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by rob_c 4y ago
Yes, and it is a very nice experiment. However, "dark matter" is an admittedly lose framework it could be due to 1 new type of particles, 10, or higher dimensional effects and new physics we don't understand yet. Saying &quot
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by rob_c 4y ago
Trust me this is a straw man picking at a hole of a yet incomplete theory to claim the whole deck of cards is invalid. AFAIK none of these alternatives offer a serious explanation of gravitational lensing for instance (yet, I'm happy f
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by rob_c 4y ago
> Therefore dark matter cannot exist. How about therefore thing we've yet to observe if it exists fails to behave as we naively expect. This is a grand claim from one piece of work and feels more like a straw man grab at further res
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by rob_c 4y ago
Big claim, one test (based on their model(, fails to explain gravitational lensing phenomena without a terra centric set of spinning wheels in theory...
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by rob_c 4y ago
> But also 1 thing to keep in mind is that the people you've met are probably not representative of the vast majority of the country. Oh I would assume not, nor would they pretend to have been. That's why I was curious was it a
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by rob_c 4y ago
Ironically they were blue collar just disliked the ANC which is why I didn't understand the politics and all the angles fully. Thanks for letting me know :)
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by rob_c 4y ago
Of course your correct. I can see that by the size of the wall of text that you must be. Clearly by not reading any of that I'm in the wrong and my life is wasted...
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by rob_c 4y ago
yes, of course, because you are completely correct about all things
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by rob_c 4y ago
> Building resistance to tyranny into technology should be a number-one priority. A big part of that is educating people to treat it as the miracle of intellect it is, instead of being dumb, ungrateful, cargo-cult consumers. I do think u
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by rob_c 4y ago
Biased data shows a thing.... Given this shows the engine can't differentiate between UK and US data I would implore not to use that as a sensible source of anything. Also articles from biased groups are not a 100% unbiased source and
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by rob_c 4y ago
I... (is confronted by googled search result as fact)... This is not an argument or conversation I'm having with you, nor will it be one that you would win for presenting opinion as fact. I will agree to disagree and leave you to go do
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by rob_c 4y ago
please read that whilst thinking of a black protagonist... (to paraphrase a recent south-park episode)
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by rob_c 4y ago
An quick question. Without the current "leading up to the day" pressures would it be fair to say the populist vote is strong in this direction enough to carry the next forseeable election? I just wonder as I've known 2 people
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by rob_c 4y ago
> Wanting to defund and reform the education system My god man did you pay attention when Blair sold the whole thing off during the good times? > Anti-intellectualism is a narrative of hostility towards intellectuals No this contextua
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by rob_c 4y ago
Ok point not ceded, but moving on. Why are you then comparing this party to others promoting both diametrically opposite sides of the same arguments as a sane "position". Both extremist religious views and personal freedoms are pr
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by rob_c 4y ago
And another day where I nearly get hit buy 2 cyclists walking home choosing not to obey rules of the cycle lane or road. No sympathy for the bad ones who seem to be an increasing majority.
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by rob_c 4y ago
Again straw man, another logical fallacy
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by rob_c 4y ago
No that's called moving the goal posts. It's a logical fallacy
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by rob_c 4y ago
Again Anti-intellectualism is centre piece in society and has risen to the point if being reveered across the pond asin "being too geeky" having negative connotations. Don't pretend this is a simple matter of party politics,
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by rob_c 4y ago
Hah, loving it. Except I grew up in part of the country with gun violence (yes a UK labour stronghold too), still got a degree, a post doc, a job and a decent income and would never vote labor or green due to their broken policies. (Selling
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by rob_c 4y ago
> You can't predict educational outcomes for future employment on the basis of priors ... What was that qualification in again? That's an absurd statement. Best case, I'm assuming the author means you "can't guar
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by rob_c 4y ago
Whilst interesting, I'm left wondering. Why is it so hard to get a straight answer of what this achieved. Just to note I'm not bashing the work here (it appears solid unlike a lot of papers from a lot of fields). I just assume I m
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by rob_c 4y ago
Let's reverse that to cyclists getting 2 years for killing pedestrians in the UK. I'm fed up of putting people who don't follow rules or wear helmets on a pedastle. And yes, I know 2 people who's lives were saved by a he
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by rob_c 4y ago
> 25-40 hours is pretty common with big over-ear headphones these days... well yes... But frankly given low power btle with audio chips exist it's related more to chip/software than say the battery type...
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by rob_c 4y ago
Very cool, would be curious to know battery life Vs audio quality but very impressive non the less
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by rob_c 4y ago
The biggest problem is lack of policing. And then frankly that people know this so act like cowboys. The arguments against a bike lisence are the same as "big govt can't make me wear seatbelt for my safety" bad arguments shou
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by rob_c 4y ago
Be careful you can't speak bad of cyclists they're incapable of breaking the law endangering life or being a public nuisance so sayeth the great y forum... Yes I've had people argue things like this can't be true on here
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by rob_c 4y ago
How about forcing companies to do being so wasteful with badly, badly oh so badly written software. Sure advances happen but nearly nobody _needs_ the equivalent of avx2048 on a phone. Windows XP lasted almost an entire generation in comput
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by rob_c 4y ago
> But lo and behold: the brick-to-wall cord is detachable. And funny that, that one never breaks… Yup. But that shows they're willing to pretend to be recyclable...
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by rob_c 4y ago
Pft, and capacitors leaking, and the lack of security patches and defects from coil whine and thermal expansion... This is the tip of a very large iceberg. I'd love to see it fixed, but id rather we don't forget the other problems

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