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What is the false positive rate, though?

I think the normal cycle is actually more like 25 hours (what you get if you live in a cave and don't know what time it is outside), but certain impulses throughout the day push it…

Research in that area is unfortunately very politically loaded. I don't think simply claiming "there is a lot of research" in such a politically disputed subject is sufficient. As …

OK if they consider all Chinese investments "money laundering", their theory seems more plausible. Still needs verification, though.

Why would it displace people, if you build cheap houses to sell to Chinese Investors? That an influx of money doesn't benefit the economy would also be interesting for most Western…

I'm not convinced. If Chinese investors buy properties unseen, you could build lots of cheap apartments and sell them for lots of money. Sure it would be wasteful for a while, but …

I'm not sure the former owners of the houses would agree. They made good money from the houses they sold to Chinese people. Is that necessarily a bad thing?

I have not been to Vancouver, but it sounds very attractive: next to the sea and the mountains, good health care, working democracy and civilization and so on. It does not sound im…

"A plausible explanation" - sorry, no. They offer a "just so" story. Science it ain't.

I'm sorry, but does that article offer ANY evidence at all for the impact of money laundering, except for the "just so" story in the middle? ("money launderers beat up prices, and …

It has nothing to do with social media. It is the leftist agenda infiltrating everything.

I haven't really seen Quantum Mechanics applied to climate science, though. Maybe it exists, but it doesn't seem to feature high in the public discourse. So I guess it is all bunk,…

So you are taking the contents of the article at face value, but somehow I am the silly person doing mental gymnastics? Common sense is essentially how people think. Scientists are…

You are thinking in Quantum Mechanics? Or scientists do, as opposed to normal people? Because scientists are somehow "superhuman"? "how much evidence there is in the "there is no c…

I guess you could describe all science as "mental gymnastics". And all we humans have is common sense. "The simple truth is you've already made up your mind about climate change in…

I don't understand the story. He was given several warnings that his stuff would be destroyed. Why is it Amazon's fault now?

First of all I criticize the alarmist headline. As for the article, I know see data goes only back 41 years. Is that even a meaningful geological timeframe? Also there often seems …

Even if imperceptible slow (to our human senses), there would eventually a point of "ice free in October". A simple report about that event doesn't tell me anything about the rate.…

Fair enough, but then such headlines are misleading or useless, as they don't tell us anything about the rate. They suggest melting ice in general is cause for concern, when really…

But doesn't arctic ice all be floating in sea water mean it has no effect on sea levels? Why "there is no going back"? Since it has been ice free in the past and then ice came back…