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by bellaire 15y ago
Not at all. It is true that CO2 has never led temperature change before; that's because the massive anthropogenic CO2 spike in the data is completely unprecedented, so we don't know what happens when CO2 increases massively "on its own". C
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by bellaire 15y ago
Both are views of death are technically correct, but focusing on the former while ignoring the latter is problematic for reasons described at length in the article.
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by bellaire 15y ago
Afraid doesn't necessarily denote the emotion of fear, I think in this context we can safely say it's merely the anticipation of something which is disliked. Like, "I'm afraid if I order from Sloppy Joe's Pizzeria, I'll find another hair i
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by bellaire 15y ago
Ostensibly, yes. However, the reality of the situation is left as an exercise for the conscientious reader.
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by bellaire 15y ago
The article specifically describes a comparison of Finland with Norway, similiar in size and ethnic composition. Apples-to-apples, as you say. Norway's education policy is much more similar to the US, and Norway's PISA results are mediocr
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by bellaire 15y ago
I agree with your post, but this: ...as meaningful as comparing a phillips screwdriver with a flathead. They're used for different purposes. is perhaps not the best analogy. They are both for turning screws, and some people do, in fact,
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by bellaire 15y ago
Using xargs with a pipe is easier. I don't know any reason why I'd want to "save a pipe" when working at the command line. Also note that text surrounded by asterisks in your comment become italics. Indent text by two or more spaces to re
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by bellaire 15y ago
You can other things to show that you give a damn besides apologizing, which is kind of her point. Would a woman apologize to another woman about the behavior of a crude man? No, because she hasn't done anything wrong. Apologizing explici
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by bellaire 15y ago
Teleology was used somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The older literature was problematic because it aligned too neatly with anthropocentric ideas of goal-oriented evolution, and gave rise to nonsense objections like "Where is the missing link?"
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by bellaire 15y ago
Build me a quantum teleporter, then we can compare masses.
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by bellaire 15y ago
Great post, more informative than the article. As far as I know, the adaptive radiation theory is now held as correct for hominids just as it is for every other group of species. The "classical" teleological viewpoint doesn't hold up to sc
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by bellaire 15y ago
Surprising, and highly unlikely. If it's not too taxing for you, you could read the rest of the Wikipedia article to better understand when measures other than reproductive compatibility are employed. The suggestion that color alone would
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by bellaire 15y ago
There are two differences: One, stuff is a positive number. If your goal is to have less stuff to be happy, you can't get less than zero stuff. It's self-limiting. If your goal is to have more stuff, there is no limit. It's always possi
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by bellaire 15y ago
From the article: "Our ongoing research suggests that teams need a moderate level of cognitive diversity for effectiveness. Extremely homogeneous or extremely diverse groups aren’t as intelligent."
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by bellaire 15y ago
That study is exclusively with smaller groups: 3 people. The social dynamics of a 3-person group are very different than a 10-person group as in this study. This probably has much to do with the different results.
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by bellaire 15y ago
Those aren't fallacies, those are merely points with which you disagree. The appropriate thing for you to do is provide contrary evidence.
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by bellaire 15y ago
Makes sense. EFF knows the law as well as anyone, the concern here is that they could be entangled in as-yet-unknown legal disputes because of their use of bitcoin. That'd be wasteful of both bitcoin and regular currency donations. I thin
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by bellaire 15y ago
The linked PDF is ambiguous, "penalisation of the production and making available of tools ... for committing the offences". If this requires mens rea , i.e. they prove that your intent was for committing an offense, it's not such a big de
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by bellaire 15y ago
From the article: "The tech supposedly makes the batteries up to ten times more efficient than their traditional counterparts, and even more importantly, the new tech is cheaper to produce."
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by bellaire 15y ago
Very real and legitimate objections based on a right to privacy aside, the main flaw with this point of view is this: "If there's almost 0 chance..." Almost 0 is not zero. If you're monitoring 300 million people, and the chance of a false
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by bellaire 15y ago
You forgot the most salient point: At that temperature, the styrofoam was so soft (though not quite melted) that after removing the lid, it collapsed on itself. So she "spilled" the coffee by assuming that the cup would retain its shape w
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by bellaire 15y ago
Scandals rarely are. Someone gives or receives money, favors, or information inappropriately. It's the perceived degree of impropriety that makes something scandalous, not how commonly it occurs. That said, this one does seem pretty tame.
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by bellaire 15y ago
Virtually all studies (and there have been many) have shown that people with diabetes who use glucose meters regularly are at markedly reduced risk of complications than those who do not. WRT the OP, unless you are advocating that the FDA s
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by bellaire 16y ago
A utility function or cost/benefit tradeoff isn't a matter of opinion. If your situation and available information dictates that a certain decision is rational, then we aren't talking about you. The whole point is that, given a concrete, r
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by bellaire 16y ago
Yeah, punctuation, wow. I mean, here's a sierpinski triangle generator: 32.times{|i|i.upto(31){|k|putc~k&i>0?32:35};puts} Oh, wait. That's Ruby. I meant to say: <?for($n=33;$k=--$n;print~\xf5)for(;$k;)echo-$n&--$k?~\xdf:~
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by bellaire 16y ago
This was done as a free summer course. Language bigotry aside, offering a course to learn another language outside those taught in the standard curriciulum, especially one which costs students nothing, is a win for everyone.
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by bellaire 16y ago
I see what you are saying, but I don't agree. You are reversing the evidence in your assertions. There is no evidence that life has existed in the past on Mars. If there were, that would be fantastic, and many people believe such evidenc
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by bellaire 16y ago
Tyson's entire point is that alien life, even life that appears to do things we associate with intelligence and language, may be so different from us that we are fundamentally unable to communicate, just like us and worms. What if their la
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by bellaire 16y ago
>> It can kill itself on a whim, and has come close to doing so in the geological past. I'm not sure what you mean by "close to" killing itself. In the geologic past, life itself has survived rapid toxic oxygenation, the complete f
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by bellaire 16y ago
Aside from semantic arguments about what "balance" means, it's true that nature is a state of constant change. When people talk about sustainability, they're acknowledging that humans can have an impact on nature, or more to the point, on o

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