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by vixen99 3y ago
And I thought this was a piece of irony such that it didn't even need quotes. Silly me.
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by vixen99 3y ago
'I can't think of one therefore there isn't one'. Maybe, maybe not.
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by vixen99 3y ago
True or false, that's an assertion. Does anyone have any stats so that those outside the field (mostly taxpayers?) can assess all of this?
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by vixen99 3y ago
Yes and it tells us zilch about the reality of the situation.
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by vixen99 3y ago
'...there is no evidence that she obtained any novel mathematical results. She left no published mathematical papers. Nor are there manuscripts from her containing anything mathematically novel. What then is the source of her reputatio
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The Ada Lovelace Myth(spectator.co.uk)
8 points by vixen99 3y ago|3 comments
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by vixen99 3y ago
It's happening bit by bit: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/09/green-energies-shatte...
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by vixen99 3y ago
It's questionable how much the Tonga eruption which sent an 'Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere' has had on the climate. Some temporary warming was certainly predicted and this would be global.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Why is this comment noteworthy? He is a smart guy irrespective of whomsoever makes this observation.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Some quote! "I work in a bank and cash handling is a major headache". Doubtless but perhaps we should reconsider the larger purposes of the banks in relation to their customers.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Why not? Sounds like a good idea if 'randomly' isn't taken too literally.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Yes and of course they weren't dumb questions. As a young student beginning to attend research seminars I remember that it tended to be those at the top of the academic pecking order who asked the supposedly dumb questions most of us t
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by vixen99 3y ago
So are the atomic accretions known as humans who have 'wants' part of 'pop science'? Free will? If not, our justice system needs massive reconsideration, an idea with which many people concur but (I would have thought) i
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by vixen99 3y ago
Your conclusion assumes the PISA test actually reflects students' abilities. This may not be the case. My daughter when attending a Romanian school told me that students know the PISA results play no part in their performance rating an
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by vixen99 3y ago
And wind turbine manufacturers would agree: UK December wind generation: Generation: 2.6 TWh Subsidy/MWh : £86.68 Market Price/MWh: £75.00
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by vixen99 3y ago
So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception (In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953) Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?
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by vixen99 3y ago
I can't speak for New York but I question just how increasingly many London residents do not share values with surrounding townships and vice versa.
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by vixen99 3y ago
I certainly do not support eugenics applied to humans but let's note that we are absolutely apply it to all other life forms on Earth to produce advantageous variants for our various purposes. It works to the extent allowed by genetics
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by vixen99 3y ago
You forgot to add any links for this blanket statement.
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by vixen99 3y ago
Merely an observation: no tax thus far exacted by any government anywhere has had any measurable effect on the global climate, again, thus far. Taxes relating to emissions and the like relate to emissions etc., not global climate metrics.
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by vixen99 3y ago
> The real problem driving genocide is a feeling of superiority of one group over another. Real? Where's the overall evidence for that? The capitalist system is inarguably superior to a command economy in terms of supplying what cu
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by vixen99 3y ago
We are told that the instructions for executing 10/7 were quite specific. Has a convincing reason been given for why on earth anyone, whatever their final objective, would want to proceed in that way? And what did they think the result
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by vixen99 3y ago
The title seems (unless the data since 2016 tells a different story) at odds with the 2016 Nature paper by Zhu et.al and others who conclude from satellite observations that "show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season
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by vixen99 3y ago
Some background: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/topic-overviews/re...
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by vixen99 3y ago
Not sure about that. Announce a climate emergency with huge implications I don't need to detail and you might get away with anything irrespective of support.
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by vixen99 3y ago
When considering its purpose, does anyone else find something distasteful (to put it much too politely) about the whole idea of this experiment? And then there's this. https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis
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by vixen99 3y ago
And no need for it. I don't think I have any books printed in the first half of the 20th century with yellowing pages. That's not the case with certain publishers in the recent past who, I guess, have gone for cheap printing optio
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by vixen99 3y ago
Cheaper at what cost? Two wrongs don't make a it right so putting aside issues with fossil fuel, let's not ignore an elephant in the room in terms of the human rights issues involved in the electric vehicle supply chain? This is n
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by vixen99 3y ago
> The notation is just whatever is most convenient to people for taking notes at the time. That 'at the time' now seems to have extended to around 400 years (in Western classical tradition for instance, from pre-baroque). The e
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by vixen99 3y ago
And of course, very often not only their own parts but to varying extents, those of their fellow musicians if they're not playing a solo composition.

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