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by scatters 10y ago
What's so supposedly obvious? The best sprinters and marathon runners both are "black" according to conventional racial categorization. If you want to tell whether someone is likely to be a good sprinter, looking at their &qu
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by scatters 10y ago
Yes, that's what cosmologists mean by "dark": not interacting with light of any observable wavelength, to any detectable degree.
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by scatters 10y ago
I think they're just including the albedo effect of deforestation in that graph, not the GHG effect of burning and decaying trees. (Cropland is usually lighter coloured than forest, so reflects more light and heat, giving a cooling eff
574.
by scatters 10y ago
The graph shows predicted global temperature from climate models, with 90% confidence intervals, varying only that factor and keeping other factors unchanged. So the scale is exactly the same unit - Kelvin.
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by scatters 10y ago
You say that 1880 was one of the coldest years in history. The data series used in the article indicate that the entire decade 1903-1913 was significantly colder. If you then look at the contribution to climate from volcanic activity (CO2 a
576.
by scatters 10y ago
And the camera button is a godsend if you spend time outdoors. Do all Sony phones have that?
577.
by scatters 10y ago
French Guiana is the departement (and region) of France that is on the South American continent. It is as much a part of France as e.g. Alaska is of the USA.
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by scatters 10y ago
If you want the compiler to leave the dereferences in, use `-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks` or ask your compiler vendor for an equivalent option. Compilers delete null pointer checks by default (on typical platforms) because it's what
579.
by scatters 10y ago
All those problems are solved by grade separation. If railways are fully grade separated there is no need for trains to use their horns. Since rail needs shallower gradients than road it often makes sense to sink it below street level, drai
580.
by scatters 10y ago
"expresso" with "mocha", surely.
581.
by scatters 10y ago
eval expr I got nothing for "mocha", though. Edit: apparently (from below) there was a Yahoo! mail filter that replaced "expresso" [sic] with "mocha"; but either the story was misreported or the mai
582.
by scatters 10y ago
Huh. You really believe that people who say that race is a social construct are trying to label it as a figment of the imagination? That's not my intent, at least, and I doubt very much that it is the intent of anyone who makes that cl
583.
by scatters 10y ago
So? Skin colour and body shape are determined by environment as well as by genes, and race is determined by social factors as well as by skin colour and body shape. It's at least as convoluted a process to get from genes to race as it
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by scatters 10y ago
How do you get from "social construct" to "figment of imagination"?
585.
by scatters 10y ago
That's measuring different things. We can tell whether a particular copy of a gene came from the Neanderthal gene pool or the main SSA gene pool by looking at its sequence (esp. at SNPs), but the overall base pair sequence of that gene
586.
by scatters 10y ago
Poor people are more susceptible to certain diseases than rich people. That doesn't stop money being a social construct.
587.
by scatters 10y ago
It shouldn't; search should operate in compatibility normalization space (preferably NFKD). Chrome on Windows gets this right, btw.
588.
by scatters 10y ago
Python has a default cross-platform UI library?
589.
by scatters 10y ago
> Yeah, let's forget the core suicidal issue and remove the tool, that will surely stop them, right? Making it more difficult to commit suicide reduces the incidence of suicide. People who experience suicidal impulses but recover wi
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by scatters 10y ago
I remember the rule of thumb is that a Moon-mass black hole is in equilibrium with the microwave background (in the current era). So such a planetary-mass black hole would be several times colder than the microwave background and would actu
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by scatters 10y ago
Such a black hole would have to be primordial, and then you'd have to explain how it came to be associated with our solar system. Far more likely that a planetary-mass object associated with a solar system is an actual planet. I don&
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by scatters 10y ago
> Red-crossing pedestrians have willingly taken the risk to be run over. That's unlikely; usually, when pedestrians cross without a green light, it's because they've judged there to be a sufficient gap in traffic for them
593.
by scatters 10y ago
> First prioritize the car occupants. Morally and legally I'd argue the reverse; the car occupants chose to assume the risk of a mode of transport that can cause death and injury if it fails, while the pedestrians made no such decis
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by scatters 10y ago
ap22213 (OP for this thread) was more precise than I was; they actually wrote "a double precision floating point variable" rather than writing "double", which could either be a shorthand for "double precision floati
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by scatters 10y ago
sizeof(double) is not specific to any one programming language or architecture; it's determined by IEEE 754, an international, cross-language, cross-platform standard. Non-IEEE floating-point implementations are exceedingly rare nowada
596.
by scatters 10y ago
He wasn't working as a programmer.
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by scatters 10y ago
If increased police presence works to deter violent crime, why wouldn't it work to deter white-collar crime likewise?
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by scatters 10y ago
> patrolling the street in front of an office building isn't the least bit effective against white collar crime. Do you have any sources for this assertion? Have there been any studies?
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by scatters 10y ago
They're the same parent. The drug-addict parent is the working-parent is the drug-addict parent. The drug-addict house is the working-parent house is the drug-addict house. Do you still feel the child is in more danger if left unatte
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by scatters 10y ago
In a market economy, we never actually run out of a resource; rather, the price rises gradually in accordance with increasing scarcity and cost of extraction, making alternatives more cost-effective, increasing the reward to researching alt

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