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by erentz 4y ago
Even when we spend billions on transit we build it badly. US obsession with turning Light Rail into a Frankenstein that tries to fill all roles (eg commuter light rail). The resistance to electrification and reliance on slow loco hauled tra
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by erentz 4y ago
> But, in the early hours, the company’s technicians had not yet pinpointed the cause of the catastrophe. Rogers apparently considered the possibility that its networks had been attacked by cybercriminals. I mean, if you just pushed a co
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by erentz 4y ago
They’ve also put a lot of dams on the Mekong River which is seriously affecting flow downstream in Laos, Cambodia and southern Vietnam.
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by erentz 4y ago
Well by definition if nosafetystandardsland decides to build a nuclear ship you won’t have a say in it anyway. It just won’t get to enter ports in safetystandardsland. For nuclear shipping to become viable a reasonable set of trading countr
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by erentz 4y ago
Probably best not to engage. These people simply do not see Ukrainians as humans with their own agency and really seem to believe they should just lay down and let the genocide happen to them.
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by erentz 4y ago
US cities looked like European cities before we decided to change course (they just had grids instead of mazes). We tore down dense cities, built freeways, and mandated suburbia as basically the only development style permitted. We can turn
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by erentz 4y ago
Yeah, I think this is how it works for example in Australia too. You could conceive of this in the US just as easily, for example Medicaid (not Medicare) is a bit like that, run and jointly financed by the state and federal. But again that&
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by erentz 4y ago
Supreme court determined a long time ago that a state cannot implement a residency requirement (e.g. 1 year minimum residency) before accessing that states benefits. > If a state wanted to implement something like Medicare for All, I thi
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by erentz 4y ago
> The federal government was supposed to be small, because the founders understood the downside of a large federal government. Those that want to return to this need to start advocating to abolish freedom of movement and permit states to
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by erentz 4y ago
Here’s Medicare for All. It’s 130 pages. But double spaced with massive margins and indentation space and geriatric sized fonts so really probably about 20 pages. You can read it pretty quickly (I have). https://www.congress.gov&
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Planned leak of 137GB of crypto scam related telegram messages(twitter.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
As below commenters have pointed out this is a choice. Uranium can be sourced from many locations. It can also be processed in Germany if they had wanted (Germany is a part owner of Urenco which also has a small enrichment plant in Germany
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by erentz 5y ago
The problems at Hanford have zero to do with civilian nuclear power. It's a weapons facility with problems dating back to the Manhattan project.
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by erentz 5y ago
Hard to buy that conclusion. 35 countries with existing or under construction nuclear power. But only 9 countries with nuclear weapons, 2 of which do not even have any nuclear power. And when you go through the history countries seeking nuc
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Landmark 100 Percent Renewable Energy Study Flawed Say 21 Leading Experts (2017)(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
I'm assuming the bulkhead is secured inside the tube. Once complete you enter at the end of the tube (on landside) and sequentially go through removing each bulkhead from the inside of the tube.
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by erentz 5y ago
In many countries the first time offender 20-something would spend a night in jail, be arraigned the next day, and likely enter a diversionary process where they need to face up to what they did. Perhaps a conference with the victim. Do som
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by erentz 5y ago
If you just want one government owned and operated payment system what does that have to do with having a CBDC?
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by erentz 5y ago
I haven’t seen any good arguments for it that couldn’t be done in more mundane ways. Want to make banking easier? Regulate free accounts or set up postal banking. Want instant transfers? Other countries have had that for decades. So on so f
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California's chance for universal health care(pluralistic.net)
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by erentz 5y ago
No. A measly $1 million of funding from an American NGO to prodemocracy initiatives in an authoritarian country racked by inflation and other longer running issues is NOT to blame for Putin deciding to invade. Putin makes his own decisions
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by erentz 5y ago
Russia seems to point at things like this to create a silly narrative that their actions are actually America’s fault. Lots of people lap that kind of thing up in the west then excuse Russia for their crap. It’s amazingly effective.
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by erentz 5y ago
It’s weird to me they approve futures based ETFs, that are terrible for investors seeking BTC exposure (lose money due to roll), and approve closed end funds like GBTC that are also worse for investors due to inability to track spot price (
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by erentz 5y ago
> to mask our economic interests If "our" means the US and it's people as a collective, then it really seems clear that it wasn't in our collective economic interests either. If our means military contractors, then ye
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by erentz 5y ago
I may be mistaking it for another car, but they also seemed to be popular with Uber drivers. So maybe he got conned into the “buy a Chrysler 300 on this here loan and drive for Uber black” thing.
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Opinion: Closing California’s last nuclear power plant would be a mistake(washingtonpost.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
> What makes nuclear power an attractive prospect to us is the long period of time a ship can remain at sea without the need to return to port. This is important to our resident communities at Storylines, as they see that if something li
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SLO County leaders call for keeping Diablo open to help meet clean energy goals(sanluisobispo.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
You say expand to 70% for 10% of the time. You mean you want to multiply several times over the number of generator halls, penstocks, turbines, generators, and water outflow from existing hydro schemes? There isn't the space for all th
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by erentz 5y ago
> 100 years of Uranium we have left FWIW it's really not clear that there's such a limit on the uranium supply. Could be 4 billion years with seawater harvesting and reprocessing, etc. https://whatisnuclear.com/

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