Rather than going by your intuition, maybe you should go to eklima, where you can access all climate data from Norwegian weather stations since 1901. It's not impossible that it should have gone the other way here compared to the globe as a whole, but I doubt it.
It's called quantitative easing. But the relationship of that policy with inflation is a lot more complex than some people would have it, it might well have been riskier to not do it - even for people with billions in the bank.
One possibility is that he has some plan with the money besides diversifying - probably something charitable, or something idealistic that he couldn't get the two other on board with.
You wouldn't take people's freely written statements as being evidence of what they think?
Well, you shouldn't always. Some people do act in bad faith.
I remember way, way back, actually right here on Slashdot, I learned about organized bad faith public discourse for the first time.
The occasion was that an organization called "The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution" had published a book on Linux, which was widely reported as being a commissioned hit piece. In the ensuing discussion, someone linked to the blog of Tim Lambert, an Australian computer science professor, which was very enlightening.
Finally, Bruce Perens got the occasion to ask Kenneth Brown outright: What would it take to get you to stop attacking Linux and start defending it instead? "We can talk about that" was apparently his reply.
So yes, some people do argue in bad faith. If you keep assuming these people argue in good faith, they win, so sometimes it's necessary to call out. But obviously it shouldn't be done lightly either.
The sixties would be a late time to come with that prediction/accusation. Keep America Beautiful, arguably the first corporate environmental front group, was founded in order to preempt and oppose laws restricting disposable products - in 1953.
There were not a lot of people shouting in the desert that "LIBOR are fixing interest rates for their own gain!", nor a lot of people saying "Nixon is using illegal means to keep track of his political opponents. Guaranteed!". Conspiracy theorists tend to miss the real conspiracies, it seems.
Considering Amsterdam is (justly or unjustly) famous for prostitution and drugs, I can think of some reasons why illegal hotels would be a particular problem there - apart from the obvious one of operating a business hidden from the tax authorities.
The problem is that regardless of what the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming actually is, it *started* with substantial political and corporate interests framing it as certain and apocalyptic.
This is simply wrong. In the early years, many climate scientists (like Revelle, still quoted for it today, although he absolutely took it more seriously later) didn't think there would be so much warming, and could even speculate (like some modern denialists) that maybe it'd counteract an ice age, maybe it'd be a net positive, etc. The climate scientists (and eventually, some politicians) grew gradually more alarmed as the evidence grew, not least the direct evidence of the thermometer.
Lua isn't an acronym, nor is Forth. Fortran and Lisp have officially decided to not be written in all caps any longer.
Even when they were written in all caps, it wasn't because they were acronyms (then Fortran would be ForTran and Lisp would be LisP, I guess). It was because the computers of their era didn't support mixed case well. That's the reason they, along with COBOL (note: no one has bothered renaming it Cobol) are case insensitive languages to this day.
That just means the CPU isn't the bottleneck. I don't know the details of how "real" minecraft servers are set up, but in general minecraft writes a lot of stuff to disk (since worlds get so big, and Java needs that memory for other things as well, it more or less has to).
They HAVE done a C rewrite. The mobile version definitively, and I think the XBox version as well. Go ahead and join their superiority - and perhaps reflect on the fact that there are tradeoffs to the potential efficiency gains of a rewrite.
Climate models are grounded in physics. The models have many parameters, but these are not free - their possible range is constrained by experimental data. A good model manages to reproduce past climate while staying as close to the best estimates of these parameters as possible (and most of them have already shown themselves good at predicting future climate, to some degree).
predict, and cast in concrete, the average tropospheric temperature from 2013 to 2018, with a low margin of error, and "lock it in". Cancel most "global climate change" funding, conferences, papers etc. for the next five years. If the prediction holds five years from now, then it has creds, else it's back to starting over.
You are in cloud-cuckoo land. Unfortunately, this idea that climate scientists should throw away all their work and "start over" isn't rare, nor is it your own.
It's all there, you can tweak your model as you like until it fits the historicals just right.
The parameters of a climate model - a good climate model, that is - is constrained by physics. All parameters have experimental, physical estimates - the question isn't how well the model can be fitted to the past, but how well it can remain nicely in the middle of these estimates.
Actually I seem to recall that gas produces far less CO2 for energy produced that coal or oil.
It does, but there's still a huge problem with natural gas. The reason it hasn't passed yet, is the expansion of what was previously called unconventional gas - natural gas extracted by fracking. While the groundwater issues related to fracking has gained much attention, and are serious enough, what's worse in the long run is that a lot of the gas from such operations escapes directly into the atmosphere. Since methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and fracking is itself energy-intensive (we spend a lot of natural gas to get at a little more natural gas), some studies have estimated it as on level with coal for the climate.
Another project Wikipedia can export its dysfunctional culture to... though to be fair, it seems German wikipedia is a lot less dysfunctional than the English.
It's time someone did to wikis what distributed revision control did to software projects. Easy to fork, easy to maintain specialized trees without duplicating effort.
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Rather than going by your intuition, maybe you should go to eklima, where you can access all climate data from Norwegian weather stations since 1901. It's not impossible that it should have gone the other way here compared to the globe as a whole, but I doubt it.
It's called quantitative easing. But the relationship of that policy with inflation is a lot more complex than some people would have it, it might well have been riskier to not do it - even for people with billions in the bank.
One possibility is that he has some plan with the money besides diversifying - probably something charitable, or something idealistic that he couldn't get the two other on board with.
A middle class as we know it is a fairly recent phenomenon, probably starting in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
It's a thing on slashdot now, some newbies rate insightful instead of funny because they've heard that funny doesn't give karma.
I infer that they are newbies from the fact that they want to give karma to me. It's really, really not hard to max out on karma on slashdot.
This isn't targeted at government drone planes at all, but indeed RC helicopters of the kinds geeks use for citizen journalism at protests etc.
Well, you shouldn't always. Some people do act in bad faith.
I remember way, way back, actually right here on Slashdot, I learned about organized bad faith public discourse for the first time.
The occasion was that an organization called "The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution" had published a book on Linux, which was widely reported as being a commissioned hit piece. In the ensuing discussion, someone linked to the blog of Tim Lambert, an Australian computer science professor, which was very enlightening.
Finally, Bruce Perens got the occasion to ask Kenneth Brown outright: What would it take to get you to stop attacking Linux and start defending it instead? "We can talk about that" was apparently his reply.
So yes, some people do argue in bad faith. If you keep assuming these people argue in good faith, they win, so sometimes it's necessary to call out. But obviously it shouldn't be done lightly either.
We get it, you don't like people politically different from you and you think they're acting in bad faith.
Maybe you could try to objectively measure it and write up a paper on it?
The sixties would be a late time to come with that prediction/accusation. Keep America Beautiful, arguably the first corporate environmental front group, was founded in order to preempt and oppose laws restricting disposable products - in 1953.
Why would you say this ... unless you have inside knowledge!
There were not a lot of people shouting in the desert that "LIBOR are fixing interest rates for their own gain!", nor a lot of people saying "Nixon is using illegal means to keep track of his political opponents. Guaranteed!". Conspiracy theorists tend to miss the real conspiracies, it seems.
Then how would he have reached the first post? Be reasonable.
Considering Amsterdam is (justly or unjustly) famous for prostitution and drugs, I can think of some reasons why illegal hotels would be a particular problem there - apart from the obvious one of operating a business hidden from the tax authorities.
Premature abbreviation is the root of all evil.
This is simply wrong. In the early years, many climate scientists (like Revelle, still quoted for it today, although he absolutely took it more seriously later) didn't think there would be so much warming, and could even speculate (like some modern denialists) that maybe it'd counteract an ice age, maybe it'd be a net positive, etc. The climate scientists (and eventually, some politicians) grew gradually more alarmed as the evidence grew, not least the direct evidence of the thermometer.
You used more than 140 characters in your post, this detracts from your argument.
Lua isn't an acronym, nor is Forth. Fortran and Lisp have officially decided to not be written in all caps any longer.
Even when they were written in all caps, it wasn't because they were acronyms (then Fortran would be ForTran and Lisp would be LisP, I guess). It was because the computers of their era didn't support mixed case well. That's the reason they, along with COBOL (note: no one has bothered renaming it Cobol) are case insensitive languages to this day.
This isn't 1962! We don't write programming languages in all caps just because they're programming languages.
Apropos Lua... this isn't the first pl-in-a-block mod. Lua was first.
(It also isn't an acronym, and we are past the day when all programming languages were named in ALL CAPS).
That just means the CPU isn't the bottleneck. I don't know the details of how "real" minecraft servers are set up, but in general minecraft writes a lot of stuff to disk (since worlds get so big, and Java needs that memory for other things as well, it more or less has to).
They HAVE done a C rewrite. The mobile version definitively, and I think the XBox version as well. Go ahead and join their superiority - and perhaps reflect on the fact that there are tradeoffs to the potential efficiency gains of a rewrite.
Climate models are grounded in physics. The models have many parameters, but these are not free - their possible range is constrained by experimental data. A good model manages to reproduce past climate while staying as close to the best estimates of these parameters as possible (and most of them have already shown themselves good at predicting future climate, to some degree).
You are in cloud-cuckoo land. Unfortunately, this idea that climate scientists should throw away all their work and "start over" isn't rare, nor is it your own.
The parameters of a climate model - a good climate model, that is - is constrained by physics. All parameters have experimental, physical estimates - the question isn't how well the model can be fitted to the past, but how well it can remain nicely in the middle of these estimates.
It does, but there's still a huge problem with natural gas. The reason it hasn't passed yet, is the expansion of what was previously called unconventional gas - natural gas extracted by fracking. While the groundwater issues related to fracking has gained much attention, and are serious enough, what's worse in the long run is that a lot of the gas from such operations escapes directly into the atmosphere. Since methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and fracking is itself energy-intensive (we spend a lot of natural gas to get at a little more natural gas), some studies have estimated it as on level with coal for the climate.
Another project Wikipedia can export its dysfunctional culture to... though to be fair, it seems German wikipedia is a lot less dysfunctional than the English.
It's time someone did to wikis what distributed revision control did to software projects. Easy to fork, easy to maintain specialized trees without duplicating effort.