goatsneez

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by goatsneez 4y ago
Apart from this being a proud moment for "freedom" on some scale, there is probably more to unpack here ...
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by goatsneez 4y ago
It is true that kids learn social skills much more effectively and naturally as active members of a larger cluster of their peers. I think there is plenty of hard evidence for that. In industrialized societies there is another level or orga
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by goatsneez 4y ago
The title of the article is not related or justified by the data they used. The essential xkcd: https://xkcd.com/605/ I take issue in such ideologically driven pieces of over-simplified, frivolous, and unhinged anti-in
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Dutch farmers violently protest job-destroying climate change policy(thecountersignal.com)
2 points by goatsneez 4y ago|0 comments
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This has been a civilized exchange of views, so that is good. I am totally fine with and understand your point of view very well, as this is the epitom of the "west" narrative that dates to before the Wolfowitz-Cheney doctrine. It
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This is a good idea well executed, a smooth and fast visualization of major climate datasets scalar fields. The time projections are from model datasets which should be taken as such in terms of what conclusion to draw from these. Im not su
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This is a very nice summary of the today's state of news media. These structural problems (evolutionary in origin in my view) coupled with robust, all-encompassing and never ending surveillance are things we should be made more aware o
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by goatsneez 4y ago
It is very clear where you stand from the first post. My comments are not to persuade you away from the blood you imply has to be shed. I comment to provide a different angle, angle where certain principles and values which are the greates
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by goatsneez 4y ago
It is not serving any purpose to demonstrate that your one-liner summary is not corresponding to the reality of the long history of US-RU posturing that resulted into the situation today. There is only one factual truth in that line, which
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This is nothing new in terms of rhetorics from the UK-US axis of self-righteous world-view and sub-section of history they like to quote. Now that they induced the conflict and were able to dominate the information space (as they prepared f
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Dido. I view this in analogy to the early scholars explaining planetary dynamics from earth centrist view. It is possible to solve the differential equations in that frame of reference, however, it is rather difficult, and the results are n
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by goatsneez 4y ago
I am very late to this party. Lets suppose that I am a Russian agent for the sake of argument (ooh the tingles I get just to consider that), although I do not really know what you imagine that means or how does that invalidate my arguments?
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This is S. Zizek's two cents on the conflict. I pick one of the concluding remarks: "Ukraine fights for European values against the non-European authoritarians" How can a philosopher make statements at a level of elementary s
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by goatsneez 4y ago
An ok narrative to some degree. Not necessarily for its completeness or even validity of its various statement (within my extent of knowledge), but as a source of thought. Supposedly RU elites organize the functioning of a state in a mafia
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Well, I guess this kind of trivialization of the situation is the culprit in the elite's delusional thinking. Of cause, invading other countries is not "ok", and by the same logic and the same intensity of moral force, it is
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by goatsneez 4y ago
This is a disastrous policy for prospects of peace of any kind for at least a generation or two in the EU if this is pursued to its logical conclusion. What is the idea of LIT visa-vi EU here?
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by goatsneez 4y ago
No qualms about your point, but to approach closer to the asymptote of this argument no "object" has really a well-defined boundary one you look at it close enough (spatial scale and/or time-resolution scale). Going back to J
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by goatsneez 4y ago
I liked the read despite its predictable, unoriginal, oft-repeated decry of technology with respect to its (perceived) environmental burden. There are several replies by Berry's contemporaries which vocalize their disagreement with his
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Assange is accused of leaking in 2010 documents obtained by Chelsea Manning; secret documents revealing various war crimes, lies and corruptions on the part of the U.S. and UK governments and their allies. His crime is in addition helping C
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by goatsneez 4y ago
I do not get what sort of message one should get from a isolated statement of fact such as this one? In the real world we are presented only with trade-offs. There is no solution to reality. Any action (public policy or along any chain ther
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Bullshit in the Sustainability and Transitions Literature: A Provocation(link.springer.com)
4 points by goatsneez 4y ago|0 comments
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Supersonic CO2 flow during champagne cork popping(aip.scitation.org)
49 points by goatsneez 4y ago|25 comments
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Thumbs up, useful to me and works from firefox as well. Would it be possible to integrate into Zotero (at any foreseeable future)? or an extension into firefox?
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by goatsneez 4y ago
I appreciate the outlook, but it seems that there is mismatch of what we are each addressing in terms of scale. Sure there are situations where cars are not needed for most people (large cities, etc), there are options for changes to lifest
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Im not sure what provoked your last remark (just having opinion you disagree with?), however, you did not contradict in any way my point, and you failed to give an example of more efficient personal means of transportation. Im genuinely cur
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by goatsneez 4y ago
While some points are valid I am compelled to comment on this quote: "[Cars suck] They’re big, loud, smelly and basically the most inefficient form of transportation someone could imagine. They’re the most expensive thing a person owns
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by goatsneez 4y ago
Thanks for the Ronald Coase reference and reminder about the important paper about the Nature of the Firm. I think it is an exceptionally good model how to understand the substance of that article. It reminded me a long-ago reading of an es
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The Modern World Can't Exist Without Fossil Fuels(time.com)
26 points by goatsneez 4y ago|61 comments
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by goatsneez 4y ago
I consider beaming energy to earth from space a wishful thinking for three reasons. Geo-political issue of security and costs of maintaining that, environmental impacts and addressing full consequence of it, technological challenges. In my
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by goatsneez 4y ago
"People are the more honest when they suppose their own moral superiority" is how I would summarize that logic there. Sure, we can decide to hate Russia and then anything goes. However, that is not a principle or method by which t

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