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Thank you for taking one for the team, dear friend! You have to dig deeper though and finish what you started :).

> My biggest gripe with Python in production is that it isn't statically typed. With mypy ( http://mypy-lang.org/ ), it could be.

Experiences produced by particular strain can vary wildly even for the same user, so it boils down to experimenting with different strains in different settings and finding out wha…

While it's generally true that it isn't, some strains may produce quite strong auditory and visual hallucinations for some users.

Your Pavlovially conditioned denigration of quite believable assumption that some entities have huge amount of influence on the economy is even more impressive. Never tired of empl…

And the quote war goes on :) Mr Siegel asserts that dark matter hypothesis is better than any kind of MOND (and, may I add, his opinion is expressed in over-confident and even dogm…

"It might sound like a story from a parallel universe – but it’s true. The Bullet Cluster isn’t the incontrovertible evidence for particle dark matter that you have been told it is…

"The goal of Buddhism is not to create an alliance to eventually rule the world and compete with evil Western forces, but to develop a way of life through personal enlightenment th…

How come nationalism is evil? What's evil about me wanting to live with people with whom I share cultural heritage, language, ethics and peculiarities of perception of life? What's…

"Point to" is not confident enough. Even skepticalscience, the "alarmist"-side site, admits that "While clouds remain an uncertainty, the evidence is building that clouds will prob…

It does build on the fact that increased concentration of CO2 reduces EM waves emission (in the parts of frequency spectrum that can be absorbed by CO2) from Earth to space. Earth …

Suppose that new discovery in natural climate variability provides IPCC with better models, and these models show that CO2 has only minor influence on global warming and climate ov…

I don't mind AGW at all (it's obvious that human activity influences the climate, and probably the effects of deforestation are as severe as effects from CO2 emissions), but I find…

Convincing part stops at cloud feedback for me. The CAGW builds upon following argument: increased concentration of CO2 reduces the EM radiation's emission in frequencies that CO2 …

@swampangel: https://www.insidescience.org/news/scientific-consensus-almo... here you go

There are climate scientists who are proponents of CAGW and who believe in creationism: http://www.christianpost.com/news/climate-change-evangelical... Does it automatically make C…

It is not always true. Imagine the system, where the government is a primary source of grants. There is a possibility that government will prefer funding the scientists whose work …

Ok, the minority view was wrong in this particular case. Minority views were also right in some other cases. "Climate change denialism" - what's this? Is there any scientist out th…

Dyson is a renowned physicist interested in climate science. I believe that his physics/math skills and general intelligence allow him to be quite competent in climate issues. Lind…

Well, I'd need a bit more than "minorities are rarely right" to switch sides.

Why should one trust majority, and not minority, if "minority" people are also qualified and respected (Spencer, Curry)? There were episodes in the history of science, when the maj…

How is consensus settled, when there are renowned scientists out there who object the CAGW hypothesis? Roy Spencer, Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, Freeman Dyson - are they all boug…

Is something wrong with tox? It is a p2p messenger that works on smartphones.

The first part is sarcastic. It's a shame that you have to resort to "preventive self-denigrating" when voicing valid concerns about the FRS, which is basically a facade for a bunc…