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by nonbel 8y ago
> 'The European interpretation is closer to "everyone pays into a big pot and we collectively decide how to spend it to make our country better"' This sounds great, but if everyone was in favor of it there would be n
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "The distinction I am going for is people who would donate if and only if their donation makes a difference to project completion. If you can save your 100$ and still get what you want then that’s different than your 100$ being wh
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "If me and 10,000 people want a waste treatment plant we can individually chip in. But, in that case defecting would be so common that it's unlikely to be built." Ok, but my point is limited to the fact that taxes only
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "An alternative would be a country full of people so similar to you that the average person would feel like their countrymen might as well be them." What? If people really felt that way there would be no need for taxes. If y
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"The sense that government takes our money and gives it to someone else" If something else was going on, then taxes would be voluntary...
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "For Q2, we were approximately 6% of revenue for blockchain. For Q3, we’re planning very little blockchain." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amd-stock-pr... > "So our forward
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "what was Nvidia supposed to do?" The same thing AMD did?
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "Ok. So you’re arguing the climate is cooling, not warming." No. Why do you think I argued that? > "You know what, I don’t believe you’re a real person" Makes sense, since you keep responding to strawmen you c
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "almost all crypto is held by people who have most of their wealth in crypto (e.g. 97% held by 4% of addresses)" Where are you getting this? Not only the numbers but your conclusion. This sounds like wild speculation.
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "~20% more people, ~300% more people exposed to heatwaves." One interpretation: 90% of people born in the last 20 years or so are not being exposed to an increased number of heatwaves. They only tell us an increase of 157 mi
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by nonbel 8y ago
Where did I say anything close to "climate change is not real"? My very first sentence in this thread is regarding "the possible grand solar minimum", an example of a phenomenon that would (supposedly) lead to climate ch
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yea, sorry. Earlier in the abstract it mentioned sodium hypochlorite then I didnt read closely: "Strong sodium hypochiorite solutions achieve inactivation but other chlorine-releasing compounds are less effective" Usually there is
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by nonbel 8y ago
It's kind of disingenuous to present this as an impressive prediction: "the data are changing in ways that the team didn't expect". https://phys.org/news/2012-10-voyager-left-solar.html Also, lookin
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by nonbel 8y ago
You just use bleach and then autoclave: >"combining autoclaving (even at 121 degrees C) with a sodium hydroxide treatment is extremely effective." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10658760
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by nonbel 8y ago
How is this at all a "twist"? The reason you cannot deactivate prions using these methods is that they are meant to denature protein. Prions are "amyloids"/beta-sheets, which means they are already in the lowest-ene
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by nonbel 8y ago
The fixed coin supply is totally different from the inflationary pressure you are concerned about. There seems to be some kind of confusion here but I can't figure out what your are trying to say now. > "Those with more wealth
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "There's nothing at the code and protocol level about sustaining the price, but at the human level the early adopters (i.e. the 4% owning 97% of assets) are incentivised to try to sustain or increase the price through whateve
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "requires a constant addition of new adopters just to sustain the price[1] [...] [1] To counteract the deflationary nature of new coin generation" I think you've got some confusion going on here. 1) There is no require
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by nonbel 8y ago
More people -> more people exposed to heatwaves. It is a flawed metric to use for assessing an effect of climate change.
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "Looking at the comments here so far, it is, as ever, the never-ending debate as to whether climate change is real or not." I have still never seen a single person argue that "climate change is not real", definitel
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by nonbel 8y ago
Thanks. That is also my favorite prediction paper: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_ha02700w.pd...
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by nonbel 8y ago
It all depends on who you call a domain expert. That is a political (in the general sense), not scientific, term.
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by nonbel 8y ago
What is an increase of 300%?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Interesting. Can you give a 1980s source for the prediction matched with current data?
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by nonbel 8y ago
That page does not address the actual issue. It argues: > "We're fortunate that the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface is very stable." The actual issue is totally different. It has to do with a (
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by nonbel 8y ago
Will these people lose any reputation if the possible grand solar minimum happens? EDIT: Also: "The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change announced last week that 157 million more people were exposed to heatwave events in 2017
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by nonbel 8y ago
There's no point to you discussing science with scientists then. Because that is exactly what scientists are worried about. Why? Because it happens all the time.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Don't believe it. For the monkey data, they claim at least one cell was "edited" in 80+% of the embryos and that the "edited" embryos survived to blastocyst stage more often than the controls (ie, there was less tha
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Since 2000 many new satellite measurements were done and the values improved." The point is that "suddenly" people started measuring a higher baryon density to make it fit what was required for lambda-CDM model to f
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "I do disagree with the assertion that I often see, and remains a widespread misconception among scientists, that MOND does not do a good job of explaining cosmic phenomena. I’ve been through all that, and it is simply incorrect t

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