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by sesqu 10y ago
Your anecdote supports the truthiness vs. factiness argument. Trump avoided making statements, such as what his improvement would be, so that didn't get reported. He only made claims about at issues he considered needing intervention,
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by sesqu 10y ago
Some of those surprise me. I would have expected to see sources like NYT and NPR as more popular with the right than sources like MSNBC and Huffington Post. edit : I suppose there might be a selection effect. The large networks are watched
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by sesqu 10y ago
If so, that would be a good explanation for some of the publicly funded research that finds climate change nonexistent or unimpactful.
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by sesqu 10y ago
True, but there is a significant risk of false information if the sponsor then can financially gain. For example, if the U.S. government felt that belief in climate change would be economically advantageous, they could pressure local resear
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by sesqu 10y ago
By that logic, consensus should be the only thing you would trust. Paying people for new findings disincentivizes consensus, unless perhaps those people have several avenues to explore and are willing to close off some of the less promising
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by sesqu 10y ago
> Is slate.com then a "real news source"? Slate.com does not describe themselves as a news source, so apparently not. I've certainly never thought of them as informative. I can't personally comment on Breitbart's
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by sesqu 10y ago
It's not at all hopeless. We've pulled 180's in the 60's, the 90's and the 2010's already.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Rapidly shifting environmental conditions usually lead to less, not more, animal diversity, because of invasive species and ecosystem collapse. Greater temperatures are associated with greater biodiversity overall, but this would be of fore
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by sesqu 10y ago
Excess water is not beneficial. It isn't associated with social instability like drought is, but it does lead to loss of harvest.
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by sesqu 10y ago
I calculated the mass a third time, this time assuming nitrogen was molecular. This yields an atmospheric mass of 29.1 g/mol, of which CO₂ represents 604 ppm by mass, squaring with existing estimates. Then replacing 100 ppm of CO₂ with
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by sesqu 10y ago
You know, not that I think about it, I should probably just look things up on my own. I don't get the feeling that you are particularly inquisitive or willing to discuss the topic.
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by sesqu 10y ago
A full range is max-min. In the case of CO₂, the usual level is 200-250 ppm, with warm periods reaching as high as 300 ppm, giving a range of 100. The recent warm period of 10,000 years had it up to 280, and it reached 300 around 1900. The
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by sesqu 10y ago
> 3. I have yet to see a single piece of evidence that conclusively links a warming climate with human released CO2. Now, I don't know much about climate change either, so I googled it. The IPCC 2007 report outlined how the last 20,
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by sesqu 10y ago
Seems like they've got you figured out, at least. I wonder if the eyeballs across all media are up, post-election.
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by sesqu 10y ago
The service provider says it was a DDOS but the device manufacturer says it was probably an aftershock of the Mirai botnet that uses IoT to launch attacks.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Mythics didn't get sold as a way of rarefying complexity (you're thinking of the New Order revisions). Mythics were just a blatant ripoff of the Pokemon TCG (or a precursor), like foils were 9 years earlier. Here's what MaRo
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by sesqu 10y ago
I can't speak for Admiral, but I was just yesterday looking at local crime statistics, and traffic violations were the one crime that education didn't affect greatly. Education did reduce propensity, but not radically. However, em
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by sesqu 10y ago
I just had a look, and found Infinite + all DLC very easily in a torrent index. Dozens of seeds, too. The number of people stopped from pirating the thing is effectively zero. The number of people willing to pay for a DRM free version demon
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by sesqu 10y ago
What all of those graphs have in common is that they depict datapoints near or below zero, so they necessarily must include the zero. The only exceptions to this rule are Chen and Orlik's graph, for which the data only goes down to 1,
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by sesqu 10y ago
Investing in coastal construction, maintenance and emergency recovery seem fine ideas, as well as things like portable energy and long-distance shipping.
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by sesqu 10y ago
I see. I can't really get on board with a system where half an an hour at lunch is twice as long as half an hour at dinner, and I have a suspicion that it would actually further mire arguments about music pitch, but it's certainly
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by sesqu 10y ago
If I understand you correctly, you are advocating for defining the second such that its length varies, but its connection to a day does not? And you would also introduce locality to the definition? edit : Or perhaps you meant to tune varia
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by sesqu 10y ago
Perhaps you should compare the iPod to the Nomad Jukebox line from around the iPod's release, instead of the Nomad 1 from the 90's. Jukebox 1 had 6GB storage, USB 1.1, and came out nearly a year before iPod 1. Jukebox 2 came out t
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by sesqu 10y ago
> The settlement requires the company to obtain users’ consent before sharing their information with third parties if Google changes its products or services in a way that results in information sharing that is contrary to any privacy pr
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by sesqu 10y ago
To me, it seems like you and deftnerd both have similar opinions. Where you fear the abuse of power, they fear a power imbalance. The social contract includes a distinct power imbalance to ward off a general power imbalance, which I constru
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by sesqu 10y ago
So you argue that aggregating public data is still wrong, iff the publicizing party is an agent of an authority? Would you then limit the impropriety to only those times when the agent is acting in official capacity upon that aggregating pa
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by sesqu 10y ago
I wish to retract the bit about calling for offers, as that is not in the transcript. The transcript does underline unpredictability as a core value, however.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Several collections have been formed. Perhaps most pertinent to your inquiry is the Vulgate, a translation commissioned in the 4th century by the 37th Pope.
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by sesqu 10y ago
I believe the point was that while it's fine for Trump to say he isn't happy with the current NATO commitments, it's unacceptable for him to say he's not sure what he wants, is open to offers from both sides, and will ma
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by sesqu 10y ago
Prolog normally finds a solution, and if you decline it, a new solution, and so on until it can't find any more solutions. If you pay careful attention to your program, you can make it so that it finds ones that satisfy soft constraint

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