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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Finland has two other disposal sites in operation since the 90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
It's politics. The US already built a waste site in Yucca Mountain, but never bothered to actually use it for political reasons. Digging a shaft half a kilometer into bedrock and sealing it is not state of the art.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
You can dig in bedrock that has no groundwater. Furthermore, naturally occurring uranium exists in groundwater and needs to be filtered out in places where levels exceed safe limits. So it's not like burying waste is creating a new pro
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
This is the one I was referring to, though I guess it's just over half a kilometer deep: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... The Asse II site used an existing mine to avoid having to ex
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Teleportation? You dig a tunnel underground, put the waste there, and fill the tunnel. It's been done before, it's not revolutionary engineering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
2) I asked about waste buried in the ground, not in transit. 3) if a waste barrel explodes, somehow, underground how does the waste make it's way through a mile of bedrock? 4) Again, how does a fire bring the wast up through a mile of
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The Cass review was not, in fact, rejected by most reputable medical institutions. Unless, if course, your criteria for "reputable medical institution" includes support for puberty blockers and hormones treatment in minors. The UK
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
This is one of the more recent studies: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8039393/ The desistence rate for this study was 87%. Most other studies fall in the range of >70% > At the time of follow-up,
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
What are the conditions under which nuclear waste buried a mile deep in bedrock will post a risk to society?
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The issue with this framing is that it ignores blockers' influence on desistence rates. Without blockers, 60-90% of kids presenting with gender dysphoria desist in cross sex gender identity by adulthood. But when put on blockers, nearl
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
There's a very big difference between giving a child undergoing precocious puberty blockers until they're 11, and giving a child blockers with the goal of preventing them from every undergoing a same-sex puberty. The latter has a
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The Cass review, most notably, pointed out that the research supporting these claims are extremely weak. In particular there have only been two randomized controlled trials studying blockers in minors, and neither of them saw improvements o
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> Should Google have civil libel liability for what they publish on YouTube? They do. What they don't have liability for, is content that users post to YouTube.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The study found that that female applicants have 2x the positive vote rate as identically qualified male applicants when applying for faculty STEM positions (the study investigated other fields too). I'm not sure how this isn't ev
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
I have not been at a single company that anonymizes its interview pipeline. Are there some examples of companies that do this? I know Interviewing.io does, but they don't have the final say in hires. They just forwarded candidate to co
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Your own study showed a preference for women. Look at the row "female gender" in the results table: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00142921220019... More positive bias than negative. None
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
As I said in my first comment, the nature of dog whistles is that some people use it innocently, without invoking the deeper context. > ...only intentional processes that ensure everyone gets a fair shake. Care to elaborate? The overtly
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Are the policies I've laid out not explicitly discriminatory? You realize that outright denial of employment on the basis of gender was one of the policies I listed. If your strategy is to simply tell people to disbelieve their own lyi
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Then DEI proponents should be honest about the fact that DEI isn't about curbing discrimination, but deliberately engaging in positive discrimination. One of the biggest things about the DEI discourse that puts me off is the dishonesty
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> But DEI practices happened not because of anecdotes, but data on systemic bias Often said. Rarely backed up by such data. Efforts to measure bias in tech has consistently shown preferences favoring women: https://www.pnas.or
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> DEI is not redistribution. It's eliminating bias that favors the powerful groups, mostly white guys, that have benefitted - many unwittingly - from that bias for all of US history. If you want your job on merit, if you want a fair
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
And one of my previous companies, Indian male applicants were categorized as "ND". Negative Diversity. Even less desirable than whites. Your stories don't cancel out, they add up: most DEI programs I've seen have discrim
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Because "DEI" is a dog whistle [1] for discrimination. Every DEI program I've witnessed ultimately worked through discriminatory means. Remember, offering a "bonus" for reaching X% of a certain demographic is no dif
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> how do you cope with the fact that your weekend leisure ride is often a massive noise disturbance for hundreds of people and animals? If you don't modify the exhaust of a motorcycle, it's noise levels are not different than a
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
A ring camera can do image recognition and store durations of video where a person is in frame. I'm not sure what the privacy difference is between these two. Is lidar and radar recording that much more of a privacy concern than video
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Human drivers have dash cams, too. Maybe without as sophisticated a data ingestion system as google, but they could theoretically put their dashcam footage on youtube if they wanted to.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Y'all take a toothless, mostly lip-service kind of program and have hysterics about it. How is a reservation system toothless? We were literally designating a chuck of headcount as women-only. This is the most explicit form of dis
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
So Australia: 1. Passed a law mandating that companies pay royalties when they link to news articles. 2. Passed a law fining companies if they don't show news articles. This seems like straightforward trade manipulation. Basically, a t
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
There are two very specific facts to refute: * UC Berkeley received 893 qualified applications * Of those applicants, 679 were eliminated solely because their diversity statements were deemed inadequate. If someone seeks to disprove the cla
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> However, other University of California schools have published this information. In one recent search at UC Berkeley employing substantially similar evaluation techniques to those that UC Davis used, there were 893 qualified applicants

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