voice_of_reason

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by voice_of_reason 7y ago
> My biggest gripe with Python in production is that it isn't statically typed. With mypy ( http://mypy-lang.org/ ), it could be.
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
Experiences produced by particular strain can vary wildly even for the same user, so it boils down to experimenting with different strains in different settings and finding out what works for you. Some users report that mixing strains of &q
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
While it's generally true that it isn't, some strains may produce quite strong auditory and visual hallucinations for some users.
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
Your Pavlovially conditioned denigration of quite believable assumption that some entities have huge amount of influence on the economy is even more impressive. Never tired of employing good old "it's a conspiracy theory" con
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
And the quote war goes on :) Mr Siegel asserts that dark matter hypothesis is better than any kind of MOND (and, may I add, his opinion is expressed in over-confident and even dogmatic way) because it can "explain" structure of th
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
"It might sound like a story from a parallel universe – but it’s true. The Bullet Cluster isn’t the incontrovertible evidence for particle dark matter that you have been told it is. It’s possible to explain the Bullet Cluster with mode
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by voice_of_reason 8y ago
"The goal of Buddhism is not to create an alliance to eventually rule the world and compete with evil Western forces, but to develop a way of life through personal enlightenment that allows a better world to emerge." Suttas of Pal
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
How come nationalism is evil? What's evil about me wanting to live with people with whom I share cultural heritage, language, ethics and peculiarities of perception of life? What's wrong with having an independent sovereign govern
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
"Point to" is not confident enough. Even skepticalscience, the "alarmist"-side site, admits that "While clouds remain an uncertainty, the evidence is building that clouds will probably cause the planet to warm even
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
It does build on the fact that increased concentration of CO2 reduces EM waves emission (in the parts of frequency spectrum that can be absorbed by CO2) from Earth to space. Earth is presumed to maintain thermodynamic balance (i.e. energy r
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Suppose that new discovery in natural climate variability provides IPCC with better models, and these models show that CO2 has only minor influence on global warming and climate overall. "Paradigm shift" would be a good descriptio
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
I don't mind AGW at all (it's obvious that human activity influences the climate, and probably the effects of deforestation are as severe as effects from CO2 emissions), but I find CO2-CAGW (i.e. anthropogenic warming caused by CO
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Convincing part stops at cloud feedback for me. The CAGW builds upon following argument: increased concentration of CO2 reduces the EM radiation's emission in frequencies that CO2 absorbs, ergo the surface temperature should rise in or
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
@swampangel: https://www.insidescience.org/news/scientific-consensus-almo... here you go
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
There are climate scientists who are proponents of CAGW and who believe in creationism: http://www.christianpost.com/news/climate-change-evangelical... Does it automatically make CAGW hypothesis wrong? Does it make the
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
It is not always true. Imagine the system, where the government is a primary source of grants. There is a possibility that government will prefer funding the scientists whose work supports government's political agenda.
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Ok, the minority view was wrong in this particular case. Minority views were also right in some other cases. "Climate change denialism" - what's this? Is there any scientist out there who thinks that Earth's climate is s
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Dyson is a renowned physicist interested in climate science. I believe that his physics/math skills and general intelligence allow him to be quite competent in climate issues. Lindzen retired only in 2013. I don't see how this mak
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Well, I'd need a bit more than "minorities are rarely right" to switch sides.
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Why should one trust majority, and not minority, if "minority" people are also qualified and respected (Spencer, Curry)? There were episodes in the history of science, when the majority turned out to be wrong. Here's one exam
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
How is consensus settled, when there are renowned scientists out there who object the CAGW hypothesis? Roy Spencer, Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, Freeman Dyson - are they all bought and paid for by oil industry?
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Is something wrong with tox? It is a p2p messenger that works on smartphones.
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
The first part is sarcastic. It's a shame that you have to resort to "preventive self-denigrating" when voicing valid concerns about the FRS, which is basically a facade for a bunch of crooks who usurped the control over US m
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
"Before you call me a lunatic" You're very close to being a lunatic and conspiracy theorist, sir. "This is somewhat controversial to posit, but I believe the corruption in the financial industry is extraordinarily entren
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Your virtue signaling feat has apparently failed
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
The majority (if not 100%) of Russia's ruling oligarchy are men, but many laws are indeed biased in favor of women. Woman will likely receive less severe punishment for committing a crime than man does, the mandatory conscription into
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
Ironic in a sense that "misogynist" Russian society is "better" at "encouraging women into tech" than enlightened Brave New World of the West.
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
The article is somewhat ironic, in light of the fact that in comparison to Western Europe, Russia is a very sexist society. Gender stereotypes are extremely common here (one can safely express them with no fear of getting a reprimand from l
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by voice_of_reason 9y ago
PKop, I'm afraid that deprogramming global warming people is a futile effort. Logarithmic scale of CO2 forcing: http://www.princeton.edu/~lam/documents/LamAug07bs.pdf Failure of glorified climate models: htt