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I'm sure I speak for many when I say thank you for fighting the good fight, in particular one that puts both individual choice and governmental responsiveness in a positive light.
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When a page takes up 1/3 of the display playing an obnoxious advertising video with sound that can be neither minimized or dismissed, they lose the right to complain about ad blockers.
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> I love how you believe that most reviewers have time to conduct a thorough review for a journal, most of the time. Your objection is to a position I never took -- in fact I suggested the opposite. The depth of a review is gauged by its
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A what? A "social media influencer program?" It's a program that employs people skilled at pretending to be someone they aren't, whose goal is to influence the views of people who would prefer to be someone they aren&#x2
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My point is simply that one who challenges a well-supported scientific theory has the burden of evidence. And calling for evidence, when there's already copious evidence available, distorts the facts. It's like anti-evolutionists
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How is it sexist? It shows the rational people running away from the sociopaths. The graphic thereby puts women in a favorable light. Or is that what you meant -- reverse sexism?
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Fair enough, your position has merit -- browsers really are very large, getting larger, and not in a way that necessarily benefits the average user. My website uses MathJax on the server side to get around this problem (example: https:&#x2
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> Formerly known as "peer review". An in-depth review of a paper in advance of publication is common (although that system isn't as reliable as had one been assumed). Such an exhaustive review after publication is rare, fo
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Your references discuss evidence for transient liquid water (brine) flowing in the present , not the past. There's good evidence that there was plenty of water on Mars billions of years ago.
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It appears that you're suffering from a bad case of confirmation bias. There's plenty of evidence for the existence of antimatter, one need only investigate with an open mind. > When I see a mathematical simulation (a probabili
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> But go ahead, which experiment confirms existence of antimatter? There are hundreds, but let's provide the first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron I would have said "supports with evidence" ra
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> Because it does not exist outside of the minds of the "scientists" "studying" it? The theory behind antimatter first appeared in an equation written by P. A. M. Dirac[1]. Experimental confirmation came in 1932 in a
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Quote: "At the same time, atomic spectra is generated by ..." s/is/are/
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> A problem with this is that there will be a tendency for it to become normative. Yes, true. It would turn description into prescription, but we're already approaching that point. I'm not advocating this, only mentioning it. &
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This is a great project -- in Phase One, the algorithm will correct sentences written by people who didn't learn basic literacy in school and who subsequently endeavor to avoid reading or writing any text, preferring video. In Phase Tw
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Not addressed in the article, but critical to the issue, is education -- a properly educated public would be immune to fake news. Key to that educated outlook would be healthy skepticism and application of the null hypothesis precept from
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I'm looking forward to the day when browsers support LaTeX content without any special plugins or libraries. Until then I use server-side MathJax to support my site's technical pages. MathJax is a terrific piece of software, but i
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Thanks! If you were to read only one article, read this one: https://arachnoid.com/psychology_and_alchemy/
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> Has attracting a blog audience become harder? I've been involved with the Internet virtually since it began, and we're now in its third phase. The phases: 1. Forum for technical discussions and data transfer. 2. Soapbox for s
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> If I remember the book correctly ... No book, sad to say. The movie is based on a Ted Chiang short story named "The story of your life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Your_Life There are a numbe
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Let's call a spade a spade -- these people are parasites. After reading the linked article I ran a generic inquiry and discovered that "Paul Lutus is on Facebook[1]." False and annoying. I suspect this is how Facebook can cla
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> share context of whatever you see with others in seconds ITYM "within seconds, share with others the context of whatever you see". Yes?
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This is a particularly dramatic methane release, but methane is being released regularly in the high latitudes. I visit Alaska in the summertime and I see methane releases in many locations -- for example (taken from my kayak): http:/
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I'm in my 70s and I've seen a complete change of atmosphere since the 1950s when I first interacted with tecnology. In 1950, apart from a small number of ready-made products, if you wanted something out of the ordinary, you design
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Airlines that switch to electrics will have to resolve a logistical issue -- do you switch batteries between flights, or do you need to buy twice as many aircraft, so half are flying and half are charging? I suspect that battery-switching w
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> - If we are talking about dB in context of amplitude 6dB more means twice as much amplitude, 6dB less (or -6dB) means half the amplitude. > - If we are talking about dB in context of power 3dB more means twice as much power, 3dB les
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One reason is that in floating-point processing, in some cases adding a constant to an argument can truncate and lose the original argument, so using a single function will fail in a class of pathological edge cases: import numpy as n
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The earlier post is correct -- as time passes Microsoft changes the advertising configuration within Windows. For example, the presence of advertising within File Explorer is a new development. Earlier, harangues about Edge being a superior
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This describes an increasingly common practice among online businesses -- aggressively monetize visitors, turn them into clients and corporate assets. When you visit a typical modern website, within 15 seconds an overlay appears encouraging
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Quote: "Mr Darkes says that doctors are now 80 per cent convinced he is cured of the condition, which has never before been reversed." I suspect (and it can't be more than a suspicion) that many of those with diabetes diagnos

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