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by btdiehr 9y ago
Exactly, that's why runescape and world of warcraft have adopted the marxist game mechanic of automatically redistributing all resources and exp between all players at the end of every day.
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by btdiehr 9y ago
Whether we are looking at 1.5C vs 8C is absolutely enormous in terms of what policies we should be looking to enact. Everything in this discussion is shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty due to the complexity of weather, and the thousands of
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by btdiehr 9y ago
There is a debate, it's just not on the questions you're looking at. Climate Change is by no means a 'settled' science, one of the most important questions scientists must answer is what the Climate Sensitivity is to CO2
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by btdiehr 9y ago
That's good to hear, because whether people want to admit it or not, journalists misreporting studies constantly is one of the reasons why trust has eroded.
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by btdiehr 9y ago
Let me get this straight, you're saying that people should purposefully mislead the public?
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by btdiehr 9y ago
Are you sure you don't support poor arguments?
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by btdiehr 10y ago
> theoretically, everything could be reduced to physics Is there a thing as free will, and if so, is it explainable in terms of physics? And with consciousness (if you believe there is such a thing)? Is morality and ethics reducible to p
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Of course not. Some people seem to think pasting tangentially related wikipedia articles contributes to discussion, but it doesn't.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Yes, this is fake news. Wired is no stranger to low quality click bait.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
This article conveniently redefines the definition of blue collar work. By similar thinking, are typists, receptionists, data-entry folks all blue collar? > Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty Really? I even agree wit
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by btdiehr 10y ago
If it works well for what you are building.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
A lot of people in finance spend their entire life doing the same work over and over. Same goes for programming. There is more to work than years of experience. Though no doubt there is a correlation, not everyone gets better with age.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
I believe that one reason why there is so much negatively in the javascript community is a combination of the fact that 1. Everyone knows Javascript (so everyone has an opinion) 2. It's easier to criticize something than to share origi
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Cool! What kind of performance gain does one get by computing the DOM Diffs in a web worker? My understanding is because webworkers you do not have access to the DOM, you still have a single thread doing all the rendering (main thread).
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Communication skills are certainly important. I believe we both agree communication both at an organizational level, as well at a personal level is important. My point is that as an organization scales, you will have many teams, and teams o
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Terry Tao is a living legend
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by btdiehr 10y ago
I noticed they found a correlation between living with parents and higher education, which isn't surprising, but I think they missed a big component of it, and the effect is certainly smaller than it appears from their visualization. H
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by btdiehr 10y ago
I can't comment on the validity of Scott Adams claims on being censored, but he wrote a long post about it. His claim isn't that the posts never appear, but that is there was a singular point in time when his 'influence'
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by btdiehr 10y ago
This is wishful thinking at best, companies require practical thinking because reality is corporate suicide. Not everyone will have great communication skills - and as a team increases in size, this becomes increasingly difficult.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
How about the Qataar donation of a million dollars to the CF which they never reported? > The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing t
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by btdiehr 10y ago
Is this why Clinton Foundation donations have massively fallen sense she lost the election? Are we now assuming every charity is on equal moral grounds?
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by btdiehr 10y ago
He's referring to the fact that his tweets won't appear in peoples streams, this is a way to reduce his influence in the twitter sphere.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
A privilege is a special right reserved for certain people. Making good choices isn't reserved for those who are middle class and above. No doubt the path to career success is easier for those with parents who made an a collection of s
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by btdiehr 10y ago
How do you figure?
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by btdiehr 10y ago
> if you're not privileged enough to be a software developer. Being a software developer isn't a privilege, it's a choice.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
No matter what system is put in place, their are large, determined, and even some well funded groups which will game any and all systems to modify, censor, or punish others if you allow them the power to 'group moderate', especial
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by btdiehr 10y ago
I'm familiar with some of his statements, but I can't claim to know them all. Could you please refer me to where he said that 'all climate change science is a hoax'? I would agree that would be a factually incorrect stat
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by btdiehr 10y ago
All you need to do is look at the people twitter invite to their conferences, and associate with at their executive level to know that Twitter will only get worse in these regards.
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by btdiehr 10y ago
You are misrepresenting the opposing argument being made. The opposing argument is that people are making is as follows: 'climate-alarmists' misuse climate-science as a means of making political change. It is not a denial of all c
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by btdiehr 10y ago
It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat. Academics certainly has a liberal bias, after all, look at where they get most of their funding. Conservative professors are being publicly sh

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