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by glenra 13y ago
(1) sea levels aren't going to rise noticeably in just a day or a year or a decade. If they rise a lot over a century or more, we'll just gradually tend to move inland over time. As old buildings need to be replaced anyway on
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Even if it's still "warming" at all - whether it is depends on what timescale you look at and how you average the data points - it's certainly not continuing as predicted , but rather at a lower rate than expected. Brea
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> Global warming or not, no one can argue with the fact that air quality in large cities in US, India, and China is atrocious. You can argue with that for the US. "atrocious" compared to what? It's certainly a lot better
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> Suppose that it's significantly greater than predicted? Are you willing to bet your future happiness, and the health and wealth of the rest of humanity, that it isn't? Yes. Of course I am. We make those sorts of bets constant
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> Scarce resources aren't the cause of starving babies They aren't? Wait, let's make the claim more specific. Biofuel mandates that had been justified in part based on CO2 concerns have driven up the cost of corn and other
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Why do you consider any of those links to constitute "debunking" of the original linked post? Most of the points therein seem entirely compatible with the current claim Most notably, the link on "climate models" says
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by glenra 13y ago
How often do you get picked for jury duty? I've never been picked. (And given current trends probably never will be - they seem to have gotten too good at weeding out people who have opinions about anything.)
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I vaguely recall a very similar sort of sentiment in a different Bach book, Illusions .
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Body weight gain/loss is also governed by mass in versus mass out. So make an effort to inhale less than you exhale, drink less water than you expel via urination or sweat, and poop more than you eat. Any of those are guaranteed to
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by glenra 13y ago
When heroin was legal, addicts often took it in pill form which was cheap and sufficient to deter cravings. The chief negative long-term effect of being addicted to heroin is constipation...IF you can reliably keep a supply of it in pill fo
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I suspect it's that last one. I mostly use netflix in streaming mode. The pool of available content netflix is allowed to stream at any given time is pathetic - most of the best matches they could make are films they don't have
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Why wouldn't it work the other way? If the cops are present with overwhelming force, somebody who can SEE them coming is much less likely to resist, more likely to give up without a fight. Also less likely to think it's a bunch of
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by glenra 13y ago
> The minimum wage is a price floor that can only drive wages up Not quite true. It can also drive people out of work. If you include all the people who lose their jobs (counting their new wage as $0/hour), the average wage paid t
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by glenra 13y ago
Read the rest of the article - it goes on to discuss those making less than $9.50. (Not $10.10, because the stats available apparently aren't broken down in a way that makes it easy to isolate that group - the article mentions that too
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Is there any reason the cops who pulled down or covered up cameras shouldn't be immediately fired? Is there ANY rational excuse that could be given for that sort of behavior? Pulling down an outside camera seems like vandalism, pure an
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The war on drugs has been around since the 1930s; there have been MANY crops of crappy old people keeping it going. The police constitute a concentrated interest group in favor of the power they get from the various Wars so the policy survi
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by glenra 13y ago
Are you aware that Bangladesh has been on a trend of gaining land mass? It gained ~1000 square kilometers between 1973 and 2008. Given current trends it'll gain another thousand in the next 50 years. If it ever starts losing land mas
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by glenra 13y ago
What makes you think new positive feedback loops will kick in faster than old ones run out of steam or new negative feedback loops kick in?
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by glenra 13y ago
> GMOs, as they tend to be mules (that is they do not breed effectively and the farmer needs to buy more seed every year) There's a couple of myths in there. The issue of having to buy new seed every year isn't a GMO or not-GMO
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> Firstly I find it amazing that people would argue against "Evidence Based Medicine" at all. Isn't the alternative "Medicine without a shred of evidence that it works"? You're reading too much into the na
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by glenra 13y ago
> How do you know what actually works for you, and what simply coincided with a change that happened for some other reason? It is literally impossible to tease out these questions without some kind of control. It depends on the questio
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Onewheel - a self-balancing electric skateboard(techcrunch.com)
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> I believe when you said "votes" you meant to say "lobbies" because otherwise you're saying the real villain is democracy? No, I really did mean it's the voters. In the case of SF (and Berkeley, and NYC),
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Housing is expensive in SF because it's in short supply. You know who helps alleviate that short supply? Real estate developers! Seems to me the villain here is anybody who votes for more rent control and tighter restrictions on new
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> Do you not root for your country's athletes at the Olympics, and wish that more people would enroll in X so that your country would have a shot at a gold medal? This might be the wrong audience to ask a question like that. :-) (
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The fact that you know of programs "to get men into nursing or women into construction" that have been "posted to HN before" or have seen some claim "debunked" in the past doesn't mean the person you&#x2
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Lincoln actually grew the beard after he was elected. Conventional wisdom says Americans want their presidents clean-shaven. (Also: tall. The taller candidate nearly always wins.)
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Where is this "there" that you've been? Are you saying that you, personally, have used torture to resolve a ticking time bomb scenario? Can you be more specific? Why would it matter that the info they give is "something
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It's easy to construct Jack Bauer scenarios in fiction, but they are exceedingly unlikely to come up in real life. Real life is a multithreaded narrative - there's never just ONE lead to follow and you can never be that certain
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> For those who do not lose their jobs, the fact that they didn't lose their jobs is indicative of more major problems...they either don't understand the value of their labor, or they don't know how to negotiate with thei

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