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by gd1 12y ago
Nothing hurts the climate change 'cause' more than it being a 'cause' in the first place. Activism dressed up as science smells, and plenty of people who would otherwise be sympathetic can smell it.
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by gd1 12y ago
She doesn't posit a plausible mechanism for her theory, does she? It's just the fallback position, "it must be climate change", just a small upgrade from "it must be god". Click on that list I linked above (a
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by gd1 12y ago
So what? That's not science, that's religion. That is 'god of the gaps' stuff. I suppose we can add it to the list ( http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm ). Maybe the story was interesting, maybe i
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by gd1 12y ago
>I wasn't able to find a single phd in economics there, Sounds like a good thing to me.
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by gd1 12y ago
I don't think he cares, because as he says, he's not about to accept a job offer for $1.15 million at a rival firm then copy encrypted code out before he leaves.
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by gd1 12y ago
Hmm, that is pretty ugly compared to its APL derived cousins in Q/K/KDB... /first n+2 numbers of fibonacci sequence fibonacci:{{x,sum -2#x}/[x;0 1]}; And then... q) fibonacci[10] 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 5
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by gd1 12y ago
"Countries that took emergency measures to reduce public borrowing have mostly suffered weaker growth, as in the case of Britain from 2010 to 2012" Someone is going to have to point out for me where this supposed 'austerity&#
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by gd1 12y ago
Yep. Agree completely. Not acceptable. It's like getting the IRS to go after your political opponents.
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by gd1 12y ago
Mate, I'm probably older than you. It was 90 % overblown nonsense. Countries like Russia spent pretty much zero 'fixing' it and had no issues. Meanwhile the US had 'Y2K consultants', shysters selling $20 'patch
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by gd1 12y ago
Reliant Robin, not Renault. The French have nothing to do with it, you'll upset the proud Englishmen.
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by gd1 12y ago
I get that argument. Sure, it may be bad for certain ecosystems we currently rely on, or for the current configuration of human civilization. But the article we're discussing mentions the next 4 galactic orbits. No one will give a t
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by gd1 12y ago
Considering that past CO2 levels have been well past 1500 ppm rather than the ~450 ppm at the moment, and considering that it is, after all, fossilized carbon that we are digging up and we are putting that carbon - you know the building blo
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by gd1 12y ago
Strange, I read it and had the opposite reaction. With the exception of the 'steel mill' quote you mentioned, I think he got it mostly right. Even that can be argued to be right to a degree, for a time the mainframe model was in
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by gd1 12y ago
Oops, my mistake. I tend to lump the Flemish in with the Dutch without thinking.
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by gd1 12y ago
So you're on hacker news, but you're terrified about automation and telecommunications, because it "removes any sort of human reflection". But only in this one particular application no doubt. Fitting that the towers a
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by gd1 12y ago
Yawn. Someone will have to update the list: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
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by gd1 12y ago
Do you care to explain why this is "insane and frightening"? Are you frequently terrified by telecommunications?
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by gd1 12y ago
Hardly. I can recall any scene you want word for word. And I'm sure I'm not alone. What amnesia? You're talking like the love of the original trilogy is all nostalgia, and no one remembers them, and they don't really
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by gd1 12y ago
Oh really? To play devil's advocate for a moment, why don't you extend the same courtesy to them that the left do to Islam? I'm sure those lynchers were just a few bad apples, a few extremists, and you can't judge the
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by gd1 12y ago
So like he said then, very recently. Agriculture is ~9000 years, homo sapiens at least a million.
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by gd1 12y ago
Yes, that's all true. But I've also never heard a plausible argument against the simple observation that if I kick a football it will accelerate away from me. F=ma and all that... Unless I'm standing at the bottom of a hil
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by gd1 12y ago
Pause denier!
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by gd1 12y ago
Here's a reference, you downvoting HN twits: http://www.realself.com/blog/terrible-lasik-surgery-complica... "you have to pump the pressure up in the eye to about 6x normal in order to cut a good flap, as you
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by gd1 12y ago
I meant when the blade goes into the eye. There were a few seconds after that before vision came back.
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by gd1 12y ago
I suspect you experience true blindness (briefly) during laser eye surgery, when the flap is cut in the cornea. I remember how odd it felt - the feeling of seeing nothing at all, not even darkness.
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by gd1 12y ago
That may well be true, but it isn't really relevant to the paradox. That's a second-order effect which needs to be established statistically, not the paradox itself which is pure graph theory. You're basically saying "
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by gd1 12y ago
>"On average, you are surrounded by people who are more successful than you." How does this one work? It doesn't seem to fit. I'm more likely to be friends with friendly people, more likely to have sex with people w
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by gd1 12y ago
Whatever you say buddy. The PBS article says that "The nation of Kiribati, made up of 33 tiny islands far out in the Pacific Ocean, is getting smaller". It isn't.
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by gd1 12y ago
"Sea levels are obviously rising...the key problem is that sea level rise is likely to accelerate" So something they think is going to happen, as opposed to something that has, you know... actually happened.
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by gd1 12y ago
Meanwhile, in reality: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-03/pacific-islands-growin... "Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. Isl

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