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Then they are too stupid to be in the business of helping people.
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You are making excuses for feral animals who used a cattle prod to torture a naked, unarmed man before proceeding to poison him. And your instructor is part of the problem and should be wearing orange, not a police uniform.
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> The rational thing to do for almost everything is to trust the majority of the specialists. Brilliant way to miss the point, which is that rational reasoning also tells you whom to trust. If you have two groups pointing fingers at eac
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Generally, because "something some guy said" is not a fact, and the article makes the very same mistake three times. For example, "95% of climate scientists agree" is not a fact about global warming. It's a fact a
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Just stop telling people that pure greed is the same thing as rationality. Never forget, Nash was crazy, and he did not get a Nobel Prize. Superrationality provides nicer solutions to classic problems like the Prisoners Dilemma, but superr
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But misanthropy is unbiased, while misogyny is sexist.
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> Honestly, "create new prestigious journals from scratch" sounds far easier... What used to be "prestigious" has come to mean "high impact factor", mostly because funding agencies needed an "objective&
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> We need to instate the rule that only preregistered studies can be published or at least used by the FDA as for decisions. That won't help, not by itself. Preregistration helps with "p hacking", the practice of moving t
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It costs time and energy, because there is no end to this kind of debate. Some people are persistent and will blame you for explaining badly when they don't understand. These discussions never end; usually not even after things got l
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Well, you ask for improvement and reject. You have to, because you don't want to accept it. That pisses the submitter off. What now? A possible alternative is to do what Pieter Hintjens recommended: Accept everything , wait for
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In practice it works like this: "Your code invokes undefined behavior and may fail in the following ways. These corner cases are handled incorrectly. There are a few other cases I'm not sure about, because I have trouble followi
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> From a purely pragmatic point of view I don't see what his corrosive tone gets him. I don't know whether it actually, but I think Linus becomes "corrosive" to get rid of someone. Certain developers disappearing is
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True. But was Hitler a People-Person? What about Goebbels?
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That's a suspiciously specific denial.
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I'm tempted to argue that storage makes renewables more expensive, but that argument would rest on the assumption that it was even possible to buy storage capacity at a scale of multiple terawatt-hours.
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Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND, "association for the protection of environment and nature, Germany"), Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, Sierra Club, to name just a few.
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Oops, that sentence was ambiguous. I meant every single one of the talking points. Treehuggers is absolutely the right term in the context of this article, though.
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> obsolete resource RWE (the big bad evil company who wants to cut down Hambach) would like to shut down a few old and unprofitable coal burning plants. They are forbidden from doing so, because these plants "are essential to the g
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This is not news, it's an advertisement. It's all fluff, vague nonsense about what quantum computers might supposedly do, and mostly wrong. The implied assumption is that a quantum computer can solve any NP problem in polynomial
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Sounds like a scam. Alane is not a friendly chemical, it's pyrophoric and incompatible with water. It can be produced by hydrogenation of aluminum at 10GPa and 600C, rather hellish conditions, or by electrolysis of sodium-aluminum-hyd
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> I'm not saying "crime arrests per area is wrong". But that's what you should have said if you were making a rational argument. Instead you made it a political statement by playing the racism card.
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> In both cases this is about crimes among immigrants, though Does that make it less of a problem?
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Medicine and life sciences adopted bad statistics. Every single paper claims something along the lines of "what we observed is so incredibly unlikely (<5%) assuming complete randomness, it must mean our theory is true, our new
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> But the reality of course is that German kids have fights in public, too Not deadly knife fights, though. We don't want to erase the difference between brutal murder (25 stab wounds) and "a scuffle", do we?
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This is easy. What are we optimizing for? Crime fighting effectiveness of police officers. Can we measure that? Sure, it's number of convictions per officer-hour of patrol. You could have pointed out that number of arrests per area
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Not at all. Analysis of limited data gives you wide credible intervals, the exact thing that guards against unwarranted confidence.
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Interesting choice of language there: " we don't put in backdoors [...] we follow the ethics" but then "if there are countries that want to have access [...] you provide what they're asking" No, Mr. YY, it
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Nuclear power is actually free of CO2 emissions. It's easy to see: one could use the electricity to make synthetic fuels from air and water. (Capture of CO2 sounds like a difficult problem, but ammonia and hydrazine would definitely
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You just shifted the goal posts from power inputs to raw materials, but whatever. Let's have a discussion about production of rare earth elements vs. in-situ leaching of uranium.
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If you're assuming cheap renewables, you might as well assume waste free nuclear.

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