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I don't believe anyone is saying that CO2 is the ONLY factor influencing the climate. There is the sunspot cycle, the amount of sulphur in the atmosphere, volcanos, El Nino and so forth. I also would agree that there is massive hypocrisy in the environmental movement. However this does not alter...

Carbon dioxide captures heat. If the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing then the temperature will go up. Can someone please give me an executive summary of where the controversy lies? Just in a couple of sentences.

I've never had much luck with silver for some reason. Other metals I've had success with, but never silver. What is it about silver that makes it so difficult to trade?

If speed is important then you are better off with C, which is much faster than C++. I don't see the point of C++. Most applications are overspected. With better design speed wouldn't be much of a problem.

Venus is hotter than Mercury even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Why? Because Venus has an atmosphere with a high concentration of CO2. There is almost no controversy about the equation I gave above. The only debate is the value of λ. If you think that there is even the slightest...

The equation they use to calculate temperature change from carbon dioxide is: dT = λ * 5.36*In(C/C0) where dT is change in temperature in celsius C current carbon ppm (ie 400 ) C0 base carbon ppm (280 the start of the industrial era) λ = climate sensitivity - somewhere between .5 and 1.2...

Carbon dioxide captures heat. Its basic physics. You can prove this in a lab or a simple home experiment, and you can show how much heat it captures. There isn't any doubt about it...

A cryptocurrency pegged to the gold price would be good...that would solve the volatility problem and also give ordinary folks confidence in the long term future of the coin.

Has he changed his mind? Interestingly Dennis Ritchie didn't think much of C++ either, although he wasn't as blunt...

For those who have not already seen it this is an amazing documentary. Its no longer on Youtube but you can get it on Netflix.

For people thinking of using C++ its worth reading what Linus Torvalds thinks about it.

CAKE is a play on global warming. As temperatures rise people eat outdoors, which helps CAKE's patio sales.

The Mexican peso has risen over 10% against USD since the election.

To print 'Hello world' in Go you have to write: import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Hello world") } In Python: print 'Hello world' I would need a good reason to switch to Go as a general language....

Cheesecake factory took a beating yesterday. The management blames the weather and there is a general downturn in restaurants. Is this the start of a downtrend?

Are you concerned about milliseconds or microseconds? If microseconds then Python might not be suitable, although you can compile it into an executable which is much faster.

I use Linux and VB only runs on Windows. Also VB is not open source unlike Python and C++.

C++ is faster, but python easier to code. C++ is also more widely used but python seems to be trending now. I'm inclining towards Python certainly for financial applications.

They have free data for precious metals for 40 years, but industrial metals only 5 years. Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency they have data for. They offer free data as a teaser. Once the company is established they will phase it out. Providing services for retail investors is a loss leader...

Quandl is very good and I use them. There are 2 problems however: 1. Like yahoo, they could decide to abandon the system overnight. A new manager might want to take the company in a different direction. In this case you are screwed. You can't assume they will be around for ever. 2. Their...