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by mkempe 8y ago
On the other hand, "In the most recent estimate, for 1993–2008, the contribution from land ice increased to 68 percent, the contribution from thermal expansion decreased to 35 percent". [1] Something is not right. Either ice melti
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by mkempe 8y ago
I don't understand this part: "In total, Antarctica has shed some 2.7 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, corresponding to an increase in global sea level of more than 7.5mm." If the melting ice of Antarctica contributes only
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by mkempe 8y ago
50cm by 2100. That's just under 20 inches for Imperialists. This assumes a linear rise of 6mm/year. So in the next 10 years sea level would rise by 6 cm (just over two inches; I understand there are twelve of those in a foot, so w
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by mkempe 8y ago
The European powers certainly did at the time of the division between the province and the city-state, since its disputed status almost led to a huge continental war in the aftermath of the Belgian revolution and the creation of the city-st
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by mkempe 8y ago
The Albanian minority does absolutely not have a majority in the North Macedonian parliament. Being a tiny minority party across changing ruling coalitions does not mean they "constitute a majority". https://en.wikipe
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by mkempe 8y ago
Are there three other "Massachusetts"-named states bordering the current Massachusetts? [edit] Maine is not called "North Massachusetts". As for your belief that European borders are unrelated to ethnic/cultural dis
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by mkempe 8y ago
I could understand them wanting to mark their differences from Serbia, but Bulgaria was the reference point for the emergence of Macedonian nationalism when the Ottomans were pushed out. Do you have references for such anti-Bulgarian sentim
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by mkempe 8y ago
Naming themselves "North Macedonia" kind of implies that they are strongly connected to the other three Macedonia (administrative) regions of Greece (Western, Central, Eastern). The reason they're not going to join Greece is
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by mkempe 8y ago
This is so confusing. My immediate reactions were a) but Sonar is already open-source! b) did Facebook somehow acquire Sonar? c) oh, they're actually polluting the name space.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Indeed, that was then. Italy's team has slowly shifted since, to include a few ex-pats, following the trend of other national teams -- except for England, which hasn't shifted at all. Note that Italy didn't even qualify for t
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by mkempe 8y ago
Do you believe that there is no difference between having a national team with zero players who thrive in foreign leagues vs having 4-5 key players who do? In 2007 Liverpool reached the UEFA Champions League Final, and lost to Milan. In 2
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by mkempe 8y ago
I'm pointing out that not one England player selected for this World Cup plays for a club outside of their country. Here is where four key Germany players were in 2014: - Klose: Lazio - Özil: Arsenal - Khedira: Real Madrid - Schürrle
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by mkempe 8y ago
How many players on this year's English team play in foreign leagues? compare to other competitive national teams. In recent years the only other European national team with players who don't (can't?) play outside their own c
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by mkempe 8y ago
I tracked down one scientific paper that mentions "1,100 Gt CO2" but the context is completely different from what was being claimed (total human emissions so far): it's an estimate of the remaining global carbon budget from
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by mkempe 8y ago
I hope this is not your usual standard of thinking or argument. At what CO2 level in the atmosphere would land-based vegetation go extinct? should one take this into account when designing or advocating massive mechanisms to remove CO2 from
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by mkempe 8y ago
Your asserted number (1,100 GtC) seems to be a wild exaggeration: "In the period 1751 to 1900, about 12 GtC were released as CO2 to the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels, whereas from 1901 to 2013 the figure was about 380 GtC.&qu
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by mkempe 8y ago
Starvation is not equivalent to death, it means that plants are not growing as fast nor as well as they would with higher levels of CO2. This is a proven fact and has been amply demonstrated in scientific experiments; it is related to well-
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by mkempe 8y ago
Reminder: If CO2 levels fall below 150 ppm there will be a mass extinction of land-based plants. It is a grave mistake to believe that CO2 as such is bad and must be removed from the atmosphere. It is an essential fertilizer for both phytop
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by mkempe 8y ago
Au contraire. Idiotic essays deserve to be smacked down, and mercilessly mocked. You're attempting to defend a gossipy poser, not a distressed damsel.
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by mkempe 8y ago
She can handle her own life -- she can turn a creep down, strike up a friendship, or start a romantic relationship. None of those are your business, unless one or the other initiates force. As for the use of toilets -- isn't the US in
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Nothing Less Than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History(press.princeton.edu)
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First Wave at Omaha Beach (1960)(theatlantic.com)
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I've seen and worked on many successful fixed-time, fixed-price projects, medium- and large-scale, not for government.
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by mkempe 8y ago
In the context of a fixed-time, fixed-price/budget project it will fail to meet these constraints unless the scope is very clearly delineated at the outset, and ruthless scope/change management is applied throughout the progre
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by mkempe 8y ago
One of the insights is that 1.4 billion years ago the length of Earth days was 18.68 ± 0.25 hours.
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Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system(doi.org)
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by mkempe 8y ago
Ok, I can see what you mean, and you didn't need to be hostile about it. My personal view is that no country should regulate the Internet -- beyond upholding freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of trade (caveat empto
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by mkempe 8y ago
My question is genuine. I have no idea why you would say something unpleasant like that.
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Isn't this a required feature under the new EU laws?
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I have two young kids. I find these demos awful, and Lego's AR-spiel abhorrent. Looks like 2-4 kids will use AR on a combined $1-4k iPads in order to "play" around an actual $30 Lego house. Let's envision additional kill

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