Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 6y ago
Solar panels produce energy in a sine wave. Once the peak of the sine wave exceeds energy demand, you start hitting diminishing returns. The fluctuations in wind production are more complicated, but it's subject to the same problem. Yo
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
> > A few thousand were estimated to eventually die from cancer related to the incident. > How many people could conceivably be downwind of a nuclear meltdown? I think it could be much much more than that. I can't imagine why
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
> Am I seriously supposed to ignore the fact that nuclear metldowns have the potential to kill millions of people — because they didn't in 2012? Can you elaborate on how meltdowns are supposed to be able to kill millions of people?
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
You dig a hole into impermeable bedrock, and put the waste there. Or if you're the Soviets, you just dump it into the Arctic ocean.
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
> Plus, there's nowhere to safely store the waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository#Nuc... There's also no good reason to dispose of waste at the moment, since we don't reproce
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
That's not a particularly good solution, since it doesn't halt climate change. We're already starting to hit during peak renewable production in several states. We're reaching the point where those peaker gas plants are
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
Or there could be equal ability, but population-wide differences in preferences, demographics, or other factors. Is it your position that men are underrepresented in teaching and nursing because these fields are highly biased against men? L
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
If the goal is to have equal opportunity, but inequity is assumed to be indicative of unequal opportunity then that's just a long-winded way of saying the goal is equity. > Same in tech. There are stigmas and discrimination against
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
I've encountered a slightly more nuanced equity position that comes in the form of supporting equal opportunity, but simultaneously claiming that inequitable outcomes are indicative of unequal opportunity. If the goal is to fix inequal
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
> To make things more equal for Bezos and to strike a blow against equity, naturally. This is exactly my point: a flat tax rate would be more equal, but less equitable. And I do support a tax code that is more equitable, rather than more
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
"Average" can mean median, not mean. If 10 men all have 3 sexual relationships, and 7 women have 1 sexual relationships and 3 women have 10 sexual relationships it evens out.
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
I worked at a company that set a diversity target of 33% women in tech roles. In the same all-hands that announced this target leadership said using our definition of a "tech role" 20% of the workforce was women. To achieve this,
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
I'm not sure how Costco works specifically, but that's not the case in all retail. At GameStop, game publishers only got paid when their games sold not when they were put on the shelves. If there are 100 disk cases put on the shel
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
Isn't that also incorrect? It would presumably pay the normal corporate tax on it's profits. It's just that Amazon reinvests it's revenue and thus has no (or little) profit.
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
I'm still not understanding the distinction here. Costco and Amazon both sell company-brand products, alongside non-company products. Costco and Amazon collect and analyze sales data from the sale of both company and non-company produc
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
Your second link puts forth some very dubious examples of coercion. In reality, laws vary by state. While some of the examples it lists (such as threatening physical violence) unambiguously invalidate consent, others almost certainly do not
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
I don't know what the law is in Germany, but here in California the threshold for alcohol isn't intoxication it's incapacitation. What happens if two intoxicated people have sex with each other? They're both simultaneous
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
Maybe in the case of financial agreements or other contracts, but that's not how sexual consent works with respect to alcohol. Otherwise, what happens if two people are both drunk and they both have sex? They're both simultaneousl
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
There's also the possibility that you believe the testimony of the accusers, but what they allege is not sexual assault. What exactly is Pretty being accused of ? The two women's statements talk a lot about how their relationship
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
At least here in California (and presumably much of the US) the threshold isn't merely intoxication. It's intoxication to the point that someone is incapable of consent. Not impaired judgment or above the legal driving limit, but
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
We need to be able to listen to accusers. We also need to be able to evaluate the accusations honestly. If it's taboo to express doubt or skepticism of accusations of sexual impropriety, then that isn't functional either. I think
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by Manuel_D 6y ago
My interpretation was that Damore said that forcing 50/50 outcomes is discrimination, and more broadly the claim that all gender disparities are entirely caused by bias is not correct. He laid out specific discriminatory policies (repr