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Exactly, that's why runescape and world of warcraft have adopted the marxist game mechanic of automatically redistributing all resources and exp between all players at the end of every day.

Whether we are looking at 1.5C vs 8C is absolutely enormous in terms of what policies we should be looking to enact. Everything in this discussion is shrouded in a cloud of uncertainty due to the complexity of weather, and the thousands of negative and positive feedback loops which can take thousands of years to stabilize.

Popular science articles misrepresent the science and ignore the variance/complexity, in the end hurting the cause in the eyes of those who don't agree with the prescribed policies to address it.

There is a debate, it's just not on the questions you're looking at.

Climate Change is by no means a 'settled' science, one of the most important questions scientists must answer is what the Climate Sensitivity is to CO2. There's a wide range of answers to this question by scientists, depending on which climate model you use, as well as many other factors.

http://imgur.com/a/vbOM0

That's good to hear, because whether people want to admit it or not, journalists misreporting studies constantly is one of the reasons why trust has eroded.

Let me get this straight, you're saying that people should purposefully mislead the public?

Are you sure you don't support poor arguments?

theoretically, everything could be reduced to physics

Is there a thing as free will, and if so, is it explainable in terms of physics? And with consciousness (if you believe there is such a thing)? Is morality and ethics reducible to physics as well? There's a lot of presuppositions to the statement that everything is reducible to some purely mechanical process.

I have no doubt that many serious people believe as you have stated, but it's not a self evidently true claim.

Of course not. Some people seem to think pasting tangentially related wikipedia articles contributes to discussion, but it doesn't.

Yes, this is fake news. Wired is no stranger to low quality click bait.

This article conveniently redefines the definition of blue collar work. By similar thinking, are typists, receptionists, data-entry folks all blue collar?

Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty

Really?

I even agree with the premise that were going to see an increase of 'trades' style programmers assuming a certain classification of programming jobs, but the article is sensationalized.

If it works well for what you are building.

A lot of people in finance spend their entire life doing the same work over and over. Same goes for programming. There is more to work than years of experience. Though no doubt there is a correlation, not everyone gets better with age.

I believe that one reason why there is so much negatively in the javascript community is a combination of the fact that

1. Everyone knows Javascript (so everyone has an opinion)

2. It's easier to criticize something than to share original thoughts

3. Posting your thoughts about programming is popular (what percentage of mechanics blog about automobile trends?)

There is no easier article to write (and get page views) than writing a blog post about how terrible javascript/JS OSS is.

Cool! What kind of performance gain does one get by computing the DOM Diffs in a web worker? My understanding is because webworkers you do not have access to the DOM, you still have a single thread doing all the rendering (main thread).

Communication skills are certainly important. I believe we both agree communication both at an organizational level, as well at a personal level is important.

My point is that as an organization scales, you will have many teams, and teams of teams even. The wishful thinking is that you can disband this entire structure because 'we hire good communicators'.

Terry Tao is a living legend

I noticed they found a correlation between living with parents and higher education, which isn't surprising, but I think they missed a big component of it, and the effect is certainly smaller than it appears from their visualization.

Higher education correlates directly with an older average age, what would the statistics look like if you corrected for the high-education -> older age correlation? The average age of PhD graduates will certainly make them skip out on the age brackets which are most strongly associated with living at home.

I can't comment on the validity of Scott Adams claims on being censored, but he wrote a long post about it. His claim isn't that the posts never appear, but that is there was a singular point in time when his 'influence' acutely decreased. I imagine twitter has a 'relevancy' number that is required for a tweet to appear on a timeline, I suppose this could be done by upping the required relevancy for the 'lightly censored' users.

This is wishful thinking at best, companies require practical thinking because reality is corporate suicide. Not everyone will have great communication skills - and as a team increases in size, this becomes increasingly difficult.

How about the Qataar donation of a million dollars to the CF which they never reported?

The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-foundation-id...

Is this why Clinton Foundation donations have massively fallen sense she lost the election?

Are we now assuming every charity is on equal moral grounds?

He's referring to the fact that his tweets won't appear in peoples streams, this is a way to reduce his influence in the twitter sphere.

A privilege is a special right reserved for certain people. Making good choices isn't reserved for those who are middle class and above.

No doubt the path to career success is easier for those with parents who made an a collection of smart decisions, as well having made past smart choices.

If I must accept this definition of 'privilege', then we can simply call all outcomes in our life to be a direct result of the amount of 'privilege' we have.

Personally I reject this broad definition of privilege as it strips away peoples need to accept the fact that at the end of the day, they have the ability to make their own choices and develop their own self discipline.

There are world class developers who have arisen from 3rd world country level educations, there are elite athletes in third world countries who have self-coached their way to olympic level performance. Class mobility exists, and stripping away personal responsibility via the process of redefining language does not help anyone except for those who wish to just continue their life without critical introspection.

At the core, this is a political argument hidden under the shroud of being a linguistics argument.

How do you figure?

if you're not privileged enough to be a software developer.

Being a software developer isn't a privilege, it's a choice.

No matter what system is put in place, their are large, determined, and even some well funded groups which will game any and all systems to modify, censor, or punish others if you allow them the power to 'group moderate', especially in the political space - which is a very large part of twitter.

I'm familiar with some of his statements, but I can't claim to know them all.

Could you please refer me to where he said that 'all climate change science is a hoax'? I would agree that would be a factually incorrect statement though I could not find anything where he said that. My interpretation of what I've read from what Trump has said, is that Trump believes that Climate Change Alarmists (from his perspective) utilize it to for political/policy reasons beyond the purely environmental reasons that they claim.

All you need to do is look at the people twitter invite to their conferences, and associate with at their executive level to know that Twitter will only get worse in these regards.

You are misrepresenting the opposing argument being made.

The opposing argument is that people are making is as follows: 'climate-alarmists' misuse climate-science as a means of making political change.

It is not a denial of all climate-change science.

I don't care to argue this topic because I'm not expert nor do I care to pretend to be one on the topic of climate change, but this misrepresentation of the opposing views is part of the liberal-bubble so many people live in - all while smugly assuring themselves how much smarter they are than everyone else.

It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat.

Academics certainly has a liberal bias, after all, look at where they get most of their funding. Conservative professors are being publicly shamed and chased out of their positions.