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by gspr 5y ago
I agree. And I'd say that that applies to a pretty big share of people who don't just use their computer as a fancy typewriter.
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by gspr 5y ago
So does the article we're discussing, no?
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by gspr 5y ago
You can also do it locally outside the browser with well-established tools like pdftk: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20531079/adding-an-image...
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by gspr 5y ago
> That is it: it doesn't matter to the regular Joe. At all. That's what we're arguing about, isn't it? > Because it was made first priority by throwing it into his face as the first experience when visiting a new w
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by gspr 5y ago
> What percent of the population do you think has as the first priority when visiting a website the detail that they are tracked or not? Why does it have to be first priority in order to matter a lot? > What percent do you think even
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by gspr 5y ago
> The fact that the very first decision I have to make when visiting a website is about an issue I don't five a flying f&$# about is mind-boggling. You seem to have a hard time understanding that laws may be designed to protect
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by gspr 5y ago
The solution as imagined wouldn't be worse than the problem. There should be a simple, easily accessible "reject all" (or the individual choices should default to reject). This is an issue with inforcement.
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by gspr 5y ago
It is not true that we are "mostly exempt": only earned income (a narrow definition) is exempt. And while it is true that many other countries have versions of taxing citizens living abroad for some time or under certain condit
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by gspr 5y ago
Yes, around 106k USD, but this exemption applies only to EARNED income . The definition of earned income is quite narrow. This can cause a massive headache. The way the US deals with taxation abroad is a travesty. I for one will be renounc
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by gspr 5y ago
Can't it just be that since 2007 most of the obvious topics for an encyclopedia to cover have been covered? It's probably less satisfying to change the wording in one sentence in an article about an Australian cheese than it is to
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by gspr 5y ago
I've read it. There's no modelling or anything beyond speculation in secton 5.
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by gspr 5y ago
Ah yes, the last stage of the crackpot: "do your own research" I'm not asking you to do work for me. I'm asking you to clearly state your claim so that you can't move the goalposts again . The fact that you've
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by gspr 5y ago
> So, I've proven conclusively that NASA altered their temperature data in the 20th century from a cooling trend to a warming trend. So this is your new claim. Please write out in clear text that you've moved the goalposts sinc
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by gspr 5y ago
Before I start to even consider these sources, can you tell me in a clear yes or no answer whether they show: (1) that the data was altered and (2) that the data was altered to suit a political narrative. Only if the answer to both is yes w
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by gspr 5y ago
> Wait, so suggesting that temperature data recorded in the past was in fact accurate and shouldn't be altered to suit political narratives is far from reality? Yes. Because it didn't happen. > You are demanding censorship
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by gspr 5y ago
Of course people point out things they think are falsehoods in his debunking. It's YOUTUBE. And the guy has (in a very rational and sensible way) angered a lot of Muskrats over the years – no wonder he attracts such comments. Would y
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by gspr 5y ago
No. I don't know you.
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by gspr 5y ago
The second referee also noticed that. It's a fun read: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/6/849/review_report (report number 2) Most of the reports are quite critical (although I can't tell if r
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by gspr 5y ago
The first article is also really weird. In the words of the second referee: this is an opinion piece! I wholeheartedly agree. It's a tiny bit of light scientific "discussion" about vaguely related phenomena, wrapped in crit
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by gspr 5y ago
Mods: I think this claim is so far from reality, and pure misinformation, that it should be deleted. Let's not pollute HN with garbage.
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by gspr 5y ago
Oh dear. You're deep in the hole, aren't you? So established science is corrupt because of grant money. Yet this Demetris Koutsoyiannis who wrote the first article, who is a professor at an established university in Greece and see
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by gspr 5y ago
> how the sheer volume of water on the earth is more significant than C02 in terms of greenhouse effects Where do you see this? I see a long rant about the definition of climate, sprinkled in with some cultural reference and some meaning
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by gspr 5y ago
> https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/6/849/htm Wow, I don't know this journal at all, but something terribly odd is going on. Did anyone else read the referee reports [1]? I'd call that scat
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by gspr 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Especially since one huge strength of Rust is its C interoperability, one would imagine that incrementally replacing or extending parts of the legacy tools would be a much more sound approach. But of course, the poin
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by gspr 5y ago
Ditto. And I'm one of Rust's recent happy converts – it's probably the language I've learned that scores the highest ever when it comes to the unweighted sum of * joy of coding * (human) efficiency of coding * performanc
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by gspr 5y ago
This is something I'll never understand: Isn't the only selling point of JS that it runs on every web browser? Why would anyone want to use it (or, in 2021, PHP) on the server side, where you can use any language you want?
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by gspr 5y ago
Sure. We can probably build a sane cryptocurrency. I'm talking about the ones that people are sinking tens of bn into and hyping the hell out of today .
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by gspr 5y ago
I will. But can you make your point, so I can make note of it when I see it argued in the paper?
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by gspr 5y ago
This is my problem with HN. People who are good in their respective fields propose insane stuff like this and don't even realize how disconnected from reality it is.
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by gspr 5y ago
Shh. Show the calculations that back this insane theory up, or put a sock in it.

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