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by alvah 5y ago
I haven't fact-checked, but this OF creator posted screenshots of her chat with OF support denying the Bloomberg article & stating sexually explicit stills and videos will still be allowed: https://mobile.twitter.com&#x2
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by alvah 5y ago
I did some local SEO work for a glazier a few years ago, their main rival in the map pack (top 3 listings appear on a map in a local Google search) was doing exactly this. Google were exactly 0 help at trying to clean up the obviously fake
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by alvah 5y ago
Why wouldn't you just use methanol, which can be synthesized from CO2 and hydrogen, and can be used in existing internal combustion & turbine prime movers?
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by alvah 5y ago
Agree 100%. Nuclear power will likely never happen in Australia now though, too many Karens terrified of it.
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by alvah 5y ago
OP's way of life has been made possible by cheap energy. Wishing it away before renewables are able to provide baseload power in an advanced economy (and the storage problem is, at best, decades away from being solved) is unwise.
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by alvah 5y ago
Do you understand what you're actually wishing for when you cheer on the destruction of a large percentage of the economy? What comes after will not be so comfortable.
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by alvah 5y ago
"In this context, there’s another number there that I think is really interesting: The “km/c-h”, how far you can get on an hour’s charge. For this particular car on this selection of chargers, it was over 200km (124 miles) per cha
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by alvah 5y ago
"Ferguson looks foolish now" Ferguson has looked foolish for over 20 years, every public pronouncement he has made has been pessimistic by orders of magnitude. Why the government and the public still listen to this charlatan is a
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by alvah 5y ago
That wasn't the point being made in the article - it was a standard "Trump administration bad, Obama administration good" smear which detracts from the actual argument.
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by alvah 5y ago
"The Trump administration did <x>. The Obama administration did <y>" Why try to shoehorn tribal politics into this? The main argument stands on its own merits. The persecution of Assange spans multiple administrations
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by alvah 5y ago
I'm on record railing against the collective power of BigTech, in particular some of their leaders' public statements about using their power to put the thumb on the scale since the 2016 election. However, here I'm not convin
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by alvah 5y ago
In a sane world this would be uncontroversial. In clown world, everything is up for grabs.
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by alvah 5y ago
do there need to be "hordes" before it's a problem? Assuming your Google isn't broken, there are plenty of examples.
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by alvah 5y ago
It's mostly infant mortality, not labor standards. Average remaining years of life at age 10 has gone up, but nothing like as dramatically as the average life expectancy at birth has (expected age of death for a 10-year old white male:
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by alvah 5y ago
I think it came with an implied /sarc tag
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by alvah 5y ago
Regardless of the realities in SA (I’m not convinced by the offical explanation of the first outage at least, there are credible alternative theories), it’s well understood that beyond a certain level, introducing intermittent suppliers int
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by alvah 5y ago
um, yes, it's happening already in areas where intermittent supplies make up a sufficient percentage of the energy mix (e.g. South Australia). In an ideal world we'd keep the rollout of intermittent sources below the level at whic
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by alvah 5y ago
"most of the people who do have $2k to spare don’t live in places with unreliable electricity" Increasing the mix of renewables in the electricity networks will mean most people live in places with unreliable electricity going for
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by alvah 5y ago
This. The number of sites you see following pretty much none of Google's suggestions or industry practice, but dominating search results due to a combination of content and links, is massive. If people stopped and thought about what th
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by alvah 5y ago
What would you have the author do? Market his business or build it and let them come?
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by alvah 5y ago
There hasn't been a single case reported in the West, of anyone dying instantly in the street of COVID-19. Ergo, videos filmed within China, allowed by the authorities to be viewed outside China, purporting to show this scenario, are t
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by alvah 5y ago
I don't suggest ignoring everything the Chinese health authorities said, that would be ridiculous. "Take everything China allows to be released to the West with a pinch of salt" is a sensible starting point though - you can u
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by alvah 5y ago
"even though the Chinese were very clear about it from very early on" I'm not sure this adds as much credibility as you seem to think. See (for example) - propaganda videos of people dropping dead in the street in Wuhan in ea
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by alvah 5y ago
I'm doubt much of this behaviour is driven insecurity / fear of intellect and creativity - it's mainly an incentive problem IMO. If I'm incentivised to keep an inefficient manual system going, I'll fight for that in
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by alvah 5y ago
It's not strange at all, you just didn't understand the point. Libertarian theory has all kinds of bizarre reasoning about human nature, which doesn't translate into the real world. History, on the other hand, does provide a
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by alvah 5y ago
He acknowledges this, but the article is hardly a hagiography.
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by alvah 5y ago
This seems incorrect. Perth, Western Australia has a mean annual temperature around 18°C, and my understanding is many people find the climate here agreeable. There are warmer cities in this country which also seem to be attractive destinat
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by alvah 5y ago
That read like a reasonable summary to me. What makes you say it’s biased towards AGM?
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by alvah 5y ago
I agree with you in theory. Theory often fails to survive the first contact with the enemy (reality) though.
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by alvah 5y ago
Very good in theory. Any suggestions on how to get from here to there in the real world, without massive disruption to people's real lives? The consequences of massively & rapidly increasing the number of unemployed doesn't se

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