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by revelio 4y ago
You don't think that had more to do with ISIS than climate change?
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by revelio 4y ago
>> you'd come up with some passable explanation ahead of time Central bankers are appointed based on two criteria: 1. A willingness to print money for the government so it can spend more than it raises in taxes. 2. Looking pres
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by revelio 4y ago
It's honest. You can just click through the stories to see for yourself. Of course you can try to find one you feel is weak, cherry pick it and then try to dismiss all the others, but all those false predictions are still there and won
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by revelio 4y ago
I'm not sure what that idiom means, sorry.
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by revelio 4y ago
It means the same as any other person who says it. "A few", as in, maybe 3 to 5 years. That's why he said children won't know what snow is. If they were small children in 2000 then by 2003 snow is gone, they won't r
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by revelio 4y ago
Take a look at the extinction clock. It'll make you feel better (maybe) https://extinctionclock.org/
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by revelio 4y ago
>> I doubt very much that climatologists (as opposed to, say, popular media) were predicting anything of the kind you describe with “absolute confidence”. Here's proof but there's far more where it comes from. Prediction,
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by revelio 4y ago
You used the present tense in the post I replied to. But as you say, currently it's not true and there is no correlation between climate change and migration, because the climate hasn't actually changed anywhere near enough in any
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by revelio 4y ago
>> How would you describe something previously on land becoming submerged by the ocean? A tide. Sea level rises are small and highly predictable over time. All claims of dramatic sudden flooding or drowning are based on assumed correc
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by revelio 4y ago
> I wonder what it'll feel like looking back at that point. It will feel like nothing, because everyone will have conveniently forgotten about these sorts of reports and predictions when the world stubbornly refuses to end. Just
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by revelio 4y ago
No it doesn't, that's just people trying to tie together two hobby-horses. Nobody is migrating to Europe or America because of climate change, they're migrating because of wealth and war.
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by revelio 4y ago
Flipping that around, it seems inevitable that [leftists] will insist on mass collective action based on the predictions of unreliable academics, until the moment they realize those predictions were wrong. Again. Example: the idea that glob
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by revelio 4y ago
But you must realise that the reason cloud costs are out of control is exactly because those budget meetings were actually not pointless.
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by revelio 4y ago
Remember that the choice isn't simply between AWS and racking your own gear. You can make big savings by just renting Linux servers from hetzner or similar. They install and repair the HW, you get ssh access just like with a cloud VM.
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by revelio 4y ago
Phone calls also aren't direct p2p and can be trivially recorded, so that's irrelevant. Google Chat does not retain messages when history is off, according to their own documentation: https://support.google.com/v
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by revelio 4y ago
This thread is a mess because it hits on one of the fundamental ideological divisions between left and right. The left much prefers the idea of wise justices who do whatever they feel yields the "fairest" outcome in any given situ
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by revelio 4y ago
Justice systems routinely let people off on a technicality and this is far from being a technicality. Think through what you're proposing here - that the moment someone files a lawsuit against you (on any topic of their choosing regard
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by revelio 4y ago
Clearly it's a lot more than slow internet for farmers? Feudal systems didn't end because of inequality, they were the opposite: the feudal system ended when serfs were allowed to enclose their communal land and were given it as p
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by revelio 4y ago
It's perfectly possible to build a chat system that never creates any logs or recordings. Their chat system doesn't make recordings and then immediately delete them if you're chatting "off the record". Now, plaintif
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by revelio 4y ago
Exactly, which is why this headline is misleading and the complaint will probably fail. It says: "Like Mr. Pichai, other key Google employees, including those in leadership roles, routinely opted to move from history-on rooms to histo
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by revelio 4y ago
Whether it seems devious or not to you, has no bearing on whether it's legal. The court does not say "you need to create records on this topic going forward". It says "you need to retain records you already created on th
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by revelio 4y ago
This headline is very misleading. He's not being accused of deleting them. He is being accused of not creating the chat records in the first place. Legally these are different things. There's no obligation to generate as much evid
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by revelio 4y ago
You seem to be assuming Google will lose. Seems more likely that they will win and the article author is wrong when he says "From the outside it appears very, very difficult to imagine that Google will get away with what it's done
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by revelio 4y ago
Technically they're now all former employees who are at UBS! ;)
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by revelio 4y ago
Society can clearly tolerate huge amounts of inequality and has done in the past, far moreso than what we have today (kings vs peasants). Also see my comment above for my views on people who claim to speak for all of society.
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by revelio 4y ago
I don't really expect a straight answer to this, because the sort of people who loftily declare what is best for society as a whole usually just get angry instead of answering, but how do you justify the claim that this helps society a
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by revelio 4y ago
>> Are competing {water,power,internet} companies going to cover cities with multiple independent competing {pipes}? Sure and they have done in the past. The existing networks weren't initially built by governments, they were
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by revelio 4y ago
No? Private infrastructure doesn't always become monopoly, that's why most infrastructure monopolies were created by nationalization at a time when that was all the rage. Railway monopolies, radio (e.g. BBC), telecoms, steel, wate
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by revelio 4y ago
Are you saying farmers would revolt if their internet was slow.
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by revelio 4y ago
There's plenty of arguments for privatized infrastructure, if you never heard them then you weren't looking for them. For example telecoms, energy and TV monopolies have been broken repeatedly in the 20th century in countries arou

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