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That is not at all what I, nor the author, is claiming, and instead of retorting with a shallow dismissal I recommend you review the HN guidelines.

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, provides many examples of how Wikipedia articles are heavily biased towards mainstream viewpoints. https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia…

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The effect size is quite large. From the paper, The differences were substantial: in some cases, such as total brain volume, more than a standard deviation. The effect size of d = …

I did not bring global temperatures into the discussion as I don't believe they pose as serious a threat as increased CO2 levels. Wikipedia has a nice graph showing estimated globa…

Which is moving the goalposts and changing the question. He's asking if a "hypothetical human time traveler" could survive hundreds of millions of years ago, and based off historic…

>It's common knowledge, especially among the scientists that publish claims about rising CO2 levels, that Earth has had much higher levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the …

>A hypothetical human time traveler, however, wouldn't survive a hypothetical time travel back to [the Cambrian explosion]. I assume you are referencing about CO2 levels. Yes, arou…

Fair, but that doesn't detract from the point that CO2 levels maintained 1000-2000ppm for over 100 million years. This was during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, when life was…

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1... On a geologic timescale, CO2 levels were many times higher than they are today. >In very general terms, long-term re…

Coffeeshops only need to print a piece of paper and tape it to the wall. The cost of compliance is less than $0.20 I think there are better arguments for your PoV than this one.

The pedestrian is 1) wearing black 2) not wearing any sort of safety reflectors 3) crossing in darkness not under street lights. In the safety video I linked, it's clear that such …

I think the point the poster is trying to make is that if the pedestrian was looking while crossing the street, they would have ample time to react to the oncoming car. Car headlig…

>A human driver could have seen the person and/or bike from a long way off. Not true at all, the person was not standing under lit streetlights and was in the shadows. Humans have …

I have read the lawsuit, and it accuses Facebook of making false and misleading statements in their data privacy policy. It takes issue with this section of Facebook's privacy poli…

What material fact did Facebook lie to their investors about?

It is. In my experience, Cogent has more peering problems than other transit providers do (e.g. L3). The submitted article is a clear example of this. I don't find these peering pr…

The real takeaway is that Cogent over-promises and under-delivers. If you want reliable transit, switch providers.

I am sorry, but you are still making the same mistake I pointed out earlier, conflating statistical concepts with colloquial ones. You don’t seem to understand the point I am makin…

You are playing word games with the phrase ‘considered normal’. The phrase has different meanings whether you consider it from a statistical (as the submitted scientific paper woul…

> but does not strongly suggest that close to normal people on average have a difference A valid point, but that does not apply to Google engineers because their hiring practices d…

I'm addressing this point. Earlier you stated > it seems like he hasn't touched the editorial side at all which on the surface looks true, but under the surface isn't. Bezos has be…

The change in coverage occurred before Trump was president, when he was still a candidate competing for the 2016 Republican nomination. This wasn't just 'a new interest in reportin…

He has touched the editorial side. Bezos personally ordered the Washington Post to cover as many stories as possible on Trump and the Post dedicated 20 full time editors to him at …