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by Hondor 10y ago
I'm not confusing them. But people who see it as a two-sided argument are. What you said about an experiment and having no idea sounds like my impression of the state of the science too. But you wouldn't know if from the news medi
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by Hondor 10y ago
None of us have actual evidence. I don't mean looking at a graph that somebody claims came from a model that happened to match observations. I mean evidence that doesn't depend on trusting people who are trying to persuade you. Fo
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by Hondor 10y ago
Are you saying Wikipedia's definition of ad hominem is wrong? It clearly says attacking a person's character or other attribute rather than the argument itself. A person's track record of mistakes is surely part of their char
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by Hondor 10y ago
I see. But it's still not clear if it's part of a trend or not. What if the maximum arctic sea ice coverage is higher next year? That will show that 2016 record low wasn't part of the trend and maybe was an anomaly. We can&#x
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by Hondor 10y ago
If the more mature models show higher sea level rises, then why didn't the IPCC just include that "meta trend" in the current models - predicting both the climate and the future models? That would be extremely risky. We obvio
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Some were recently created in the South China sea though http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/wha...
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by Hondor 10y ago
Homeostasis could be achieved by a balance of waver vapor and cloud cover which are both strong factors on temperature but acting in the opposite directions. "Thus the possible positive and negative feedbacks associated with increased
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by Hondor 10y ago
I'm a climate change skeptic and what would convince me is - less trying to convince people - less calls to action - less promotion of the tiny irrelevant bad things that it's doing - less hiding of the good things it's doing
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by Hondor 10y ago
Indians are allowed to poach endangered animals?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Yes the pig was alive - "in vivo" means on a live subject. I'd expect a robot + human intervention to be strictly better than a human alone. Surgery is a slow static kind of operation so if anything starts to go in the wrong
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by Hondor 10y ago
My university started locking the balcony doors of its library building after a suicider jumped off. Nobody complained that they should have provided better studying conditions for students and left the doors open. It seemed like a complete
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by Hondor 10y ago
Even Latin 'I' and 'l' and the digit '1' are visually indistinguishable in some fonts! So are trailing spaces and different numbers of spaces. This is such a pervasive problem that maybe we can just give up and
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by Hondor 10y ago
Wow, so characters like U+022F (ȯ) and U+042F (Cyrillic letter Я) U+062F (Arabic letter د) are not allowed but nearly everything else is? Some of those are letters used in actual languages. That's sure to make people scratch their head
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by Hondor 10y ago
Don't forget who the biggest victims of background checks will be. Unemployable ex-cons. Anyone who's been convicted at any time in their life will have yet another door to employment shut in their face. Maybe 10 or 20 years ago,
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by Hondor 10y ago
How does a rating stop a person from becoming a driver just so he can rape his first fare, then quit? He's not going to be bothered by stars or future fares.
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by Hondor 10y ago
I agree. Traffic offenses are often the reasons accidents happen. I bet if that girl knew the cops were monitoring her speed and she was guaranteed to get fined for speeding, then she wouldn't have been speeding.
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by Hondor 10y ago
If only somebody would do collision (contact) for elastic bodies with the range of scales and accuracy needed for finite element analysis. As far as I know, this is something that nobody's achieved yet. Users have to manually tweak par
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by Hondor 10y ago
Even though 12 blades are less efficient, the article points out that they may have advantages for the bigger system of a whole wind farm, availability of sites, production, transport, control and non-generating time. It's not beyond b
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by Hondor 10y ago
China used to "donate" underpriced solar panels to Americans. When Americans found out, they said go away! [1] They'd rather pay more than receive government aid from another country. They even have a negative sounding a name
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by Hondor 10y ago
Since it's a .gov domain, people can assume that everything on it is published by the US government. Nobody else can register a .gov domain. So a MITM injecting ads or changing the content would be worse than for a .com site.
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by Hondor 10y ago
No. The user might use his control to make his computer less secure. Then it does't have security. And in real life, most user do exactly this when they have the option easily available. Most viruses spread through user control. Users
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's hard for the layman to see any science happening with climate science. All we hear is predictions that have already come true before they were made, vague unfalsifiable predictions for the near future and the more concrete predict
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Maybe it's the sequence he presented it, but something sound incredibly wrong about this line of thinking: 1) Here's my simple theory (the more charismatic wins). 2) Here's all this data to support it. 3) Here's some dat
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by Hondor 10y ago
Do you agree that human's use of fossil fuels caused global warming? We only know that they're correlated, right? It was a singular event without a control that we discovered by analyzing historical data. A lot like this article&#
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by Hondor 10y ago
You're assuming your points were valid. Since you didn't really argue them, they might not be. In that case, you aren't justified in getting angry at this article any more than you are in getting angry at every paper using st
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by Hondor 10y ago
1.2 million premature deaths, not outright deaths. These will be people about to die anyway who died slightly sooner than otherwise. Car crashes kill people 50 years ahead of schedule, not 1 year.
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by Hondor 10y ago
That expression can indicate respect. That's how it appears to me in this context, not as abuse.
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If your core temperature drops, it's probably because you're losing heat faster than you can generate it. That kind of points to how effective this could be in the limit of being nearly fatal - If you can lose more heat than your
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by Hondor 10y ago
Good point, but it looks like there's still a big effect. Vasoconstriction causes up to an extra 10 degC temperature gradient across the skin compared to when they're dilated (less than 1 degC). [ http://www.healthyheat
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by Hondor 10y ago
Simple physics analysis Almost all of the energy we get from food is used to heat our bodies, mostly indirectly via our liver, spleen and brain. [ https://www.boundless.com/physics/textbooks/624/work-and-ene..

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