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by barney54 11y ago
I went to Forbes without an ad blocker today and it's a terrible website. Way too many ads. It's not worth it.
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by barney54 11y ago
I was testifying before Congress once and I started to get a little nervous. Then I realized that I knew more about the issue than any of the Members of Congress and all of their staffers. Then I became much more calm because even if they w
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by barney54 11y ago
For some perspective of how Twitter has changed over the years, particularly their relationship to free speech, here is Vice's History of Twitter's rules: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-history-of-twitte
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by barney54 11y ago
For years, Twitter promoted itself as paragons of free speech even calling itself the "free speech wing of the free speech party." http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/22/twitter-tony-wa...
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Twitter's “Trust and Safety Council” excludes free speech groups(reason.com)
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by barney54 11y ago
How exactly has Assange been "detained"? Undoubtedly he would be detained if he left the Ecuadorean Embassy, but he hasn't. But there's a difference between actually being detained and voluntarily not leaving the Ecuador
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by barney54 11y ago
I think the argument is really about passing it on to your kids. That's the desire to keep the extreme fortune together.
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by barney54 11y ago
If driving is losing its allure, then how are people getting around? The reason I wonder is that in some places like LA, public transit ridership is down, not up as you would expect. http://www.latimes.com/local/califor
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by barney54 11y ago
This view is naive. There is an exceedingly small number of people that do not think the government should get out of the water business and even then, these are the people most critical of these kinds of institutional failures.
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by barney54 11y ago
Here's the HN discussion of this same topic from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001779
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Snowden would not have been sent to Guantanmo because he is an American citizen. The point of Guantanmo is that the US wanted a place to keep people who weren't US citizens and wasn't on US soil.
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by barney54 11y ago
Comparing wind and nuclear is not an apples-to-apples comparison. To make a valid comparison, you would need to compare wind + some kind of back up such as natural gas (or possibly some nuclear). There is a premium for reliable sources of e
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by barney54 11y ago
The title of the WSJ article is misleading. An offshore wind farm does not power more than 1 million homes, unless you only want electricity when the wind is blowing. Offshore wind is one of the most expensive sources of electricity generat
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Hearthstone’s new formats and the rise of digital scarcity(arstechnica.com)
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Maybe the guy who owns the recording is being too greedy, but given the NFL's track record it's likely the NFL. The NFL should buy the recording and play it on the NFL Network. That should be a decent draw during the off season or
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China Factory Gauge Signals a Record Streak of Deterioration(bloomberg.com)
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No. Areas to put solar panels are not that scarce.
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The real questions here are why is this so rare in other places and why did it happen in Croatia? I wish the article had asked those questions.
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This is a damning critique of having a basic income. Some of the saddest places I've been to are Indian reservations in the U.S. They were sadder than the poorest parts of Ecuador.
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by barney54 11y ago
DC is great at giving tickets, but as of yesterday main roads in DC still weren't completely cleared of snow. They are inept at the stuff that counts.
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by barney54 11y ago
What does your comment have to do with Flint? In Flint, the state and local government screwed up and you apparently want to talk about free markets? This was a government failure.
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by barney54 11y ago
Is the government "doing good?" There is some good, but there is a case that non-profits such as the Red Cross, churches, food banks, are more accountable and do more good. To me non-profits do far more good per dollar than the go
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by barney54 11y ago
The lack of storage isn't a problem when you are using reliable sources of generation such as nukes, coal, nat gas, and hydro. He problem is integrating wind and solar into a system that is designed for reliable generation.
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by barney54 11y ago
You have to be careful comparing the cost of wind to the cost of nat gas and other reliable sources of generation. You can't count on wind. That makes it much less valuable than natural gas. But don't take my word for it, here is
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by barney54 11y ago
Why should ratepayers subsidize people who put solar panels on their homes? What is wrong with paying people the wholesale rate for the electricity they generate?
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This point is the real key. If you have enough users who like your product it is possible to beat intrenched interests.
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by barney54 11y ago
It's my understanding that a longbow has a greater range than a cross, especially one in the 1300s.
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by barney54 11y ago
There is so much truth in this: "Quote the specific passages you disagree with. This forces you to calibrate your mental model of what someone said with what they actually said."
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How do hydrogen fuel cells disrupt the world? The fuel for today's fuel cells is natural gas. How would these be any different?
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The average price of electricity in the US is $0.13. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf... And you would have to be somewhere really remote to pay $0.40.

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