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by amvalo 8y ago
Ok, technically yes, but ocean acidity is a far bigger effect, and that's what the GP was confused about.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> CO2 will be turned into Coral No.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> The acritical use of the yardstick of "progress" as the ultimate value for everything (along with its little cousin: "productivity") is, in itself, a philosophical position. There it goes again! It would seem philos
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by amvalo 8y ago
> To illustrate: there is common belief that metaphysics became irrelevant -- that it was replaced by science. This is, in itself, a metaphysical position, and a misunderstand about what science is and does. This reminds me of religious
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by amvalo 8y ago
I think west island means australia
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by amvalo 8y ago
There used to be people insisting it was mass hysteria. That hypothesis isn't looking so good, IMO.
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by amvalo 8y ago
Why am I amvalo instead of dchichkov?
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by amvalo 8y ago
I guess my brain perceives being bored on a long bus ride as unduly painful or threatening.
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by amvalo 8y ago
This is not as shocking as it sounds if you look at a globe though
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by amvalo 8y ago
I have a milder form of this hallucination every few months or so. Certain thought patterns related to "arbitrariness" trigger it, for example asking why earth has the continents it does, a question to which there is no satisfying
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by amvalo 8y ago
Nope there is a real pattern -- they cluster along certain polynomials. Trying picking random points on the black squares of a chessboard (same condition that you stated), they won't make obvious lines like that.
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by amvalo 8y ago
It works because almost half the new yorker cartoons involve one cartoon entity meeting or stumbling across another.
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by amvalo 8y ago
This is like the mathematical version of trying to build a perpetual motion machine for a science fair project. At 16, I may not have known enough make the GP's argument, but I would have the intellectual humility to pick a project I c
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by amvalo 8y ago
This is the kind of information I can only find on HN :)
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by amvalo 8y ago
are you trying out for the pedantry olympics?
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by amvalo 8y ago
> Kaczynski was living in Lombard, Illinois during most of the Zodiac events. ...? What is the point of this page?
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by amvalo 8y ago
The above situation is definitely a shifting equilibrium rather than feedback loop. Like, everyone getting a 3% raise won't make the city unlivable overnight, it probably won't even increase cost of living by 3%
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by amvalo 8y ago
What do you mean by the word "tunnel" here? They seem to be talking about an arrangement of stones on a cave floor.
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by amvalo 8y ago
No way that's true. Maybe he have meant trade routes?
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by amvalo 8y ago
"Feedback loop?" Where did you learn economics?
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by amvalo 8y ago
WTF kind of fairy land is this? 10% is already a dream, but at least it's a round number, unlike the 12% you just arbitrarily threw out there.
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by amvalo 8y ago
You don't have time to sit on a couch and talk about your day together?
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by amvalo 8y ago
That actually doesn't seem to be what he's saying. "Share grocery lists." That's what a couple would share with each other, not to their other friends. > my partner likes a Chanel purse on FB or Pinterest the pa
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by amvalo 8y ago
Or... you could just have a conversation like normal people.
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by amvalo 8y ago
> Who tries to get a Ph.D. in six years?” said Marguerite Waller, a Phud who became a professor of comparative literature and gender and sexuality studies. “It’s insane.” This isn't explained well, but I guess they meant getting a P
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by amvalo 9y ago
Cody drank cyanide for fun -- twice. Definitely not a safety oriented channel
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by amvalo 9y ago
You are right, though. Lead paint doesn't emit lead vapors (except if you remove it with those heat gun things)
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by amvalo 9y ago
The rationale was that their own ethnic group deserved to prosper at the expense of others. The idea that germany might be in danger of running out of food via population growth was not present. If by "reminiscent" you mean "
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by amvalo 9y ago
Godwin's law simply states that Nazis will eventually be mentioned (with probability approaching 1). Also, he's completely wrong. Hitler's reasoning was not to avoid a malthusian catastrophe. Pretty surprised people here boug
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by amvalo 9y ago
Good Godwin.

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