jerry5

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by jerry5 18y ago
Reducing the amount of CO2 is - strictly speaking - not the immediate goal of carbon trading, the goal is to keep the annual emissions below a certain threshold, and that part is what carbon trading clearly is designed to do. Carbon tradi
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by jerry5 18y ago
It is exactly clear what climate change denialists are denying: They are denying that humans should do something about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There are a number of different ways to 'implement' that denial, such as denying tha
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by jerry5 18y ago
Some people do deny climate change. You will find plenty on the Internet. I for one found one in today's local newspaper, circulation ca. 1 million. The linked article stopped just short of explicitly denying climate change by calling clima
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by jerry5 18y ago
Probably a a good time to remember that nickb = pg ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152361 ), which also explains the spate of climate change denialism which swamps this otherwise largely sane site ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by jerry5 18y ago
Someone please explain to me how your personal reddit, hosted or not, is different from any other forum software such as, say, phpBB2, just as an example. Maybe other forums aren't quite as focused on the voting aspect (though it does exist
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by jerry5 18y ago
SingAlong, I think both commenters are right. To put it in more explicit terms: You can't sell the algorithm, you can only sell its output. I.e. Google has an algorithm to determine the relevance of a web page to a search result, but what t
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by jerry5 18y ago
Why is it that climate change denialism shows up on Hacker News a lot as of late ... this isn't the first article of this type that I'm seeing here.