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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's probably because those decisions are hard to get right, not because the leaders are stupid. And even harder for a random opinion-haver than the CEO.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That makes sense if you think in terms of parties. But if you're interested in policies instead, I think it might be wrong. For example, if you want them to do something about climate change you might vote for the Green party instead o
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by lopmotr 6y ago
That's are pretty complicated boundary between good and bad you've defined there. Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology? Being a 2nd in command is OK but not a national leader?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I was reluctant to provide a source because it was trivial to do so yourself. I found 7 just from the first page of a couple of quick Google searches. But it turns out you didn't want a source for my claim, you wanted a source for a di
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Why would you respect someone for sacrificing and fighting for what they think is just? Osama Bin Laden wasn't too different either. Many Islamic terrorists were engineers before sacrificing their careers and fighting for what they b
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Even higher temperatures in a lightbulb. Or if that's not natural enough, in a lightning bolt.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Both here and in the general western society, there's a vicious policing of certain taboo ideas about psychology, even ideas that are well accepted by the researchers. Being anti-science is seen as a good thing here because the truth m
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by lopmotr 6y ago
So you do agree but just misunderstood me. You should have made this post about your assumptions up front instead of asking for evidence of the wrong claim. You people really need to stop hunting for racists under every rock! It blocks your
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Sounds like the predators may eventually learn that they're fake: "it is recommended that the technique be applied periodically, when predation rates are higher, also to avoid predator habituation." With their bigger brains,
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yea it's not nature's way, just a convention. But it's an intuitive convention because it's easy to assume that digits which are shown are correct and digits which aren't shown are unknown. The alternative - throwin
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It wasn't 54.4°C though! The original value was only 130 °F which is probably between about 54.2 and 54.7 °C but somebody made it look more accurate during that first conversion which fooled you with the very thing you're saying i
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Oh no, not this again! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24118715 If the diameter of a coin is 19 mm, the circumference is not 59.6902604182 mm
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The LIGO experiment can measure the change in length of one arm compared to the other due to anisotropy in spacetime. I don't know how you could explain it without spacetime, so that sounds like non-interpreted.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Just thinking something doesn't make it true. Why can't they just use air conditioners like everyone else in hot climates does? They'll all be rich soon afterall, with poverty due to be effectively extinct by the end of the c
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Agree?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Not really. Somebody may be discouraged from reporting an abuse because the abuser has power over them. They might wait until after they leave that job.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
To grow fungus from CO2, don't you first have to grow a plant then let the fungus eat dead plant? Plants require (heavy) equipment to support them.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Here we go "2°C warming would imply [...] average GDP per capita would be reduced by 13% by 2100. By comparison, economic impacts at 1.5°C on GDP growth would be almost indistinguishable from current conditions (1°C)." https:&#x2
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No. Island nations aren't big enough to be a major global problem.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> enormous die off of the world's population as large swathes of the planet become essentially uninhabitable at current densities Can you provide any more details to go on for that? I can't find such predictions in an IPCC repo
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You're missing my point. It is that you don't know what the consequences of climate change will be. Not even any kind of estimate at all. So how can you be sure it's worth the cost of preventing? Even scientists hardly have a
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The consequences of climate change might not be as bad as the consequences of preventing it. That's a pretty important thing to figure out because what if you end up creating a bigger calamity than you prevent? What does "heavy lo
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by lopmotr 6y ago
So your answer is "yes, I believe it's worse than those wars during those previous presidencies"? If I come up with numbers of deaths of innocents during these time frames, and Trump's are lower, will you agree that thos
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You realize all that is the same level of evidence that conspiracy theorists use, right? It's like saying 9/11 was a false flag operation because the US did one before in Cuba and would benefit from an excuse to invade Iraq and th
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by lopmotr 6y ago
In one case, I sold a car and the buyer wanted to pay only part of the price at first. I was young and trusting so I agreed. He never paid it. Yes, I thought I was helping him because he wanted a car and was short of money, but no, I wasn&#
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Yes, but these figures weren't written in scientific notation so we can't tell. Especially the trailing 0 on 110 is ambiguous because people often write a 0 there where it really is 0 while the convention is that a 0 means it&#x27
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Here's some I found from a quick search: The same article says "In the US, generally individuals identifying themselves as Asian tend to score higher on IQ tests than Caucasians" Where does it say that it's refuted? &quo
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I didn't say it was attributed to genetic differences, nor that IQ is a good measure of general intelligence. I didn't even use the word "race" that you're concerned about the definition of. You might be arguing a d
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Though I agree it's not helpful to force your feelings directly. I do think that there are things we "should" feel and those are the things that give better outcomes to us. Sometimes emotions are telling us something true and
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Google? I know that sounds rude, but since it's well established, not some fringe theory, it's trivial to find out yourself. Wikipedia has a page on it with references you can dig into. Google also shows a Forbes article if you wa

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