Monthly Archives: March 2011

A Puzzle about the Halting Problem

(updated at end) I was reading about the halting problem recently, and in trying to understand it, I thought of a question that I can’t figure out the answer to (it is one of these cases where it feels like … Continue reading

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What makes established religions so special?

The Justice Dept. is intervening in a case of a Muslim teacher outside Chicago who quit her job because her school would not let her take 3 weeks off at the end of the semester to go to Mecca. The … Continue reading

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First Question

Why doesn’t the forcing of Wisconsin’s public employees to join the union violate (in spirit) Article 20, point 2 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “No one may be compelled to belong to an association”? You could argue … Continue reading

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