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by 08-15 8y ago
The waste management fee is not a tax. It is payment for a service that the government declared can only be provided by the government, but that it is too inept to actually provide.
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by 08-15 8y ago
> This guy [...] was making fun of my contribution That isn't entirely correct, because you contributed nothing. He (kind of) made fun of your attempted contribution. What else could he do? He could tell you in sterile, technica
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by 08-15 8y ago
The two million people (out of 17 million) who worked for Miniluv (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, known as Stasi, an oppressive secret service comparable to the earlier Gestapo) got by just fine.
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by 08-15 8y ago
I lived under Soviet occupation (in the GDR) for 14 years, thank you very much. It was a relatively good time , compared to, let's say, the stone age.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Citation needed. (Spoiler alert: they weren't.)
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by 08-15 8y ago
If the area around Fukushima is uninhabitable, then so is Denver. This irrational fear of trivial amounts of ionizing radiation is what prevents us from having abundant energy without emissions of greenhouse gasses. (But I guess that&#x27
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by 08-15 8y ago
> Nuclear power has always been tied to nuclear weapons in terms of infrastructure and technology You mean like the CANDU reactors?
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by 08-15 8y ago
The impact on free speech and fair use is not a side effect of this new law, it's its purpose.
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by 08-15 8y ago
As much as this may annoy Angela Merkel, Germany and the EU are not the same thing. We're talking about EU legislation, and translating and relating that to German, French, British, Italian, Romanian, etc. law will always result in aw
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by 08-15 8y ago
> Do these politicians really not understand the awful implications of these filtering systems for free speech and fair use? They do, and free speech and fair use are important issues to them.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Obviously. I'm non-sarcastically saying that cap-and-trade won't work, because any meaningful cap is unrealistic to achieve. The political reason is: We want cheap energy. The politically acceptable choices boil down to burn
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by 08-15 8y ago
Nope. The energy density of gasoline and wood per carbon atom is about the same. So a watt is a watt, and forest are inefficient (about 0.4%) at converting sunlight into chemical energy.
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by 08-15 8y ago
You know what's the problem with that idea? There are no "sequestration and efficiency innovations". Sequestration doesn't work and takes too much energy, and efficiency cannot be improved much thanks to thermodynamics.
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by 08-15 8y ago
I have a better idea. Leave the coal in the ground. You get the same result with literally no work!
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by 08-15 8y ago
But where does the Ca come from? Obviously not from limestone...
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by 08-15 8y ago
> Scientists know that theory and practice often are very different. Obviously! But the theory of Anthropogenic Catastrophic Global Climate Change is different. This one is beyond reproach and matches practice perfectly.
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by 08-15 8y ago
He's saying "We don't give a fuck about Dwayne Johnson, we only care about government regulations." It is true that according to IARC, glyphosate may cause cancer. So does coffee. In Johnson's trial, the plaintiff
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by 08-15 8y ago
Is this really about testing? > If (the database throws an error) { do nothing } It's paraphrased, the original was probably the C++ anti pattern of > try { / some code / } catch {...} {} Whoever wrote this should be di
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by 08-15 8y ago
Yeah, makes no difference. I imagine, the software needs to remember some state variables with time stamps, to ramp power up at a certain rate or to implement PID control of the power level. Crucially, it never needs an absolute time stamp
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by 08-15 8y ago
I wonder why the GCU needs a time counter in the first place and how it is used so that the whole controller shuts down on overflow. I bet, 16 bits would be enough if handled properly.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Doesn't matter, it still isn't stolen. Redefining the meaning of words doesn't magically turn confused ramblings into wisdom.
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by 08-15 8y ago
They knew how to go to the moon in 1961, at least in principle. It was "just" engineering. They don't know how to get to 100% renewables, not even in principle. (The 100% plans need a storage technology that doesn't e
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by 08-15 8y ago
In other words, the employees can't generate the same surplus value without the company. So the company did in fact generate some of it, so the profit isn't stolen at all, it's earned. Marx has been dead for 135 years, and p
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by 08-15 8y ago
Then maybe those poor exploited employees should go and generate surplus value for themselves without the company.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Incorporate the fission products into a glass by boiling with nitric acid and melting with iron oxide and phosphoric acid. Cast the glass into large blocks, dump those into the deep sea. The radiation is shielded, heat is convected away,
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by 08-15 8y ago
Might be China is just tired of buying waste. Yes, waste, not "recyclables". Even if plastic and paper were clean and perfectly sorted by type, you still couldn't really recycle them like you can recycle metals and glass.
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by 08-15 8y ago
> Is it cool for Jill to get on Reddit and post the code necessary to exploit the bug before Bo'M has a chance to protect their customers? It's a trick question. Jill cannot post the exploit before Bo'M has a chance to
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by 08-15 8y ago
> If you want to be a woman, just act like one and you will be accepted. But you still aren't a woman, you are omeggid.
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by 08-15 8y ago
Err, no. The police is there to enforce the law. It's the job of your psychotherapist to deal with your feelings. And I feel , this is a valid argument.
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by 08-15 8y ago
So it seems many coal burners in Denmark have switched top biomass in the past few years. I didn't know that. But someone burning wood to make electricity and someone else wasting the electricity in a resistance heater still doesn&#x

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