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by glenra 15y ago
> the first question I has was: How would he prevent unintended use of the card's funds? The fact that most people aren't assholes was sufficient to let the system work for a while. A few people being assholes occasionally is survivab
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by glenra 15y ago
>must not consist solely of lowercase letters Which is exactly the sort of terrible restriction xkcd is criticizing.
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by glenra 15y ago
If janitors charged much more than the reasonable market value for their services we'd invest more in self-cleaning technology and tools so those few janitors that remained employed were less necessary and were really effective such that
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by glenra 15y ago
You made a big batch of assertions to the effect that all skeptics are being completely fooled by organizations that are funded by Exxon and/or Koch. You said this with great confidence and amplified upon it based on "your research". But
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by glenra 15y ago
I'm especially thinking of Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science" lecture. His idea is that you should bend over backwards to expose any possible flaw in your own ideas. If you find an intellectual opponent who has made logical mistakes, fix those
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by glenra 15y ago
Thanks, that helps. So when you said "There is literally nothing to the entire worldwide "global warming skeptic" movement that is not completely based on and funded by these well-funded and completely unscientific propaganda campaigns.", a
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by glenra 15y ago
You seem to be reciting a bunch of talking points from "your side", some of which are clearly false and others of which you couldn't possibly know are true. You have jumped to conclusions beyond that suggested by the data. When you say you
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by glenra 15y ago
The only thing that matters is whether AGW is a crisis. If it's not, we don't especially need to do anything about it. The idea that any group is still claiming there's been no warming at all is essentially an urban legend. The debate h
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by glenra 15y ago
> I've not yet found any such trial that pits anti- against pro-AGW people. But if this were to occur, I expect we would find a similar outcome. One reason you have trouble finding such trials is that the pro-AGW people are afraid to
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by glenra 15y ago
I'm sure you believe what you're saying, but no, I don't think any of that counts as FUD. When people say stuff you disagree with that is true you can't call it FUD. Your claim "Oil and business lobby groups are undoubtedly better organiz
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by glenra 15y ago
> except if one of the big financial players like Citibank or someone like Amazon starts a bitcoin bank. That's part of how the market solves this sort of problem, traditionally. When trustworthiness is especially valuable, brands dev
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by glenra 15y ago
Kind of the whole point of digital currency is to evade tracking. A currency that is truly anonymous is more generally useful than one that isn't. The same features that make it easy to steal also make it easy to spend . The US governmen
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by glenra 15y ago
Let's pick just one of those links from your ExxonSecrets page - Cato Institute. Here's the page: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=21 It lists a "key quote" and a "quote". Do you disagree with either? Here they are:
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by glenra 15y ago
The weather so far isn't freaky . One can say the weather thus far "is consistent with" predictions mostly because the uncertainty bands are wide enough that any weather would be "consistent with" predictions. This author is claiming w
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by glenra 15y ago
Wow, that author is a truly committed doom-and-gloomer. If I were one too, I'm sure I'd find his argument persuasive. But apparently I'm wearing the wrong colored glasses to perceive his alleged "plague of violent and weird weather in the l
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by glenra 15y ago
To me, that a viewer of any age can watch is practically the whole point of Khan Academy. Kids learn at different speeds and are interested in different subjects at different ages. Whatever subject you're talking about, there are some 8-yea
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by glenra 15y ago
> my government believes the US dollar has value too, and it's willing to insure my bank accounts as a result. That's a hell of a vote of confidence. Really? When dollars were "silver certificates" the bank's willingness to let you come
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by glenra 15y ago
> Less than one Bitcoin per person? There is no necessary relationship between the number of people using the currency and the number of units available, given that units are divisible. But if it makes you happy, define one "New Bitcoin
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by glenra 15y ago
Woz is still nominally a regular Apple employee - they pay him a very small paycheck so he can keep the perks of "working for Apple" but he doesn't have any assigned duties. He's mostly a goodwill ambassador. " I never resigned from Apple,
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by glenra 15y ago
Apple filed suit to put on record that it's illegal to sell (and profit from) white iPhones that customers might confuse with the official ones. But then they appear to have settled out of court with the family , making this a non-story. Q
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by glenra 15y ago
Most of what's false is the spin, including paraphrases such as "winner-take-all capitalism", a phrase I doubt Thiel actually used. Seasteading in particular is a really exciting project. Thiel funds it because he wants to live in a world t
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by glenra 15y ago
> The complaint is that the thermometers are too close to parking lots or other things which might contribute an "urban heat island" effect. This is quite different than "artificial heat source" which sound like it's next to a boiler o
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by glenra 15y ago
What makes you think there isn't any peer-reviewed material on the skeptic side? There's some. Not as much as there could be, perhaps... For instance, there's this paper explaining the weakness of tree rings in temperature reconstructions:
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by glenra 15y ago
> Don't consume carbs? This sounds insane. What about a balanced diet of caloric value inline with one's caloric output? What about it? It's not necessary. If you look for it, you can find lots of examples of societies that were quite h
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by glenra 16y ago
> Do you know of any law that distinguishes contractors based on hourly or salary rules? If not, I don't see your point. The point is purely practical, not so much legal. When employees are on salary, it's worth doing whatever you can
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by glenra 16y ago
The surprising thing here isn't that the yellow badges can't use the cafeteria, it's that OP's group could . The rule "the cafeteria is only for Apple employees" would be pretty natural and easy to enforce. If you want to make it so everyb
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by glenra 16y ago
Ruby.
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by glenra 16y ago
That perspective assumes pay is the only thing that matters in the bundle of benefits that counts as a job. Given that one can make a job better or worse in zillions of ways, mandating a minimum wage probably makes both the employer and t
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by glenra 16y ago
> They pride themselves of creative thinking, they hire lots of academics, even economists and sociologists. Some of these people should be able to figure out a reasonably cost effective way of organizing these things without making th
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by glenra 16y ago
My impression was that he's a contractor (under salary) for one contract firm while they're contractors (probably on an hourly wage) for a different contract firm. Why would he expect the two to have the exact same benefits package?

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