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by miked 17y ago
"World-class economist Paul Samuelson, a Nobel laureate, wrote in the tenth edition of his textbook Economics: “It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable.” This, mind you, in the aftermath of the 195
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Google: Doing a little evil is OK, as long as it suppresses AGW heretics(us.asiancorrespondent.com)
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Senate amendment would deny bloggers legal protections as MSM journalists(washingtonexaminer.com)
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by miked 17y ago
A collection of raw data is full of systematic errors, accidental mistakes, misleading black swans, and false trails (some of which get followed for years before they finally turn out to be false). I've seen several talented, well-trained,
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by miked 17y ago
While the revelations about pressuring the peer review process and apparent slowness in responding to an avalanche of requests for information unveil something below impressive scientific and personal behavior, they can also be seen as the
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by miked 17y ago
Er, no, he doesn't say that the main climate model is useless, or that "it's rubbish and doesn't work". He doesn't say anything even slightly like that. It doesn't make any difference what judgements he pronounces. What matters most is hi
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Astonishing Programmer Comments on the CRU Climate Model Source Code(cbsnews.com)
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A Summary of the Great CRU Data Hack Emails(bishophill.squarespace.com)
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by miked 17y ago
His post is pure strawman: say the "enemy's" entire argument centers around one post, then downplay that, then announce that there's nothing to see here folks, move along, move along. It's far more devstating than that. Excerpt: At 09:41 A
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by miked 17y ago
The best part: they spent $12,000,000 of the American taxpayers money on this web site. You think that would buy a few data validation statements. Still, it's not quite as good as GM announcing that they are paying back part of the money th
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by miked 17y ago
It's fun to imagine that somewhere sometime a scrawny geek told a chiseled-jaw pilot "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" That may have been my late father's fantasy. He was the lead engineer at Boeing Military f
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by miked 17y ago
These second order effects are a big problem in Europe. The governments there make it very expensive to fire anyone; typically around 6 months wages for anyone laid off, I think. As a result, companies are loath to hire new workers, even wh
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by miked 17y ago
Direct democracy works exceptionally well in Switzerland, and the citizens vote four times a year there. Time to state the obvious: the Dems have controlled both houses of the state legislature for decades, and they shovel money to the stat
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California: The Iceman Cometh(city-journal.org)
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by miked 17y ago
If you start posting those, others will start posting Krugman or whoever on the left. Both will attract people not interested in hacker news. As I post this, the number 3 article on HN is a Krugman piece which has nothing at all to do wit
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by miked 17y ago
And sure, I know the xenophobes are going to cheer my findings. They believe that foreign workers take American jobs away. But a growing body of evidence indicates that skilled foreign immigrants create jobs for Americans and boost our nat
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by miked 17y ago
Odd, but I've never seen the use of deciduous trees on the south side of a home mentioned as an energy regulating device. They block the sun in the summer and let it thru in the winter. Simple and effective, and nice to look at, tho someone
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by miked 17y ago
>> I guess its worth pointing out that I'm not sure where I stand on this... as below, I'm sort of playing devil's advocate. I also have some concerns about full transparency, just on the general basis that "the best laid plans..."
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by miked 17y ago
My claim: Everything that the government does should be posted online, unless it violates one of the following: * true national security concerns * personal confidentiality * any monetary transaction information that might cost the taxpayer
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Senate blocks transparency, refuses to put bills online(msnbc.msn.com)
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New FTC blogger regulations are very broad(overlawyered.com)
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FCC Chief Seeks Broad Open-Internet Rules (online.wsj.com)
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by miked 17y ago
Umm, Silverlight is currently at 3.0, not 1.1 alpha. That pretty much ended my interest.
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California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage(bloomberg.com)
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by miked 17y ago
>> would you mind writing up a comment with why you found it so profound and enjoyable? It's been many years since I read it, but I can still remember the terror of identifying with its hero and his struggle against insanity and ali
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Chinese dissidents let down by Obama Nobel(breitbart.com)
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Lawyer Loses Unemployment Payments Because of $1.30 in Daily Blog Income(abajournal.com)
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by miked 17y ago
though he's not a wealthy man financially Both his books have sold millions of copies. The Clintons are now worth well over $100 million, just from giving speeches. Al Gore left office worth about $2 million and is now worth over $100 mil
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by miked 17y ago
Here's a question I haven't seen raised yet: how does this affect commenters on HN? Products and companies get plugged here all the time. It's hard to see how commenting is much different than a blog post.
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by miked 17y ago
The distinction between "news organization" and individual also makes very little sense to me. The lack of a significant distinction becomes even more obvious when you consider a group of people sharing a blog vs. a media organization.

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