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by pdx 10y ago
How about this? 'U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife’s Online Zealotry' [1] She had a visa, but perhaps she should have been further vetted, yes? [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us&#x
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by pdx 10y ago
> Except all of the actual journalism being done on > the Trump administration suggests incompetence, not malice I don't believe the journalists are incompetent. I believe there is actual malice there. No amount
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by pdx 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I did read it. The comments are also interesting. Some of them even supported Salby. You will note that it's from a 2012 lecture, not the 2016 lecture I linked to at https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by pdx 10y ago
Done and Done! Let's talk. There is a body of evidence that correlates CO2 to Temperature. Where I think this falls down is the causality. There is evidence that CO2 is caused by higher temperatures, rather than is the cause of them.
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by pdx 10y ago
Echo chambers are bad for science as well as for politics. It means that nobody is thinking anymore, they are just regurgitating a memorized response. On the matter of AGW, we have the situation where the science is not separate from polit
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by pdx 10y ago
I wish you would watch it, even if it is quite long. As I mention in another downvoted to hell post, it is a subject that takes time to present the material in an understandable way. People talk a lot about how oil money may be biasing the
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by pdx 10y ago
Yes, I know it's a long video. What can I do about that? This stuff takes a while to explain clearly. He talks about experiments having to do with CO2 vs temperature, and how it is the CO2 that increases because of the higher tempera
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by pdx 10y ago
You don't need to say "I feel threatened". Who the hell says "I feel threatened"? The fact that there is so much anger and gnashing of teeth is evidence that a worldview that does not include AGW must be viciousl
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by pdx 10y ago
Seriously? These are lectures. Did you attend lectures in college? Why? Why didn't you just read the book? Lectures serve a valuable purpose to most of us. If you could just read your way to an engineering degree, that would be aw
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by pdx 10y ago
Why don't you want HN readers to watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZqWMEpyUM This is a scientific lecture, given by a professor. I found it very interesting. Why does it threaten you so much?
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by pdx 10y ago
The closed mindedness of many people that are reflex downvoting the mere suggestion that they actually try to understand those on the other side of the argument is stunning. The video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZqW
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by pdx 10y ago
Why don't you watch the lecture, hmmm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZqWMEpyUM Nobody "appealed to authority". I only gave you his name. You, however, spent 2 minutes to dig up some dirt on the internet
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by pdx 10y ago
I am impressed that you watched an hour long lecture in only 5 minutes. I think if you're actually technically inclined, which as an HN reader, you probably are, that you'll understand and enjoy the lecture.
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by pdx 10y ago
This youtube channel has a lot of videos by scientists regarding global warming. https://www.youtube.com/user/1000frolly/videos?sort=p&shelf_... One video that HN readers may enjoy, given it's mathematica
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by pdx 10y ago
You are incorrect, but I can see why you would be confused, since so many people pick the left lane to go slow in. I think they imagine themselves to be some sort of force for good, slowing down all those evil speeders. Here's a summa
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by pdx 10y ago
My SWAG is that it's not a clock problem, it's a power supply problem. All the satellites probably use the same clock power supply, regardless of which clock they chose to put into the satellite. That would explain why you have th
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by pdx 10y ago
My daughter does voice searches, asking it to display pictures of various pokemon. "Show me pictures of the pokemon XXXX". These things have crazy names, and she doesn't have very clear speech, but it always gets them right
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by pdx 10y ago
> The Syrian atrocities. Careful there. Just because something was in Jeff Bezos Blog, is no indication of it's truth. In fact, it seems to be a good indication that it's not. Are you referring to the Sarin gas that
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by pdx 10y ago
In 2006, a paper was widely distributed among policy makers that advocated the idea that the United States could establish "Nuclear Primacy" and could win a nuclear war with Russia if we struck first. There is an interesting artic
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by pdx 10y ago
> It's funny, I find Snowden very very credible, but > Assange I find not-in-the-least credible. That's a shame. Assange has earned your trust by never, once, being shown to have provided incorrect information
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by pdx 10y ago
> Talking about how Putin is a dangerous autocrat? > That's sabre rattling. Yes, that is indeed sabre rattling. You should also be unhappy with Obama putting sanctions on Russia because he is unhappy that some dirty
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by pdx 10y ago
> So, uh, thanks for trying to take our rights away. The OP was engaging in discussion, not seriously advocating a course of action. When you're older, you won't take offense so easily.
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by pdx 10y ago
I agree that bad actors and state actors will also use this technology. Every time I read a podesta email I am reminded that such hacker induced government transparency will be gone, when they all move to the platform. But governments do a
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by pdx 10y ago
In a democracy, dissemination of information to the voters can theoretically affect political change. In countries that are not democracies, I'm uncertain what to do with your complaint. Would you dismiss giving oppressed people acces
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by pdx 10y ago
> It seems to me that speaking to a large number of people anonymously is not possible with > any of the existing tools, Signal included While it's still at the testnet stage, I have very high hopes for Maidsafe's
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by pdx 10y ago
Why don't you look at this link. I think it will prove your understanding is incomplete, and that water does have significant absorption in the microwave region of the spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elect
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by pdx 10y ago
If you re-read my comment, you'll note that I only said that 2.4GHZ was in the 1-20 GHz band that is easily absorbed by water. Engineers juggle multiple constraints, cost, size, power, and efficacy, and 2.4 GHZ choice was the result of
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by pdx 10y ago
There are regulatory limits on how much RF a device can send into the body. These are called SAR limits [1] and they are not changing. I was joking about the body effects. The legal limit is not changing. But devices that used to be fur
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by pdx 10y ago
The higher data rates are hoped to at least partially compensate for the higher power. You burst data at high power, but for less time. Also, there are retransmits that occur now, if a packet is corrupted. Higher power should result in f
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by pdx 10y ago
Getting 2.4GHz through the human body is hard. The human body is mostly water, and bluetooth is, after all, the same frequency of your microwave oven, which uses 2.4GHz because it's in a band of frequencies from 1-20GHz that water abs

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