Recent content by kleinphi

All this is very close to my own thoughts. I have a couple of points to add: I don't know if you are speaking literally when you call intelligence a recessive trait. It is something I have, quite frankly, never pondered. Actually, I have met two intelligent people who seem to have...

Isn't that the point of it? When I want it to sound lonely, I play the flute, otherwise the piano. But why hasn't anyone even attempted to answer the original question? Sure, music theory is vast, but also quite specific. The most general and abstract properties of music are really just...

When you flip a coin a finite number of times, you will get approximately 50% heads and 50% tails if the coin is "fair". The only way you will get exactly 50% heads and 50% tails out of a "fair" coin is if you flip it an infinite number of times. Everything in life is like flipping coins. As...

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It is like this: There are essentially two types of walkie-talkies you are allowed to use without any specific kind of license: CB, which has been around for several decades. These frequencies are around 29 MHz, so theoretically you could under certain not too infrequent conditions use them...

In my opinion the main problem here is that most of us, myself included, do not exactly know what communism is. If you grew up in America during the cold war, you were taught that the cruel and evil dictatorship in the USSR and its followers was communism. Even though neither communism nor the...