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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Did you respond to the right comment? I'm not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that I have even a remotely positive view of communism or attempts by the government to replace free markets.
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Neoliberal policy as defined in Abundance didn't fail the working class, because those policies weren't put in place in most blue cities. Housing is expensive in San Francisco precisely because the reforms outlined in Abundance we
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At UC Berkeley, over 75% of faculty applicants were rejected solely based on reviewing their diversity statements: https://thehill.com/opinion/education/480603-what-is-uc-davi... Rather conspicuously, Asians had t
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Writing code may not be the ultimate objective of software developers, but it is one of the primary tools to achieve that objective.
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> Ah yes, the "fuck you got mine" status quo approach. No wonder people are upset about it. Again, most people aren't upset with their healthcare, as per the linked research. Your perception that Americans are largely di
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People have contradictory expectations of healthcare. They want it to be more efficient and avoid waste, but when the healthcare company institutes systems of accountability people complain about paperwork. What's your silver bullet to
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How does single payer healthcare solve problems? You point out that this means people can blame the government for poor quality service, but you don't actually explain how this will improve service. The murdered United Healthcare CEO w
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Some insurance claims get denied, but plenty of them are approved. It might surprise you to learn that most Americans are satisfied with their health insurance: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elect
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United Healthcare had a 6% profit margin last year. They spend something like 85% of revenue on medical care. Health insurance is one of the most regulated industries in the country. What is your proposed change to fix healthcare in the US?
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> Having been around the planned parenthood lines with screaming terrifying threatening christian folks Did that expose improve your opinions of them?
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Associating a political initiative with an unrepentant murderer is a pretty bad idea. Imagine anti-abortion activists decided to make James Kopp the centerpiece of the movement.
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Because the text isn't displaying directly on the headset screen. It's being displayed as a 3d pane within the virtual desktop: https://roadtovrlive-5ea0.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/... So the
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I'm told by co-workers that the way to use VR headsets for coding is to make the text size large, but to create multiple large text panels. With VR, you essentially have low resolution virtual "monitors" but they're very
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Dams don't double as energy storage in the same way as batteries. Their rate of recharge is limited by precipitation. You can't run a dam turbine in reverse and fill the dam with excess power (you can with pumped hydro, but we hav
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Unfortunately 12 hours of storage is still going to be a shortfall, even with overproduction. Researchers analyze historical weather data and simulate how renewable grids would perform on that historical trends, measuring periods of underp
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> I have already given you all that but you keep dodging No, you have not. The quotes you posted just list various storage systems and don't bother to set specific capacity requirements. I'll ask again: How many TWh of battery
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> Here's the quote you missed: Nowhere in that quote does it list how much of each type of storage is required. Again, they just list a range of storage systems, most of them never deployed at scale, and just don't even bother
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Again, why are you talking about cost, when the real question is viability ? How does the study you linked plan to accommodate intermittency? The answer is just a vague statement about storage mechanisms: > Storage of energy is an impor
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For the third time, I never said nuclear was cheaper than contuing to burn natural gas. It has the distinction of being the only non-intermittent source of carbon-free electricity besides geographically contrained sources like hydroelectric
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If you've already provisioned enough nuclear plants to meet peak energy demand, producing less energy has no marginal cost. Alternatively, you can just keep operating at full capacity, and give energy away for free and use it for ene
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They could always build more nuclear plants to fill additional demand. Again, non intermittent sources don't need supplemental sources of energy, as long as there's sufficient supply. By comparison, a country cannot possibly run
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Using absolute units instead of proportional figures is deceptive. This is Frances' electricity generation breakdown: https://aleasoft.com/france-leading-european-nuclear-energy-... Fossil fuels are 7%.
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Correct, continuing to emit fossil fuels is cheaper than decarbonization. But some of us are trying to stop, not merely delay, climate change.
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"Base load" refers to electricity demand, not sources of electricity. Things that consume electricity are a "load". The "base load" is the level of energy demand that is always present in the grid. E.g. if a gr
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This is precisely why intermittent sources aren't viable without a breakthrough in energy storage. Existing storage mechanisms aren't capable of delivering at the tens to hundreds of terawatt hour scale required to make intermitte
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Nuclear power is indeed a silver bullet. France supplied > 85% of its electricity demand with nuclear (with the rest being filled by pre-existing hydroelectricity). As is hydroelectricity and geothermal power for those countries with the
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Heating and cooling cannot be easily load shifted. Daily fluctuations in energy production aren't the only forms of fluctuations. Seasonal fluctuations are large, too. And the seasonal variation has the unfortunate tendency to line up
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> 12 hours of night time is not 30TWh The world is currently at 26TWh A DAY From your link: > The global electricity consumption in 2022 was 24,398 terawatt-hour (TWh) 24,398. / 365 is 66.8 TWh of electricity used per day. And ag
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Using natural gas means climate change still progresses. Not to mention you'll be paying all of the overhead cost of maintaining natural gas plants, but only use them for a fraction of the time. So net cost per watt hour will be very h
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You can see the breakdown of electricity usage here: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect... For residential uses, heating, cooling, and refrigeration are the main uses. For commercial elec

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