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> As is widely published, 97+% of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is occurring.

That "97%" claim is questionable.

The usual source on that number is this paper from 2009:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2009EO030002/epdf

A bunch of earth scientists were asked to take a web-based survey with a couple questions about climate. There was about a 30% response rate. Survey question #2 was:

"Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures"?

82% of survey participants answered yes to that question. Which, sure, sounds like a consensus, but it's not a rhetorically convincing level of consensus, so the researchers apparently kept slicing up the data until they could find something better-sounding.

The salami slice that fit the bill turned out to be (quoting a Fig. 1 chart caption): "Climatologists who are active publishers on climate change", which is to say, folks who had multiple recent publications in climate journals and "more than 50% of their publications in the last 5 years had been on the subject of climate change."

So basically the finding says among people who are able to get lots of papers published on climate change, THOSE guys share 97% agreement on the "humans are causing it" question.

Out of 3146 scientists who responded, 77 were counted as "Climatologists who are active publishers on climate change". 75 out of those 77 answered "yes" to question 2, hence 97.1% agreement.

But they also broke out just self-identified "climatologists". Eyeballing the chart, it looks to me like they have about 87% agreement on Question #2.

TL;DR: Roughly 87% - not 97+% - of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is occurring. (Or at least, did so as of 2009).
Is no one else a little alarmed by the language used on their home page? Does anyone know whether or not this is a legal privacy concern?

"Crisp discovers every tiny detail on each visitor you chat with. From geolocation to device information, to full name and social profiles (LinkedIn and more). Crisp also discovers the company of the visitor. Are my visitors aware of this feature? Your visitors cannot see that you know so much about them."

"MagicType lets you view messages as they are typed. ... Visitors are not aware of MagicType, and cannot see what you type in response. Only you can see this."
> Publicly disagreeing with a colleague is categorically different from protecting a colleague's source

The infuriating part is that they're not admitting to the fact that they're publicly disagreeing.

Sure, it's obvious if you know the facts - their paper published the details of PRISM. If publishing those details was wrong, then the editors who chose to run that story were wrong.

But they never say that.

If this editorial said "Snowden should be charged, and those journalists from this paper who chose to publish the details of programs such as PRISM should be fired and be investigated by the relevant authorities" then it would at least be honest (and also a horrible betrayal of both the paper's source and its staff)

But they won't admit that when they claim Snowden caused ' “tremendous damage” to national security', that they need to level that same charge at their own colleagues.

If Snowden acted against the national interest in providing documents to journalists, then an even stronger claim can be brought against the journalists who published those stories to the public. That The Post chooses to ignore that is pure cowardice.
Sure. That's why there are more quality-oriented practices than unit tests. Personally, I'm also a big fan of pair programming, collective code ownership, automated functional testing, good run-time monitoring, weekly retrospectives, and doing a five-whys for every bug. Even with that bugs happen, but hopefully not very many of them.

Still, when I'm worried about other programmers breaking something, I write unit tests. Library code should have good tests that document the purpose of the shared function. And my general experience is that when I break some shared library function anyhow, I'll see other tests going red. Unit tests are my first line of defense for this sort of problem.
Wouldn't that require having an internal visa system? While some countries do it (China), it's a bit antithetical to having a unified country with a single foreign policy
Thimble uses Adobe brackets for the editor, which is built on CodeMirrorc which is the main OSS competitor to ACE/Bespin.
> I'm referring to something that is completely independent of its outputs. Is it not conceivable that a man who is missing both his arms and legs, mute, blind, and deaf, can still have a conscious ego?

The brain has many internal inputs and outputs, even more of them than external ones. Even if you imagine a completely isolated brain that can't see, hear or move, it's still exchanging signals internally. For instance, such a brain could fabricate a dream world, create (possibly nonsensical) images to feed to its visual cortex directly, and so on. Its conscious experience would be whatever it builds for itself, operating through these internal input and output channels, shaped by random noise and whatever memories it may have of real things. It's what dreaming is, basically. That is consistent with my view.

If, on the other hand, you ask me to imagine a mute, blind, deaf, paralyzed man who also has his brain cut up in such a way that it can't talk to itself, then no, I do not think that it is conceivable that the man has a conscious ego.
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Jeff from PipelineDB here. We are also rolling out a SaaS product based on PipelineDB called Stride (stride.io) that enables this type of computation via an API with little to no overhead.
My own thesis is that when modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed, they would have appeared uglier to our ancestors than they do to us - because we are no longer subject to selective pressure to avoid mating with Neanderthals.

http://thinkinghard.com/blog/WereTheNeanderthalsUgly.html (2006)
The "MagicType" feature is actually very standard in the online customer service industry. If you've ever talked with Apple customer service, they could see what you were typing as you were typing it.
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The article quantifies the major cost of increased immigration as "the earnings of [high school dropouts] dropped by between $800 and $1,500 each year." It describes the benefits to immigrants as "Immigrants, too, gain substantially; their total earnings far exceed what their income would have been had they not migrated."

To take a specific example, maids in India make about $3 a day. If they had the opportunity to move to the US and do similar work at say minimum wage that is at least a 10-fold increase in their earnings. While the cost of living in the US is much higher than in India, its mostly because the quality of life here is much better. Back home she probably lives in a tiny shack in a slum with no running water. If she lived in the US college-dormitory-style, it would be a massive upgrade of her living conditions and still allow her to save money to say give her children a better education.

So what we're weighing here is $1000 reduction in the wages of some of the most vulnerable Americans against a life-altering opportunity to the most vulnerable global poor. I don't really see how Borjas (or anyone else) can pick the side of the Americans in this ethical dilemma.

Take another example. Say a college educated Indian female decides that she is sick of the sexism in India and wants a better life for herself. Using the large amount of resources online she teaches herself programming and becomes as good as people who graduate from coding bootcamps in the US (so not a stellar programmer but a net positive with proper guidance). Her primary competitive advantage is that she's willing to work harder and for lower wages than the Americans graduating from coding bootcamps. Requiring that she be paid the same (or more as many commenters have suggested) prices her out of the market.

So the choice we face is whether we allow her to work as a developer for say $40k a year which she would vastly prefer to being stuck in the shitty circumstances of her birth at the expense of perhaps reducing wages for American programmers from say $70k to $60k a year. Again I don't really see how this is a difficult ethical decision.
Is there any kind of communication network for homeless, homeless advocates, homeless volunteers, etc. to communicate various local initiatives that have proven productive in improving the lives of homeless people?
I've been keeping an eye on this one for the next time I needed a system of this sort. Looks promising...

https://github.com/chrislusf/glow
https://github.com/Pingus/downloads
We both agree that there exists stupid laws. That is beyond a doubt.

Our disagreement revolves around what to do about the fact that there are stupid laws.

Your argument is individuals should be allowed to decide which laws are stupid and obey/disobey accordingly.

But I'm not sure what your premise is.

My problem with your argument is that it renders the concept of law meaningless. Then, for example, doctors are free to decide whether they want to follow certain required safety procedures based on their own opinion, etc.

My argument is an individual should not be allowed to decide which laws should and should not be obeyed. Instead, that decision should be made in a group context, whether than be Congress, referendum, organized protest, etc. My argument is based on the premise that letting groups decide what is a good law is better and safer than letting an individual decide. A group context (in general) is self-correcting.

I'd rather put up with the hassle/ potential injustice of having to obey stupid laws (with the option of trying to change those laws and in the case of egregious injustice, the option of group civil disobedience) than risk the possibility of a biomedical company skipping some important tests because they think they're frivolous and know that they won't be held accountable.

So again, I'd apply this group decision making principle to the laws you just listed. Btw, I don't have time to research all your examples, but in the case of the law against walking around with a cold, I believe you are referring to this law[0]. I see it as you can't purposely sneeze on someone or donate tainted blood, etc. But that's beside the point.

Well, I think that's all I have to say on this topic. You have your opinions on it and I have mine. Although, to be honest, I'm not clear on your arguments and premise. You just list examples of stupid laws. The implication is why should anyone have to obey these stupid laws? My answer is they shouldn't if a critical mass of people decide they are stupid/unjust etc.

Thanks for the discourse. Also, I need to apologize to you for my uncharitable first comment.

[0] http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.54.050
It seems oddly short-sighted for SV companies to place blame on the messenger and not, say, the espionage system that created an ecosystem where it's perfectly sensible for people to ask whether their data is actually secure when stored on the servers of companies headquartered in a nation that spies on its own people.

The US could easily have ruled the world in terms of technological sophistication in the cloud services space if the government had been able to keep its sticky fingers off of data that it didn't own. The fact that it couldn't is really the government's fault, not the man that exposed it. A secret this big doesn't stay secret.
Would you say the same if the hero was from Russia or North Korea or Syria?

Would it be OK to leak documents from there and then flee their judicial systems?
Good for him. This makes me happy. We need more people with this attitude in the world.
And what if the propositions we want to reason about are self-referencing or say something about the system itself in a Godelian way? You need probabilistic reasoning for that to actually work.

Also, "simply prove/disprove the propositions" requires infinite computational resources (we don't know how long the proofs will be or if there are any). Logical induction does not.
Unfortunately iTunes is still better than the competition. I also know that isn't saying much.

RIP Rdio, Lala, and countless others. Hell even Beats was better!
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Stop reading the news.
"Spotify" just switch now and never look back
How to Design and Build a Hyper-Fast Test Automation Stack
Even a 1X liquidation preference is screwing the founders. Here's my opinion: Dollars are fungible. If a redneck gives you a dollar for your beanie baby, that dollar is as valuable to your bank or to walmart as a dollar coming from a lawyer in an expensive suit. It should be no different whether that dollar is a dollar in cash from an investor or a dollar in salary that an engineer gives up.

So, If an engineer gives up $70k a year in salary to work for a startup, the "options" should have an intrinsic value of $70k a year (the numbers that vest in that given year.) So should the RSUs. Anything less is cheating that engineer.

Those options or that stock should have the same participation as the venture capitalists. I will accept preferred having some narrow advantageous rights, but it should be only a few that are essential and make sense. Right now these deals are loaded down with double dipping that screws entrepreneurs because it is "standard practice "and "VCs need to cover their risk" -- but this is BS -- VCs have less risk. The VC is in many deals, the entrepreneur isn only one.

If anyone should get LPs it is engineers. So the company I'm founding next will have one class of stock, or if it has two it will be the founders and employees with preferred stock. (and sure VCs will balk, until they are desperate to get in on the deal-- but you should be raising money not when you have an idea or because you want to be able to pay yourself, but when your investors are desperate to get in on the deal. If that sounds unrealistic, then you're following the standard startup model, which is designed to screw founders, and now I'm getting circular so I'll get off this train.)

RSUs can be granted, with no cost, as a form of compensation. I think that's the better way to do it.

Options require an exercise price which is the source of a lot of hassle. For instance an early employee gets pushed out because someone wants his equity, so he has 90 days to come up with $35k/year (so $70k if he's been there 2 years) to exercise his options he's already effectively paid $70k a year (in lost salary) to get.

Options are very tenuous- they can be cancelled or adjusted in acquisitions (according to many terms) etc. RSUs have none of these problems. (Though the tax situation might be worse for them, but that's showing the IRS or the people who lobbied the IRS for the rules, setting it up to screw employees.)

I could go on.

Founder Shares are just shares with special rights for founders. Google and Facebook had them.
I really dislike this new dedup algorithm.

I feel like I'm reading Hacker Rehashed News
"This experience of “blacking out” probably speaks to the lack of frontal-cortex activity during the moment — hitters aren’t using the part of the brain that’s best for mapping out complicated, deliberate decisions, so maybe it’s not surprising they bypass the frontal cortex and use deeper, darker parts of the brain."

That sounds a lot like descriptions of the "flow state" from other domains.
Well, I use Firefox, and just disable WebRTC :)

So does uBlock allow web torrents, while blocking webRTC leaks? I doubt it, because peers need to know public IP address. Unless you run a VPN client in the router, anyway.
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Absolutely agree. It just doesn't work well for music I own that isn't on Spotify.
$3.6 trillion is only a portion of just the materials cost. It's like the price of lumber, as compared to the total cost of building a house.

Elon chose that particular spot because the economic of solar is geography dependent. The infrastructure costs of distributing 100% solar will be astronomical.

I think you could pat yourself on the back if you figured out how to make it work for only 20x the cost of just the panels.

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> As I stated above, I have no idea how to estimate the cost of nuclear

There is extensive data about nuclear costs, both estimated and empirical.

In 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated total captial costs for nuclear power at $5.4k per kW. http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/beck_plantcosts/index.html (This is a rather safe estimate -- the EIA reported inflation-adjusted costs for actual, real-life plants build in the 1960s was $1.5k per kW. But I'll use the higher estimate.)

The U.S. used 3.9 trillion kWh last year, twenty percent of which is already nuclear. So that's $1.9 trillion of capital for 100% of U.S. electricity to come from nuclear.

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At this point, coal makes the most economic sense of course. And the U.S. has enough for the next couple centuries.
Its not about intelligence, its about beliefs. Beliefs do not indicate intelligence. For example, I have an identical twin brother who makes more money than me with a highly technical job and is quite religious, and I am an atheist. I have another brother who is a senior principal engineer who thinks Islam is an inherently violent religion and is enthusiastic about the middle east invasions, whereas myself I believe that to be propaganda going back to the Crusades.
How do you feel about a ribeye steak?
My headache is painful. It might be called "SSD-to-GPU P2P DMA".
It May Be 2084 Before the World Reaches Universal K-12 Education, UNESCO Says
Ahh yes, but it is intuition that gave you these words. :)
That's awesome. Do you have any others??
That's a pretty naive.

The big three made the same dumb arguments a hundred years ago... third party parts have never been a problem. People fought hard for the right to get replacement parts, and it's a shame we need to re-fight this battle because of the lemmings among us.
"Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system"

It's a much better rule as originally stated than as misapplied.

That's not to say that there won't be exceptions, even to the original rule.
I think going in with the DMCA was understandable. Not sure what had been done before you decide to call the reporter and Al-Jazeera out as thieves on Aug. 28: https://twitter.com/Hiddemhigh/status/769636034749558784

Was that necessary? I mean, at that point, how much resistance had they been giving you? They are in the wrong no matter what you call them on Twitter, but I can see them being even more recalcitrant after that. Having worked for and with media orgs, this feels like a classic case of crossed wires and ineptitude; the vast majority of editors and reporters at Al-Jazeera and elsewhere have no clue about what copying CSS/assets mean. That is, they think of webpages as being some immutable discrete package, as if someone had sold them a video.

Being a big news org makes them move a bit slower than is ideal. Throw in the factor of this being freelance work, and then the tech component, and yeah, I could see incompetency being the reason rather than malice. I agree with the original commenter that this was a possible sales opportunity with one of the few online media orgs with actual money and runway to try out different story-telling forms and vendors. This was a needless way to antagonize them.

More importantly, you've dampened the possibilities for other relationships to news orgs. Web devs/techies at media companies, having had to deal with a decade of Web incompetency by media cos, are likely to side with the possibility that this was an honest mistake. And these web devs are already reluctant to outsource content-production/delivery to a third-party. If they're ever asked about using scrollytelling.io vs. any of the other possible vendors, this incident is not going to weigh in your favor.
GOG may release it if enough folks vote for it. They specialize in releasing out-of-print games bundled inside of a DOSBox installation:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/lemmings

I personally own an old DOS CD-ROM that still works in DOSBox (so you could always go that route until then via ebay etc)
California Has a Staggering Amount of Pension Debt
What Jeff believes is right is what accrues to Jeff more power. The founders of Google, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, Jobs and Wozniak, the early Sun people, they all made mistakes and might have done bad things. Generally I think people running businesses are doing so because they want to make a dent in the universe. I don't buy the idea that CEOs are sociopaths (which seems to be a common perception). But if you told me you believed Bezos was a sociopath I would suspect you were right.

I only worked there a couple years but I had more interaction with him than I would like (though he never chewed me out) and usually, I'm eager to get close to the CEO and learn what I can.
How much of an investment is to learn vimscript? I want to write some plugins but I also don't really feel like learning it. Wish I could use different langs but from what I'm hearing I'd have to learn vimscript anyway.
Ethereum Nodes Crashing, Someone Attacking the Network Again?
The Aeropress is genius!
Does that not depend significantly on physical screen size, though? I'd imagine that you'd want fewer larger words per line on a phone screen than you'd want on a 24" monitor.
If The Post believed that publishing the details of these programs was not in the public interest, then the news would have been "The Guardian newspaper recklessly endangers national security by leaking details of legitimate classified programs"

Actually leaking the details themselves isn't a neutral act, they willfully participated in the process that their editorial board is now condemning.
A few years back I purchased for my iPad what seemed like a spiritual (hah!) successor to Lemmings: Spirits.

http://www.spacesofplay.com/spirits/

I enjoyed it for a while, but despite its beauty it never really caught my imagination the way playing Lemmings on the Mac did.
Sometimes what you have is a coincidence, not an abstraction. In that case, you should duplicate the coincidentally-identical implementation.
Yep, cloud sync is the only reason I still use Apple Music.
RAM-to-GPU is always faster than SSD-to-GPU. It is a solution to help a situation when data size does not fit RAM size (or when user has less budget to purchase enough RAM. In fact, we can purchase Intel SSD 750 (400GB) with 300USD).
Great work. You brought your product to market! Don't mull over what you didn't do.
Have you tried baking your bacon yet? Line a shallow baking pan with foil and lay out strips, put it in a cold oven and turn it to 400 degrees. For thick-cut bacon, it will be done in 22-25 minutes. The ends may get a bit crispier, but it does such a wonderful job rendering the fat throughout the slice. SO tasty. None of the chewy partly-cooked fat. At all.
MLB releases an edited/condensed version of every game for free:

http://mlb.com/mediacenter/
Wow, I didn't know BOINC had GPU support. I hate running an AWS GPU instance due to the cost, so I wonder if BOINC is an eventual solution.
I played baseball at the collegiate level and definitely agree that color was the biggest indicator of pitch type for me. Curveballs were very red, fastballs were a mix of red and white, and splitters were almost completely white. Before a pitch, I would visualize what color and location I was looking for and if the pitch looked like it matched, I swung and hoped for the best.
Am I missing something or is this thing streaming?