kazoomonger

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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> "I'm not being political, you're being political!" Your original comment had factually incorrect information, as demonstrated. Please don't try and hide that behind name calling or distractions.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I'm not responding to anything other than the rebranding myth, because that's what I originally responded about. Going beyond that scope would involve walls of text that HN is ill-suited for, as evidenced by the amount of text alr
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
The crucial aspect you're missing is from the latter half of the skepticalscience.com link I posted above. Here is the particular graph that shows usage of "global warming" vs "climate change": https://st
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> There was definitely a name change If you read the second link I posted above, you will see that there was no name change. You have not provided any evidence or links to the contrary.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
It's weird that you bring up responding with a non sequitur when that's exactly what you've just done: - You alleged some vague conspiracy about renaming global warming to climate change ("a name change, a rebranding if
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I don't understand how you can be this cocksure about being absolutely wrong when the first hit on google for "global warming vs climate change" leads to this page: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-differen
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
This reads like some weird submarine FB ad for their Metaverse™ Experience™©. What exactly do you mean by metaverse? I can't think of a definition that matches what you're talking about.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Looking at https://matrix.org/faq/ , I see this: Can I run my own identity server? See also: What is an identity server? Yes - the reference implementation is sydent and you can run your own ID server clus
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I like the interface in general. However, as someone that has played some text-based games but is not super familiar with the genre, I think this log captures my confusion: kill spider You stab a small spider for 6 damage! sta
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Ok fine: Their next claim is that the June heatwave was enhanced by 2°C by global warming, which is not out of the realm of possibility. But think about it. Considering that they state that the heatwave had maximum temperature
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I tried reading the article you linked to. I honestly can't get past the intro: As noted above, the first bullet of the main findings states that the heatwave was "virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.&qu
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
You have that wrong about rule of thumb: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rule-of-thumb.html
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I'm not really sure what to make of your second paragraph (Mentioning Chaucer again when he's irrelevant because he didn't use singular they in the sense that is now being promoted). Regardless, I appreciate the straightforwa
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Thanks for linking to a quote. Here's what that article shows as using singular they: "There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend" That's still not referrin
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I don't see an example of what you're talking about in your link, can you post a specific quote? I'm honestly not sure what your point is in your second paragraph. My point is that Chaucer did not use "they" in the
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Singular they in the sense you're talking about is a very recent invention. The sense of "an unknown or unspecified person" has been around that long, yes. However using "they" to refer to a known single person is a
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
There are well-documented rising temperatures. TBH, it sounds like you've made up your mind and are unwilling to examine the mounds of evidence that exist to support that. This visualization from NASA directly contradicts any notion of
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
You just made me roll my eyes back into my head. If the situations were reversed, you'd be saying "you're expecting a tiny country to compete with the vast resources of the United States?!". Fact is, there's literal
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> generates more attention Fuck you. That's really all I have to say about that. I'm sorry this comment doesn't pass the general HN guidelines, but I hope someday you realize why you should feel ashamed for even thinking t
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
That's not a good definition of religion. It allows one to sneak in a history-laden term with a relatively innocuous definition, have someone accept the given definition, and the introduce the rest of the history without having to prov
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
That is a bad definition of religion. I will accept a field of study's conclusions in the absence of time myself to investigate. However, if it turns out that field is incorrect (say with the reproducibility crisis), then I won't
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I think the issue you're facing in thinking that these aspects exist but are implicit is that you're looking at the world through religion-colored glasses, which distort the way you're viewing things. I'll admit that in
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
It's actually very simple. There is no such thing as objective morality. However, social norms are explained by people acting in their own rational self-interest. For example, I want to live in a society where I don't get murdered
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I didn't say anything about disrupting everything shrug . I just said I'm kind of bullish on it for this use case. That being said, "it eliminates one possible source of malicious behavior" is exactly derived from &quot
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> Malicious actors don't have to "destroy or modify paperwork" Sure, they don't have to, but it eliminates one possible source of malicious behavior. I'm not saying that using a blockchain will eliminate all mali
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I'm actually kind of bullish on blockchain for these sorts of scenarios, because yes, the malicious actor can claim that someone else in the chain screwed up, but all parties involved can verify all claims that were made in the entire
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I don't think ECS as such would really make a language on its own, but languages that use traits instead of inheritance would be approximately that. Both ECS and traits eschew using the inheritance-style "is-a" thinking. ECS
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. I have no love for the Koch brothers or libertarians in general, but TBH I think this is a "broken clock is right twice a day" scenario. After reading the case PDF, I'd have to agree with the deci
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Sorry if I'm being dense, but can you be more clear? I looked at the ij.org link as well as the linked case document, and don't see anything nefarious?
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
1) The case in question is about "engineer", not "professional engineer". The legal system agreed with him, so I'm not sure what your complaint is? 2) That's very vague. Can you elaborate?

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