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by jgilias 5y ago
That's the thing though. The theory is commonly rejected, but not debunked. And after reading the peer review[1] I came away even more convinced that the reasons of why it is opposed are based in confirmation bias and preconceived noti
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by jgilias 5y ago
You make it sound as if the theory is pure quack, but from the second article: > The other reviewer was Judith Curry, then an atmospheric physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who has long had concerns about the atmospheric d
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by jgilias 5y ago
From what I gather there were programs in place to finance sustainable development in the Amazon by donor governments abroad. And I'm sure this could be expanded given how the climate disaster becomes more and more apparent. But only i
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by jgilias 5y ago
Yeah, the premise that rain patterns can actually be affected significantly by what is growing on land seems to be further supported by how the local climate has seemingly been affected in the Ernst Gotsch plantation by his activities: htt
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Without its rainforest, the Amazon will turn to desert (2015)(theecologist.org)
57 points by jgilias 5y ago|30 comments
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by jgilias 5y ago
When I was around twenty my Mom used to call me every other day or so just to have a chat. One day, after she asked me how my day was, I shot back something along the lines of: "I don't have anything to tell you, really. You'
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by jgilias 5y ago
I wonder why do people assume that going forward heatwave intensity will stop before reaching the survivability threshold. It doesn't take too much, you just need an event where wet-bulb temperature persists over 35 Celsius to have hea
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by jgilias 5y ago
I think the parent comment doesn't say that 'giftedness' is just passion, rather that out of the two axis that would make someone gifted (smart, dedicated), it's the second one that carries a higher risk in getting depre
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by jgilias 5y ago
I'm pretty sure you're unto something. When I think of the few really, really smart people that I happen to have encountered, they're all pretty laid back people. As in, it's like they've figured out the futility of
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by jgilias 5y ago
Truth matters. You got me quite interested in your worldview, can we please continue this discussion a bit? I hope it doesn't take too much of your time! So, you're saying that you have the same set of core morals as a guy returni
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Russian law: Champagne made in France must be called 'sparkling wine' in Russia(france24.com)
16 points by jgilias 5y ago|1 comments
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by jgilias 5y ago
Yes. 6000 years, that's 3% of the time we have been around as species. It's not important for me to push anything, let alone something that would empower evil behavior. It's just that I really, really can not see how the idea
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by jgilias 5y ago
We really can not know this. We can only infer from cultures and religions in the relatively short timespan covered by written history. And even then, morality has changed significantly through time. A simple example - would you think that
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by jgilias 5y ago
We have literally no idea what kind of a morality the vast majority of people who have ever lived subscribed to. I mean, even today there are still cultures around where literally kidnapping a teenage girl and keeping her hostage is the vir
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by jgilias 5y ago
We should be careful not to chastise people from the past from the viewpoint of our comfy and safe lives. It's easy to sneer at our ability to divide people into 'us' versus 'them' over meaningless differences, when
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by jgilias 5y ago
Copying GPLed code as your own and passing it under an MIT license is not too far fetched of a thing for a junior dev to do. Jokes aside, to have a proper junior dev replacement you need something that is able to learn and grow to eventuall
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by jgilias 5y ago
A serious question. Why didn't the opposite happen? Why wouldn't the arriving Europeans drop like flies after encountering foreign pathogens thus killing off the entire conquest?
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by jgilias 5y ago
It's a nice primer on writing functional Java. However, due to some past experiences I feel a bit on-the-fence about it when it comes to actual real world advice: 1. I once happened to have a look at a Python codebase where some poor s
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by jgilias 5y ago
This is a bit unfair though. The general advice I've seen is that if a kid doesn't start forming simple sentences by the age of three, parents should start looking for help. Reason being, a delay in speech development may later le
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by jgilias 5y ago
There's a satisfying symmetry in how a chessboard is used to do the chessboard calibration to actually play chess. Nice work, thanks for sharing!
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by jgilias 5y ago
I don't believe the least bit that there are more than a few people in South Korea who believe that they are living 'in a way dictated by fears of the American empire'. I say this as someone living in a region where the &#x27
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by jgilias 5y ago
Are you actually from South Korea to be able to comment on what the South Korean perception on their neighborhood is? Like, this is a no offense intended genuine question. Because from an outside perspective the neighborhood really looks ch
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by jgilias 5y ago
There's tig: https://jonas.github.io/tig/ It doesn't have too many features, but the main thing it aims for - a better repo browser, it does really well in my opinion.
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by jgilias 5y ago
Ok, unless he's also running a voting ring which would be directly against HN ToS, I don't see a problem with that either. I mean, the topic is obviously interesting enough to get the upvotes. If that means his side project gets m
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by jgilias 5y ago
While I've also seen this comment before, it's very much on topic here.
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by jgilias 5y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the behavioral circuits that attention engineers at social media companies exploit are the same ones that foraging uses. Maybe that's why they traditionally had berries depicted on slot machines.
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by jgilias 5y ago
Maybe they wanted to show something that the interns could try and replicate. I mean, if everything your in house dev team is working on are CRUD applications built on 90s tech, that's not very exciting.
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by jgilias 5y ago
I believe you have a good point. I highly recommend listening to the above interview. He elaborates how they had a system in place where he would get any two boys who have a problem together in the evening to talk it through, hug, and then
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by jgilias 5y ago
It shouldn't be glossed over that these were six boys from a boarding school on a getaway. So, unless there were only six pupils in the boarding school, it would mean that this was a group of boys who like and trust each other enough t
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by jgilias 5y ago
This is what I love HN for. Every now and then there's a submission like this that makes me go: "How do you even...". That being said, is there maybe somewhere a more thorough write-up about the whole thing? You know, with mo

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