mkempe

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by mkempe 9y ago
The Danish meteorological report I linked to explicitly states that the temperature spike was caused by a foehn-like wind, and that the same phenomenon has already been recorded at the same weather station in past years.
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by mkempe 9y ago
It was not presented with appropriate context, and was not left out. It undermines the argument and thus should have been left out. That makes it interesting.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I'm guessing that the downvoters don't know what chinook winds can do nor what causes them. [1] The temperature swings can easily be double what I mentioned above, i.e. 40 C from -20C to +20C and back. Or it's a heresy to poi
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by mkempe 9y ago
I haven't said anything about arctic sea ice levels, have I? I just provided a factual summary based on the original Danish report about the cause of a one-day temperature spike recorded at one weather station in Northern Greenland.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I read the weather report (in Danish). [1] The local warming in Greenland has already happened in previous years at that particular weather station. The spike in temperature was caused by a foehn-like wind -- same as a chinook wind in the C
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by mkempe 9y ago
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was published in two volumes, in 1925 and 1926. It very explicitly defined the goal to eliminate Jews from German/Aryan lands. The "Final Solution" program was established in 1942 to imple
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by mkempe 9y ago
You wrote: "She says repeatedly that Nazism is not genetic." I'm asking you to provide evidence for that claim.
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by mkempe 9y ago
It's interesting that you assume, incorrectly, that I did not read the article in its entirety. So the explanation for the true meaning of her article is that she somehow "misused" the words born and biological throughout
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by mkempe 9y ago
Actually, there is not a single mention of genes or "genetic" in that article. What are you referring to? Your interpretation of the word "born" is bizarre. She is repeatedly describing someone's Nazism to be direct
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by mkempe 9y ago
There is no charitable interpretation possible for "born Nazis."
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by mkempe 9y ago
To the downvoters -- if you ascribe, or condone someone ascribing, someone's ideas and character to their birth or ancestry you are objectively no better than racists and Nazis.
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by mkempe 9y ago
First paragraph: "I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, ..." [emphasis added]
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by mkempe 9y ago
Fourth paragraph: "Sometimes I think there are direct biological factors at work—a type of education, feeding, and physical training which has produced a new kind of human being with an imbalance in his nature." She's ascribi
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by mkempe 9y ago
What an awful article. The author starts by ascribing a biological basis to a person's likelihood to be a Nazi. In that respect, she's no better than them. National-socialism was a collectivist ideology. It was grouping people acc
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by mkempe 9y ago
I never add salt to any meal I prepare -- and nobody in my family, nor our dinner guests, has ever complained. We get our salt and iodine from the natural food itself -- e.g. salmon, seaweed, tuna, pork, potatoes, lemon, milk, and leafy veg
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by mkempe 9y ago
In the 1560s Cardano's Liber de ludo aleae attempted to calculate probabilities of dice throws. His work was not published until 1663. There is no earlier known work on the calculus of probability.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I strongly recommend "Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" (1996) [1] for a fascinating, historical perspective on people's growing understanding of probability and statistics over the last few millennia. The autho
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SpaceX launches its first Starlink internet satellites(geekwire.com)
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Elon Musk puts his case for a multi-planet civilisation (2014)(aeon.co)
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Merely Watching Others Perform Can Foster an Illusion of Skill Acquisition(journals.sagepub.com)
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Frederick Douglass’ 200th Birthday: Great American Abolitionist(smithsonianmag.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Actually the release date was 2010 not 2012: "Standards were released for mathematics and English language arts on June 2, 2010, with a majority of states adopting the standards in the subsequent months." [1] It was adopted by Was
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by mkempe 9y ago
Strongly agree. Still, do keep some of your powder dry and look for opportunities to join a better team or company. An engineer once told me he cried with joy when he saw the interface and used some subsystem I had written a year earlier (i
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by mkempe 9y ago
Some teachers don't have to do that. One reason we sent our daughters to (private) Montessori school was to have teachers and lessons completely free from Common Core. Note that Bill Gates also sent his children to a private school tha
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by mkempe 9y ago
The "Look Say" method you describe (vs the classic "Phonics" method) was also widely deployed in the USA, to the detriment of many children's reading and writing skills.
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SpaceX gets set to launch prototype Starlink internet satellites(geekwire.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
The profit equation is a little bit more complex. Consider that recovered fairings would be used multiple times, not just once each; and the long time to manufacture each new one adds an unwanted scheduling delay.
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Sexual orientation and cognitive ability: A multivariate meta-analytic follow-up(psyarxiv.com)
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Experimental Drug Promises to Kill the Flu Virus in a Day(wsj.com)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Thank you, this is great work. While implementing the UI for a medical device I had the disappointing experience of having to work with a UX company that designed an interface that relied almost exclusively on colors to indicate results a

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