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The 97% claim is bullshit: https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps...

I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.


"The warming is a whopping 0.8 degrees over the past 150 years, a warming that has tapered off to essentially nothing in the last decade and a half."

This article is bullshit.


As thee declared so, it must be...


Would you like to address the quote? Warming has not stopped in the last decade and a half. Quite the opposite.


While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.


> While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.

It's my understanding that notwithstanding the current accomodations, systemd is the future for Gentoo, is that incorrect? I'm not a Gentoo user, just what I've heard from people who are.


It is my observation as an outsider to Gentoo and Arch that the people who use them are not wholly opposed to everything not systemd (or OpenRC).

* http://repo.or.cz/archnosh.git

* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nosh


where did you read that? I thought they were sticking with openrc.


I was thinking of another strategy could be a git plugin that had a config file of salted hashed secrets. If someone tried to commit something with a secret, it could then stop it before it was leaked.

Of course, you'd need to collect all the secrets beforehand, but if you are willing to do that, it would seem to be a better solution.

I was thinking this and later I fell asleep and had this dream, where my girlfriend kept saying, "Hey... Hey... Hey..." over and over again. I woke up and it turns out there was a bird chirping every few seconds at the same interval.

Time is strange, though. I saw a star trek episode recently where there was time dilation on this particular planet. They were trying to beam out the occupants. It got me thinking, if I could beam out to a spaceship where, say every second on the spaceship was a year on planet earth, would I do it? I have this vague feeling of regret, like I'm missing all those moments on between on Earth while I'm there. I suppose I'd experience the same number of moments, spread out as they were, though.


If most people ends up investing in strictly index funds, it would end up badly foe them but I don't see it by itself causing a destabilization. Just a lot of people making sub market profits. It would take a large amount of people doing fad based investing and switching all at once cause destabilization, such as what happened during the dot com bubble and the housing bubble.

If investing decisions get slower in general, then I think it would be a good thing. The number of company decisions made only for only the next quarter rather than long term profitability would be much less if it took time for people to switch the companies they invest in rather than doing so instantly, which would in turn make a more efficient and stable market.


The people shorting Twitter got together to buy a new yacht? Cool!


You've heard the song, "Dude looks like a lady", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.


You've heard the song, "A Boy Named Sue", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.


I don't follow.


In other words, religion trumps modern medicine for mental illness. I agree, but I don't see this tribe's beliefs having a special status or better probability of success above any other religion.


There isn't much of a difference between religion and psychology (I'm talking about applied one, psychotherapy). As far as I remember the only method coming from evidence-based medicine approach is CBT. Everything else is based on anecdotal evidence.

The problem of the article is that it ignores physiology which is evidently related to mental illnesses. A lot of illnesses have genetic factor.

I actually don't like calling inherited conditions illnesses. And I'm talking about anything including diabetes. You can't get sick with bi-polar disorder or diabetes. They're given from birth. You can't be completely cured and have to maintain yourself with medications for the rest of your life.


If you have the requisite genetic triggers, bipolar has only a chance of popping up. It's triggered by circumstances in your life that present significant stress/hardship.

Next to that, there are also plenty of people that manage to wean themselves off medication after they've been on it for a few years. It's not something you're necessarily stuck with for the rest of your life.


I hope so. Have you got any links to read about first-hand experience of going off medications from a person with bipolar disorder?


Yes you can. You can have all sorts of genetic dispositions, which may or may not express themselves depending to the lifestyle and environment they are up against.


In both cases, the planet would carry on. It depends on your perspective as to which matters more, human intelligence and knowledge, or nature. I personally believe the former is more important than the latter, although that doesn't mean I don't value the latter as well.


Evolution does not select for (y)our ideas of "importance".


So? Human beings have the ability to make a huge impact on the environment, and therefore the value assigned by people to various outcomes and tradeoffs does matter.


You shouldn't care about magic internet points. I wish I would have been able to read your comment.


How about open a wormhole in space time to travel back in time and fix things in the past? Both have about the same probability of happening.


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