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Brede··on EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Technically, we can say no. But our politicians never do. My guess is that they do not want to step on any toes, which could make getting a sweet job in Brussels after their term ends harder.
Brede··on Rise of Bitcoin Competitor Ripple Creates Wealth to Rival Zuckerberg
The difference is very simple.

If you buy all ripple tokens in existence, they are useless. If you buy all facebook stocks in existence, you own facebook.

Brede··on Ask HN: Do you use earplugs and/or headphones to better concentrate?
Bang Olufsen H9, worth it.
Brede··on Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience
The default is to raise your kids well, anything else is subpar.
Brede··on Causes of differences in model and satellite tropospheric warming rates
There are a number of misconceptions regarding 'hide the decline':

1) The "decline" does not refer to a "decline in global temperature" as often claimed. It actually refers to a decline in tree growth at certain high-latitude locations. This decline began in the 1960s when tree-ring proxies diverged from the temperature record.

2) "Mike's Nature trick" has nothing to do with "hide the decline". "Mike's trick" refers to a technique by Michael Mann to plot instrumental temperature data on the same graph as reconstructed data over the past millennium.

3) The divergence of tree-ring proxies from temperatures after 1960 is openly discussed in the peer-reviewed literature and the last two IPCC assessment reports.