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by bequanna 4y ago
> If there's no wind, solar can compensate. Except... There can be a large part of the day when there is neither wind nor sun. > If there's no natural gas, then go for coal or whatever. Uh huh, but those coal plants aren&#x2
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by bequanna 4y ago
> We need to wean off of fossil fuels asap, and this sentiment is easily manipulated to hurt that cause. Even if it makes absolutely no sense to do so? A friend of mine purchases power for a municipal utility. Regulation requires that th
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by bequanna 4y ago
Amen! Texas even has large open spaces w/ cheap land where they could locate them with minor NIMBY resistance.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Yea, this is load shedding and allows the utility to control certain appliances. The best example in my area is water heaters. The appliance and sometimes even the electricity is provided at a some discount but the power is disabled during
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by bequanna 4y ago
> A party "controlling" the Supreme court. What a crappy reality we are in now. Absolutely. But the problem of partisan courts is endemic in the US Judicial system. Encountering Far-left or right judges at all levels is fairly
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by bequanna 4y ago
“Abolish the senate” “Abolish the Supreme Court” …when my party isn’t in control of it.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The US government didn’t end up formed this way on accident. It is to avoid a “winner takes all” situation where 51% of the country dictates all laws, policy to the other 49%.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> ...how to do things that are not financially viable. I don't disagree with you, but if we go that route I have a pretty good idea what that will look like: 1. Wealthy people invest in carbon capture schemes like this. 2. Once ther
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by bequanna 4y ago
I’m having a tough time understanding how this makes sense. Is this even close to being financially viable if there is never any such thing as carbon credits? Put another way, are the people funding projects like this assuming there will be
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by bequanna 4y ago
So, this pilot would add more algae to a MN lake? I don’t think you would ever get approval for something like this in a public lake. Maybe in some private, artificial pond?
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by bequanna 4y ago
It sounds like he is a poor fit. Changing management style with an existing employee is going to be very difficult or not possible. How difficult would it be to find another employee to replace him?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Of course most immigrants are law-abiding and good citizens. I think most of us know that. The challenge is that this specific group in this specific location has an outsized number of people that are aiding terrorist organizations. It is p
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by bequanna 4y ago
I would guess this is due to the large Somali population in Minneapolis. I don’t know how recent, but in the past there have been issues where Somalis in MN were discovered assisting, directly funding, attempting to join ISIS.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Check out streamlit: https://streamlit.io/ All Python, no need for JavaScript, css, etc. Lots of example templates.
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by bequanna 4y ago
So you're saying the most efficient capital allocators are getting more capital to allocate. Huh. If only we could build a system around that idea... ;)
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by bequanna 4y ago
There is a lot to unpack in that article but the spirit of the bill seems to be to expose professors who are forcing their politics on students by making voluntary surveys available. Do you think we should tolerate teachers who attempt to
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by bequanna 4y ago
Help us out. Can you name one or more major nations that are as stable, less corrupt and less bureaucratic than the US?
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Mr DeSantis has signed a law asking for the political ideology of faculty and students Sorry, I’m not sure which law you’re referring to here. Can you elaborate?
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by bequanna 4y ago
I totally agree with you. Crony Capitalism is disgusting and I think we should always call it out. My argument is that we seem to have significantly less corruption overall in the US.
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by bequanna 4y ago
No political party or ideology has the market cornered on corruption. If you think the US is bad try starting a business, securing licensure, or navigating the judicial system in literally any other country.
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by bequanna 4y ago
This is nothing more than propaganda pretending to be a history lesson. The parallels cited in the article are hand picked to fit their “omg fascism in the US is totally real you guys” narrative. But back to Argentina. In reality, their fal
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by bequanna 4y ago
Why would you need to “wretch power” at all? AI is better at determining the right price? Beat the capitalists at their own game and speculate (buy/sell) in the free markets. Reinvest the profits and soon the AI will just own everythin
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by bequanna 4y ago
> They could improve this, but that would cost money, which means rich people would make less profit or pay more taxes. Not sure how the English handle this kind of taxation but in the US most municipalities would spread the cost of a pr
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by bequanna 4y ago
It sounds like you’ve been trying the typical “random” dating approach. Meet some guy, figure out if you like each other, then ??? That approach has a high miss rate and doesn’t work for all people. If you are indeed ready to find someone I
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by bequanna 4y ago
I think they tried but the overhead of physical stores and inventory was just too much to serve that small-ish market.
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by bequanna 4y ago
See my other comment in this thread. Energy company execs have cited the exact things I stated as stopping them from investing in infrastructure.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> most preventive care is already fully covered at no cost to the patient. Sigh. Someone has to pay and that someone is all of us. Health insurance plays on the fallacy most individuals have that they will somehow beat the system and r
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by bequanna 4y ago
A specific example would be US refining capacity.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Energy company execs themselves. See recent news for examples Would you invest billions in projects with 10-20 year payback periods if politicians eager to score points were using your industry as a scapegoat and vowing to destroy it?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Plenty of oil yet to get. The constraint is limited capacity. We only have radical politicians to thank for that underinvestment by private companies. Politicians who, by the way, have no real interest in solving the climate crisis de jour

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