DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
Considering that part of the TVA's original purpose was to provide jobs for American workers during the Great Depression, "don't hire H1Bs or send jobs overseas" actually seems like a reasonable stipulation.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yeah, that's a fuckup! But that's also not relevant for NYC. Look, some Republican governors fucked up (and continue to fuck up) for political reasons. But some Democrat governors, including Andrew Cuomo (governor of NY) have also
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Can I setup my own instance that peers with 5 of the top servers by user count at the same time? So pawoo.net, mastodon.social, switter.at, joindiaspora.com and gab.com? Or will some instances ban you by association?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And if that's the minimum you're willing to accept, that's fine! I'd also be ok with evidence showing kids don't die at more than 1 per million and also don't spread the disease to others. (This implicitly valu
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And I continue to not deny that the federal government has continually failed . Instead, I've been saying that they're not the only ones to have failed, and that they're not always the ones with the most control. (Federalism
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by DuskStar 6y ago
But Bill Gates is only a good person to listen to when he agrees with the current political zeitgeist - otherwise he's a billionaire monopolist who should thus be ignored. Honestly, I'd love to hear what circumstances people would
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, when someone seems to be claiming that "everything would be fine if Trump wasn't a fuckup", I try to push back with "even if Trump wasn't a fuckup, there's enough other breakage in the way to prevent thin
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> while various state governors refused to do anything because acting sensibly contradicted their political beliefs. Aaand yet all the worst outbreaks early on were in the bluest parts of blue-or-purple states, and were under the control
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And yet, Sweden never closed their schools - and as far as I'm aware didn't have increased incidence in teachers relative to the rest of the population. This article is about a teacher who got sick despite not having students the
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, sure. But similarly, most people today would agree that Tumblr was not worth nearly 1.1 billion when Yahoo bought it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Only 200 races? That's honestly a lot less than I expected. There's probably at least 100 contentious races in the House and Senate, for instance, and that's before even looking at state races. And really, the important thing
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by DuskStar 6y ago
To be fair, it was also partly government (or government-leader) sponsored, so not really the sort of situation where the government keeping tabs on the "media" might have helped.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Just a thought experiment - if there were reporters from "the boogaloo times" wandering around protests, would it make sense for the police to keep track of them? If your conception of the protests/riots is that they're
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And considering how much it's alleged they stole from Nortel, that's not irreconcilable.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And yet, the US is not the first country to ban TikTok for national security reasons, if I'm remembering India's recent actions correctly.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I think no one should be trapped within their country because their country won't let them leave . Being trapped because no one wants to take you is a very different situation.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And other people are voting the opposite way by leaving.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, "no violence that I have personally seen during the day" doesn't really have any relevance to "is there violence during the night" - and all the police brutality / protester violence / arson etc vide
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, one of the two has safety features installed to make sure that the laser doesn't blind anyone, and the other doesn't. So yeah, the military version is actually a fair bit safer and less damaging than the would-actually-b
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I feel like you must have never read the bible, or even interacted much with a christian, to say this. EVERYONE is a sinner. That sin is then forgiven.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Most of those few dozen soviet reactors are still in graveyard orbits today, in fact.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, here's a few counterpoints. > -renewable energy is essentially infinite on the moon. the moon can reach 120c, easily enough to drive steam turbines. there is plenty of room for both terrestrial and tethered orbital solar sails
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Along with just about every other deep-space probe, and the recent Mars rovers. RTGs just give so much more power per pound in the outer solar system. True reactors - not just RTGs - are a bit less common, but have a long history of use i
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Not gonna happen because it takes 3 master nodes to have a quorum and 1 separate worker node. You don't, strictly speaking, need separate worker nodes. You just need to untaint the masters. Or you can just run the masters on raspb
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> In fact we know that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the non-immigrant population. Are you looking at illegal immigrants here, or just legal immigrants? Because it seems like this would be trivially false for illegal immi
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The fact that the Court tries not to do something like that is because it is also a political actor searching for stability. This sounds to me like someone saying that the Queen of England has the power to dissolve parliament - and jus
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Isn't Cap+Trade just worse at everything (except optics) than an appropriate carbon tax?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, the answer seems to be "back to the streets", since the guy in the video everyone seems to have seen was released without charges...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
If your ICU is at 80% capacity, with 20% COVID and 60% everything else, that means you can DOUBLE the number of COVID patients there before running out of space, whereas if all of the patients were COVID patients you could only accommodate
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by DuskStar 6y ago
As opposed to the DNC motto of "Government works, you're just not giving us enough money". Both parties are dysfunctional.

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