mkempe

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Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth'(bbc.co.uk)
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by mkempe 8y ago
Oh, wow. Thanks for the link. [for those who don't grok German] That was a court decision at the State level (Bern) which claims incredibly that since the GPS tracker shows only where a vehicle is located it does not violate the protec
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by mkempe 8y ago
Come on. Switzerland has the same Federal structure, with 26 States, and municipal governments. Even the educational system is split at the State level, with barely any Federal intervention! Maybe you should learn about other countries befo
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by mkempe 8y ago
You're inventing a past influence of California as a model for other parts of the world. The Swiss constitution of 1848 is modeled after the US Constitution [1], not after such a thing as a Californian political model -- especially sin
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Car Connectivity Consortium: smartphone-centric car connectivity solutions(carconnectivity.org)
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Germany’s Largest Auto Makers Back Abolition of EU-U.S. Car Import Tariffs(wsj.com)
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by mkempe 8y ago
In Switzerland there is a concept of the "private sphere" [1] and it basically implies that others do not have the right to pry into nor track that sphere. Each individual and family has their own sense of that sphere and of how l
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by mkempe 8y ago
The USA are a republic, not a democracy. The founding fathers expressed repeatedly their utter revulsion for democracy as a political system, and by design created a non-democratic republic -- one designed to limit the powers of the State
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by mkempe 8y ago
Great question. If they haven't already been doing it, why not? after all, serving ads is their core business.
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Explaining reluctance to benefit from others' misfortune(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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by mkempe 8y ago
Since CO2 is an essential nutrient for the kingdom of plants, the rise in CO2 level has caused land-based vegetation to increase 14% globally over 30 years, and phytoplankton to increase tenfold in the North Atlantic over 50 years.
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by mkempe 8y ago
A better and much more recent proxy observation for the effect of a warming climate is the Eemian [1] aka the last interglacial. Peak temperature 125k years ago was at least 2 C higher than today, and global sea-level was 8-9 m higher (of w
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by mkempe 8y ago
Are you claiming Wikileaks was founded in 2006 in order to throw the 2016 US Presidential election to Trump?
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by mkempe 8y ago
This way nobody is to initiate the use of force: neither individuals, nor corporations, nor the State. What a revolutionary ideal... securing rights.
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by mkempe 8y ago
[Parent suggested more intrusive Federal control of employment decisions and college admissions.] There is a third, peaceful path. Keep the government's nose out of all private, contractual relationships unless one party initiates the
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by mkempe 8y ago
At that rate it would take 25,000 years for 10% of the Antarctica ice sheet to melt. On the other hand 20,000 years ago was the peak of the last Ice Age. Sea level was 120m lower than today. There was more ice in the Northern hemisphere&#x2
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by mkempe 8y ago
The X in your "if X then ..." is demonstrated false. That's your misconception.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Your anti-intellectualism fits with the times.
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Cost-effective method of extracting uranium from seawater(newatlas.com)
8 points by mkempe 8y ago|2 comments
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10M patents: A celebration of American innovation(uspto.gov)
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by mkempe 8y ago
This is silly anti-Russian propaganda: - Finland did not qualify to the World Cup - bringing a laptop to the US is risky, too; is Wired going to write articles about that at the drop of a hat? Is it motivated by the non-qualification of the
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by mkempe 8y ago
I recommend "The Ominous Parallels" [1] for a detailed examination of the philosophical and historical causes of Nazi Germany, and how these causes have echoes resonating in the US today. [1] https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by mkempe 8y ago
The latter, of course! I'd be interested in your numbers. H2O is 2.5% of the atmosphere, so I can't see our CO2:H2O production having a significant impact in that respect; but still, an interesting angle since H2O is a major green
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by mkempe 8y ago
Hmm. Let me know when you have some scientific evidence and specific numbers related to these notions. If we're cooking up stories, how about this arbitrary "explanation": Phytoplankton are plentiful. They're reproducin
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by mkempe 8y ago
Thank you. The estimated contribution to sea-level rise by thermal expansion of the oceans is 1 mm/year. It's still not clear how this amount plus the measured contributions of Greenland (under 0.5 mm/year) and Antarctica (0.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and th
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by mkempe 8y ago
Why would an order of magnitude improvement not be a distinguishing factor?
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by mkempe 8y ago
Greenland does not contribute that much to global sea-level rise: "The cumulative ice loss from Greenland from 1992 to 2015 was 3,600 Gt and contributed to global sea level rise by approximately 10 mm" -- that's less than 0.5
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by mkempe 8y ago
For context: there are 26.5 million cubic km of ice in Antarctica, weighing 24.3 million Gt (26.5 / 1.091). Assuming these estimated 2,700 Gt (the rounded 3 trillion) have not been steadily replaced by new water on top of the ice sheet
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by mkempe 8y ago
The historical record shows that hurricanes have gotten neither more frequent nor more powerful. [1] [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hurricane-lull-couldnt-last...

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