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by vixen99 6y ago
Why not destroy such sceptics (on HN or anywhere else) regarding the rate of climate change and related topics? All you have to do is demonstrate that the data presented by them & their interpretation is garbage, nonsense or whatever el
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'The new study makes clear that the deep ice at Camp Century—some 75 miles inland from the coast and only 800 miles from the North Pole—entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, includ
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by vixen99 6y ago
Actually most of us are bacteria on a cell count basis. This is an observation worth taking into account when taking antibiotics. However that does not mean we shouldn't take them. Confident asides as in '(we) can safely metaboliz
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And from which strain of Covid? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/why-themutated-coron...
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Amazon doesn't write and publish books and there's no technical issue in others distributing them so - no monopoly other than the quasi-monopoly established by people choosing to use Amazon as against other book sellers. Similar a
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by vixen99 6y ago
Sounds to me like an argument presented ex post facto.
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Insatiable demand for cannabis has created a giant carbon footprint(phys.org)
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Somehow, 'feels like' and 'some skepticism' doesn't add up too much of a critique. He says Evidence indicates the scenarios of the future to 2100 that are at the focus of much of climate research have already diver
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by vixen99 6y ago
Thanks but I know that. To answer my own question, seems the quoting of a sci-hub link would be a civil matter in the US at least. Moderators will decide for themselves.
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The full paper on available on sci-hub for those who can use it. Am wondering if it's legal to post sci-hub links on HN?
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On the other hand there are people who are all for it provided the prostitutes are not their own daughters.
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We know you're shocked but might you not have provided at least one comment (the worst, say) as a an example? On a scale of human actions from 1 to 10, how disgusting?
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We? '... in what we consider a life worth living'?
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Hariri writes "when deciding whether to impose a lockdown, it is not sufficient to ask: “How many people will fall sick with Covid-19 if we don’t impose the lockdown?”. We should also ask: “How many people will experience depression if
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Falling sperm counts are a threat to human survival(dailymail.co.uk)
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Why surprising? Graveyards are places where, in the main, nature is left to get on with whatever it does without human interference.
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>People die from over-doses because of mis-information and not knowing what they get (from the random guy on the street). Certainly, 81,000 dead in the US during 2020 is a lot of misinformation and ignorance. Presumably these are mostly
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Download NASA's index to track greening of the Earth since 2000(phzoe.com)
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And what people remember, in a number of cases, is linked to their biases.
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Not to forget the French (Norman) invasion and complete takeover of the British (Anglo Saxons) by William in 1066. The effects of that invasion are still with us as pointed out by Gregory Clark. Analysis of Norman Surnames and their predomi
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It was underdeveloped to start with. Later the British economy was actually dependent on India. Why? Because India became Britain’s main market for her manufactured goods with 60% of British exports going to India by 1913. Employed Indians
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by vixen99 6y ago
What is it that you don't understand about democracy? A referendum was held in the UK in 2016. It was brought about by a Prime Minister who, along with a huge majority of the establishment including the BBC, thought that the result was
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And isolated people without university connections who can't find a way will just have to abandon trying to access research papers relevant to their work unless able to shell out tens of Euros/dollars for one-off viewing. This is
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Facebook takes cash from China to promote Uyghur disinformation to millions(pressgazette.co.uk)
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Rather than sifting through massively multivariate data from epidemiological studies, better to see what vitamin D actually does at the molecular level. Huge literature on this. For instance, it doesn't 'seem' to modulate the
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by vixen99 6y ago
If I can add to what you’ve written. ‘I have to work really really hard on it’. And that’s the point, isn’t it! 1. Sight-reading is a talent that develops, to one's own astonishment, with intense practice. It really does. The story goe
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People who write 'the concept of people can and will lie freeley behind a camera or keyboard', 'it's users', and 'Parlor' should perhaps pause before accusing others of ignorance in some field.
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Much work has been done on genetically engineering viruses and that includes coronoviruses. We certainly know very well how to do it for one purpose or another. This is a fact not a theory. Currently it's impossible to say Covid-19 res
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Taiwan not particularly rich (28th highest GDP per capita, pop. 23 million) reported 936 cases and 9 deaths.
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Intelligence is what the tests test - is often quoted out of context. A correction is provided:- "Boring famously wrote in 1923, “…intelligence as a measurable capacity must at the start be defined as the capacity to do well in an in

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