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by edbob 6y ago
The article finds fault particularly with the national standards not being adequate, and specifically points out that the standards in Texas are more strict than the national standards. He goes on to give some details on the enforcement of
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by edbob 6y ago
> This smells like a failure driven entirely by inappropriate cost optimization. Exactly. Due to the nature of the Texas climate, peak capacity will track summer demand and not account for once-in-a-lifetime freezes. We need proper plann
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by edbob 6y ago
I actually support wind, and I think that it's great that ERCOT leads in wind generation. Hopefully they just need to do a better job at weather-proofing in the future. What I have a fixation on is false claims that wind generation did
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by edbob 6y ago
> never involve wind maxing out in wintertime, because that's not how anything works. This is provably false by ERCOT's record-setting wind output of 17,541 MW (83% capacity) on February 19, 2018 [0]. ERCOT only had 21,190 MW o
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by edbob 6y ago
Wind did fail spectularly. It was producing 15% of its installed capacity last night. It's all the way up to 30% now with more favorable conditions. Every other generation source vastly outperformed wind. Saying that wind exceeded expe
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by edbob 6y ago
> Mistakenly lays some blame on renewables, which are overperforming right now in Texas. Renewables are not in play here, we are having major problems with natural gas and coal plants not being prepared for cold weather. Last night[0]—w
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by edbob 6y ago
I made a silly mistake: Current wind output was below 15% of installed capacity, not 7%. It's picked up a bit now, and is about 21%. Still far, far below nuclear and fossil generation.
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by edbob 6y ago
In one of four nuclear plants in Texas, "According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown of the nuclear reactor was caused by a disruption in a feedwater pump to the reactor, and that caused the plant to trip automatically
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by edbob 6y ago
In one of four nuclear plants in Texas, "According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the shutdown of the nuclear reactor was caused by a disruption in a feedwater pump to the reactor, and that caused the plant to trip automatically
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by edbob 6y ago
ERCOT's current output page[0] shows 3643 MW of Total Wind Output, but total installed capacity is over 25000 MW [1]. Current wind output is less than 7% of installed capacity. ERCOT was previously able to generate 17541 MW of wind pow
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by edbob 6y ago
Your wording suggests that the "flip" was caused by the civil rights issues. Yet in reality the "flip" was a gradual realignment over 30-40 years. 80% of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act and remained the worst
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by edbob 6y ago
I spent ten years in prison, talking to people and trying to understand, and can confirm that the vast majority of people there come from broken homes. A huge reason is that it makes children very susceptible to bad influences. Two parents
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by edbob 6y ago
Why is this anti-progressive? It sounds like he's being prosecuted because he gave vaccines to lighter-skinned people. Kim Ogg wouldn't be prosecuting him if he'd given them all to dark-skinned Black people. The official sta
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by edbob 6y ago
You make a valid point when considering the total size of governments at all levels. However, I think what people most want to avoid is specifically an excessively large government at the federal and (to a much lesser degree) state levels.
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by edbob 6y ago
I'm glad that you're feeling better :)
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by edbob 6y ago
I'm at a loss to see how one could rationally arrive at that conclusion. It's self-evident from the article that McWhorter meant the phrase in the same sense as it's commonly understood. Anything else would be pointless, sinc
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by edbob 6y ago
> But McWhorter was not talking about the slogan. His wording presents it as a literal truth. You're making that up. This is everything he said about the slogan: "3. Silence about racism is violence. But elevate the voices of
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by edbob 6y ago
Some Clarence Thomas quotes would be nice too, preferably with context.
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by edbob 6y ago
Is hatefulness an end in itself for you?
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by edbob 6y ago
George Bush introduced a PREA/Safe Prisons Program that has radically changed prison culture. Prisons are far, far safer than ever before and getting even safer as time goes on. (Since I know about Texas in particular), Texas has spe
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by edbob 6y ago
Not all poor people are stupid.
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by edbob 6y ago
I don't see any assertions of "how they got it wrong" in the article, at least about the class sizes. The article states that the number was wrong, that it was obviously wrong, and investigates how the mistake was "corre
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by edbob 6y ago
The original text, before you clipped it out of context and framed it, says "When you average out grade levels, most US classrooms have a number of students that starts with a two. More rarely it’s a one or a three. It’s never a four.
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by edbob 6y ago
The multiple teams with many different positions means that many different body types are needed, which allows a wide range of people to participate and contribute. Although rugby for instance seems pretty cool, the players are all built li
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by edbob 6y ago
I have no idea why you're interpreting my post as an adversary. My post seems to support your position. I was giving an example of the situation you stipulated, where having both a mental health record and a criminal record is much wor
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by edbob 6y ago
> And again -- you can still get involuntarily committed to an institution after you're arrested. The only difference is that now you have two problems instead of one, both a mental health record and a criminal record. There are ten
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by edbob 6y ago
Obviously not. They contract with cloud providers as well.
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by edbob 6y ago
You're right, they don't. We don't know what Twitter's contract with AWS says, but it's likely that Twitter doesn't have to play by the same rules as their much smaller competitors.
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by edbob 6y ago
lasagnaphil's comment provides some insight that proper planning would have involved not using WordPress and thus needing a fraction of the servers.
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by edbob 6y ago
I'm baffled by their choice of WordPress. No wonder they need so many servers. I don't understand why they should have expected everyone to deplatform them. Facebook hosts the same content in far greater quantity and has clearly d

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