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by aazaa 7y ago
There are many subtleties in those discussion that never get mentioned. For example, the graph of CO2 concentration takes center stage. Fine, have a look at the caption: > Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in parts per million (p
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Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming(sciencemag.org)
247 points by aazaa 7y ago|219 comments
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I find it disturbing how popular science articles on climate change seem to find it unimportant to convince the reader that human CO2 emissions are causing most of the temperature increases the earth has experienced in recent years. Here&#x
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by aazaa 7y ago
Buried in a paragraph 2/3 of the way down: > ... Going forward, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. ... Not knowing the internals of Google, it seems as if this is the announcement that Page and Brin are stepping dow
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by aazaa 7y ago
It might be interesting to list some contraindications as well. What aspects of group dynamics work against groupthink, or are signs of its absence? I suspect all of them could be view as anti-patterns. For example: - frequent dissent - gro
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Whenever you look at a problem somebody’s been working on for a week or a month or maybe years and propose a simple, obvious solution that just happens to be the first thing that comes into your head, then you’re also making it crystal
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Does the logarithmic nature of global warming invalidate climate change claims?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by aazaa 7y ago|1 comments
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> (This is partly about demeanor, above all not looking confused about the process, and partly judicious use of shibboleths. I’m occasionally surprised how few are required; it isn’t a state secret that “500mg of acetaminophen” and “a Ty
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by aazaa 7y ago
All popular treatments I've found assume belief in anthropogenic climate change as given. So far I've found not one accessible source that lays out the evidence in a way that non-experts can follow. Something that uses scientific
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by aazaa 7y ago
It appears to be a two-pronged law that permits banks to act as custodians, while at the same time requiring other custodians currently operating in Germany to obtain a special license and comply with other regulations.
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by aazaa 7y ago
Of the two, the case of Spain seems more in line with strongman government transition. In that case, King Juan Carlos I appears to have played a pivotal role in ending an attempted coup and ushering in the transition.
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article links to another article that offers this quote from Gorbachev's recent book: > “When Vladimir Putin became president, he inherited chaos. ... I can’t imagine how one could act under the ‘textbook of democracy’ in these
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by aazaa 7y ago
What kinds of positions are you interviewing for, and what was the #1 thing the companies you interviewed with wanted in a hire?
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by aazaa 7y ago
> But it is precisely for these reasons that the working class is unlikely to be decisive in shaping politics for the foreseeable future. ... This seems like an odd statement given that the American system of government was designed from
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Did Van Halen’s Concert Contract Require the Removal of Brown M&Ms?(snopes.com)
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “I want to make clear that we’re not trying to send people off to Saturn,” he says. “We’re trying to buy ourselves more time to save lives.” The interplay between medical necessity and medical option is fascinating. Reconstructive surg
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by aazaa 7y ago
Two suggestions. 1. Research a daily exercise routine that requires no equipment class, or gym, can be finished in 30 minutes and can be done while traveling. The goal should be to increase flexibility and strength, but not necessary build
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The End of the Computer Age(manhattan-institute.org)
92 points by aazaa 7y ago|85 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
Interesting, but the article doesn't give enough information for third parties to duplicate it. The referenced paper "Less sickness with more motion and/or mental distraction" uses a completely different device. Nor does
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Printing money does not cause inflation. Ah, but it does. It creates asset inflation . This may be the worst kind of all possible inflation because it makes people believe they are wealthier than they are. When the inflation can no lo
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Anecdotally, I've worked for companies that test super heavily, and I've worked for companies that had no automated tests at all. How did refactoring work at that latter company?
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by aazaa 7y ago
This is a big topic, and you're asking some good questions. Rather than tackle it all, I can recommend expanding your questions with the following. When someone tells you they don't write tests first, ask them how they refactor. H
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by aazaa 7y ago
Financial deplatforming is a monster, long-term trend to watch over the next decades. Deplatforming happens with sex workers. It also happens in the US marijuana industry. It happens with perfectly legal political content. The number of way
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... Direct electrolysis of seawater rather than freshwater is highly significant, especially for the arid zones, since this technology not only stores clean energy, but also produces fresh drinking water from seawater. ... There seems
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Both species later became extinct in the Americas. It might sound odd to suggest that the extinction was caused by people. The conventional view is that there weren't many of them in North America. So how could anything have been
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Shortly after, Lynch directed his own version of a space opera / sci-fi film: Dune (1984)
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See also lithium-air (aka lithium oxygen) battery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium–air_battery
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Historical Rankings of Presidents of the United States(en.wikipedia.org)
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> One way to identify hoax articles included examining the article structure and content, its mentions in other articles on Wikipedia (i.e., embeddedness), and features of the editor who created the page. Specifically, hoax articles are
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> On balance, reports from Federal Reserve Districts suggested that the economy expanded at a modest pace through the end of August. Although concerns regarding tariffs and trade policy uncertainty continued, the majority of businesses r

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