jfnixon

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by jfnixon 7y ago
In terser language: we must do something, this is something, therefore we must do this.
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by jfnixon 7y ago
How can you possibly know this? The JCPOA includes non-public "side deals" with the IAEA. How do you prove the secret fine print doesn't restore what the public large print took away?
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by jfnixon 7y ago
The JCPOA was not signed by the US, so it is hard to understand how it is 'violating' the agreement. The US has a process for obligating the country to observe treaties and agreements. Treaties and agreements become binding only u
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Let's see if I have this straight... the US is increasing the precision of its nuclear weaponry to use against military targets, and that's as bad as Iran's program to acquire nuclear weaponry (in violation of the NPT) and lo
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by jfnixon 7y ago
The IC has no problem supplying data to LE who then come up with parallel construction to justify the fruits. https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illega...
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Underfunding? The US spends more than the OECD average on a per pupil basis. Why do you think the education system is underfunded rather than extremely inefficient? "The United States spent $12,800 per FTE student at the elementary&#x2
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by jfnixon 7y ago
Whatever could the difference be??
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by jfnixon 8y ago
China's CO2 emissions are growing, not declining.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Not claiming those are the only options. I'm comparing the advantages with the risks. It just seems easier to watch a thousand tons of spent fuel than to dim the sun or remove a trillion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. If you know of
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Anecdotal only, but I notice my friends with more than 3 kids need a larger vehicle. Also, heavier vehicles are safer for the passengers. And some people need to carry cargo. I'm sure not everyone has a 'good' reason, but a f
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Sure, but leaving without securing another tenure-track position? You can't reset the clock, still, leaving early is Not A Good Sign you know how to play the game.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
"What we _do_ know for sure, however, is that atmospheric CO2 has a big influence on the earth's climate" So what's the Climate Sensitivity, and to what sigma? "and that we are seeing actual measurable changes in th
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by jfnixon 8y ago
"People aren't buying huge SUV's because they've analyzed the data to determine that the relative impact of their consumption isn't worth buying a smaller vehicle." Just curious how you know this to be true.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
And now Germany is not meeting its decarbonization goals. How is that a win for the environment?
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by jfnixon 8y ago
The counter risk is having the entire planet rendered uninhabitable for human life, right? Let's see, some area rendered uninhabitable versus the planet rendered uninhabitable... I'm going with A.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
You need to tell China and India that.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Then don't live in a city that reeks of urine and has garbage all over the place. Cities are ancient relics of a time when human beings had to have their atoms in the presence of each other to communicate rapidly. Don't live in on
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by jfnixon 8y ago
That’s why anyone should be permitted to watch the process from start to finish. Heck, videotape the collection box from the moment it is shown to be empty and sealed till the ballots are retrieve. Videotape the counting process. Do all thi
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by jfnixon 8y ago
How does that help? The paper ballots still need to be counted as they are the authoritative source of the final tally. An electronic tally does nothing useful and adds complexity.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Um, no, that's not correct. SSIDs aren't tied to geographic location. The mothership might infer location by looking at the list of SSIDs and checking it against a geotagged list compiled by a mapper, but that's a completel
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Turns out there were no special deals from NYC. All Amazon got in terms of tax rebates was standard stuff, available to anyone. It was big for Amazon because the headcount was big. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/1
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Huh, who woulda thought paying cash would be cheaper than filing a bunch of forms with an insurance company, giveing them a hefty discount, then waiting a few months to get paid.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
So why did NYC bother to compete for HQ2?
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by jfnixon 8y ago
And the company that owns vast swaths of cloud computing space doesn't have talent to back it up? Amazon is way more dominant than LeBron in their respective businesses.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
I suspect the EPA paperwork, which can't be bypassed at the State level, will kill your single authority proposal dead in its tracks, so to speak.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Needs more consistency: "There is nothing worth celebrating about a world where inequality is so extreme that 58% of people are in poverty, while a few dozen billionaires have more than all of their wealth combined." Followed late
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Please, tell us about the indictment in the works.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
I think the reference is to the DNC funding Fusion GPS through a cutout (to evade campaign finance laws) and then providing the Steele dossier to the FBI. Which proceeded to lie about it to the FISA court in order to spy on Americans. That
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Isn't that more or less the argument against Net Neutrality? Why must the pipes carry all content without favor, but content aggregators are free to discriminate against viewpoints?
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Interesting. I'm done with lazy 'intellectuals' who think they can offer questionable evidence and demand everyone accept it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What is the natural climate variability and wh

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