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by cgranade 17y ago
I have serious concerns about any parent that decides to routinely and casually invade the privacy of their children by reading their e-mails or tracking their web browsing. Children raised in such an environment are being taught that they
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by cgranade 17y ago
Have those "code of conduct" policies ever seen a direct court challenge?
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by cgranade 17y ago
This is such a "let them eat cake" attitude. A few hundred dollars is a lot to come by for some people, especially at that age.
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by cgranade 17y ago
It would be particularly sick if the legal case for this came down to deciding whether any adults had their privacy violated. In general, US courts have not been to fond of protecting the rights of children (which makes the children arreste
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Journalismgate(scienceblogs.com)
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by cgranade 17y ago
Yes, I do label it denialism. Propagating myths like the ones azgolfer is propagating over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125626 shouldn't be called anything else. As I said elsewhere, I welcome real and substantive debate. What
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by cgranade 17y ago
"Unbiased information." That's a good one. Why I linked to realclimate.org is because, unlike so many denialist sites, they cite the actual studies and the data that are the basis of our understanding. In that sense, realclimate.org is one
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by cgranade 17y ago
That has got to be one of the most apropos links to xkcd I've ever seen. That said, if it were most any other forum, I wouldn't care so much, but I have found that HN is in general a quite intelligent community, and I hate to see that threa
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by cgranade 17y ago
Thank you for citing your claims. Now I am not familiar with the particulars of the alleged manipulations by GISS in Australia, but I would note a few things. One, the analysis in your citation was missing any sort of error analysis, and so
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by cgranade 17y ago
The plague of climate denialism on HN seems to be getting much worse as of late. Why does trash like this keep getting upvoted?
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's quite the contortion. The computer models are not "ridiculously bad," and there is absolutely no credible evidence (that is to say, there's no evidence outside of the Daily Mail) to even suggest, much less prove, deliberate tampering
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by cgranade 17y ago
That is a very, very dramatic claim, and one that requires extraordinary amount of evidence. In order to say that AGW does not exist, the burden of proof is very much on you-- the body of scientific evidence confirming AGW is extensive and
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by cgranade 17y ago
That makes a lot more sense, but I think that Google will put the money into fixing the problems you point out. I say that not because I personally like Buzz, but because Google does seem dedicated to the Buzz service line, and they aren't
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by cgranade 17y ago
Oh, goodness. I do tire of the melodramatic pronunciations of Buzz's death less than a week in. Though some of the points the author makes are valid (esp having the "Email this" link so prominent), to extrapolate so far as to call the entir
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by cgranade 17y ago
Perhaps. On the Internet, it can be hard to tell sometimes. If so, then my bad.
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by cgranade 17y ago
As much as I think that the article is problematic, I can totally imagine someone saying "you like that, baby?" in a rhetorical sense, rather than meaning it as an honest question. If that is the case, however, then it is a real problem tha
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by cgranade 17y ago
I think that a lot of the complaints brought up in the article aren't really complains about porn so much as they are complaints about how impressionable we are as individuals. We let so many of our tastes, preferences and behaviors be dict
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by cgranade 17y ago
Because articles about sites should have links to the sites being discussed: http://makelovenotporn.com/
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by cgranade 17y ago
Yes, it does. The trouble is that the connotations of the word are still very highly sexualized, even when using an explicitly non-sexual definition.
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's bound to throw off the Java and Python numbers quite a bit. JDK 1.2.1 was problematic, and I think a lot of its poor performance there could probably be fixed with no more than a simple recompile. The past 10 years have also seen a w
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by cgranade 17y ago
Perhaps, but I think that even in the long run, people will have lost confidence in Google as a brand , even if they don't remember the particular reason why. Ironically, this damage can propagate along the same social graphs that Google t
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by cgranade 17y ago
No, but fragmentation with respect to single individuals is devestating. Do I send someone an IM, an e-mail, a Twitter DM, a phone call, a voicemail, an InMail, a FB message or poke, a letter, a buzz or what? If I have confidence that the t
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by cgranade 17y ago
It's not a simple objection at all. Of course there are scholars who do so, but in practice, the costs are largely ignored, just like any externality tends to get ignored by individual agents in an economic system. That leads to an argument
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by cgranade 17y ago
I understand your concerns, but the use of the word rape is at best rather loaded. One could make the argument that Google abused your data, but to invoke a metaphor to extreme sexual violence dilutes your own point as well as disrespects t
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's rather problematic, though. We can't really control the climate. We can definitely affect it in drastic ways, but to control it, we'd have to be much better at figuring out what change corresponds to a desired outcome. Right now,
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by cgranade 17y ago
One of the easiest and yet largest changes would probably be to shift cars and other vehicles from a generate on-board model to a model where energy is stored in the vehicle but is generated in a more centralized manner. Centralizing energy
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by cgranade 17y ago
In some ways, that's even a reasonable argument, but it completely ignores the long-term effects. A large part of the trouble is that we don't ever tend to account for the cost of large-scale environmental damage. For instance, under many c
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by cgranade 17y ago
To some degree, I think you are right in that the focus on climate change is overly narrow. That said, climate change is undeniably real; for every scientist who says the world isn't warming, you can find approximately 100 to 1,000 that say
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by cgranade 17y ago
I didn't take it as confrontational. I've seen a lot of people mistakenly comparing Buzz to Twitter and being let down, but I think that FF is a much better comparison. As for replacing FF, it's still pretty far from doing that. There's a l
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by cgranade 17y ago
For one, the use of open standards promises wide interoperability in the future. Right now, my first six tabs are Gmail, FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter, Voice and Wave. I'd love it if those were somehow tied such that I could look in one pla

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