HexesofVexes

So here's the question - is the scale consistent over time? That is, do we consider the same ideas left/right wing in 202x as we did in 199x?

Let's assume it is. We're seeing men lean towards the center/right, and a lot of people are asking why. The trouble is, the answer isn't one people like to hear - in our headlong pursuit of equity, we're introducing a lot of inequality. You lift the ladies up, while you let the men climb - all based on the assumption that the women had further to climb so what you're doing is levelling the field.

Countering this is a sympathetic voice, one offering to bring back equality or offer a different kind of equity. Casting gender equity as a zero sum game, and pushing for equality aimed at the ones not being lifted up.

I often hear the "uneducated men" argument, but that's just an ugly echo from the past serving those it once oppressed in a bitter irony. The reality is that even educated people can fall for propaganda. Especially when voting in what they see as their own self interest.

Don't forget Nixon's head!

So if the average price was $50 in 2000, and is about $70 today, assuming a linear rate of price increases, it would be $1663.33 in 4024.

This is a terrible model: it likely underestimates as inflation is geometric rather than arithmetic.

For a geometric model we have r=1.011329 over this period, thus extrapolating we get a price of...

$208,200,000,000

Which is insane, because it is so low for Nintendo!

Minecraft brought us ~~:.|:;~~... Who'd have thought it.

You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!'

I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend...

I absolutely don't use notepad++ as my main IDE... Honest.

I feel personally attacked by this!

Huh, neat!

The University of Amsterdam will always have a special place in my heart - it's where Brouwer began his revolution in mathematics. Though, I believe his student's student (the late Professor Troelstra) was more fond of hunting for species of bramble around Amsterdam than horses tails!

Ah the "horsetail", a plant that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs...

Even a small fragment of it can grow into a new plant, it spreads both via rhizomes and spores, and it'll punch through any barrier eventually too.

Given the revolutionary flavour of the university of Amsterdamn's history, it might well fit.

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