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by erentz 6y ago
Nonsense. Everything New Zealand or Taiwan or South Korea or now also Australia has done is public knowledge, very simple, and easily implementable in any developed nation that cares to. Australia had a big second wave surge with anti-socia
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It’s much higher than 1.57 trillion. Most studies put it over 5 trillion. This one puts it at 6.4 trillion last November. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
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Bankers have an interest in discouraging work from home because its decimating commercial real estate, on which they undoubtedly have a lot of loans outstanding. So naturally their solution to reduced tax revenues, out of all the options ju
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Probably not a good idea. But there is maybe very loosely a kind of precedent in cases of spreading HIV [1]. Unfortunately a lot of these people really don’t believe it is harmful. The ones who have mislead them on this by intentionally spr
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Ad absurdum “the options come down to either we accept citizens personal choice will guide whether they wear clothes or ride naked on the subway, or we accept that wearing clothes on the subway will be compelled through lethal force.” This
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by erentz 6y ago
> Privacy is dead This is a choice. It doesn’t have to be this way. Laws regulating collection and use of data are possible and don’t have to be complicated. They do run up against the interests of those that use that data for their busi
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Mobility network models of Covid-19 explain inequities and inform reopening(nature.com)
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Number 6 seems a potentially good demonstration of the result of gerrymandering.
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Driven a lot by intentionally deceitful marketing too IMO. The PR person at the company behind whatever storage project only quotes those numbers in these terms (enough to power 50,000 homes) because they sound impressive, and as you say th
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> The 50MW facility near Manchester will store enough power for roughly 50,000 homes. They keep doing this with grid storage projects. The number they need to quote is watt- hours . 50MW for how many hours? That’s the only relevant metri
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This same guy has a video doing just that somewhere in his history. It's not nearly as bright though which is the big difference.
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Here’s an article discussing the costs more: “The Hinkley Point C case: is nuclear energy expensive?” https://medium.com/generation-atomic/the-hinkley-point-c-cas...
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The multi member district approach is preferable to single member districts because it gives a more proportional result. The Australian example demonstrates this in the extreme with very large multi member Senate districts electing differen
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Hopefully a lot of commercial office buildings will be able to convert to condos. We could use the extra housing.
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My answer to this is to look at it this way. We’ve been running nuclear power for over fifty years, exposed to these very concerns you have of regulatory capture and humans at the controls, and it’s still over that time proven to be the saf
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I love this idea that they think Kiwis, with the huge and growing wealth inequality problems there too, somehow will welcome the billionaires from America and won't come for them in their Queenstown mansions.
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One time wealth taxes on things like expensive cars, art, and houses can be levied at the time of purchase. That's just sales tax and already is recorded. Annual wealth tax on land/property is easy, we already do it it's just
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Sweden's new car carrier Oceanbird is the world's largest wind-powered vessel(7news.com.au)
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Herd immunity letter signed by fake experts including 'Dr Johnny Bananas'(theguardian.com)
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Kepco E&C teams up with shipbuilder for floating reactors(world-nuclear-news.org)
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It sounds like maybe osteopaths are something different overseas but in the US both a DO and MD degree are 99% the same now. There is a schedule for smoothing out the remaining differences and essentially they’ll become identical. The histo
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I don’t understand why people keep proposing these ideas that we must sacrifice and do without electricity. There are 7 billion people on the planet. Even if you organized to have enough Americans self sacrifice (needlessly) why would you e
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Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?(bbc.com)
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I would like to see the ad driven model removed as an option. I think it would help. And I think there is a separate case to be made to end ad targeting for other (privacy) reasons. But while watching this I realized that wouldn’t be the en
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I sympathize with what you’re saying. There are points at which actively avoiding politics is being complicit with what is happening. But I think to understand that people need to have more interest in history, and really have strong democr
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Currently the price/sales ratio is at 170.
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Coincidentally just watched Capital on NetFlix. It’s not a great watch, but a decent way to absorb an abridged version of the book. Pairs well with The Social Dilemma for a documentary night. Mark Blyth is an economist with plenty of conten
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So that would mean things like Clearview [1] wouldn’t be legal on any person or photograph taken in Portland. Which is great for privacy, but I wonder how they’d enforce that. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18
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How does this apply to something like Facebook scanning someone else’s photo and detecting my face in it? So for an entity present in Portland they cannot run facial recognition in a public place in Portland. But what if entity A is partner
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Interesting progressive move. Bail system here seems to be used as a bargaining tool to get plea agreements and biases the system against those without resources. What do you mean by “Suppliers of these services”? Are they going to outsourc

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