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  1. A recent Nobel Prize winner calculated that we would need a 4C rise before it would make economic sense to intervene.

  2. Re:It's Called Science on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    And yet, we have groups trolling the scientific publications with hillariously fake "science" and getting published.

  3. Re:Helpful on Russia Jammed GPS During Major NATO Military Exercise With US Troops (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where there jammers are? Just how much energy do you think is require to jam a GPS receiver? They could have small, 10 Watt transmitters strapped to a few drones flying around transmitting randomly at 10k ft. It would totally disrupt a whole nation.

  4. Mosquitoes make up only a very small portion of a bats diet (I've been studying that lately because of the moquito population around my back deck.) A still pond with a few guppy fish has a much large effect on moquito populations.

  5. Re:Absolutely. Same goes for olympics, stadiums, e on New Yorkers Protest Amazon HQ2: 'We Should Be Investing in Housing ... Not in Helicopters' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that it is a tragedy of the commons situation. If New York doesn't give an incentive, then maybe Raleigh, NC will. Then, as in all markets, it comes down to what will the market bear. I think there needs to be a few court cases of unfair taxation that go up to the Supreme Court. The other answer is that people fight to reduce the role of government everywhere, but then they'd have to give up their rent-controlled apartments and cheap subway tickets.

  6. Amazons need haircuts, too on New Yorkers Protest Amazon HQ2: 'We Should Be Investing in Housing ... Not in Helicopters' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He is going to have a business with a large number of well paid workers right next door. Why would he be upset? Instead of protesting, he should clean his shop and get ready for the influx of new business.

  7. But, what to do with using the wrong pronoun for a person is considered hate speech and is outlawed?

  8. Precisely how do we, as a society, divide between speech and intent?

    Make a threat against the President, people are sent to investigate you. Not "arrest". "Investigate". The investigation is to look for evidence that you might actually be planning to make good on the threat.

    So how come we permit other violent extremist speech? Because it has the hushed acceptance of a major political party?

    Yes. Exactly. That is how Antifa has gotten away with so much thuggery.

  9. Creativity on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    "Those considered the most creative are the best at hiding their sources."

    I can't remember who said it, and it is really more a paraphrase than a direct quote. Does that make me creative?

  10. Well, Trump says “Fake News” is news he doesn’t like so there is that.

    And yet CNN is still broadcasting. So what exactly has he done in an official capacity to limit the dissemination of fake news? It is not like he has had the FBI wiretapping reporter's phones like Obama did.

  11. At least he doesn't have the FBI wiretapping their phones like Obama did.

  12. Re:#MAGA on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Local suppliers will need steel. Last I heard there are higher tariffs on that as well, because we don't make that here anymore either.

    The US Steelworker's Union would beg to differ.

    https://tradingeconomics.com/u...

  13. Re:#MAGA on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that a marginal amount of the production will be repatriated and the taxes will offset some of the income taxes the feds would collect. Meanwhile, the Chinese will be at the bargaining table to work out a FAIR trade agreement.

  14. Re:Price isn't the issue on Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But...but...we're doubling the number of "comedians" that expect you to laugh because they said, "Trump bad". What more could you want?

  15. The PWSs should be networked and have machine learning built in. Over time, they will learn which factors and which of their neighbor stations correlate with future weather. Something like Weather Underground would correlate the PWSs, and learn which ones make the better predictions.

    They may be doing this already.

  16. Do any of these candidate propose anything that makes sense like expanding the market supply by building medical schools

    Lack of medical schools isn't the problem - the six figure cost in becoming a doctor is.

    ***Questions with obvious answers for 600, Alan.
    ---The answer is: Build more medical schools.
    ***How do you reduce reduce the six figure cost of becoming a doctor?

    My spider-wingnut sense is tingling. What regulations are these? Mandated FDA testing that might prevent your pain medication from giving you a heart attack?

    Get a job in the medical field. I have 4 months under my belt working for a company that did clinical trials. That's all I could stand of that stupidity. Sure, they might have stopped some heart attacks. But, did they let an opioid epidemic run wild in the mean time? When in history has it worked out well when a body of normal men were given the power to determine what was bought and sold with the wave of a pen?

  17. Re:Which regulations? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Medicare is "95% efficient" because they pay insurance companies to do the work for them. There are some serious lying going on when it comes to government programs.

  18. Fake news. Not going to court doesn't mean there isn't a payoff. "Actual serious money" is a nebulous term at best, especially when it happens thousands of times.

  19. From now on, sexual harrassment will not be reported; however, it will be graded.

  20. Market solutions on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do any of these candidate propose anything that makes sense like expanding the market supply by building medical schools or rolling back some of the regulations that do nothing but block lower cost solutions? Or will they just continue with the tried and true "we'll regulate cost and then be surprised when the market doesn't comply with our fondly held wishes."

  21. Go with a Kyocera instead. Same features, lower cost.

  22. Some companies like Caterpillar do make rugged phones/smartphones. But they ain't sexy and you can't get laid by showing a lady your shiny new yellow caterpillar brick, even if comes with a flir camera and go days without recharging.

    You're dating the wrong crowd.

  23. Reminds me of the people that buy a new car, and then ride around with an old bath towel on all the seats in order to "protect the car's value".

  24. Re:Who the hell gets a thin phone, and then a case on It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I just "upgraded" because my Samsung 5 started to be unreliable. I'm still not sure that it wasn't because of a Verizon "security update". But, I got a Kyocera. Every bit as good as the Samsung, submergible down to several feet, Qi charging, and rugged. Still thin enough to carry in my pocket.

  25. Re:Not dead ... resting on NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Is Dead (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely that it will come back many years later and want to talk to some whales. Lets hope there are some left.