Huh. I would have guessed it was entirely VCs, but apparently they've been getting funding lately from banks, including Morgan Stanley and Softbank. My guess is they were able to get better terms from the banks? An alternate explanation is that they were planning on going public soon, I guess.
I don't know about megion, but I've spent my life around scientists
Likewise, the quality of your posts and thought tends to be significantly higher than meglon's. It is very obvious that you have read scientific papers, and not surprising that you've written them. In meglon's case, it is not at all clear, his post doesn't even reference science, and his post is full of rage. I was in fact genuinely interested if he had ever read a scientific paper, and if he had, then that at least is something that can be built on.
Their blogs are not peer reviewed. And for a good reason: they wouldn't pass peer review.
Stick to the papers, you are definitely capable of higher level thinking than blogs.
As long as you don't admit that the models are wrong, you're opposed to science. The paper says it is due, at least partly, to "systemic deficiencies" in the models.
btw, if you think the cause was volcanoes and solar activity, http://www.academia.edu/421041...">this paper talks to you. You'll have to find some other explanation. ENSO doesn't work as an explanation either, since it's oscillated both ways over that time period. Specifically (quoting from the paper):
a significant increase in recent volcanic activity has not been recorded, while variations in solar insolation or activity still require rather speculative amplification mechanisms that could contribute to the observed recentdecrease in global warming
There are very prominent activist scientists in the AGW community who are willing to make outlandish predictions unsupported by science if it helps change things. Their goal is political, apart from science.
The
probability that multi-decadal internal variability fully explains the asymmetry between the late twentieth and early twenty-
first century results is low (between zero and about 9%).
that emphasize slightly more the "We don't know" aspect of the clathrate stability.
Yes, those scientists are hoping that with enough research, they will be able to find something scary. Scary enough that maybe the world will finally be frightened into taking action. Those are mainly activist dreams.
The possibility of a catastrophic feedback is indeed the wild card in global warming calculations: there is a lot of carbon dioxide and methane trapped in frozen soil and in undersea clathrates, and it is indeed possible that there is a threshold above which these will be released, dramatically increasing the temperature.
It's not a "wild card," it is considered so unlikely by scientists that after consideration, the IPCC didn't even put it in their report as a reasonable possibility. Nature has a good summary of the research:
Catastrophic, widespread dissociation of methane gas hydrates will not be triggered by continued climate warming at contemporary rates (0.2C per decade; IPCC 2007) over timescales of a few hundred years. Most of Earth's gas hydrates occur at low saturations and in sediments at such great depths below the seafloor or onshore permafrost that they will barely be affected by warming over even 10^3 yr.
How can anyone be this bad at their core business?
Their core business is, literally, collecting and sharing information. They shared it with a few too many people in this case, but hey, can you blame an over-achiever?
Uber's had $11billion worth of funding so far, and they're leaking money like a leaky lawyer, but they should be able to survive with that money lost (of course they are absolutely losing this lawsuit).
Still, waste a billion here and a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. Waymo than I have.
DRM schemes aren't going away and having standards around them seems like the best path forward.
No. Having them byzantine and hard to use is a much, much better option. Fragmentation will keep them from being used as much.
The only reason to favor this is if you want DRM.
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Huh. I would have guessed it was entirely VCs, but apparently they've been getting funding lately from banks, including Morgan Stanley and Softbank. My guess is they were able to get better terms from the banks? An alternate explanation is that they were planning on going public soon, I guess.
I don't know about megion, but I've spent my life around scientists
Likewise, the quality of your posts and thought tends to be significantly higher than meglon's. It is very obvious that you have read scientific papers, and not surprising that you've written them. In meglon's case, it is not at all clear, his post doesn't even reference science, and his post is full of rage. I was in fact genuinely interested if he had ever read a scientific paper, and if he had, then that at least is something that can be built on.
Uh......have you ever even read a scientific paper in your life? You have a lot of rage there.
Their blogs are not peer reviewed. And for a good reason: they wouldn't pass peer review.
Stick to the papers, you are definitely capable of higher level thinking than blogs.
Dang it, messed up two of those links. Here they are fixed for your convenience:
Paper 2
Paper 3.
These papers have been coming out http://www.stat.washington.edu...">for a while, and they will keep coming out. Eventually scientists will come up with explanations for why the models are wrong, and will fix them. Seriously, do you look at this and say, "Oh yeah, that's right"? If so, what is wrong with you?
btw, if you think the cause was volcanoes and solar activity, http://www.academia.edu/421041...">this paper talks to you. You'll have to find some other explanation. ENSO doesn't work as an explanation either, since it's oscillated both ways over that time period. Specifically (quoting from the paper):
a significant increase in recent volcanic activity has not been recorded, while variations in solar insolation or activity still require rather speculative amplification mechanisms that could contribute to the observed recentdecrease in global warming
There are very prominent activist scientists in the AGW community who are willing to make outlandish predictions unsupported by science if it helps change things. Their goal is political, apart from science.
The probability that multi-decadal internal variability fully explains the asymmetry between the late twentieth and early twenty- first century results is low (between zero and about 9%).
that emphasize slightly more the "We don't know" aspect of the clathrate stability.
Yes, those scientists are hoping that with enough research, they will be able to find something scary. Scary enough that maybe the world will finally be frightened into taking action. Those are mainly activist dreams.
The possibility of a catastrophic feedback is indeed the wild card in global warming calculations: there is a lot of carbon dioxide and methane trapped in frozen soil and in undersea clathrates, and it is indeed possible that there is a threshold above which these will be released, dramatically increasing the temperature.
It's not a "wild card," it is considered so unlikely by scientists that after consideration, the IPCC didn't even put it in their report as a reasonable possibility. Nature has a good summary of the research:
Catastrophic, widespread dissociation of methane gas hydrates will not be triggered by continued climate warming at contemporary rates (0.2C per decade; IPCC 2007) over timescales of a few hundred years. Most of Earth's gas hydrates occur at low saturations and in sediments at such great depths below the seafloor or onshore permafrost that they will barely be affected by warming over even 10^3 yr.
How can anyone be this bad at their core business?
Their core business is, literally, collecting and sharing information. They shared it with a few too many people in this case, but hey, can you blame an over-achiever?
Because $6.5 billion in annual revenue is impressive enough to keep investors engaged.
Uber's had $11billion worth of funding so far, and they're leaking money like a leaky lawyer, but they should be able to survive with that money lost (of course they are absolutely losing this lawsuit).
Still, waste a billion here and a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. Waymo than I have.
This seems to be the general hope that somehow DRM will fail and go away
No, it is the hope that it will remain as painful as possible.
I will also add that I think you personally are trash for advocating DRM.
Problem solved. You know what your problem is? No imagination.
DRM schemes aren't going away and having standards around them seems like the best path forward.
No. Having them byzantine and hard to use is a much, much better option. Fragmentation will keep them from being used as much.
The only reason to favor this is if you want DRM.
The technical backbone for flying cars seems to be there already
Has anti-gravity been invented? No? Then the technology is not there yet. Cars falling out of the sky is not an acceptable solution.
How long until Apple collapses into a heap of the past?
tbh their mistakes aren't much worse than Microsoft's or Ubuntu's though, so maybe they'll keep going for a while.
but 99% is not always good enough.
Yes it is lol, don't kid yourself. We're talking about systems built on Wordpress here.
Eh, in the real world I've found there are also non-advertising-caused things that are bad. Like cockroaches and getting punched in the face.
Has Apple trademarked 'the notch'?
It's likely they will, in the past Apple has used design patents to protect that kind of thing, and they've won lawsuits with them.
I blame everything bad on the internet on advertising. Everywhere that vile filth goes, it ruins.
The salary ranges in their calculator look low to me.
Tesla is a coal powered car, depending where you live. Just sayin'
In fairness, Mandiant as a company probably sucks as badly as many corporate IT security services, and did little to actually help Equifax.