RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> Thunderbird doesn't make money. Pocket makes money. That's not the case anymore with this merger though, right? Pocket will now cease to make actual money.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
That doesn't rule out that it's a blanket pass for some papers. How about if we phrase it this way: In some cases, peer review works correctly with constructive feedback. In some cases, peer review is abused to "rough up the
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
That's a great point -- and maybe explains why the theory of evolution had so much push back for so long? Maybe there's a link to skepticism and these kinds of financial or credibility links? Is it subconscious even? Could be usef
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> But I don't think it's true that every scientist expressing a belief in anthropogenic global warming has a conflict of interest. Some number of them are tenured professors, for example. This is a good example of the value of
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Yes, seems okay to me too. It's how you'd expect it to work. But now that we're in the position we're in, there is a financial incentive for climate science researchers to never research anything to disprove the basis fo
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> Historically, science has got a lot of things right. Can you name any historical outcome of science that did not align in some way with the financials? I cannot name a single scientist who ever researched himself out of a job. Yet that
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Unfortunately, the numbers we need here are all confidential. Here's the list of UN grants though: http://www.unccd.int/en/programmes/Capacity-building/CBW/mar... Here's a decent article on the
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
There's lots of evidence to show that climate science deserves a lot of funding -- our world kind of depends on it. Believe me, I'm not in disagreement with you there. However, I think there is a massive causal link there. If you&
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> 1. That's a bit like saying if powered aviation goes away tomorrow (as in, it is to be completely proven to be impossible), every single engineer at Boeing would be out of a job. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If y
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
> That's very flawed reasoning: Do you think these scientists didn't have a job before? A huge percentage of them didn't actually. Most of the current researchers into climate change have always worked as researchers in th
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
As someone who has received a number of grants, I don't think I'm entirely incorrect here. Although I was exaggerating, the field would shrink dramatically, departments would be shut down or merged, journals would stop carrying ar
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
From a cursory glance into the grants and money devoted to climate science research from the UN and others, nearly all of it directly relates to climate change. There is a market for general studies into planetary climate, but they're
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I don't that's true. For an example that would apply to computer science: "99% of computer scientists agree that computers are the future of mankind". I don't think you even need to do a study here, it's obviou
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
While that's true, there is another issue here. If global warming went away tomorrow -- as in, it were to be completely proven to not exist -- every single climate change scientist would be out of a job. They'd literally have to s
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
It's similar to the 'build vs maintain' debate we have in software. The article is about how great it was to build this up, but it's going to be someone else doing the hard work of maintaining the 'debt'.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I don't understand what this has to do with HN. Swedish immigration...? How..? I guess it's interesting enough, but I just don't see the link. Why is it being upvoted so much?
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Ah interesting. To me that just sounds like saying there's nothing you hate more than using a hammer when you could be using a screwdriver, and this is from using a lot of VS and Eclipse/idea. I can see where you're coming fr
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I think it's more that it doesn't really need to be said. I use Android Studio, Xcode and Visual Studio daily. I prefer Android Studio by a mile because of the great integration with testing, build tools and command line. It'
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
This article is about as embarrassing as Android Studio is. Multiple areas are plain incorrect, and zero effort seems to be made to do any kind of investigation or provide any actual information. Maybe we should stick to only posting techcr
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Following that line, what use is history at all anymore? It's now just a hammer we can use to propagate whatever new idea we currently have. I don't really see the value in such a history.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Is a 30 day disclosure period really enough for something like this? It's obviously not possible to 'fix' big systems that rely on SHA-1 such as git or github in only 30 days. Hardware devices that use SHA-1 as a base for aut
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
But would anybody really want to use a hypermedia client versus a regular client? Of course not. The regular client can be optimized properly at the level it needs to be to make the user's interaction smoother.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Definitely, but that doesn't change the simple logic that if you have a conclusion, it's very easy to lose the truth of a historical situation by instead selecting an explanation that you want. Let's say there is a historical
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
I believe the basic idea is to use that able-bodied distribution as an excuse to heavily raise taxes, with the goal being that the needy and disabled would not receive less. The logic being that if everyone has a safety net, we don't n
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Getting permanently off fossil fuels is a one-off cost. Basic income is an ever increasing and perpetual cost. I don't think they are comparable.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Interesting, but it seems you're coming from the position of having already concluded what the answer is, and then going back and fitting everything to that precondition.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
How do you explain the fall of Athens and Rome, and the very long centuries of dark ages in Europe and West Asia?
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
So Liberalism is good and improves things, and therefore everyone will choose it? Assuming the first part is true, just becomes something is better does not mean it will be chosen, so I don't think that argument works.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
Ignoring the blatant lies by Infowars, this still seems pretty bad. Giving Zuckerberg the power to identify "hate speech" and work with politicians on it can only lead to abuse in the long run.
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by RyanZAG 10y ago
It's a shame you've been downvoted, but I think it just enforces your point on how uncomfortable it is for people to accept it.

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