superqwert

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by superqwert 7y ago
When the author writes: "Even if face recognition can match a face with 99% accuracy, the sheer amount of faces available in police databases makes false positives inevitable. (The 1% error rate means that, if 10,000 people who are not
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by superqwert 7y ago
Government? Most of these camera owners weren't government.
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by superqwert 7y ago
AIS devices are mandatory for all ships of 300tonnes+, meaning the data is open and can be monitored by anyone!
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by superqwert 7y ago
You aren't addressing the arguments at all here. With the error bars that black6 suggests, we cannot possibly infer anything of meaning over long periods of time.
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by superqwert 7y ago
This answer is more flippant than you can imagine. #3 Is the worst - if we have learnt anything in the past century, it is that our attempts at behavioural changes rarely work[i], and even when they do they often result in the opposite effe
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by superqwert 7y ago
If the ground is sinking rather than the sea rising, the impact will be pretty similar!
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by superqwert 7y ago
That is very interesting! how do they know that a difference in a satellite measurement is not due to slippage in its orbit?
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by superqwert 7y ago
What sort of collaborators are you looking for? What data + assets do you have to work with?
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by superqwert 7y ago
Great ideas - you should build a start-up!
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by superqwert 7y ago
Well done, keep it going!
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by superqwert 7y ago
Which is caused by?
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by superqwert 7y ago
Do we have evidence as to what is causing the insane rise in OD deaths?
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by superqwert 7y ago
> Belief in God is at odds with a scientific view of the world No, it's not. > it's hard to be patriotic when every country has so many skeletons in the closet you'd think it's perpetually Halloween When did nation
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by superqwert 7y ago
Without defining what "Progress" and "Good" are, the whole concept that there is some sort of "Progress" is meaningless. If you can define those terms, you can maybe start to study such a topic - but the defini
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by superqwert 7y ago
if the distances between circles approaching another circle is more-or-less the width of the ball, the other balls will not affect it much. + The additional perturbations make the situation more random, rather than entirely based on the inc
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by superqwert 7y ago
It seems that [1] is referring to roads though? Rail maintenance is far more expensive.
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by superqwert 7y ago
Nice find, I didn't see this before! I think the conversation should be left up so this can all be found, though.
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by superqwert 7y ago
Thanks a lot, this has been a most helpful reply!
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by superqwert 7y ago
Yes, but the evidence is required for this claim: "Yet trains are far less emitting than aircraft"
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by superqwert 7y ago
Certainly not. Responsibility is a very complex issue, especially if you devolve it to the users, rather than keeping it in the hands of the managers/operators. But even if we assume a large part of responsibility rests in the users, t
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by superqwert 7y ago
There is a difference between decision making and calculations of change. I am certainly not arguing that decisions shouldn't be made responsibly. I am merely trying to point out that the calculations that have been made are simplistic
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by superqwert 7y ago
Good point, but once again - the crossing of thresholds is the major change, rather than the individual changes between thresholds.
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by superqwert 7y ago
In transport, we have learnt over the past century to not use aggregate models, as they do not provide the same detail and results as disaggregate models[p.18 Modelling Transport 4th Edition Ortuzar & Willumsen]. We should not lower o
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by superqwert 7y ago
No, I'm arguing that the calculations for emission per person are simplistic.
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by superqwert 7y ago
If it becomes a trend, that will be good if indeed the efficiencies are true. As stated earlier, it is unclear how the calculations are made and whether the actual total emissions cost was lowered.
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by superqwert 7y ago
You're claiming the argument is wrong, then supporting it again. The person(s) who go over or under the threshold are the ones that make a difference. If thresholds aren't breached by the amount of people changing route, then ther
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by superqwert 7y ago
What evidence are you citing for environmental cost?
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by superqwert 7y ago
That is not what I am arguing at all. I am merely pointing out that it is unclear as to what the ecopassenger.com website is calculating and what we can gather from this information.
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by superqwert 7y ago
That is certainly true, but from the scale of the calculations, I am assuming that ecopassenger.com is not just calculating that difference, but the overall emmission cost as a ratio of flight.
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by superqwert 7y ago
What evidence are you citing here?

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