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by vixin 12y ago
Lots of self-congratulation all round with no sample questions to provide the merest smidgeon of 'reason to believe that this is that significant'.
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by vixin 12y ago
Has anyone ever attempted even the very roughest estimate of the indirect wealth created worldwide by communicative technologies like Google and Facebook - in other words, aside from that directly generated for those companies?
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by vixin 12y ago
Evidently Seattle businesses are very productive and able to readily achieve profits over and above the $600+ a week (8h/d) cost of employing someone ( "+" means that I don't know what the overhead costs are). Rather tou
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by vixin 12y ago
And algorithms now work better than humans at face detection. https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/2c567adbf7fc They don't even have to snoop.
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by vixin 12y ago
So we just change passive to active in the following and adjust to required level of truth: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs "I did not have sexual relations with that woman") "People simply disa
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by vixin 12y ago
For planet Earth, can we please get models that work properly and predict the actual observed climate data first before we start fantasizing?
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by vixin 12y ago
"Is not crazy to say that the internet wouldn't work as efficient ". 'Efficient' qualifies the noun (to) work. It is therefore an adverb and is written as in '... work as efficiently'
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by vixin 12y ago
We don't even know the truth about something as engrained in the health-conscious public as omega-3 fats. http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Omega-3s-have-no-be...
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by vixin 12y ago
Yes, 'There is a lot we don't understand about how food and human nutrition works' pretty much sums it up. Worth noting that in some reports, multivitamin preparations have been associated with adverse health outcomes. Poppin
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by vixin 12y ago
Scientific American used to be a respected publication.
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by vixin 12y ago
As pointed out here http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/why-didnt-p... "Perhaps the idea of one’s instincts being proving empirically correct is rather intoxicating, which partly explains th
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by vixin 12y ago
We spend billions on supposedly averting a crisis predicted by lousy models but appear to ignore grotesque pollution of the oceans of which this is one example. Mercury and other nasties being another. But the list goes on and on.
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by vixin 12y ago
Yes, correct. It's a big concern. Trivially we all remember the student arrested (though later released) for jovially referring to a policeman's horse as 'gay'. As if calling someone or something 'gay' is an in
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by vixin 12y ago
And what about my personal records of anything I see that looks interesting?
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by vixin 12y ago
'But the line between dystopia and utopia is a thin one' (in this case). Nope, I can't detect it at all. A nightmare propelled along by politically correct nonsense.
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by vixin 12y ago
Great link!
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by vixin 12y ago
While HN is probably not the place for this discussion but the thesis could not be clearer. You're merely objecting to the color scheme. Average educational standards in the US are pitiful but I think it's too late. The Chinese
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by vixin 12y ago
That you're satisfied with the definition supplied astounds me. The words are loose as can be. Amoebae integrate information and produce behavior reflecting the actions of a unified singular system insofar as those undefined words mean
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by vixin 12y ago
"Global climate change is here". I'm confused. "The RSS satellite record shows a zero trend for 210 months". 17 years, 6 months.
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by vixin 12y ago
Excellent first rate presentation. Those giving technical talks might want to take note.
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by vixin 12y ago
The blog banner "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." means absolutely nothing beyond saying what we all trivially accept (though the latter half is true), that anyone can say what they like within the
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by vixin 12y ago
Your honesty is to be applauded.
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by vixin 12y ago
Apparently these sensitive snails are dissolving p <because> they are in an alkaline ocean of around pH 8.14. Amazing. The paper does not point out that some parts of the ocean naturally vary in pH by 1.4 units. Of course none of the
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by vixin 12y ago
Models working well? Frankly laughable. Global temperature rising for almost 25 years at half the central rate predicted by the IPCC in 1990 and no global warming at all for half the RSS satellite record. Since you mention consensus (is tha
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by vixin 12y ago
Why pretend life does not have a price. We price it everyday. A 100,000 people have died in Syria, mostly under horrific circumstances. Cost/benefit analysis dictates that no one should intervene and indeed, no one will in spite of the
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by vixin 12y ago
Your 2nd paragraph: merely your assertion ('freaking out' suggests you're not dispassionate about this). Plenty of rebuttals. A short one to be going on with here: http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics
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by vixin 12y ago
I may be wrong but somehow I don't think creators/artists read social comment like this and say to themselves "Gosh, he's absolutely right, from now on I'll give irony a miss and head off in a new direction". I
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by vixin 12y ago
You haven't ignored it. You prefer to name call without explanation.
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by vixin 12y ago
Yes indeed! Beautiful countryside and really excellent internet connections. For example: "Based on Net Index report at the end of first half of 2013, Timișoara has become the city with the highest download speed in the world. "
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by vixin 12y ago
In the UK, try to defend any of the points you make here bar in some publication nobody reads and you're likely in for a bucketful of trouble and a visit from the police. Best keep quiet.

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