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by verisimi 2y ago
Personal verification. At least some attempt towards that. And I don't mean reading an article. The scientific method applied personally. Pretty much no one is checking anything.
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by verisimi 2y ago
One has to ask oneself, is it better to have a comforting story, that is likely leveraged for someone, somewhere's benefit, or to start with the honest position, which is that "I don't know". One can of course become mo
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by verisimi 2y ago
My more relevant point to the OP, with reference to your comment, is that no, we are not amusing ourselves to death. It's more that we are worrying ourselves to death, despite a lack of personal indicators about this or that. If you
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by verisimi 2y ago
I am arguing that scientific data is unreliable in general.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Thank you for your personal testimony. It's good to hear that in your experience it seems that the insect populations really have dropped. Of course, there may be other reasons - eg if there are highways where it used to be small roa
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by verisimi 2y ago
You're lucky. I consider it a possibility that older works (even ancient writings) are retrojected into the historical record.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Indeed. There is no independent arbitor. One can imagine that the collective, consensus answer is best, or not. If it is possible to steer that answer towards something that is beneficial to someone somewhere - why wouldn't vested i
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by verisimi 2y ago
The scientific method converges on the truth. But science need not. If the foundational assumptions are wrong or impossible to challenge, time t can extend indefinitely. Additionally, it is surely possible that whole sections of science i
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by verisimi 2y ago
Best comment I've seen on hn, maybe ever. Perfect refutation, comic, on point.
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by verisimi 2y ago
This is a great case study in how all science is hobbled. Define categories, silo information - who will ever recognise something unusual under their very nose?
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by verisimi 2y ago
Pronouns.. yes, I see.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I think we agree.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I agree, I think. I would say it like so, that maths is a sort of highly technical, rigorous language, but like any language it will describe what you want it to. It is easy to think that it is describing the underlying terrain, but it is
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by verisimi 2y ago
Right. This is to say there nothing real or authentic about the numbers we are given. Solar numbers will shrink or inflate as a function of subsidies or taxes. The whole thing is operating within the confines of government largesse. It&
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by verisimi 2y ago
Wouldn't the answer be to provide a simple number for the cost of a thing (oil, solar, wind, etc), that removes the government subsidies/taxes from the equation. Otherwise, you can tax what you don't like to oblivion or subsi
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by verisimi 2y ago
Is it a free market though? Or are solar, wind, etc being funded by the government? Or is gas being taxed in a way that solar is not (yet)?
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by verisimi 2y ago
Yeah. But it might even not be a real story. It could be a propaganda piece to heighten awareness about the intimidating military and technological capabilities of North Korea, lol. Perhaps some (US) government/military department w
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by verisimi 2y ago
> I have an experiment going on, I have an art account on insta and X, every night I post the same image to both and X gives a lot more views and engagement than Instagram for the same content. Also it seems like the X algorithm is smart
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by verisimi 2y ago
Perhaps they already have backdoors, but don't tell everyone.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Hats off to the team managing the sale of this archive for getting an article in the Guardian and then here to promoting their work.
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by verisimi 2y ago
No. Advertising is aggregating it. It will also be passed to the governance structure. In future, AI will go through what's already been collected to profile you and nudge you.
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by verisimi 2y ago
Not only that, solar is entirely misaligned with power requirements. Over the year it may be 1.5 over nuclear, but in the winter, when demand is highest, the amount of energy provided will be far less, on account of short days and low ligh
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by verisimi 2y ago
Tldr; We can't talk about proper numbers cos hackers.
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by verisimi 2y ago
I'm sure it's about money, I don't think it's based on the market though. I reckon it's based in indirect governance structure subsidies being sent to those companies that have been set up to harvest data. The reaso
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by verisimi 2y ago
I tend to think that the idea of surveillance driven advertising as a model is itself an excuse or justification for intrusion and eradication of personal privacy. I'm saying the whole of that industry was all about spying from the be
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by verisimi 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMpuGEL8
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by verisimi 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240812222957/https://www.nytim...
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by verisimi 2y ago
Apple are really such filth. Imagine thinking it's ok to take 30% of every transaction like this, and like they already do on their app store. I don't know how anyone thinks this is ok. It's worse than credit card rates.
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by verisimi 2y ago
"the main conundrum" .. is not my conundrum.
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by verisimi 2y ago
He says "a teen". It's just incorrect grammar. He could have said 'his or her heart' or 'their heart', but not every teen is a 'he'.

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