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by sethrin 10y ago
Empirical topics should be debated with empirical evidence. To the degree to which an objective reality exists, we consider scientific facts to be objective. At this point the empirical evidence for climate change and AGW is beyond debate;
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by sethrin 10y ago
> All programs will attempt to expand until they can render HTML emails. Those that cannot will be replaced by those that can. More seriously, the expectation that emails will consist only of plain text is simply untenable. From a securi
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by sethrin 10y ago
Teleportation would violate Relativity, so the good news is that the dilemma in question is actually impossible.
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by sethrin 10y ago
Because there's no evidence either way. It's valid philosophically to consider the unknown or unprovable statement to be false, but the philosophers of science have pretty soundly rejected logical positivism[0] Generally speaking
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by sethrin 10y ago
Okay, well then assuming it is intended to be anti-theist, why is that a problem? Is the cosmology he describes not empirical?
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by sethrin 10y ago
I think you're mischaracterizing the relationship between science and philosophy. The philosophy of science is philosophy, and science is more like the applied philosophy of empiricism. God, so far, is not a subject for empirical debat
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by sethrin 10y ago
Mr. Price did some re-thinking and a follow-up presentation on that same subject, which is also interesting viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIA2LaB2Iw
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by sethrin 10y ago
I'm a lot snarkier on Slashdot, where I can click the 'post anonymously' button. I comment less on here, because I'm concerned that I won't be considered insightful or informative enough, or that someone will take i
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by sethrin 10y ago
Video games let us be our ideal selves. We call them 'ideals' because they don't exist in this world, only a notional one. Ideals are by definition unattainable, and they can in point of fact be pretty far from reality. Somet
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by sethrin 10y ago
There is no need to assume a reason for genetic variance or a particular genetic expression. The idea that evolution is directed, that each change is somehow purposeful has been fairly conclusively disproven: genetic drift has been observed
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by sethrin 10y ago
I wish you had said that in the same post with your list of attacks. You're right, no one denies that Saddam was a creation of the United States, whether or not the chemical weapons came from us originally. We deal enough munitions int
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by sethrin 10y ago
What exactly does a list of attacks that happened 10-20 years before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 have to do with anything?
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by sethrin 10y ago
Should military recruitment be focused on maximizing recruits?
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by sethrin 10y ago
It's probably not the right phrasing. In both cases it seems like the idea was to show you a bunch of things that you think you would want out of the experience. The recruiter then focuses on those abstract ideals that you rate highly
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by sethrin 10y ago
> And it got personal. On-campus visits began with a questionnaire, the WITY, or "what's important to you." Interestingly, I remember the same tactics being used by the last Marine recruiter that I talked to. He had little
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by sethrin 10y ago
Pardon my presumption in asking, but assuming that clickbait titles actually work as intended, what balance do you seek between pageviews and accuracy? In relation to that choice, what type of audience do you seek?
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by sethrin 10y ago
I'm trying to imagine the pollution controls that would make that economical. And the space network that would enable it. I think that even with astronomical fines for pollution on Earth, it would be a difficult value proposition. Cons
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by sethrin 10y ago
Even if they were suggesting that the legal process in question was flawed, that would also not be equivalent to repudiating the rule of law. You may have an axe to grind on that topic, and I am sure that it's a wonderful rejoinder to
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by sethrin 10y ago
No, that would be a strawman argument. Whatever legal principles are at stake here do not rise to a repudiation of law itself.
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by sethrin 10y ago
Put two emdrives on the ends of a rotating beam. Use the violation of conservation of energy/momentum to drive a generator. Infinite speed and energy are yours to command!
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by sethrin 10y ago
McCulloch's papers have many, many problems[1]. No credible theory has been posited to date, and the experimental evidence fails to properly address systematic errors. If this device worked, one could use it to create an over-unity gen
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by sethrin 10y ago
> That is ridiculous. We've had gender separated restrooms for the longest time. Actually that's pretty modern, historically. And thanks for telling me what my gender is, I really needed the guidance. > Since the Constitutio
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by sethrin 10y ago
The ones "rambling on" are the conservatives. They invented this issue, and immediately started to legislate it. At which point people started objecting. Stop making laws about bathrooms and we all can stop worrying about it. Mind
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by sethrin 10y ago
Let's be clear, the focus on transgender rights is a conservative one. Conservatives lost the fight on gay marriage and needed another moral crusade to rile up their base. So far it has been quite effective. Transgender persons are as
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by sethrin 10y ago
I don't know who you have been confirming your biases with, but you have arrived at a position in contradiction of fact. To the degree to which gender is not a social construct, it does not seem to be perfectly aligned with sex. I don&
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by sethrin 10y ago
I recommend going to Panama City, Panama, and finding out what life is like when those laws don't exist. Traffic is miserable, most taxis are in extremely poor repair, the taxi drivers are making next to nothing, and half the time they
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by sethrin 10y ago
I did miss that. Was that article intended to support that view? The incidents listed don't seem to have been terribly well planned or executed, or to have garnered any positive results. That seems difficult to reconcile with the idea
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by sethrin 10y ago
As someone who vehemently opposes Trump, I feel that allegations of anti-Trump bias in the mainstream media were entirely correct and somewhat to be expected. Although Trump is certainly a name that sells papers, Trump's repeated threa
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by sethrin 10y ago
Living in a foreign country is pretty tough. It's also pretty tough to try to do so illegally. It's not the sort of thing one undertakes lightly. As a criminal, moving to a country where you don't speak the language, where yo
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by sethrin 10y ago
There is only one legitimate way to criticize climate science, and that is by producing contrary facts. Everything else is noise. There are a limited number of potential facts which could overturn AGW; similarly gravity is considered diffic

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