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They do not have time. Only realistic alternative is nukes (takes many years to build) or an LNG import terminal (started already, takes years to build). All the alternatives to de…

Almost certainly they'd searched for that doctor to get directions?

And that's why I said "nobody thinks that", indeed. Nonetheless, you seem to be fluent. Lots of people around the world speak some English but aren't fluent, don't get dubbing or s…

The current situation is not in any way desperate. All claims that a desperate crisis exists are based on the assumption of feedback loops that do not yet show up in any actual dat…

You originally claimed "Look at Brexit, it has caused economic harm". A direct causal assertion. Now you've switched to "various organizations claim it will cause harm" which is a …

Used Jira at the last company. Use YouTrack now. YouTrack is better, hands down. Much faster UI, more keyboardable, better integrated into the IDE, integrating it with CI and mailb…

Latest versions of YouTrack come with a knowledge base and pretty flexible workflows support. I'm curious why YouTrack never seems to be listed as a Jira+Confluence competitor, giv…

Yes. Google's first decade was notorious for their terrible products. That's why nobody used anything made by Google before 2016. Ye gods. What has become of that once great organi…

That supports my point, no? The paragraph you cited boils down to "there is an association between being less sick and not getting Alzheimer's (i.e. being less sick" + "there seems…

In the UK people vote for parties and not individuals almost all of the time, so the whip system is there to ensure people get what they actually voted for. A good example of where…

The polls said the same for the British population before the referendum process started. The population changed its mind before the vote. Actually, you have to be careful with pol…

The problem with this argument is as follows: 1. National governments do not have control. That implies that for each government, they could ensure the outcome they wanted, which i…

Only a small minority of people actually think continent sized governments are a good idea, especially in Europe. Most people think this is self-evidently a bad idea, which is why …

Having once been a heavy user of emacs and then switched to IDEA, I'm not sure emacs actually is more extensible. The IDEA API is enormous and very powerful. Plugins don't seem par…

It could be reasonable but like I said, it's a massive stretch. Flu vaccines are not designed to stop Alzheimer's. There is no argued or known biological pathway through which that…

We're talking about epidemiology though. Their papers routinely contain major, grievous errors that anyone can spot in five minutes. There might well be subtle errors too but it do…

It's not facetious. It's quite the stretch to say that if you assume literally any injection could cure any disease, it's OK to describe any found correlation as a "link". This sor…

If they're going to claim causality for vaccines->less Alzheimers then yes, they need pretty close to 100% confidence for that because this is the sort of thing that gets translate…

"The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects" The COVID vaccines are also "known" to be safe and with few side effects, by the sort of public health people who like t…

The quote isn't offhand, it's directly and explicitly making claims of causality, e.g. talking about the "effect" and saying the vaccination "reduces the risk". Yes the paper says …

That's a curious inversion of cause/effect. You're suggesting people have latched onto this movie specifically and are trying to "claim" it as non woke even though it's not? There …

Wouldn't that be an oil company? I think his point is that with liquid fuels you have more decentralisation and buffering of energy.

Nobody thinks that, but: 1. English is an unusually compact language. If you watch dubbed movies you will notice that the characters often have to talk extremely fast compared to t…

That's why the new Top Gun is such a monster at the box office. It's a "woke zero" movie in which you believe the characters are actually competent because you watch them train. Th…