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by waps 12y ago
> The counter argument "but won't population growth drop by itself" is false, because the population is not monolithic. If some group decides to limit procreation, that group will simply (and quickly) be replaced by one th
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by waps 12y ago
The problem with this chart is that it's heavily biasing the "center of economic activity" towards the center of the Map. The reason it's constantly above Europe is that Europe is pictured between Asia and America. If yo
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by waps 12y ago
I don't think that this meshes very well with your previous post, where you claimed: "But if there is a systemic-level issue, systemic-level intervention is precisely the right response. Individualist attempts to address systemic
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by waps 12y ago
Isn't the malthusian argument that either current population has already passed the "support" threshold of the planet or will do so soon ? This is a similar, but not the same argument. He's simply claiming that taking aw
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by waps 12y ago
The mindset you should have for security requires it. Think of it like playing DOOM. There are 2 options : 1) something is moving. Quick ! Shoot it ! 2) something is not moving. Therefor it must be thinking about moving. Quick ! Shoot it !
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by waps 12y ago
Euhm, I would say it's the opposite. Environmentalists will oppose dykes and infrastructure, because they will remodel the natural environment around the coastline and make it artificial and managed by human interference (which is of c
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by waps 12y ago
You gotta admire the utter delusion of people using the "give it back" argument. Islam is a religion that spread through military conquest and massacres. There is no such thing as a square meter on this planet where islam spread p
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by waps 12y ago
You've got to wonder why global warming is dragged into this. The city cannot possibly hope to do anything about that, even if it wanted to. Obviously the solution is dykes, and better water infrastructure. Ironically I'm betting
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by waps 12y ago
I come from "the low lands" in Europe, and trust me when I say this : it took two major disasters to make people redesign the water infrastructure. This occurred in the Netherlands in 1954, and was what created "Rijkswatersta
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by waps 12y ago
If you look at what the organisation that is Hamas does to it's own people, I really question any one-sidedness. Plus, let's face facts here : it's a war. Hamas has declared it's intent to hunt down every Jew on the face
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by waps 12y ago
No, it's you who are wrong ! Is this what you call a rational argument ?
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by waps 12y ago
I would say that pretty much all of 4500 years of western history directly disagree with this statement. There were dozens of non-individualist societies when we started, there is arguably a single (relatively new) one left, one that is at
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by waps 12y ago
Asking lefties to side with Israel isn't going to work for several reasons, but the main ones are : 1) Israel started out as a "free" communist state (the Kibbutzim system) and over a few decades the people en masse freely ab
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by waps 12y ago
Technically it takes 60 days. Not sure from what basis. I would assume that 60 days countdown only starts on the 2nd or 3rd day, so that would make it 63 days.
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by waps 12y ago
To be frank, reasonable people are nervous because muslim ideology, as published, matches the modus operandi of things like ISIS, the states of Pakistan and generally middle eastern countries to some extent. And frankly what also makes me h
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by waps 12y ago
This is absolutely not what is meant by reproducible. But the problem is that climate science fails even your relaxed standard. > Also, as you mentioned, warming is accelerating. The most common and destructive claim of climate change de
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by waps 12y ago
And you cannot understand the "tolerant" period in the middle east without realizing that that period happened with a partially muslim government, but with the society very much an eastern roman society. 1) Barely any muslims at a
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by waps 12y ago
Plenty of blogs say climate science is not a science. Climate scientists say otherwise. Plenty of blogs say economics is not a science. Climate scientists say otherwise. What exactly differentiates one statement from the other ? Aside from
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by waps 12y ago
This has got to be the stupidest claim in here. What the fuck. But maybe I'm wrong. So ok, so you've made a claim. Do tell how I can reproduce climate change ? I do not have a spare planet to fuck around with. Just so we're c
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by waps 12y ago
I think this is really sad. As someone who went through university when the last wave of centralized unix died off, then the move to decentralized windows, and to decentralized linux (because they couldn't really figure it out mostly).
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by waps 12y ago
I would agree with that. It's an extremely rare science that has only 2 sides. Real science should be seen as a bunch of teenagers arguing about the best superhero, only with lots of data and formulas and the like. Convincing someone o
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by waps 12y ago
No you misunderstand. I'm not the phpvirtualbox author. I worked on the backend components, the API, the networking support and the VNC server.
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by waps 12y ago
I wrote a web client for VirtualBox. Works a lot better than VMWare (not that it's that hard), like most everything else in VirtualBox. If your needs are personal, this project is pretty good : http://sourceforge.net/pr
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by waps 12y ago
That still means that the energy balance is negative until that time. Also : There's caveats in this study. They are calculating the point where PV electricity production starts exceeding energy use in PV production, assuming no rise f
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by waps 12y ago
This decision didn't pass either congress or the senate, so no need to harp on them. The signature on the paper giving this decision authority is the signature of POTUS, nobody else's. For once, it wasn't the congresscritters
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by waps 12y ago
Of course there's a flip side of this coin. I think it's a very good bet that this action was not taken in a vacuum. So someone disguised a weapon or a bomb as an electronic device in their hand luggage, and got it on board and wa
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by waps 12y ago
Of course in string search it never is. In m=n case KMP would simply compare the first character, and if it doesn't match declare nothing was found. Yes there'd be much more different instructions involved but I think KMP would st
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by waps 12y ago
This article gives an example of which are the easiest jobs to replace by AI/programs : middle management. Any manager that merely manages a few people and doesn't take responsibility for any business function ... that's what
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by waps 12y ago
It's not just about consistency. The post mentioned 5 different standards of "truth". In reality the method we use to judge something to be true or false is not uniform : there are lots of variations, even within single scien
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by waps 12y ago
Given that the human mind is essentially a behaviour-copy machine this is very likely true. But keep in mind : the purpose of punishment is to remove examples of bad behaviour. Without effective punishment, bad behaviour will quickly crowd

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