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by raarts 6y ago
Being Dutch, I think this can be attributed more to the feeling of 'having been really big in the past' than what actually happened during that period. The Dutch, I mean, suffering from a Calimero complex as we are.
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There's also memory. I remember when driving at night 35 years ago I saw a lot more insects in my headlights than I see these days. The difference is very noticeable. There definitely more to it than aerodynamics.
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by raarts 6y ago
I re-read your responses multiple times, and it seems you are advocating for pushing people out of high-paying jobs in case they display morally reprehensible behavior, for example racism? If you are, I can only repeat what I said earlier
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by raarts 6y ago
I see two problems with your response: 1. Are felons entitled to have jobs? To which my response would be: are you entitled to decide? 2. We have existing ethical standards Where my response would be: who is 'we'? Do you think
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by raarts 6y ago
Cancel culture is about making sure people you disagree with (and their dependants) are out of jobs. Pressing companies to fire people for their political views should be a crime. The judicial system is meant for punishing people, not a pil
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by raarts 6y ago
I think generalizing all ages is a bad idea. In fact kids grow and learn so fast that almost each age needs a different approach, and I don't mean a 5% difference. Another thing is that we tend to underestimate how much kids learn &#x2
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by raarts 6y ago
I teach in college. In my opinion physical presence beats online teaching hands down for all but a few use cases. In my experience the last three months a minority of students thrive by online teaching, another (slightly bigger) minority s
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by raarts 6y ago
As someone from the Netherlands I can say there's a non-zero chance that a motorist has a gun. It's smaller than the US, but it's not zero. Still our cops carry guns. In the US the chances are way, way higher. I can understa
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by raarts 6y ago
I get your point, but so far science has been a huge net positive: - electricity (cellphone towers, refrigerators) - food technology (producing food efficiently) - medicine (vaccines, hospitals) - hygiene (sewer system, cl
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by raarts 6y ago
In support of your argument: Obama has said in his 'fatherhood speech': "We know the statistics - that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more like
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by raarts 6y ago
I don't think you are sincere since you already mention blog and video, which are the usual mantra words of the politicizing discourse but I encourage everyone who is interested to look into https://judithcurry.com/ fo
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by raarts 6y ago
I'm afraid you're not painting a correct picture here. There are climate sceptics (they call themselves realists) that used to work for the IPCC. There are established professors among them (no not psychologists, geologists). Plea
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by raarts 6y ago
Not anytime soon. China, India and other countries are planning a huge number of new coal plants. Just as much capacity as currently installed in Europe in total. Coal's life may be limited, but in the coming 50 years it's just go
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by raarts 6y ago
There is no question that the advancement of science has been good for humanity as a whole. Using math to improve the effectiveness of the police is a good thing. This effort - however well intended maybe - would throw out the baby with th
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by raarts 6y ago
Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately not explaining these things in public feeds public distrust, and to be fair, I now look at google more suspiciously as well. Because well, things like this keep popping up, conservative employees being
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by raarts 6y ago
Someone told me a few months ago to search Google images for 'white family' vs 'black family'. And the results were remarkable. White families turn out to be a lot more colored then black families are white. Regardless t
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by raarts 6y ago
Probably wouldn't have withdrawn from the Middle East and Afghanistan either...
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by raarts 6y ago
It sounds like you want to say conspiracies don't exist. Do you? Because many have existed in history. Many exist today. People conspire. To get power, money. This is not a conspiracy theory but fact :) conspiracy theories can be true.
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by raarts 6y ago
> Like most developed countries, absolute scores have slowly decreased over time. It's not clear why this is happening. I teach in college. I was born early sixties. My daughter teaches math in high school. Recently I showed her my
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by raarts 6y ago
> is that people often take what elected officials say as truth Well educate them on that instead of trying to control the information flow. History taught us that will always backfire.
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> get 500k from friends and family You do realize this does not apply to 99.9% of the population right?
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by raarts 6y ago
There are reports from California that the number of suicides skyrocketed during the lockdown. Elsewhere media is reporting that chemo was canceled for some people, I read about one purported death because of that. Also a lot less cancer di
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by raarts 6y ago
I wrote an Elixir GraphQL-to-multiple-REST-backends proxy two years ago. It used OAuth and ran redundant in a Docker Swarm. Also wrote an Expo+Apollo PoC for the mobile Dev group to start from. The backends were swagger which allowed me to
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by raarts 6y ago
I've heard that at that height (where it's 1atm) the temperature is the same as on earth too. Anybody know if that's right? Quite a coincidence if it is.
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Seems wind turbines contribute significantly to this. Germany also happens to be one of the most active countries in investing in them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26...
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In my country there are politicians declaring the 1.5 meter society 'the new normal'.
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There are reports that the virus attacks the bloods capability to transport oxygen as well: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-infects-t...
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Do note that stem is not one field. It contains medicine and biology but also IT and physics. Likewise IT is not one field. UI/UX design is very different from infrastructure or backend work. Many stats and research lump things togeth
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I've heard another theory on Spain: huge Mar 8 international women's day demonstration in Madrid. No wind, 70% humidity, 13C/55F.
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Related: the article is misguided on the women thing. I teach CS in college. I see it every day. Women on average are more interested to work with people than men. This hasn't changed despite trying to boost girls' interest in ty

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