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  1. Re:"deniers" only real scientists here on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are the proxies. They never show how they got those from the raw data. You post links to both, but nobody can show how they got from 2 to 1.

    Outsiders have attempted to redo Mann's work and have posted a reconstruction that produces similar results. Those reconstructions show lots of finagling.

  2. Re:So what? So the claim was wrong! on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. You're just repeating the claim again.

    People with 'physics and math' backgrounds are routinely told to shut up about climate and dismissed by 'climate scientists'.

    Also it's _not_ just about error bars, the mean value is also wrong. Read TFA.

  3. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    WTF?

    No, slumlords care if their tenants can pay on an ongoing basis. Evictions are fucking expensive and time consuming. Deadbeats suck.

    If I'm selling something for 'cash', I just treat customers as adults who know their own finances.

  4. Re:How rich? on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    Cops are going to cop. If they weren't using broken facial recognition, they'd be using their broken 'gut feel'.

    Self correcting problem, wasting their time on random innocent people will keep them from looking at what I'm up to.

  5. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm selling something.

    It's not my job to know if someone thinking of buying it can afford it. Their job, my job is getting paid for it.

    Treating people like adults is not being an asshole, rather the opposite. If someone wants to interrogate me like when I was a middle schooler (looking for glycerin, fuming nitric acid and high molar sulphuric) they can fuck right off.

    It is _immoral_ and _unethical_ to let a sucker keep his money (legalities be damned). The highest utility for the money (by definition) is for me to get it.

  6. Re: Close - She was an SRE on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I was talking about 'Executive Director of Diversity & Inclusion'. Competent engineers flee companies that have such a role, they sure don't take it.

  7. Translation is not free. The best you can get from USB drives is almost matching the SATA speed.

    eSATA is SATA. A good storage array also features a giant cache, which can get you to 'out-perform'. Not for $40 though. Consider the price of 64GB of RAM.

  8. Re:How rich? on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that wasting cop's time is a good thing. But from the cops POV, it isn't.

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

    So what? He is exactly the kind of 'unqualified outsider' that is repeatedly told to shut the fuck up by 'real climate scientists'.

  10. Re:How rich? on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, if they ever fix the false positive problem with facial recognition it will be useful.

    Today it isn't, facial recognition outside the lab is a waste of resources.

  11. Re: Close - She was an SRE on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would a competent engineer take such a useless, shit job?

  12. Re:Workers opposing unethical projects is bullying on 'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    How the fuck am I supposed to know what someone needs or can afford?

    Not my role.

    It remains an immoral and unethical act to let a sucker keep his money.

  13. Nonsense. They have had to throw away all the most alarmist models/datasets.

    Some of the early ones were so bad the first gnat exhale of CO2 would have led to inevitable venus like conditions. They just like to pretend they never published those now.

  14. Re:"deniers" only real scientists here on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Boldly asserted lies.

    Show us the link to the raw 'hockey stick data'. The best you will find are attempts to reconstruct it.

    Show us the link to the adjusted historical data. The best you will find is records of previous years getting colder as time rolls forward.

  15. My current lifestyle involves cars with 24 liter 12 cylinder Merlin engines you insensitive clod.

  16. Re:It's Called Science on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The error was _not_ found by a 'climate scientist'.

    From TFA.

    However, not long after publication, an independent Britain-based researcher named Nicholas Lewis published a lengthy blog post saying he had found a “major problem” with the research.

    Lewis added that he tends “to read a large number of papers, and, having a mathematics as well as a physics background, I tend to look at them quite carefully, and see if they make sense. And where they don’t make sense — with this one, it’s fairly obvious it didn’t make sense — I look into them more deeply.”

    Alarmists have repeatedly told me that non-climate scientist should shut the fuck up. Kudos to the journal and those of the authors that accept the mistake, but don't pretend that they found it themselves or that they are all accepting that they made an error.

    Yes, I RTFA....Hangs head in shame.

  17. Re:A lie can travel halfway around the world... on Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Truth is beauty and beauty truth.

    Henceforth all science will be evaluated as poetry by courts of law.

    Para: The Hitchhiker's Guide...

  18. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Face facts, it was hilarious. Nothing like overconfidence biting idiots in the ass.

    We'll see what happens when she isn't investigating herself. I'm hoping it will make the Ds dump their dirt, then the Rs dump their whole load. Repeat until they're both unelectable.

    Trump also meets that standard, as does Dick Cheney, LBJ and ALL the most corrupt politicians for the last 100 years. Hint: They have dirt on each other, like teenage sibs.

    Still not even an attempt at explaining open corruption. That's the shit side of the Ds. Open corruption just ignored, their side so 'not evil'.

  19. Your cognitive dissonance is showing. Read again, this time with eyes open.

  20. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It was awesome! Nothing like a terrible outcome avoided and evil and/or stupid people crying ('hearing the lamentations of their women').

    No answer. You admit she is corrupt to her core?

  21. Re:Nobody lives forever. on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ginsburg rarely stays awake through arguments. By any reasonable standard she would be medically retired.

  22. Re:There's plenty of money on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    50 years of raiding the SS trust fund, the ship has sailed. Only option left is print money.

  23. Re:Putting a stop on the promotion path. on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    You aren't putting your bird into the right bush!

    Benny Hill

  24. Re:Healthcare is the crisis on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    You're old enough to know better.

    You can put it off, but the end is expensive and ugly.

  25. Re: Everything is problematic. on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Might be, if I'm hungry.