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by Zuider 11y ago
None. The dams retain enough water to aquify the surrounding land but do not completely restrict the flow. The beavers thin out the older trees making new growth vibrant. The only downside I can imagine is having large swathes of property r
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by Zuider 11y ago
People will continue to deal with GS, despite (maybe even because of) their ever worsening reputation, as long as they can convince themselves that they are the ones who are going to get rich while the other idiots are going to get ripped o
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by Zuider 11y ago
It is similar to the lack of oversight where people leave security cameras open to the internet. Sometimes it is even possible to control the cameras.
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by Zuider 11y ago
So sue me. It is demonstrable that you published falsehoods.
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by Zuider 11y ago
A damaging and false insinuation is a damaging and false insinuation, whatever ground it purports to cover. Smathers chose smears that would do the maximum damage to Pepper as a politician, you did the same for Soon as a scientist.
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by Zuider 11y ago
Or bring back the original 'ye'. It is still in use in some parts of Britain and Ireland.
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by Zuider 11y ago
As someone who has faced racial and religious discrimination, I would say no. I prefer it when people are more easy-going. Fine if you don't like who I am as long as you leave me alone. I see this as another descent into a general mili
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by Zuider 11y ago
Nobody expects the Inqu^H^H^H^H PC brigade! It is probably better not to catch their attention anyway.
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by Zuider 11y ago
>And finally, the obligatory "Free Speech" xkcd: Which could be translated as: "Nice free speech you got there. Shame if there were any 'consequences'..." True, one of the necessary conditions for free speec
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by Zuider 11y ago
Irrelevant. The technique you used was the same as Smathers, and your intent was the same - to damage someone's reputation by insinuations and smears. It is low behavior.
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by Zuider 11y ago
I flagged you for libel because you lied.
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by Zuider 11y ago
Just like the infamous Smathers campaign speech? http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to... "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert [pervert]? N
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by Zuider 11y ago
But which is preferable 0 or 1? Maybe something in between, or maybe even something surprising like -1/12? Which choice will lead to the least error in the long run? NARS2000 comes with a pretty IDE.
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by Zuider 11y ago
I had to check if 0÷0 = 1 in the light of an earlier thread which discussed the rationale for making 0%0 = 0 in the J language, successor to APL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9750742 From the article in the above li
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by Zuider 11y ago
The article you linked to is almost comical in its petty malevolence, well beyond the point of self-satire. This kind of character assassination, however reprehensible, is ultimately irrelevant. If you believe Dr. Wei Hock Soon is wrong, th
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by Zuider 11y ago
Attacking a persons 'trustworthiness' instead of dealing with their arguments and evidence is pretty much the dictionary definition of the ad-hominem diversion. It doesn't interest me to learn that he kicks cats or dresses in
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by Zuider 11y ago
> co-authored by a known practitioner of large-scale scientific fraud for pay ( http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon ) particularly reputable. Flagged for libel. It is one thing to argue a position you believe, it
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by Zuider 11y ago
Your position is similar to that of Swedish environmentalist and academic, Bjorn Lomberg who accepts that rising CO2 levels are the cause of warming, and that this is a problem, but argues that the dangers are overstated and resources would
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by Zuider 11y ago
>If you had a sore stomach, and asked 2 groups of people to help you figure out why, would you trust the diagnosis from a group with 100 world-class doctors, surgeons, dieticians, etc... or 100 random people? Not unless two of those 100
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by Zuider 11y ago
Hans von Storch, professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg discussed this issue in a recent interview with Der Spiegel. He remarked that less than 2% of model runs reproduced the 'pause'. http:/&
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by Zuider 11y ago
The attack on Dr. Wei Hock Soon is a very ugly business. It is a case in point of the political incursion on science that Matt Ridley was describing in the linked article. I have good reason to believe that the insinuations against Dr. Wei
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by Zuider 11y ago
I have flagged this comment as libel. It is one thing to argue a position you believe, it is quite another to smear another's character. This kind of fact-twisting is on the level of the apocryphal Smathers campaign speech: "Are y
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by Zuider 11y ago
>> although in r/fatpeoplehate's case, "more than 5,000" is a bit of an understatement; The truth is literally somewhere in the middle on this. FPH used CSS to inflate the number of subscribers by an order of magni
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by Zuider 11y ago
Or sympathetic mods can delete awkward questions and ban the person posting those questions before anyone can see them. There have been such posts with more [deleted] comments than visible ones. With CSS one can hide the fact that comments
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by Zuider 11y ago
So the universe was written in Logo?
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by Zuider 11y ago
Some have changed their names by deed poll, some have kept them. For instance, Zowie Bowie is now known as Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, and is a successful film director. Moon Unit, Diva Muffin, and Dweezil Zappa did not change their names,
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by Zuider 11y ago
The practice of having a European forename comes from contact with Christianity. It is customary in Christian baptism to take a name of a recognized saint. This naming convention has been a long tradition in Europe, making the names appear
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by Zuider 11y ago
There are extensions to do this, but it compromises security.
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by Zuider 12y ago
People don't decide to remain homeless based on a rational cost/benefit analysis. It seems to be more of a case of such people being trapped within their psychological limits. This is what happened to Leo, the homeless man in ques
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by Zuider 12y ago
>Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated? Only in a very restricted form because of the possibility that convicts could instigate or control criminal activity via such communication with the outside wo

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