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by throwaway729 10y ago
> The outcome of this will teach us all very valuable lessons. Lesson #1: Don't steal. > I can't be the only one who is a little paranoid that if I start my own shit I'll be sued or that I may even be sued for some o
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> The main problem with ontological arguments (and why, even as a Christian, I don't like them) is because they seem to embed the conclusion in their first premise But that is also true of the informal rhetorical arguments that ar
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Hard to quantify. Some specific scenarios: - It won't work in a loud bar - It will almost always work in a car where you're the driver and there's a backseat conversation or the radio is on. - It's fine with street/
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by throwaway729 10y ago
2 works for me on Google's voice assistant. Setting alarms, getting directions, and voice dialing also work well. Nothing too exciting. Mostly useful when you don't have hands/eyes or don't want to get up and reach your
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by throwaway729 10y ago
I don't think pragmar agrees with the world-view he described! He was just describing the unfortunate existence and prevalence of this world-view. Tech seems to have a larger percentage of people who approve of (or at least don't
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by throwaway729 10y ago
A few more stories about idiotic drivers ending up behind bars for life would have an infinitely better calming effect than all the signage in the world, imo.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> nothing That's also a failure of checks and balances. Of course the presidency can do all sorts of things without Congress! It's not and was never intended to be a ceremonial position. Or a position bound to the will of c
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> I think that if you looked at the scope of executive orders over time it would be instructive Indeed, but instructive in an opposite direction IMO. The sum of Obama's executive orders pale in comparison to the other Roosevelt&#x
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Well, yes. The entire point is: what happens when the population loses all faith in civilian control -- not just of the military, but of anything? From the article: "Here’s what I think happened: Americans became exasperated with democ
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Do you have evidence of this claim? How do you know? Please show sources. Of course! There are really two claims in my argument that I need to defend: 1. Pay is effecting the number of highly skilled people who enter the field. (Also
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> I don't know if this is true - but that math major is probably a lot more likely to go work for an accounting firm at 60k a year rather than put up with the stress of teaching at 40k. And if you think that's bad try getting
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> How do you propose to measure outcomes of education without testing for ability to recall and utilize the knowledge and skills taught? I'm not. But you have the burden of evidence backward! If you want to use metrics like standa
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> If teachers unions didn't oppose standardized testing This of course assumes that standardized testing is actually a good mechanism for measuring outcomes . Which IMO is an extremely dubious assertion. A lot of people who opt-o
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Definitely. Even the subtitle is more difficult to follow than necessary because of pointless redundancy. The first few sentences contain many canonical examples of bad writing patterns that get in the way of communication (had had). Nothin
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by throwaway729 10y ago
That's exactly what I mean by "first order effect". We aren't actively and directly melting large quantities of ice. It's a second-order effect of increased atmospheric C02. One option is to allow it to vary but
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> It would be interesting to know what inspired him to write this. Maybe something equivalent to, e.g. modern string theory, which was pissing him off. Google found this in "Prisoner's Dilemma/John Von Neumann, Game Theo
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Right. A big dip with the recession that took its time recovering. But comparing total output today vs. the "golden years" of manufacturing in the 60's betrays the lie.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
The meaning and purpose of the chart is extremely clear. They're varying C02 and similar gasses, and looking at what happens. Water vapor is held constant as a first order effect and so isn't plotted. I don't draw straight li
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Ah, I see now it is a plot of CO2 equivalents... that ignores water vapor while the others (BC, OC, CH4, Sulfur, NOx, VOC, CO and NH3) are rather negligible (which is why the ppm values are close to those for CO2 alone). Unless you&#
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by throwaway729 10y ago
You're being pedantic, and worse than that, you're wrong. It's not a plot of C02. A full description of the methodology and what exactly is being plotted is available in papers linked to here: http://tntcat.iiasa.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Climate Science is a bunch of computer models All of science is eventually a bunch of models. > models [that] are not testable. When they're run and compared to what actually happened they're always off You do realiz
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by throwaway729 10y ago
The problem is that universities have a strong incentive to optimize for juicy press releases. A theorem -- unless it's 100 years old or otherwise somehow easy to relate to the general public -- does not have this effect. Winning a com
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> a doctorate at Stanford and then become a professor at Cornell As an aside, academia is no meritocracy. A lot of what's required to get posts at schools like these amounts to self-promotion and luck (graduating in the right year
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by throwaway729 10y ago
I'm a man and work in a sane work environment where genitals and drinking habits don't effect promotions -- especially among engineering staff where the whole point is to minimize the impact of those sorts of petty politics and
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> The left has its fair share of science-denying morons as well. Sure. Stupid knows no political affiliation, other than strong and unsubstantiated belief. Meanwhile, the right (in America) also has its fair share of unscientific belie
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by throwaway729 10y ago
EPA has a website describing the mid and long term effects of climate change in N America. With plenty of citations a dedicated student or teacher could follow up on. Very accessible, and did not include "will destroy the world".
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by throwaway729 10y ago
So now women don't belong in tech not because they're under qualified, because you can't imagine not wanting to have sex with them? At least we are all clear on what the actual problem is.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Then his whole post is off topic nonsensical rambling...? Parent pretty much doubles down rather than correct me, so I don't think you're correct.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
My thought: ridiculous false equivalency. Conservatives don't distrust science carte blanc. Many of them will chuck money at asinine bullshit as long as it's billed as a way to kill the other team. Check out some of the more ridic
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by throwaway729 10y ago
I don't have a choice of ISP. I can (trivially!) choose not to use Google's services, including their DNS servers.

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