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by bjowen 6y ago
Arguably the positions taken in service of provocation only (owning the libs etc) are a refusal to agree just because - would they qualify?
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by bjowen 6y ago
Meaning no shade, since this has probably been launched on a moment’s notice, but the current list of publications isn’t that impressive - none of the big names are there, half are subscriber paywalled, and the Conversation is a Creative Co
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by bjowen 6y ago
What factors led to the effectiveness of the Melbourne lockdown? Choices are things like compliance, geography, particulars of the rules (8pm curfew, 5km movement radius), enough of a population that is able to work from home, enough econo
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by bjowen 6y ago
I wonder whether absolute pitch in the sense we consider it today is even applicable to Mozart’s time. Pitch standards are a creature of the 19th century, and before their adoption, pitch varied considerably between cities, orchestras and e
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by bjowen 6y ago
This is more or less how much of the world works already - if you’re in the USA and you’ve heard of FinCEN, that’s what that’s for. Money moves quickly, often between non-co-operative jurisdictions, often irretrievably. Money laundering act
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by bjowen 6y ago
I think it depends on the musician. A couple of friends of mine struggle against their absolute pitch in historical pitch contexts (especially a notorious 19th century organ tuned to A450) and have to think in microtones, others just dial i
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by bjowen 6y ago
Putting this here because it quotes the statement of complaint for context, which has got a bit buried - and it may address some of the more superficial commentary: http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/09/04/
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Another public servant forced out of a job for a blog post(theguardian.com)
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by bjowen 6y ago
The concentration camps aren’t a mark of the effectiveness of the legal system so much as one of the political system - as inexcusable as they are, the country still manages to have mechanisms of state to administer airspace, health and saf
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by bjowen 6y ago
None of that is necessarily inconsistent with there being political bias though - which could exist despite everyone’s best intentions. Disagreeable people are sometimes right, as much as it might be hard to see it or admit it. [edit - tone
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by bjowen 6y ago
Oh nobody’s even bothered to think about epistemology before.
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by bjowen 6y ago
... hey! https://youtu.be/q98Y86jfXaY
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US Government places new $200M order for Smallpox Vaccine (2020)(globenewswire.com)
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by bjowen 6y ago
Not an immunologist, but one claim that contradicts other published work stands out to me — fn 7 and the assertion that ACE2 isn’t expressed in lung tissue. ACE2 has been shown as the target site for SARS-CoV [1] and expressed in particular
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by bjowen 7y ago
That’s a claim you should not read uncritically, given where it is published — the site is a “climate skeptic” page, and the claim it is trying to advance is that the national broadcaster is being manipulated, or at the centre of a vast lef
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by bjowen 7y ago
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jes...
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by bjowen 7y ago
Also it’d probably help if we stopped outsourcing our emissions to China by sending a bunch of manufacturing there.
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by bjowen 7y ago
“Alternative landscapes” here really means exotic species that aren’t fire-propagated. There’s some evidence that exotics are protective of property in a low-intensity fire, but they’re also far more dependent on water, which is a desperate
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by bjowen 7y ago
“The margins” also unfortunately include the perpetually outraged Alan Jones, and every policy pie his pudgy fingers poke. +1 on your diagnosis of the cultural problem.
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by bjowen 7y ago
This isn’t true of the areas of greatest concern, where Gondwanan rainforest is burning. Eucalyptus is the newcomer, and it is fire-adapted and hot weather adapted, it out-competes the ancient forests where there are fires, and the nothofag
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by bjowen 7y ago
Sure, but like Igor says, they’re either distractions — or those other factors would make them look bad, because they’ve also been mishandling policy on those fronts. So we are getting these feeble talking points attempting to blame fire on
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by bjowen 7y ago
That not been claimed. Plenty of evidence that the extent and severity has been severely exacerbated by the warming climate has been pointed out, exhaustively, to irrelevant objections like this.
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by bjowen 7y ago
Being as generous as possible to the claim (although I agree it’s probably bollocks) — being near a turbine turning means you’re also in a windy environment, which would drown out lower power sounds while you’re outside. Inside, that maskin
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by bjowen 7y ago
> Trolling is a fundamental right , not being trolled is not This is hilariously wrong in most jurisdictions, probably including the one you’re thinking of. You may be parseing down ‘trolling’ to ‘behaving argumentatively on the internet
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by bjowen 7y ago
Palm oil particularly is a great example of misdirected policy - much of the clearing / planting was done a response to US biofuel demands: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/2
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by bjowen 7y ago
So we re-word this headline to “The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat are no less unhealthy” and a substantial portion of this content becomes redundant. It’s scarcely news that marketing and PR exist, nor that the world of pop nutrition is
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by bjowen 7y ago
“[writer] is writer, certified personal trainer and certified nutritionist behind the popular weight loss blog ... “ I’m not convinced those credentials add up to a position of authority on ecology or internal medicine - or HN-worthy conten
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by bjowen 7y ago
“Number of competitors in that space” is not unrelated to “and still get away with it.” If this (monopolistic) behaviour could be corrected by competition, why hasn’t competition with Apple corrected it?
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by bjowen 7y ago
Seems like the EFF’s analysis from when this happened last time is still relevant. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/fbi-could-have-gotten-...
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by bjowen 7y ago
The title, if not the content, reminded me of this awesomeness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=wanpSQXU_3Y

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