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by ghostcluster 9y ago
Or Germany. It was just announced today that Merkel was unable to form a majority coalition after the recent election: > Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s borders t
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It concerns me that Apple and Google are happy to take 30% of all the gambling exploitation on the markets. And looking at AppAnnie, they appear to be the largest grossing segments of their app store profits, or "increeased services gr
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It's one of the drivers causing all developed countries to have a fertility rate below the replacement rate. Japan's population, which is shrinking, worries about an aging majority without a base of young healthy workers who can s
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Both mating and sexual selection are fundamentally biological issues. > they certainly have a poor track record, historically Evolution: a biological explanation for a social phenomena with a poor track record, historically
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Not just the DNC: The Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, BuzzFeed. It seemed like many news directors briefly had a public mea culpa moment after the election, but then decided to abandon that and launched full steam int
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
When talking about Facebook earlier this month, he posed this question: "If a firm wittingly or unwittingly becomes weaponized by Russian intelligence, isn't the responsible thing to do to shut the firm down?" That is the kin
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
Time to censor The Economist for meddling with the US political process! Speaking of, does Facebook censor Al Jazeera? It is foreign State run media that often runs English language stories tinged with Anti-Western agitprop. Their drive to
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
He has some insights, but also injects a lot of naive and grating political signaling into analysis, which makes him sometimes hard to take seriously.
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Same parent company that recently bought Humble Bundle.
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> Even Dr. Richard P. Turco, the physicist who coined the phrase ''nuclear winter,'' discounts the idea. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/science/nuclear-winter-the...
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How about this NYTimes story where even the scientist who coined the term disavowed it as a scenario. > the five scientists who introduced the term ''nuclear winter'' now acknowledge that they overestimated its severi
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'Nuclear Winter' is. That is the topic of this post. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/23/science/nuclear-winter-the...
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700 oil wells along with several lakes of oil burned for months in 1991. Many of the same people who projected 'nuclear winter', advanced the same environmental winter projections for the hypothetical fires before the conflict. h
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Those are both just repeating the Sagan scare scenario and rhetoric, handwaving about levels of smoke and tar generation that we know is wrong given previous nuclear test explosions, and smoke generating events like the 1991 Kuwaiti oil fi
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Crying wolf by making up deliberately exaggerated scenarios in order to push a social agenda is not valid, and damages the reputation of scientists.
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Except Carl Sagan himself was one of the scientists advancing the "petroleum winter effect" in 1991 in the lead up to the gulf conflict, just as he advanced his nuclear winter scenario earlier.
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Except we know what happens when major cities are fire bombed from World War II, and we know the effects of the much worse 1991 Kuwait oil fires which caused no such effects.
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The absolutely incorrect thing to do is to lie to the public by using your credibility as a scientist to knowingly make up your own incorrect story about the hypothetical effects. You wonder why so many people don't trust "scienti
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His latest book came out last year: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Tech-Revolution-Theodore-John-Ka...
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Plane crash second biggest story of the year — CNN hasn't changed.
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But now that Google has fundamentally broken users' trust by locking people out of their own Google Docs through automated machine learning algorithm, can't you see why people are wanting to protect themselves from a corporate cul
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> the results were widely touted and are still being raised to public acceptance even as they fall apart. The challenges to stereotype threat, priming, and the IAT are even scarier They're in the same boat. It is maddening how much
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"Confining scientific critique to scientific venues" When you take your BS "studies" and sell it to the audience at TED and then the wider internet, go on corporate speaking tours, sign book deals to promote your "s
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by ghostcluster 9y ago
The work of these social psychologists absolutely deserves the scrutiny they are receiving. The field is rife with "surprising scientific effects" that do not replicate and turn out to be completely wrong, yet they linger in the p
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Unfortunately, a lot of this video essay consists of ideological political speculation from a very narrow perspective. His history of the industry was very handwavey as well, the requisite prelude before political grandstanding.
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> Given the resources available to these state actors, isn’t it possible that the easily tracked $100k spend is the tip of an iceberg? No. That would be a conspiracy theory. And beyond the miniscule amount in ad spending, you also have t
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I am not. Facebook released numbers about their political ads and they don't stack up in any way with the kind of narrative Vanity Fair is trying to spin. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/technology&#x2
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This article keeps ridiculously pushing the false narrative that Facebook and "the Russians" are responsible for the outcome of the 2016 election. The amount of placed advertisments on Facebook from shadowy Russian sources was min