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  1. That said, the important thing is not the "2m higher on a typical day" aspect, but the "2m higher on top of storm surges" aspect.
    That does not make any sense.
    Sea levels are on most nautic maps defined as the lowes thinkable point in the lowest low tide (earth, moon, sun in one direction).
    So sea levle rises would obviously based on some nautic system, and not on a hypothetical storm surge.

    In other words: if you look on a sea map, the water depths are given for low tide, in nip tide situations.

  2. Re:Those numbers are fine with me but ... on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that is actually an interesting angle of viewing at it.
    However my ex GF lives now in the US, I don't want yellowstone to explode, even if it would solve so many problems.

  3. Re:Global Warming news cycle on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Predictions are close to irrelevant.
    Relevant are observations.

    So far every year the observations are on the upper edges the IPCC has dared to publish.

  4. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Of courrse an AC is a heat oump.
    But if one says heat pump he means a pump used for heating, not a pump used for cooling.

    And the parent claimed he uses the same heat pump in summer for AC and in winter for heating.

    Using the heat pump in winter for heating and using air makes on most places of the earth no sense at all ...

  5. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    My appologize, I exagerated. As I don't watch TV I missed them.
    Nevertheles the point is and stands uncorrected: we basically habe no armed robberies.

  6. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    I actually studied physics, besides computer sciense.

    If you have winters where the outisd air is below freezing point regularily, like the parent implied, a heat pump that uses air is a bad idea.

    It is basically always a better idea ti have the heat source underground, regardless how cold it gets.

    Erm .... heat transfer inthe ground is probably 100 - 1000 times faster than in the air: water.

    Perhaps you should study physics or check wikipedia for thermal capacity of water/soil and air.

    Actually we did not talk about heat to be transfered out, we talked about heating, that is pumping heat from outside into the house.

    No idea why you got that reversed.

  7. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    And, in your country you have no groundwater 3m below the surface?
    So I conclude you life in the Sahara?

    Actually I did not talk about thermal sink, but about heat source.

  8. Re:It's the population increase on The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a ver missing, which easy can infere from the context.
    No idea why, probabl I selected it while tapping on my ipad and it got overwritten ...
    Who cares ...

    As long as I have no obligations to mock other people about their spelling and speaking skills, I belive I'm the better human, verus the kind of you :P

  9. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe I said 'basically none'.
    And in a discussion like this it is obvious that I meant 'not the absurd amount' they have in the USA.
    But if you think nitpicking makes you look smart then nitpick.

    Point is: we have nearly no armed robeert here for many reasons and one is people can not simply buy a gun in a store for 100$ go to the next jewlery store and rob it.

  10. Re: uh oh on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps you should read and grasp the links you show.
    The hurricane link is about hurricanes thad made _landfall_ in the _USA_
    It ignores all other hurricanes, that did not make landfall, all taifoons etc. or Orkans.

    You link about ice in Antarctica is also moot. The article claims that bottom line - due to global warming - there ends up more snow. Ice is melting a very little bit slower than it is repaxed by snow.
    Befor that article researchers estimated Antarctica would contribute about 0.27mm sea level ride per year.
    Now they estimate it is reducing the sea level rise by anout 0.23mm per year. The difference is 0.6mm in sea leacel rise: were they don't know from where it is comming

    Oops, that was not the bullshit you wanted to tell us, right?

  11. Re:Plausible explanation: microwave guns on Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No idea abiut the recording, but there are two ways to produce perception of sound: fake signals in your nerves, that is what you suggest, or side effects in your head from the damage, which would be real sound you hear.
    Just touch your head with a microfone, and it will record that same sound your, if it is real sound.

  12. Considering there is zero precedent for any kind acoustic phenomenon to cause symptoms like this
    Do you live behind the moon or under a rock?
    We have sound effect weapons since the 50s ... most wales, Orca, Dolphine can stun small enough prey with as an ultra sonic pulse ...

    There are infra sonic riot control weapons that make every one womit in its influence area.

  13. Oh oh, of courrse an IP adress is evidence!
    The question is what you can prove with it!

    My router has a static IP adress, if you get packets from that adress, you know they come from my rooter. That is pretty solid evidence.

    What you don't know is: who behind my router has sent the packages.
    And what you also don't know: was the router active at a certain time, or was it deactivated and somone else temporarily used my IP adress 'somehow'.

    Nevertheless you have a solid starting point to start further investigations.

  14. I have no real opinion about the topic (don't know enough about the story), however this is wrong:
    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
    Evidence is evidence, regardless how mundane, and regardless how extraordinary the claim is. That is a basic principle of science and law.

  15. Hehehe, you made my day!

  16. Well, regarding capturing: you can simply keave your emabassy and capture one outside.
    Regarding microwaves, you can aim and focus them probably over a mile or more. Think about masers, microwave lasers, they can be focused probably for dozens of miles.

  17. On /. you always need a controll group. Because without it is oooouuuu not science!
    A few years ago I posted my counterexample: you have 50 parachutes, 25 are placebos, the other 25 are real.
    Both groups don't know in which group they are, we simply later check who landwd with a placebo and who landed with a real chute.
    Obviously without the placebo group we never would know if the real chutes realy work ...

  18. Re:Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    You want to tell me someone sold you the idea that a heat pump that uses air from outside of the house to heat your house is a good idea?
    And you want to tell me you failed for it?
    And you actually have such a heat pump?
    Really?

    Facepalm.

    You burry pipes in the ground, 2 or 3 yards deep, deeper if it is reasonable. That is how you "heat pump" heat into your house.

    An outside house AIR heat pump is basically everywhere an idiotic idea. I can not imagine in a minute of thinking where that would make sense ... but well, who am I ...

  19. Re: Is there a way to do real work? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    This is the dumbest thing I ever have read about heat pumps.
    I should make screen shots and post it on face book.

  20. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    So we had 3 in Germany and one in Italy which I missed. (in a whole year! how much di you have per week?) /.s fault! They do not post news about robberies in Germany!

  21. The only technology from "america" we use are:
    iPhones
    Macs
    an other intel based processors.

    Where you saw culture, you pillaged.
    So did the US.

    The difference between YOU and the U.S. is that we try to fix it
    No you don't.
    You still hold south america as hostages, murdering their elected rulers if they dare to cancel 100 year old unwilling signed contracts
    You still hold minor asia (what you call middle east) hostage to sell oil for dollars and not Euro or Renminbi.

    in the American century, we have seen world poverty begin to decline.
    You should become a dictator or a new Goebbles.
    While the literal sense of the words are "correct" they are not true. The US had no influence on world poverty declining. It had a big deal in increasing it in South America, Africa, middle east and Asia.
    It is just so that the development aid programs of the rest of the world and the powers in the countries affected, outpaced americas attempts to destroy the world, or those countries.

  22. Re:That does not sound plausible on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    The story is about the cost of transactions.
    Not about the mining costs. Or did I miss a point?

  23. Re:That does not sound plausible on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it does not. Not even for a country like USA where electricity is super cheap.

    You want to tell me, 9 households together pay $9 in a month?+

    Ha, ha ha

  24. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Get over your self-righteous attitude.
    You sem to be an idiot.

    So you found 3 armed robberies .. show me the others then.

    Thank you.

  25. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Staged, with lots involved who did not know, but suffered the consequences.