Recent content by Olleus

Fermi exclusion principle is indeed the root cause. That, however, has nothing to do with EM. At the core it comes from symmetry. The way to think of it is that particles occupy the lowest energy states possible. For degenerate matter, all the lowest energy levels are already filled. As you...

The closure of a set is always closed, no?

Water crisis? We can solve that already, it's called desalination plants. They're only expensive because of the energy required. But its an infinitesimal fraction compared to bringing it from 6 light years away. I can't fathom how anyone would think space travel would solve a water crisis.

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In that case "Der Fuhrer" certainly works in German. There are lots of leaders, but if you are not specifying which leader you are talking about, then it must be Hitler.

Saw it discussed in Science and Nature. It's definitely legit science (which, of course, is different to saying it's 100% correct).

If you take the unusual but not completely absurd definition of right wing as "focusing on the individual" and left wing as "focusing on the collective", then you can maybe argue that Nazi's are left wing, in that they forced people to forgo individual reward for the glory of the state. Although...

Even if the Seleucid had managed to reclaim Alexander's empire, I really don't see how they could resist Rome. Remember, the Romans barely broke a sweat conquering Macedonia or Greece. In many ways they did so because it was *less* troublesome than not conquering them. The Seleucid were no...

I feel the need to add to Dachs excellent post that, just because commanders were not cognitively thinking in strategic/operational/tactical terms, does not mean that they didn't act in strategic/operational/tactical ways. You can make a good decision by having a conceptual theory of something...

Total worth of all gold every mined ~ £6 trillion. That would mean that ship has 1/60 of all gold currently in the world. Google tells me 2/3 of that £6 trillion has been mined since 1950. Extrapolating a little, I'd say that in 1904 there was probably around 1/6 as much gold mined as now. So...

Fair enough, it wasn't semantic, that was a poor choice of words. Rather both causes (gravity and the initial push) are required, focussing on only a single one of them misses the point. I disagree that why and how are fundamentally different. It's either a question of scale or of...

This thread has become a swamp of people disagreeing while saying essentially the same thing. It's like me pushing a potted plant off the window sill such that it falls down and then asking "What made the plant hit the ground?" Half the people are saying it was gravity that pulled it to the...

How does combined warfare in WW2 compare, in spirit to at least, to combined warfare in antiquity? I'm thinking of things like Alexander combining heavy infantry, light infantry, and cavalry together. Are they completely different things which only share a name, or are there some fundamental...

Can we, perhaps, stop arguing about who said what and just focus on the actual substance of the debate? I couldn't care less who comes up with the good ideas. Honestly, sometimes I think posts should not be tied to an account to stop this BS of bickering about individual words

I pretty much agree with what you said, but it's still circular. You've made a good case that work is gendered in such a way that men get more power (at the level of household and more generally politically) than women from it. But you skirt around *why* work is gendered this way. As I see it...