luc4sdreyer

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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
All of them deny the scientific consensus because it clashes with their ideology. That's not to say they're _same_, e.g. Flat-earthers probably harm society less than anti-vaxers. The consensus regarding GMO safety is solid, but I
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The European public, yes. However European scientists support the scientific consensus, per the definition of a consensus. > In 2013, the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) asked the EU to allow the development of agricu
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> it would still be like blindly throwing a dart and hitting a bullseye 24,000 light years away in this case. I liked this analogy, so I felt inspired to calculated the odds. Particularly: the percentage of the "sky" (celestial
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Maybe some people did die, it's a bit too early to tell if it killed, say ten people. It's probably very unlikely though. More importantly, there is a very wide spectrum of danger between death and no effect, especially when you c
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
What kind of range limits are you talking about? 30? 100?
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
No, I explicitly said so in my previous comment.
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Bear in mind that the author, Roy Spencer: * has a Ph.D. in meteorology, which is not the same as climatology * believes that most climate change is natural in origin * is a Creationist: "I came to the realization that intelligent desi
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The title is pretty misleading. Yes, it's technically correct, but it implies they found something else that might question it.
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The part that doesn't make sense to me is how people find this hard to understand. It's purely supply and demand. Game developers are willing to work for less than their peers in other industries, and game companies will do everyt
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Seems like the post has been taken down.
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> Whether or not M1A2s are equal or inferior to a tricked-out T-90 is a long, long debate. That's an interesting way to put it! From my basic reading I'd consider the M1A2 to have an edge over the T-90MS. If you look at the big
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Depending on the definition of "modern". If you mean third generation tanks, then the US has almost twice as many. 7970 vs 4791. Russia has 15755 but I'm not sure how many qualify as third generation. According to https:&#x2
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
This touches on an interesting change in the trend of conspiracy theories. To quote an article from The New Yorker: >“Classic” conspiracy theories, according to Muirhead and Rosenblum, arise in response to real events—the assassination o
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Very interesting, I'm happy someone finally did a more statistically rigorous analysis of the Drake equation. Now I know where the aliens are hiding: in the long tail of an extremely skewed probability distribution!
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> There's a very good reason why seabirds in general are long-lived. > probably due to overfishing for sandeels, their main prey It's interesting that you point to an evolutionary fix (longevity to compensate for frequent br
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
> go check out your mylife.com profile mylife.com has been down for at least a week according to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/mylife.com.html
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
I have done some research, and it sounded like you're overstating or making false claims, so I'll called you on it. "Do your own research" is just another easy way to dismiss criticism. I can't prove that no researc
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
You're making a lot of wild claims. >Even in many "scientific" fields, standards are so low that most published research is wrong. Citation needed. >And in much of academia, evidence is less important than ideology Cita
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
One solution to the problem of measuring the length of the Python program is to turn it into machine code and measure that instead: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138521/is-it-feasible-to...
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
> Using the agile approach we develop the education technology based on embodied understanding, bringing the body back into the equation in this digital age. Can someone please tell me what this sentence actually means.
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
Awesome idea, but is there any way to test the hypothesis? Or will it be forever locked in the box of "extremely elegant but untestable" along with string theory?
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
Actually, sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. As soon as you double-blind the people evaluating the children's activity levels, no one can tell which children had sugar. Here are some links to the research: https:/&#x
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
I have to use Thunderbird for work and I wish it was 1% as good as Gmail. The search sucks, it's slow to receive mail, it crashes quite often. Either your Gmail is profoundly broken or you have a magic Thunderbird. In case the latter i
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by luc4sdreyer 8y ago
> if CO2 levels get up to around 700ppm which can happen in a few hours of going to bed, you will also wake up feeling less refreshed and groggy source?
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by luc4sdreyer 9y ago
> not provide evidence for simulation.... which is impossible by definition. I disagree. Science cannot prove that a theory is 100% true, only that it is not wrong by repeatedly testing the predictions made by the theory. The best we can
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by luc4sdreyer 9y ago
I think it's very likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Ancestor... It's not a testable claim right now, but it might be in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by luc4sdreyer 10y ago
Same here, version 53.0.2785.143 m (64-bit), which is the latest according to Wikipedia. Also my webGL is enabled according to chrome://gpu. Running on Windows 8, no other GFX issues. Firefox works though. :/
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by luc4sdreyer 10y ago
Reminds me of the way Java's binary search computes the average: int mid = (low + high) >>> 1; This was a fix because the original code had a bug: int mid =(low + high) / 2; Which was part of the Java code b