revelio

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by revelio 4y ago
Being given rewards for hitting specific targets is the opposite of wages. Wages come more or less regardless of what you do, as long as you don't get fired. This would be more like bonuses or self-employment. Also it's not much d
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by revelio 4y ago
And "woke" originally was used in a positive sense, but does it matter? Lots of terms change their meaning or get adopted because they are useful. Meritocracy is a useful shorthand for a system in which individual skill, effort an
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by revelio 4y ago
They mean per capita. Countries with very cheap or free university allow very few people to go on such terms, relative to the size of the population.
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by revelio 4y ago
If you paid attention to the numbers side of things, you'd know that there is no climate catastrophe. That's mass hysteria talking, not anything scientifically grounded. Your friend is unfortunately therefore educated but maybe no
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by revelio 4y ago
But they are not academia. To pretend they are is disingenuous. Just because a group of people do research and write up their findings sometimes, does not make them academics.
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by revelio 4y ago
Yes that's the joke. The law was meant to discourage the use of "non essential" cookies on the assumption that people would rather stop using them than put up annoying banners, but even the EU org itself thinks that YouTube e
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by revelio 4y ago
Of course it's an opinion. The very fact that governments publicly committed themselves to making everyone take the shots automatically means many people will refuse to take them because all controls, safety procedures and reliable inf
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by revelio 4y ago
>> Even the delivery of speeches is, I bet, not at all what you would expect. See eg https://www.youtube.com/live/Kc-QrcxrkCw?feature=share What's the point of a debate in which the speeches are completely
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by revelio 4y ago
You can specify logit biases via the API, but yes it's limited.
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by revelio 4y ago
I think a lot of engineers would agree with you that the evidence for TDD, Agile and $fad_framework is weak. Those sorts of debates are a HN staple, so I wouldn't want to criticize the whole field of software engineering because of the
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by revelio 4y ago
I'm really not sure that anything in the USSR could be described as capitalism, not even a state managed version of it (which sounds like a contradiction). They really saw capitalism as the enemy and one of Stalin's weird mental
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by revelio 4y ago
Well, the core transformers/attention paper came from Google and the DNN revolution was also kicked off by Jeff Dean at Google, no? Yes, some of the very original neural net theory was laid in academia and maybe the original GAN paper
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by revelio 4y ago
Although this is a reasonable definition, it would mean many people who are referred to as scientists in practice would have to be considered non-scientists. Refusing to publish data and code is widespread in many academic fields, even in c
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by revelio 4y ago
Virtually no media companies admit to being state edited, even if they are literally a department of the government. Heck it's common even for government agencies to claim they are independent of "the government" despite bein
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by revelio 4y ago
History books? The evidence is abundant, it's weird that this is even in dispute. Not sure what the Chinese term was but the Soviets used the word "bourgeoisie" or sometimes "kulaks" where today we would say right w
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by revelio 4y ago
Killing off sparrows is only one example of crazy/random/destructive policies that are a regular occurrence under communism. Some others (not in any order): - The USSR sometimes overproduced cigarettes, so ran ad campaigns to conv
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by revelio 4y ago
>> No scientist ever says [the science is beyond dispute, that only people who are paid shills disagree], you can always fight science with science I wish real scientists behaved in the way you imagine they do. The world would be a
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by revelio 4y ago
We've gone from: - Uncertainty exceeding signal in satellite data is "simply not the case" to - OK maybe it was the case but it doesn't matter and nobody relies on one satellite anyway to - OK maybe some groups relied on
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by revelio 4y ago
>> Scientists getting things wrong isn't some gotcha that proves science is broken, it shows that science is working. See this is the attitude that causes people to give up in disgust: If scientists make correct predictions, th
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by revelio 4y ago
>> perhaps a likely one, if we didn't change course somewhat... which we did We didn't. CO2 has continuously risen and the rise accelerated with time. Hansen's predictions should therefore have absolutely come true if
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by revelio 4y ago
The graph shows clearly that sea level rise did not change at that location, and thus cannot demonstrate the exact opposite of what I claim. The Y axis isn't particularly compressed and changing it wouldn't reveal anything, as sho
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by revelio 4y ago
>> Nobody relies on estimates from a single satellite alone. Yes they did. From the paper I just cited: The six main groups that provide satellite-altimetry-based GMSL estimates (AVISO/CNES, SL_cci/ESA, University of Colo
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by revelio 4y ago
They do take that into account. They calculate that the ocean floor is sinking but then ADD that displacement to their reported measurement of "sea level", which is backwards. When the ocean floor sinks sea level goes down, but th
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by revelio 4y ago
Ablain, "Uncertainty in Satellite estimate of Global Mean Sea Level changes, trend and acceleration", p4 They have shown that there was a drift in the GMSL record over the period 1993-1998. This drift is caused by an erroneous on
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by revelio 4y ago
It's because she didn't directly lie to any patients, she was insulated from all of that. They got her on lying to investors because those are the kind of people she was actually talking to.
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by revelio 4y ago
Here's a graph of sea level rise since 1900 plotted against CO2: https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-56... No correlation.
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by revelio 4y ago
Unfortunately, if we take what prestigious climatologists have said as "the science" then you're wrong. They have in fact said exactly that. Here's just two examples, of many. James Hansen is perhaps the most famous clim
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by revelio 4y ago
Yeah. A great example of the corruption problem is the story of Tuvalu. Here's a research paper from 2018 that looked at the size of the islands using radar data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
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by revelio 4y ago
Yes, I was pointing out the irony.
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by revelio 4y ago
It shows that the claim that sea level rise is caused by CO2 isn't correct, which is relevant.

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