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by berntb 10y ago
>> why you want to stick with the scientific method. How can you have an opinion on that, after writing that you don't know what it is -- despite talking about Popper...? I told you I didn't need that for my argument. Bye.
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by berntb 10y ago
Hmm, fusion and particle physics might be too well known and _relatively_ simple that energy output and spectra can say what happens? You might be correct regarding astrophysics, especially since they do have many billions of examples to st
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by berntb 10y ago
>> To piss on your own field, is a good way to be considered a pariah, a conspiracy theorist, a nut job etc. Not many grants coming to the self-doubting economist, and policy advisor positions either. You can say the same for any rese
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by berntb 10y ago
What you write there is interesting, you should have led with that. :-) Could you give me some pointers? Coming from Sweden, we have a consensus culture. That makes it possible for the media and the politicians to whip up a frenzy and chang
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by berntb 10y ago
>> If my claim was true, economists admitting it would be like homeopathists or freudian psychoanalysts saying their fields are non-scientific. It just ain't gonna happen, or it will be marginal at best. You do realize that is ho
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by berntb 10y ago
You ignored that I argued your questions about Popper is not relevant for my point [edit: if nothing else, that argument also applies to astrophysics, archaeology, history, etc], so your dismissal here forces me to dismiss you as a serious
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by berntb 10y ago
Economy, palaeontology, archaeology, history and astrophysics can use computer models, look for data in the nature etc. Those can disqualify hypotheses. But you can't use the normal scientific method. I asked for references to disquali
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by berntb 10y ago
So you give up on my point regarding experimental sciences (which was what Popper was about) and the rest -- like economy, palaeontology etc? The scientific method is what is used by the experimental ("hard") sciences. Do you real
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by berntb 10y ago
Re your point about Palaeontology -- the same goes for economics (and much of astrophysics, for that matter). Which was my point. (The rest isn't relevant for my point and I am not really an expert. So just post a reference if I'm
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by berntb 10y ago
It is good to look up the scientific method before arguing about Popper. (Hint: It is in the first sentence of the second paragraph on Popper's wikipedia page. Also, your own link had the term as a related link.) Enough for me, bye. Ed
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by berntb 10y ago
>> I wonder what you would even accept as a "non-ideological source"? Since no references, which I asked for, have been presented at all, that is not an interesting problem... >> the grandparent didn't [phrase it
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by berntb 10y ago
Experiments are generally needed to "falsify" claims in physics, chemistry etc. Those are experimental sciences, which can use the scientific method. Mathematics et al can falsify "on paper". Palaeontology, economics and
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by berntb 10y ago
Again, is it then also reasonable to dismiss palaeontology as having 0 "scientific content", since it can't use the scientific method either? This is an honest question. (And I am no economist, but afaik, the economists note
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by berntb 10y ago
So you lack references (without an ideological angle) that dismiss economics as a science -- which I asked after? That some sciences can't use the scientific method (do experiments etc) like some parts of geology, don't counter my
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by berntb 10y ago
It is a classic conspiracy theory to say that most of a scientific field is a fraud from (political) ideology. (That is, your statement presupposes most people of the field are either idiots, fanatics or crooks.) I'd be interested if y
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by berntb 10y ago
I wish the online Japanese translation was better. The convenience store chains selling Oden should realize where a sure growth area is -- Europe.
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by berntb 10y ago
1. The roofs of houses and solar cells over roads would cover the need for everything but (maybe) really high population cities. The area to collect sun isn't really a problem, especially not when they get more efficient over time. 2.
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by berntb 10y ago
CPAN Testers also test on different operating system versions. And hence also test the Perl binaries, for a lot of different versions, by literally running the combined test suites for all of the (public) Perl code. I really, really don&#x2
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by berntb 10y ago
Regarding 1, Perl 5 copied the CLOS in Moose. Perl 6 has that and a lot more of the goodies (multiple dispatch, etc), from parent and the brother comments. But sure, I'd love to find a job where I can use Lisp or start with Scheme.
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by berntb 10y ago
First, I don't really know if the article's argument is correct, but the vehemence in the "1%" discussion is bad. If nothing else, this movement should concentrate more on rent seeking and regulatory capture. Living in a
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by berntb 10y ago
My main problem with the cron syntax is that is error prone. I'd like it to be a bit harder to get correct syntax when you write something wrong. But a simple GUI could take care of that.
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by berntb 10y ago
... and how do you know which one is of high quality when you buy? Since the products are copies -- how would you know you don't get ripped off next week, when Amazon sell some other copies? The packaging etc look the same, by definiti
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by berntb 10y ago
The product I've seen crash and burn in quality on Amazon UK is Koss PortaPro headphones. Loved those for many years, but the last few broke inside weeks. I am wondering if I should try to buy a last pair directly from the manufacturer
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by berntb 10y ago
Was Japanese war crimes really worse than the European standards in pre modern times? From my Swedish history, see the 30 year war (for a viewpoint not covered well in Swedish schools, google Polish deluge). To me it seems the main differen
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by berntb 10y ago
<Cough> Google Maps risked my life a few years back, in Transylvania. (Going to Cluj from the south west of the mountains; that "road" was more a cattle lane unsuitable for bicycles, much less cars). I assume/hope it is
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by berntb 10y ago
I got an idea the last time I saw this discussed, which probably will make some present HN people rich: Bots which follow your own conversations/emails/etc, read the comments from other people -- and in another window suggest joke
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by berntb 10y ago
Cool idea, but I doubt it will work. To end loneliness and build friendships, why not start with activities? Organize locals, but for low paid(/volunteer) help with cleaning/cooking/gardening/computer support/drivin
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by berntb 10y ago
For regular expressions, I recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions". I thought I knew REs before reading that book -- since I had both been using them for years and did a course on automata theory at Uni -- but that was just Dunn
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by berntb 11y ago
Hmm... A new idea for me, which probably will make someone here on HN rich: Helpful bots that monitors your communication and suggests cultural jokes, to impress people?
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by berntb 11y ago
>> there's always a shortage of programmers Wow, people really have forgotten the IT-death. :-) There are cycles and bubbles here too. They just might not be in phase with the general economy. (And get off my lawn. :-) )

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