While we are at it lets banish the folks with hepatitis and aids to an island as well.
Perhaps we should also isolate the cancer folks since we really dont have a handle on that.
Hep and HIV are not casually contageous. Isolation would achieve nothing
But we can vaccinate against Hep, and HIV is not fatal anymore as long as the 3 drug regime is followed.
Cancer is 100% non contagious
However. a virus we regularly vaccinate against (HPV) can cause it.
All the viruses we vaccinate against however ARE contagious and isolating the wilfully unvaccinated would provide demonstrable protection to those who are immunocompromised or unable to be vaccinated.
And Lo I called out to the heavens. "Heavenly father. Bringer of life, of harvests, of fertility. Ended of droughts and bringer of rain. For your sacred name is clouded in mystery. How am I to cry out when I know not thy sacred name"
And a voice boomed out: "Gary. It's Gary, ok? Now sod off, I'm busy humping Mary's sweet ass"
Right. But our knowledge of the outcomes involves melt offs over 100s to thousands of years. This rapid meltdown were seeing hints of unprecedented We have no historical record to measure it against. It's new and very very worrying territory. The Permian extinction involved a 4c rise over a thousand or so years leading to a meltdown that then kicked it up another 10c.we could hit 4c within half a century if the most pesistic model settings pan out
Aaaand the anti-science AC gets the "insightful" nod yet again.....
Yes. It might be wrong That's how science works. Predictions are made, probabilities are assigned, then we see if it planned out. If it doesn't , the assumptions are examined to find where the fault was, assuming there was a fault, and it wasn't simply statistics being statistics. Then newer predictions are made , taking into account the revised data points.
Keep in mind climate models have generally been pretty accurate with a slight tendency to underestimate warming. Where they go wrong it's tended to be worse than predicted.
Taboola is absolute cancer. There's nothing worse than browsing a coding blog at work (perfectly ok behaviour , it's part of the job) and taboola whacks some borderline pornographic or medical gross-out as smack in the middle of your screen ready to get you in trouble. I've had to block certain sites (I keep a nillroute list on my pc mostly to stop me being tempted by Facebook while on the clock) just because the risks of malicious advertising. It'd be a shame if/. had to go that way after 20+ years
Honestly I think it's high time we put anonymous coward to rest. The ideal behind it is irrelevant. I can't remember a single time AC was used for legitimate whistle blowing, it's just a plaything for trolls and assholes
Anthropic climate change is beyond proven. For it not to be true theres nearly 2 centuries of science that would need to be wrong. And we knew that in the late 1800s when Fourier first proved CO2 effect on the climate.
What that actually means however is still up to a degree of speculation. Will the added energy budget in the Climate system result in higher kinetic energies. Storms, huricans, etc, or will it result in higher Thermal energies. Extreme warming and cold events
Almost certainly both. It would requite a huge amount of fairly fundamental physics to be wrong for it to be any other way. The question is, how do you quantify it. Thats what the supercomputer models are for..
My uncle used to go sky diving with a few people in Borneo back in the 80s One jump one of the guys parachute failed completely and the guy realised he was going to die, so he took off the pack completely and just relaxed apparently resigned to it.
He survived, paraplegic and in hospital for half a decade, but alive. Somehow.
What's this got to do with Liberals and Conservatives? Vaccine conspiracy nonsense is common across both Poles and instead tends to follow a pattern wjwre the centre is more pro vax and the heavily polarised folks more likely to harbor vaccine conspiracy theories.
Ie people that rant about liberals being the source of all woes, or conservstives being the source of all woes. Folks like you
Yeah, its the family curse. And going on CPAP has helped the old boy immensely. Maybe cured it, not sure.
I had mine surgically fixed, which was a fucking nightmare and I dont recomend it unless its life threatening. Recovery took 6+ months. Never again.
But there are narcolepsy cases that seem to spring from genuine dysfunction. A friend of mines a GP who has savage narcolepsy. Falls to the ground asleep mid conversation kind of stuff. He cant perform surgery or drive as a result (you do NOT want your surgeon falling asleep into your guts mid operation). And he's completely forbidden to drive. Which also means he cant attend emergencies easily.
This is the fact that the populist human first sceptics should admit to. Given that, these sorts of stories aren't a problem; as the quote admits, the car was driving safely.
Right. This could be a game changer for a lot of people. My father has mild narcolepsy, And by mild I mean "it doesnt happen often". But when it happens, he's asleep.
Its happened a couple of times while driving. He's heading home from work. And then he shakes his head and his car is parked neatly at the side of the road. His brain seems smart enough to go "Ok, head office just shut down, lets park this puppy safely", probably an outcome of driving for close to 50 years. But its still not particularly safe.
Now I personally encourage him to stop driving. But I understand why he's reluctant. His savings won't let him retire and he needs to drive to work. Fucker of a situation to be in, and 100% an outcome of the 2007 stock market crash that wiped out his entire savings.
Something like this would mean he could continue to work without having to worry that next time the lights go out, his own "autonomous" system won't get him off the road safely. And that would be huge for the old boy. Because the alternative right now, is retiring in complete poverty.
Just think, if media outlets stopped being misleading, and fact checking organizations acted in trustworthy ways, this line of attack would not work.
The "fact checking organization" in question is Snopes, and Snopes has a sterling reputation for reliability.
Look, the far right has hated Snopes for a long time, because it refused to play ball with the Birther conspiracy theories, as well as debunking some of the nuttier theories on Soros, ACORN, and what not. Plus they *really* don't like Of course they fail to note Snopes also debunks conspiracy theories on the left too.
The right has accused Snopes of bias for not giving "equal time" to the conspiracy theorists. But heres the thing. fair coverage is actually bullshit. People get it in their head that giving "equal time" to nonsense is somehow a virtue and it really isn't. We've seen the damage this idea causes in media giving airtime to Climate change denialists, which has had the net result that to this date, despite all we know, there are STILL fucking idiots who believe Climate change is some vast spooky conspiracy by the left to make Physicists and Climatologists lie for some reason.
Maybe , just maybe, the reason people don't trust Snopes, is because those people who don't trust them are fucking idiots.
For master's programs, it depends. It's possible to obtain an MS degree without a thesis by just passing courses. No research is required for those degrees.
.....which is what I said a sentence or two later. "Masters by coursework". Your MBA type programs. These aren't really postgraduate per se, and the fact they are also called "Masters" is I suspect an artefact of the somewhat long and arcane history behind University accreditation namings (Ie why all doctors , except medical doctors, are doctors of "Philosophy". Well, because until around 100 or so years ago, most degrees where in philosophy, specialising in Maths/Physics/Chemistry/etc all of which are branches of philosophy, historically (but widely not seen to be now due to these being broken out into separate degrees once they outgrew their status as "branches"), a fact uneducated critics of philosophy would do well to remind themselves of)
Since you're too lazy to oogle it yourself, how about the one where Snopes Lies About the Glorious State of Californiaâ(TM)s Plan To Teach 5-Year-Olds Transgenderism?
Nutty fucking nonsense.
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The far-left perverts and fraudsters running the website âoeSnopesâ dishonestly styling itself a âoefact-checkâ operation have shown yet again why they have no credibility among normal people. In a screed released this week, Snopes labeled as âoefalseâ a number of stories, including one by FreedomProject Media, exposing a new âoeHealth Education Frameworkâ that promotes gender-bending insanity to kindergarten children. Debunking the lies by Snopes, though, is as simple as going to California's proposed new âoeHealth Education Frameworkâ and reading it.
Of course when you actually DO read it, you discover their "Proof" is a link to a document containing *submissions* to the CA govt from external parties, none of which actually claim anything like "15 genders" (Which is not actually a claim anyone makes anywhere in the real world except in the fever dreams of the far right)
So this "disproof" of Snopes starts off pretty goddamn dishonest.
Why would you even attempt to use bonkers nonsense like this as your "disproof"?.
Snopes was dead on the money on this one, and Far right propaganda outfits stamping their feet and crying that they its unfair when people point out their bullshit isn't an argument against pointing out bullshit.
its well-known that many cultures encourage rote memorization and that passes for 'learning'.
1) A PhD or Masters is not a course. Its a research program. There are "Masters by Courseworks", which is slightly different, but generally when someone is doing a Masters or PhD its because they are researchers. And unless someones got a sneaky phoneline to God, theres nothing to "rote" memorize.
2) I hate to break it to you, but US Universities are not generally the highest categories. There are some, but the stats aren't great. 1.7% of US universities fit in the "Top 100", versus UK with 2.5% and Australia with 3.1% I should observe US figures are highly tainted by the proliferation of bogus universities (Liberty University, and other dodgy thinktank feeders). Sure you have things like Caltech or Stanford , but for every Caltech, you've got a hundred busted ass rural universities or "Praeger mail order university where you get a doctorate for declaring the world is flat" type places.
By playing countless games against itself on the same map, it is still performing a search on a decision tree, weighing the (now more fuzzy) nodes.
No it isn't. Its a multi-level (deep) Neural Net with various mechanisms to allow it to interface with the game. It doesn't have an inherent knowledge of the game. Its just trained on the game much in the way a child would.
Yes but there's all sorts of flow on effects to the delay. Peoples insurances are lapsing. Rents are going overdue. Medical expenses are being unpaid for. Kids school fees. All of this over the Christmas/new year which is notoriously the worst time to be poor
Let's see what is in this fact based plea from an anonymous coward: probably produce, Some scientists say, can cause, experts fear, according to one study. The science is strong with this REEEEEE for help...
Whilst science-bashing is depressingly popular on slashdot (news for nerds who think science is a vast left wing conspiracy). At least go to the effort of engaging with the story? Theres literally a link to the primary study ( https://www.nature.com/article... , plug it into sci-hub if you don't have academic or institutional access ) in the article, which is pretty much on point for the story. The NYTimes story itself actually answers who "Some scientists" and "experts" are.
So heres the thing. Either you didn't actually read the article, or you did and aren't quite bright enough to parse it.
Or your a boring alt-right virtue signaller who wants to be the first to post "REEEEEE" into a comment, because clearly posting the same joke over and over and over again is the height of wit.
We can believe of course that it is something else, but that is believe and speculation.
Pffffffff thats what you always say Agent Scully. But you and I know that the greys are abducting us , with the knowledge of the smoking man and all his friends so they can create hyb..... wait what are we talking about again?
Slashdot Mirror
And Lo I called out to the heavens. "Heavenly father. Bringer of life, of harvests, of fertility. Ended of droughts and bringer of rain. For your sacred name is clouded in mystery. How am I to cry out when I know not thy sacred name"
And a voice boomed out: "Gary. It's Gary, ok? Now sod off, I'm busy humping Mary's sweet ass"
Nah they'll just use it as a pretext to ratchet up the paranoid surveilance state. We're talking politicians here, not reasonable men
Right. But our knowledge of the outcomes involves melt offs over 100s to thousands of years. This rapid meltdown were seeing hints of unprecedented We have no historical record to measure it against. It's new and very very worrying territory. The Permian extinction involved a 4c rise over a thousand or so years leading to a meltdown that then kicked it up another 10c.we could hit 4c within half a century if the most pesistic model settings pan out
"The real test of any indication of confidence is an actual wager"
This is not how science works. It's not a competition.
Aaaand the anti-science AC gets the "insightful" nod yet again.....
Yes. It might be wrong That's how science works. Predictions are made, probabilities are assigned, then we see if it planned out. If it doesn't , the assumptions are examined to find where the fault was, assuming there was a fault, and it wasn't simply statistics being statistics. Then newer predictions are made , taking into account the revised data points.
Keep in mind climate models have generally been pretty accurate with a slight tendency to underestimate warming. Where they go wrong it's tended to be worse than predicted.
Aaaaand my point gets made for me.
Taboola is absolute cancer. There's nothing worse than browsing a coding blog at work (perfectly ok behaviour , it's part of the job) and taboola whacks some borderline pornographic or medical gross-out as smack in the middle of your screen ready to get you in trouble. I've had to block certain sites (I keep a nillroute list on my pc mostly to stop me being tempted by Facebook while on the clock) just because the risks of malicious advertising. It'd be a shame if /. had to go that way after 20+ years
Honestly I think it's high time we put anonymous coward to rest. The ideal behind it is irrelevant. I can't remember a single time AC was used for legitimate whistle blowing, it's just a plaything for trolls and assholes
Anthropic climate change is beyond proven. For it not to be true theres nearly 2 centuries of science that would need to be wrong. And we knew that in the late 1800s when Fourier first proved CO2 effect on the climate.
What that actually means however is still up to a degree of speculation. Will the added energy budget in the Climate system result in higher kinetic energies. Storms, huricans, etc, or will it result in higher Thermal energies. Extreme warming and cold events
Almost certainly both. It would requite a huge amount of fairly fundamental physics to be wrong for it to be any other way. The question is, how do you quantify it. Thats what the supercomputer models are for..
My uncle used to go sky diving with a few people in Borneo back in the 80s One jump one of the guys parachute failed completely and the guy realised he was going to die, so he took off the pack completely and just relaxed apparently resigned to it.
He survived, paraplegic and in hospital for half a decade, but alive. Somehow.
What's this got to do with Liberals and Conservatives? Vaccine conspiracy nonsense is common across both Poles and instead tends to follow a pattern wjwre the centre is more pro vax and the heavily polarised folks more likely to harbor vaccine conspiracy theories.
Ie people that rant about liberals being the source of all woes, or conservstives being the source of all woes. Folks like you
Yeah, its the family curse. And going on CPAP has helped the old boy immensely. Maybe cured it, not sure.
I had mine surgically fixed, which was a fucking nightmare and I dont recomend it unless its life threatening. Recovery took 6+ months. Never again.
But there are narcolepsy cases that seem to spring from genuine dysfunction. A friend of mines a GP who has savage narcolepsy. Falls to the ground asleep mid conversation kind of stuff. He cant perform surgery or drive as a result (you do NOT want your surgeon falling asleep into your guts mid operation). And he's completely forbidden to drive. Which also means he cant attend emergencies easily.
Right. This could be a game changer for a lot of people. My father has mild narcolepsy, And by mild I mean "it doesnt happen often". But when it happens, he's asleep.
Its happened a couple of times while driving. He's heading home from work. And then he shakes his head and his car is parked neatly at the side of the road. His brain seems smart enough to go "Ok, head office just shut down, lets park this puppy safely", probably an outcome of driving for close to 50 years. But its still not particularly safe.
Now I personally encourage him to stop driving. But I understand why he's reluctant. His savings won't let him retire and he needs to drive to work. Fucker of a situation to be in, and 100% an outcome of the 2007 stock market crash that wiped out his entire savings.
Something like this would mean he could continue to work without having to worry that next time the lights go out, his own "autonomous" system won't get him off the road safely. And that would be huge for the old boy. Because the alternative right now, is retiring in complete poverty.
The "fact checking organization" in question is Snopes, and Snopes has a sterling reputation for reliability.
Look, the far right has hated Snopes for a long time, because it refused to play ball with the Birther conspiracy theories, as well as debunking some of the nuttier theories on Soros, ACORN, and what not. Plus they *really* don't like Of course they fail to note Snopes also debunks conspiracy theories on the left too.
The right has accused Snopes of bias for not giving "equal time" to the conspiracy theorists. But heres the thing. fair coverage is actually bullshit. People get it in their head that giving "equal time" to nonsense is somehow a virtue and it really isn't. We've seen the damage this idea causes in media giving airtime to Climate change denialists, which has had the net result that to this date, despite all we know, there are STILL fucking idiots who believe Climate change is some vast spooky conspiracy by the left to make Physicists and Climatologists lie for some reason.
Maybe , just maybe, the reason people don't trust Snopes, is because those people who don't trust them are fucking idiots.
I hate to break it to you, but *all* your stuff comes from China. Well most of it. The good stuff, and the bad.
Which is why these trade wars are such an absurdity. That horse bolted the stable 20 years ago.
Nutty fucking nonsense.
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1) A PhD or Masters is not a course. Its a research program. There are "Masters by Courseworks", which is slightly different, but generally when someone is doing a Masters or PhD its because they are researchers. And unless someones got a sneaky phoneline to God, theres nothing to "rote" memorize.
2) I hate to break it to you, but US Universities are not generally the highest categories. There are some, but the stats aren't great. 1.7% of US universities fit in the "Top 100", versus UK with 2.5% and Australia with 3.1% I should observe US figures are highly tainted by the proliferation of bogus universities (Liberty University, and other dodgy thinktank feeders). Sure you have things like Caltech or Stanford , but for every Caltech, you've got a hundred busted ass rural universities or "Praeger mail order university where you get a doctorate for declaring the world is flat" type places.
Don't be so arogant, and consider traveling.
No it isn't. Its a multi-level (deep) Neural Net with various mechanisms to allow it to interface with the game. It doesn't have an inherent knowledge of the game. Its just trained on the game much in the way a child would.
Its already surprisingly "general".
Voices: "We just made a whole bunch of dollars!!!l"
"Shhh Non disclosure agreement"
Yes but there's all sorts of flow on effects to the delay. Peoples insurances are lapsing. Rents are going overdue. Medical expenses are being unpaid for. Kids school fees. All of this over the Christmas /new year which is notoriously the worst time to be poor
Whilst science-bashing is depressingly popular on slashdot (news for nerds who think science is a vast left wing conspiracy). At least go to the effort of engaging with the story? Theres literally a link to the primary study ( https://www.nature.com/article... , plug it into sci-hub if you don't have academic or institutional access ) in the article, which is pretty much on point for the story. The NYTimes story itself actually answers who "Some scientists" and "experts" are.
So heres the thing. Either you didn't actually read the article, or you did and aren't quite bright enough to parse it.
Or your a boring alt-right virtue signaller who wants to be the first to post "REEEEEE" into a comment, because clearly posting the same joke over and over and over again is the height of wit.
Embarassing!
Somewhere in the heart of Android, theres a Linux kernel, still under the GPL, bleeding out for the loss of all it was supposed represent.
"Property" is now "Rent".
Pffffffff thats what you always say Agent Scully. But you and I know that the greys are abducting us , with the knowledge of the smoking man and all his friends so they can create hyb..... wait what are we talking about again?
Oh that. Yeah, just a fucken weird commet.