TriinT

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by TriinT 17y ago
Some remarks: 1) the fact that the senator in question benefits from denying global warming does not mean that the global warming pseudo-science is true. Politicians can never be trusted. Period. And you seem to have fallen under the spell
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by TriinT 17y ago
I would dare to say that there's much, much more than ideology here. There's an awful lot of propaganda on Global Warming. The facts that are presented are, in a way, manipulated to scare the masses. For me it's more than ideology, it's a
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by TriinT 17y ago
You missed the point. This article explains things in greater detail: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html
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by TriinT 17y ago
It's not an appeal to authority, it's an appeal to good ideas. Dyson's points are valid. If you dismiss them without even thinking deeply about them, you're pretty much doing what the Inquisition did to Galileo. Moreover, Dyson's points are
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by TriinT 17y ago
For starters, I don't like your tone. This is HN, not reddit. Got it? I stand by my assertion. "Climate Change" is a redundancy. The climate has always been changing. If you reduce the entire complexity of the global climate system to 1
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by TriinT 17y ago
Freeman Dyson is a skeptic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSxubKfTBU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k69HUuyI5Mk Do you have the audacity to call him a conspiracy theorist? He's only one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century.
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In gold we trust (2002)(wired.com)
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Broadband Cowboy (2002)(wired.com)
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by TriinT 17y ago
The Kaufmann Desert House (designed by Richard Neutra) is a whole lot more aesthetically pleasing imho: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufmann_Desert_House http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/la-fi-home26-20...
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by TriinT 17y ago
Being curious is easy. Acting on it is harder. You may wonder why the world is the way it is, but then you realize that reading about it takes a lot of time and effort. Most people are lazy. It happens that school is a great curiosity-kille
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by TriinT 17y ago
All the information you'll ever need on Compressed Sensing: http://dsp.rice.edu/cs
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by TriinT 17y ago
That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you. Through my school years, I never saw evidence to back the claim that most kids like to learn. Maybe in early grade school when
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by TriinT 17y ago
I think the cost would be infinitesimal. Weapons are cool, but not essential. In a way, doing without weapons would be fun. Teach the kids martial arts. Their bare hands would be their weapons. What I like about martial arts is that it's a
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by TriinT 17y ago
I have nothing against weapons. I actually like them. However, a camp for teenage boys where there's weapons training would be a PR disaster. The feminists would complain that it was a men's conspiracy to impose the old status quo. The far
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by TriinT 17y ago
Even though I grew up in the 1980s, I still enjoyed a rather Tom Sawyer kind of lifestyle which most kids can't enjoy anymore. Fighting at school was routine. Never got seriously hurt because the fights were outlets, and we had no desire to
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by TriinT 17y ago
I wholeheartedly agree.
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Adventures in the Blogosphere String War(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
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by TriinT 17y ago
The armed forces are for kids older than 18. I think 13-18 y.o. teenage boys with too much testosterone could use a sort of "boot-camp lite" thing. Instead of shooting weapons, they could focus on less deadly stuff which is equally macho .
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by TriinT 17y ago
I was thinking of the boy scouts on steroids, so to say. The boy scouts are too well-behaved. A little bit of boot-camp atmosphere would be interesting.
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by TriinT 17y ago
A solution would be to allow violence in a controlled environment, rather than suppress it completely. Boys like to fight. Instead of denying it, why not nurture it in a responsible manner? Get the angry teenage kids out of the cities and s
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Support Vector Machines(svms.org)
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An Introduction to Lagrange Multipliers(slimy.com)
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The inertia of scientific thought(suppressedscience.net)
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by TriinT 17y ago
Dude, that's one of the funniest and wittiest comments I have read in a while. Cheers!
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Freeman Dyson on Global Warming(youtube.com)
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by TriinT 17y ago
The economics prize is called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel . Like you said, it's not a Nobel prize.
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by TriinT 17y ago
Sure. Why not? After all, Kissinger, Arafat and Gore have won the Nobel Peace prize. The prize does not mean anything, and it's awarded solely for political reasons. The "good" Nobel prizes go to physicists, chemists, biochemists and medica
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The Elegant Universe(pbs.org)
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Einstein and Newton 'had autism' (news.bbc.co.uk)
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Digraphs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications(cs.rhul.ac.uk)
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