal in the Legislature to lift the ban on Sunday liquor sales is shot down by a powerful lobby of union representatives and liquor-store owners. The ban on Sunday car sales is rarely discussed at the Capitol and continues at the behest of auto dealers, which enjoy a day where they and all their competitors must be closed."
hence my point about the arguments nowadays being economic/business ones
and I guess that's one way in which I find the election map you linked, while distressing, also quite reductive
Right. That's the position that the smaller liquor stores in MN took: They'd have to extend their sales (and wages) to Sunday; the big chain stores would be able to absorb tat easily, but not the smaller ones.
ultimately, that argument didn't carry the day
my broader point is that the survival of these laws is usually not a matter of puritanism as much as inertia; the existing businesses etc have adapted to the status quo, and prefer not to change it.
that doesn't mean other businesses wouldn't want them changed so as to capitalize them, of course. but it means that it's not a matter of 'freedom' vs. 'prohibition' so much as a conflict of competing business interests.
I forget what that's called, and it's bugging me now
right, involution
"A 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showed that 32.0% of Minnesotans were affiliated with Mainline Protestant traditions, 21.0% with Evangelical Protestant traditions, 28.0% with Roman Catholic traditions, 1.0% each with Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and Black Protestant traditions, smaller amounts for other faiths, and 13.0% unaffiliated."
kinda annoyed that the most recent survey is from 2008
You can believe whatever you want, but if you think it makes you morally superior to someone with different metaphysical beliefs I'm sort of against that.
@PVAL-inactive idk, the point of Christians is to get others saved, and after that, a saved person will simply flow into good ethics. Ethics and how well you preform doesn't really mateer for salvation, according to the Bible
Like the people in the USA used to frown on fortification (sex outside of marrige) and homosexuality, but now a days both are promoted (in which I disagree with)
if you look at things from a HIGHER DIMENSION you'll see that the basis of any system of ethics is directly related to PHYSICAL LAWS in the 🌌 UNIVERSE and more specifically to SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES AGAINST INCREASING ENTROPY.
The philosophy I've read (that isn't classical) generally listed assumptions, attempted to justify them, then gave a valid formal argument of the conclusions given the assumptions.
but I guess this is more the philosophical equivalent of something expository.
if you look at things from a HIGHER DIMENSION you'll see that the basis of any system of ethics is directly related to PHYSICAL LAWS in the 🌌 UNIVERSE and more specifically to SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES AGAINST INCREASING ENTROPY.
Survivial of the species does play a role in many systems of ethics (note how often murder is deemed immoral or even evil), but entropy, not necessary
Without second law, a number of things will not work, e.g. mixing things becomes harder
It is also something that help drives many physical process which otherwise will slosh back and forth without much change
But a more practical consideration is that, it is unclear how to assign microstates (or if they are even meaningful) for dynamical entities like societies
Meanwhile, another concept, complexity is perfectly valid for societies, since they are complex systems
$\Bbb C^n$ with $p$-norm, or functions from $\{1,...,n\}$ to $\Bbb C$ with norm $\|f\|=\sqrt[p]{\sum_{i=1}^n f(i)^p}$ if you prefer to plug in the verbatim definition of $\ell^p(X)$ into this set ;)
@s.harp hmmm, so $\ell^p(\Bbb N)$ would also work as an infinite dimensional subspace of $\ell^\infty(\Bbb N)$ which is not isomorphic to $\ell^\infty$?
Hmm...So I think integrating the Gamma function over primes of the form 4k+1 gives a asymptoc formula for the error term in Artin's conjecture.
You just have to apply Schur, and then use Euler reflection formula. After chaning the variable, the boundary of the 13dimensional manifold is locally smooth, hence it's gauge invariant.
But as gauge invariant is generally not true after k-symmetric Wittenian invariance, hence the asymptotic formula of the errfunction growth around O(k^k^k) is proved.
Hi everyone, I have a small question. My Maple skills are a bit old, and now I see a Maple equation with ** notation, which is difficult to google. What does, e.g. (x+y)**n mean? Is it as python (x+y)^n?
@LeakyNun Yeah,I know, that is why I read it as exponentiation. But I do not have Maple around and don't want to make assumptions. I don't remember it from the last time I used Maple
So I want to prove that a prime ideal $P$ is also radical. Let $x\in\sqrt{P}$, so there is an $n$ such that $x^n\in P$, so $x^{n-1}x\in P$, either $x$ or $x^{n-1}$ are in $P$, in the first case we're done, in the second we iterate until we're done.
That was meant to be a question but I worked it out while writing
