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by elgenie 7y ago
There was pretty much nothing going on in terms of nuclear power development in the US between 1990 and 2008 or so, and Watts' Bar is the only reactor to come online in the US in the last 25 years. Fracking wasn't the cause of tha
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by elgenie 7y ago
Agreed that pricing in carbon externalities is a necessary step, but that will only make solar / wind / hydro more attractive with respect to natural gas. My point was more that the reasons that the coal industry is dead is that n
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by elgenie 7y ago
Well, the vast majority that are plugged into the electric grid are. The issue is more that wind and solar don't change their generation capacity in response to demand (it's either sunny or windy that day or it isn't), so you
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by elgenie 7y ago
That reverses the causality. The opportunity existed 12-15 years ago; coal mining concerns going bankrupt is at the end of the process. Natural gas being able to beat the pants off coal on both price and pollution while also being generated
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by elgenie 7y ago
The entire coal industry currently employs about 50K people. Meanwhile, Sears has cut 250K jobs in the last 15 years.
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by elgenie 8y ago
Russian has a very similar adage: До Бога высоко, до Царя́ далеко. (God is high above and the Tsar is far away)
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by elgenie 8y ago
> If you take the students who performed at the 10th-25th percentile in any school in one year, on average they would do better the next year because of reversion to the mean. This is shoddy reasoning that assumes that each school year i
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by elgenie 8y ago
Population density argues otherwise [0]. The aboriginal population of Australia pre-colonization is estimated to be around 750K spread out over nearly 3 million square miles. There may be differing perspectives about how much of it is unusa
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by elgenie 8y ago
Australia has huge amount of unusable dessert on the interior of the continent that could easily be used to store spent nuclear fuel. It's honestly nuts that they use carbon-emitting fossil fuels at all given their nuclear, solar, and
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by elgenie 8y ago
In Erlang it makes perfect sense to have a single counter variable be a gen_server by itself and be part of a supervision hierarchy. Deploying and versioning that counter separately will still correctly get laughed at.
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by elgenie 8y ago
Canadian consumers as a group pay the same amount for milk as a group, regardless of how much or little milk they demand, by means of government regulation. Canadian dairy farmers as a group receive the same amount regardless of how much o
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by elgenie 8y ago
It's only neutral (at best) if you don't consider opportunity cost. Is the best way for the country/society/humanity to deploy a bunch of smart people with a decade and a half of education truly an attempt to try to chea
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by elgenie 8y ago
The target market niche for meat substitutes is very plainly not former vegetarians who don’t like the taste of meat.
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by elgenie 8y ago
If you don't have enough teams for AND to be a good user experience, NOT might be a better user experience.
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by elgenie 8y ago
That's nice, but business necessity is , by law, an affirmative defense to discrimination claims, including those based on disparate impact. Whether the defense succeeds or fails depends on the facts of the case and a court's int
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by elgenie 8y ago
It is. "Discriminate against everyone" is oxymoronic.
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by elgenie 8y ago
Sure, but you can't sue over that unless that wasn't demanded of people with other beliefs, which doesn't appear to be the case.
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by elgenie 8y ago
Reasonable accommodations can be made, but if availability during those times is a core job duty (known beforehand), then the firing is eminently justified. If your religion says you can't handle pork and you take a job at a pig slaugh
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by elgenie 8y ago
"I don't care about your religious holidays or children" in this case likely should be interpreted to mean "your exact reason for not doing your job doesn't matter".
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by elgenie 8y ago
The trick in my observation seems to be that, on the manager track, it's possible to get move up by being on a successful project and simply not getting in the way, which plausibly may be what was needed ("the team had gelled an
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by elgenie 8y ago
Chinese characters are hieroglyphs: they don’t have any relationship to their pronunciations. For example, 火, the character for fire, is a (slightly) stylized brushstroke picture of a fire. Mutually unintelligible communications that use th
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by elgenie 8y ago
First, correlation is not causation. Second, NYC isn't necessarily a panacea. Third, and most importantly, this is a misrepresentation of New York's situation gross enough to border on willful deception. Per this [1], there are on
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by elgenie 8y ago
Nah, the core problem is Prop 13 (and its extensions). There's no solution to allocating dramatically less housing than people demand, regardless of how pro- or anti-tenant the law is. Rent control, which Costa-Hawkins limits, is a for
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by elgenie 8y ago
Norway's also part of the Schengen Area. There's no practical difference to an American in terms of travel and trade between Norway and, say, France or Germany, other than the fact that the money is krone and not euros.
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by elgenie 8y ago
The final 538 pre-election forecast is available here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-f... (it moved slightly towards Dems in the last few days) Silver's point is that their model results in
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by elgenie 8y ago
A new investor brings money into the business to "purchase" those newly printed shares, so diluting previous investors' percentage of ownership doesn't necessarily change their material position unless there are more str
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by elgenie 8y ago
Fresno's merely the seventh largest urban area, and nowhere close to being the third largest city in the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_urban_areas It is the biggest population center bet
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by elgenie 8y ago
The "lurking into" in the blog post should probably be read as "jumping into". That is, reading is fine, but transitioning from lurker to active participant should be minimized. Stripe has a very specific culture of emai
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by elgenie 8y ago
Ex-Facebooker perspective: the only news in this article is that the preferred replacement for the Secret app [0] at Facebook is the Blind app. A few of the 33,606 people [1] working at Facebook anonymously complaining about their employer
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by elgenie 8y ago
Stock compensation at a lot of companies (definitely at Facebook) is in the form of RSUs, which are shares of stock that vest over time. So employees vesting X number of shares over 4 years are watching those shares go up and down in the pu

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