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by sethrin 8y ago
Your point is understood, but you have yet to demonstrate that it is relevant. Be as specific as possible.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Do you know, I'm not quite sure what you might mean specifically. Why don't you describe what exactly the problems are with describing the behavior of CO2 at the top-of-atmosphere. What energy transfer mechanism do you think is be
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by sethrin 8y ago
The "coming ice age" was a creation of Newsweek. There was some scientific speculation about whether cooling from particulates would offset CO2-induced warming. Theories of climate change were first proposed in the early 19th Cent
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by sethrin 8y ago
> The climate system is one endless positive negative feedback system and we don't have enough data to say anything truly conclusive other than the climate is changing and things are getting hotter. The no-feedback warming per doubl
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by sethrin 8y ago
Howard Zinn would probably be able to tell you why that is.
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by sethrin 8y ago
What tool did you use to author the SVG file? And presumably you optimized it as well?
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by sethrin 8y ago
Ignorance may be bliss, but can it be wisdom?
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by sethrin 8y ago
The United States for the first century or so had open immigration, but citizenship was restricted to "free white person(s)" of good character. The distinction between citizen and resident is therefore quite old, but originally op
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by sethrin 8y ago
Why should I use this instead of an SVG fill/filter?
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by sethrin 8y ago
I'd probably put fraud ahead of models as the root cause. The entire purpose of those securities was to obscure the weakness of their fundamentals.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Caveat: testing will get security fixes more slowly than any other flavor of Debian. It's not really ideal as a rolling-release distro.
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by sethrin 8y ago
Patents therefore seem to be excellent at producing very wealthy men, which is not necessarily the highest social goal. It's probably good to try to capture some of the social value of a "new" idea for the originator. The spe
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by sethrin 8y ago
> "The ineffable truth of this case is that the Mercedes is a naval vessel of Spain and that the wreck of this naval vessel, the vessel's cargo, and any human remains are the natural and legal patrimony of Spain." Legal
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by sethrin 8y ago
Why is that valuable?
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by sethrin 8y ago
The United States of America had open immigration for the first 100 years or so. Not open citizenship, mind you, but open immigration. It wasn't until after the Civil War that SCOTUS forced the federal government to implement an immigr
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by sethrin 8y ago
This is probably true in many more ways than I am aware of. Do you have any other good examples or resources to suggest?
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by sethrin 8y ago
What's your opinion on Mandelbrot?
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by sethrin 8y ago
For me it tends to be easier to take a historical view of a scientific topic, exploring what was known at a given time, and particularly focusing on controversies. AGW is widely accepted now, but has been extremely controversial, and was ac
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by sethrin 9y ago
HF is the first entry in Derek Lowe's Things I won't work with [0] blog series. There's a video[1] on YouTube of a spill of some eight tons, which killed five and injured thousands; there are some situations for which the be
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by sethrin 9y ago
Waking up early is harder for kids, and there's no particularly good evidence in favor of homework. These are perfectly valid complaints.
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by sethrin 9y ago
If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small VM as a workspace, and the nice thing is that you can close the browser window
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by sethrin 9y ago
Autoloading allows one to specify modules by their logical, namespaced identifiers rather than simply importing a file. One benefit is that one can swap out the implementation without necessarily changing the code. I've had to override
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by sethrin 9y ago
So why not just type 'sudo !!' ?
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by sethrin 9y ago
I'm sure that "odium" isn't too far wrong, but I believe the word you intended was "onus". One should probably not conflate mathematical proofs and empirical evidence in this context. Mathematics allows for cer
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by sethrin 9y ago
It's a very low rate of increase, and while it may be statistically significant given the right statistical massage, I don't think I would hang my reputation on that p-value. This research group has come under fire for their numbe
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by sethrin 9y ago
I did that for a while, actually. I was using cloud9 from a variety of (low-storage) netbooks. It did require a persistent network connection, but it was remarkably functional even on extremely tenuous wireless links. It was nice to have a
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by sethrin 9y ago
Do you subscribe to the RSS feed?
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by sethrin 9y ago
Half of the problems listed are about how the app doesn't provide macOS-specific integrations. The rest are very minor usability issues that might have valid justifications for being that way. I am not inclined to view these as being t
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by sethrin 9y ago
I would certainly like a world where the ease of producing a Debian package approaches that of publishing a library in one of the high-level interpreted languages. How likely is that to happen, and what's the best way to package stuff
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by sethrin 9y ago
Rights are fundamentally a social construct, or perhaps we should say a social compact. So far, animals have a much more limited ability to comprehend and reciprocate our social mores. I believe this may be related to the limits we place on

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