Moocat87 (u/Moocat87)

Moocat87 commented on Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data aws.amazon.com/earth/... · Posted by u/thecodeboy

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

I'd like to see the National Snow and Ice Data Center's data (soil moisture, sea ice cover/concentration, snow cover [looks like MODIS is already available], permafrost, glacier outlines) on AWS.

I know there are people there that want to see it happen, but it's a matter of cost. What incentives/programs does Earth on AWS offer to assist stewards of public data to make it available on AWS?

Additionally, I think some of this data is normally behind URS/Earthdata Login, what did the politics of making the data available on AWS without URS look like?

Moocat87 commented on Are rich people meaner? Two teams find errors in each other’s work retractionwatch.com/2017/... · Posted by u/abrax3141

warent · 8 years ago

Do you have any research to back up that claim? In my experience, selfishness and self-interest leads to isolation where nobody will help you with anything worthwhile. Gotta care about other people and be a team player to succeed

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

>selfishness and self-interest leads to isolation where nobody will help you with anything worthwhile

Cultivating relationships to one's own benefit is a form of self-interest. This is about self-interest, not antisocial behavior. You can have one without the other.

Moocat87 commented on MacOS 10.12.6 Source opensource.apple.com/rele... · Posted by u/tosh

eridius · 8 years ago

This is not FUD. This is the actual position of Apple Legal.

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

Those can both be true.

Moocat87 commented on Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies” replicationindex.wordpres... · Posted by u/skmurphy

brianberns · 8 years ago

I agree that soft sciences are much more likely to be seriously flawed.

That said, working technology absolutely is experimental validation of the underlying science on which it is based (if any).

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

>fire worked as a technology well before we truly understood underlying physics.

Just following the analogy; what science was fire validating during that time? Just because something works doesn't mean it wasn't created by trial and error.

Moocat87 commented on California ballot measure to decriminalize adult use of hallucinogenic mushrooms latimes.com/politics/esse... · Posted by u/prostoalex

johnwheeler · 8 years ago

To me, it's obvious that if you give unrestrained access to something and increase its availability, more people are going to use it. I'd be leery of reports that say otherwise. In fact, the current opioid epidemic is a testament to this.

Mushrooms are not for everybody. I don't want my kids using them. Should they be illegal? I don't know. I'd take them being illegal over making them easier to obtain.

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

Nobody is suggesting prescribing mushrooms for any pain greater than a pulled muscle and covering it under insurance like we do with opioids. If I wanted an opioid recreationally, I'm pretty sure I'd have a hell of a time finding it. The opioid "epidemic" is _not in any way_ an issue of unrestrained access or availability.

Moocat87 commented on Why Is It So Hard to Study Marijuana? medium.com/ucsf-magazine/... · Posted by u/happy-go-lucky

throwaway91111 · 8 years ago

Well, it's not crazy. Look at how effectively phillip morris axed vaping nicotine. They've effectively destroyed any chance of producing the stuff without several million in float per flavor. That is, the only ones left standing after the new DEA laws will almost all be owned by phillip morris members.

It is easy to demonize a single thing (smoking) and regulate a whole bunch of things (anything with nicotine in it) related without a rational connection (is the vaped substance as carcinogenic as smoking?). I have full faith there will be anti edible campaigns.

Moocat87 · 8 years ago

Can you please elaborate? I don't think I've heard of this story, but when vaping started getting popular I wondered how the big tobacco companies would control the market. What do you mean by "several million in float per flavor"?

Moocat87 commented on Greenwald: "The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism at Its Worst" firstlook.org/theintercep... · Posted by u/randomname2

classicsnoot · 10 years ago

The second tweet [Could the journos...identify yourselves?] is my question. In fact, wouldn't it be slick to have a simple table of journalists/publications, major world events, and a simple list of check boxes whether they were for, against, or indifferent/agnostic? Maybe even some indicator of when they change their initial position. Might be useful to see which organizations consistently have to/chose to switch their positions over time...

Moocat87 · 10 years ago

This is an interesting idea. An information management tool like git could accomplish this, but it would be really interesting to see this automated or self-reported or something like that. Although... the kind of company that you would use a tool like this to "discover" is not the kind of company that would self-report this data.

Moocat87 commented on Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death bostonmagazine.com/news/a... · Posted by u/cjbprime

epipsychidion · 12 years ago

Suicide is a choice. I fully agree that MIT acted abominably and in an ethically, if not legally, questionable manner with regards to giving evidence and support to the prosecution but not defense. But you can't blame them for his decision to take his life. It was an incredibly selfish act given the intense pain it caused his family.

Moocat87 · 12 years ago

Another word-for-word echo of the top comment in this thread.

Seriously? I'm not blaming MIT. What did I say that indicated this? I'm arguing about "suicide is a choice." It's not. Choice has something to do with it, but to say it is choice is asinine. To say that is to never have been depressed or truly known another person who was depressed or suffering from another mental illness.

Also, is it not selfish of a family to expect a person with mental illness (or other serious problems) to suffer for the rest of his/her life just so they can delay the loss?

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icn2 · 12 years ago

I am just curious if he makes $65/hour how come he didn't save up 300 hundred ? It is just 5 hours his time.

Moocat87 · 12 years ago

Because someone hasn't hired him (recently)?

Moocat87 commented on Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death bostonmagazine.com/news/a... · Posted by u/cjbprime

chmike · 12 years ago

No. I don't think that and I didn't said that.

Cite? Just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide.

From the graphic shown on the page, not all suicide are caused by mental illness. That was my main point.

I have some doubts about the mental illness importance shown in this graph. Anyway, the mental illness could be the source of pain leading to the rational decision to end it by suicide.

Moocat87 · 12 years ago

I don't think 40-50% qualifies as a "small fraction."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suicidecases.png

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