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by Udik 6y ago
> they failed at go Do you even realise what you're commenting about? A 500 metres tall water park with slides to hide a giant crypto farm to save a country of 80 million from a near total embargo? Come on.
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by Udik 6y ago
A vertical water park with cryptocurrency mining facility as a response to an international embargo seems to be an art project. I find it funny and endearing- its absurdity seems to be part of the message.
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Language may undermine women in science and tech(phys.org)
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by Udik 6y ago
A possibility would be a (global, publication independent) subscription service like this: you pay a fixed amount in each month (say, ten dollars). Then every time you read an article from a website that subscribes to the service, if you li
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't get this. Then no crisis is ever a black swan, as we're always expecting the next one. Financial crises, pandemics, meteorites, terror attacks? All expected. A black swan must be an event that is unpredictable in the sense
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by Udik 6y ago
They can do just anything, once they convinced you it's "because national security". And it seems that people are very easily convinced.
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by Udik 6y ago
So what happens from the practical point of view? Is the government going to delete an app from the phones of 80 million people? Really curious to see this one.
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by Udik 6y ago
> There never was a Palestinian people or a Palestinian contry. Your home and the city you live in, probably your entire region, were never a nation. Does that authorise someone else to come and throw you out? Of course not. Let's s
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by Udik 6y ago
> An area steeped in sectarian violence and racism So they say. In the meanwhile, Israel has taken almost all the land. It's a very convenient racist and sectarian hatred this of the Palestinians, it has a return measurable in squar
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by Udik 6y ago
> My ancestors lived in Israel since 1880 No, they lived in Palestine. In hindsight, having been the Palestinians pushed away from their lands, first through mass immigration, then by the generous gift made by Europe of those lands to th
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by Udik 6y ago
I look forward to the day a report this critical of Israel can be published in a US newspaper!
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by Udik 6y ago
It's definitely true- after all we're talking about people who stalked him and his (potential) employers because of how wrong he is. On the other hand, science is about finding truths. It needs to be flexible to replace old trut
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by Udik 6y ago
What we'd really need is a public database of cancellers . Apart from the few deeply ideologically motivated ones, most of the cancellers are simply individuals who either perceive, consciously or unconsciously, the advantage of align
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by Udik 6y ago
> asserting that he's right and people who see it otherwise are straight up wrong. That seems to be the same thing his opponents are saying about his positions. So do you maintain the same attitude towards them?
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by Udik 6y ago
> they can buy land and new-build And why would they sell you land for less if they know you have $40k more of income? Everyone can pay that extra money, if I am a seller I am raising my prices accordingly.
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by Udik 6y ago
But then maybe we should treat with the same scepticism studies diverging from the IPCC consensus in either direction. Those that downplay the risks of climate change as well as those that announce catastrophic outcomes that are not consi
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by Udik 6y ago
I am making a general argument. Things that are somehow unexpected tend to get more attention that those which are granted. The article says: "While just 10% of the press releases Wetts found featured anti-climate action messaging...&q
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by Udik 6y ago
If two very reliable scientific studies come out about the same subject, one confirming what everyone already knows about it, and the other one finding some basic flaw in the accepted science that entirely challenges our understanding of it
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't know if this is a US thing. Here in Europe, and as an avid reader of the news and various reporting, I can assure you that climate change activism is as mainstream as it can be (also because it easily inserted itself over a gen
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by Udik 6y ago
That's not what the singularity is.
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by Udik 6y ago
The chairs look like an absolute torture to sit on. But hey, they took only 7 years to make and cost $2500.
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by Udik 6y ago
Especially in your living room.
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by Udik 6y ago
Just a mix-up of irrespectively and regardless.
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by Udik 6y ago
Trivia?
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by Udik 6y ago
> and assume it's sufficiently cromulent for formal use Ha! Good one. > the use of the word 'decimate' as an alternative spelling for 'destroy' An alternative spelling ? I don't think so.
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by Udik 6y ago
Pretty uninteresting list. At least danger should be estimated by encounter: huge numbers of humans are killed by other humans, does that mean I should be more afraid when I encounter a human or, say, a polar bear? Also confusing direct kil
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by Udik 6y ago
> there's the obvious problem of "what happens if the government is intolerant?" Well, I guess that at some point you have to accept one risk or another. Any system can fail in one way or the other. I personally don't
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by Udik 6y ago
Like any other law. As it is done in other countries, where for example hate speech is a crime, and firing an employee for political or ideological reasons is illegal. In other words: actively protected freedom inside the boundaries of the
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That the solution to it- becoming intolerant towards intolerance- is an option that needs to be regulated. The default of society should be tolerance, and very well defined limits should be put on it, if the need arises. If any actor in soc
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by Udik 6y ago
> The idea is that the state should not generally be in the business of determine what political speech should be legal I understand, but how can the same state allow mobs and employers to harass people and sometimes destroy their lives

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