HexagonalKitten

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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> The steam explosion would have resulted if they were unable to prevent the core from melting through the floor to water below. But it only creates a significant explosion if the building is intact, which it wasn't at that point.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I like textualism. The point of the supreme court isn't to get everything right, it's to kick badly written law back to the legislators. How do you know the text needs fixing if you don't stick to the text? Sometimes it is ju
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
A law can be so blatantly and obviously unconstitutional that everyone can see it and refuses to arrest or charge people for breaking it. It's pretty easy to construct test examples, "Bob Smith must pay 2x tax", or "Blac
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
The SC isn't supposed to concern itself with justice, that's a sticky matter for the legislators. Their job is to make sure that the legislators followed rules (wrote laws which do not contradict the constitution) and that those l
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> Oh I see the problem: it doesn't seem like you know what you are talking about. Sorry, I couldn't afford your webinar. > Chernobyl was a potential kiloton-level steam explosion No, the building doesn't appear to have
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I think they did want it broken, they seemed to treat everything like a game. My guess is that they didn't count on the errors and that made things much harder. The time to send random message is after the successful decryption of the
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
I wish whatever you were doing had peaked. We need less of it. In fact, this is a good question. As described in this thread (a transposition cipher layered over a substitution cypher) this is something easily crackable. And in fact, in the
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> are you suggesting that experience of one set of engineers with mastery of obsolete technologies 40 years ago is somehow a gate that a current company needs to pass through and excel at before they can compete Yes. Not a gate, but a ba
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> You just took what you originally said, and said it again Only half of the last sentence, the conclusion, was repeated. But with space not being at a premium, I would happily restate something from up-thread because it can make it easi
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Assuming their costs are about 50%, and that they need to make ~$8B profit / year, they'd need to collect $16B to make $8B, so that's about $100B in rentals at 15% take. Plausible, because the USA alone is ~$90B, but why does
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Worst operating failure, or worst engineerable outcome? I mean if you took the nuclear fuel and fed it to people one lethal does at a time - yes. You could kill tens of millions. But both reactors experienced almost the worst possible opera
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It isn't quite that easy though because it's night for all 5x at once, for instance. So you need to have transmission capacity for the 4x you don't use locally, to send it elsewhere when it is sunny, and to import 1x at night
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> Can you build a nuclear reactor in less than a decade cheaper then storage and renewables? The evidence indicates no. But if you can, the world would love that, just demonstrate it's possible. Sure, the USA got to the moon in less
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Granite, for instance, has a 1200c melting point which sounds good. Its large grainy structure might cause porosity issues. And it's main constituents are silicon and aluminum, both of which do transmute under neutron bombardment. (An
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
So, what's your conclusion of one day of posting history? Far-Right? Alt-right? Full on Notsee? Transphoooooobe? Paid Russian? As far as group thinker goes, lol. I'm in the 5% side, against he 95% braying mob who dox and torment p
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> It's hard enough to convince people that it's worth their time to add their real voice to the cacophony of voices being recorded on election day. To risk imprisonment to add a couple more voices makes no sense. But the voter
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> I think the Blaire White across a room scenario suggests that pronouns are more useful in a referential sense if they're used in a way that aligns with gender presentation I think we should have defined what we think of as gender
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> We’ve established that an IP address is not strong evidence for identifying an individual. Well no, we haven't. There's one standard of evidence for conviction and another for a search warrant. You'd never get a convicti
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It's not straight anywhere though. It came over years of watching CP defend literal incel terrorists beating up lesbians who refuse to have sex with them, while gaslighting the victims and defending the attacks. CP didn't coin &q
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
This is a pretty bad article. Their expert isn't: "Butler, at the University of Florida, said making an IP address that appears to come from elsewhere isn't that complicated." And the legal analysis is weak, but that&#x2
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
It's supposedly the assumption that matters. I read it that Kepler was bothered by the rudeness to most people, assuming neutered pronouns for everyone, for the hypothetical sake of the 1%. (Note, the 1% are not here asking for this
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
You seem like you intend to be helpful, but I don't think you're as surrounded by these politics, or the disingenuous arguments, as I am. imho, Contrapoints is a homophobic monster who supports shaming people with "genital pr
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
> If you're open to a real example, the "pronoun police" at my workplace suggest that when writing about hiring candidates, we use singular "they" instead of "he" or "she", in order not to cal
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
That's not my assumption, but thanks for offering. > framing the argument in general terms is clearly specious. No. It is a general argument because it applies to everyone, everywhere, no matter your skin color or country. If you
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Which assumption? Can you quote it? From my reading, you're the one assuming that white protestants are going to do better in these tests and that is racist etc. Also, like most people, I differentiate between immigration and asylum.
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
If you take them at their word, why is it disgusting? What is wrong with cultural compatibility? Why shouldn't a country want people who will help, and not want people who won't? Is this not what countries already do by trying to
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
One problem in understanding the actual issues with mass immigration is the intentional conflation of culture, religion, and race. Religion and culture are HUGE parts of a community's behavior and race almost isn't at all. To us
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by HexagonalKitten 6y ago
Your rhetorical style is very harmful to the people you claim to support. You received criticism for your interactions and you immediately redirected that towards hatred for "trans folk" in an effort to smear the person who said