eisbaar

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by eisbaar 6y ago
What is the false positive rate, though?
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I think the normal cycle is actually more like 25 hours (what you get if you live in a cave and don't know what time it is outside), but certain impulses throughout the day push it into the 24 hour frame. Things like light, eating, exe
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by eisbaar 6y ago
Research in that area is unfortunately very politically loaded. I don't think simply claiming "there is a lot of research" in such a politically disputed subject is sufficient. As for b), if a Chinese investor buys some house
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by eisbaar 6y ago
OK if they consider all Chinese investments "money laundering", their theory seems more plausible. Still needs verification, though.
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by eisbaar 6y ago
Why would it displace people, if you build cheap houses to sell to Chinese Investors? That an influx of money doesn't benefit the economy would also be interesting for most Western governments. "Stimulus" by monetary means se
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I'm not convinced. If Chinese investors buy properties unseen, you could build lots of cheap apartments and sell them for lots of money. Sure it would be wasteful for a while, but in the end a lot of money would have flown to Canada, a
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I'm not sure the former owners of the houses would agree. They made good money from the houses they sold to Chinese people. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I have not been to Vancouver, but it sounds very attractive: next to the sea and the mountains, good health care, working democracy and civilization and so on. It does not sound implausible that housing prices are soaring. Also perhaps a lo
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by eisbaar 6y ago
"A plausible explanation" - sorry, no. They offer a "just so" story. Science it ain't.
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I'm sorry, but does that article offer ANY evidence at all for the impact of money laundering, except for the "just so" story in the middle? ("money launderers beat up prices, and the rest of the market just runs with it
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by eisbaar 6y ago
It has nothing to do with social media. It is the leftist agenda infiltrating everything.
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I haven't really seen Quantum Mechanics applied to climate science, though. Maybe it exists, but it doesn't seem to feature high in the public discourse. So I guess it is all bunk, because it is not Quantum Mechanics?
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by eisbaar 6y ago
So you are taking the contents of the article at face value, but somehow I am the silly person doing mental gymnastics? Common sense is essentially how people think. Scientists are also people. If claims don't add up or data is missing
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by eisbaar 6y ago
You are thinking in Quantum Mechanics? Or scientists do, as opposed to normal people? Because scientists are somehow "superhuman"? "how much evidence there is in the "there is no climate change" side?" Why are
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I guess you could describe all science as "mental gymnastics". And all we humans have is common sense. "The simple truth is you've already made up your mind about climate change in general, and now you're just looki
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by eisbaar 6y ago
I don't understand the story. He was given several warnings that his stuff would be destroyed. Why is it Amazon's fault now?
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by eisbaar 6y ago
First of all I criticize the alarmist headline. As for the article, I know see data goes only back 41 years. Is that even a meaningful geological timeframe? Also there often seems to be the assumption that every year should be like average.
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by eisbaar 6y ago
Even if imperceptible slow (to our human senses), there would eventually a point of "ice free in October". A simple report about that event doesn't tell me anything about the rate.
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by eisbaar 6y ago
Fair enough, but then such headlines are misleading or useless, as they don't tell us anything about the rate. They suggest melting ice in general is cause for concern, when really it is expected because of the ice age cycles. Not sayi
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by eisbaar 6y ago
But doesn't arctic ice all be floating in sea water mean it has no effect on sea levels? Why "there is no going back"? Since it has been ice free in the past and then ice came back, why shouldn't it happen again?