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781.
by evgen 6y ago
Then perhaps the claimed productivity loss is not really as big as many claim on sites like HN? While it is not easy for an individual to measure any productivity loss, a large company or an entire industry would probably be able to put so
782.
by evgen 6y ago
I think the reason people are concerned about CO2 and greenhouse gasses is that we know they will end up hurting us, while industrial waste is not something to be concerned about at the moment beyond local effects. The fact that this is &#
783.
by evgen 6y ago
No, it is an exceptionally poor comparison but your failure here is assuming that the person making this comment is acting in good faith. They are not. Downvote, ignore, and move on to discussions with people who are not political tools.
784.
by evgen 6y ago
Sure, the PM didn't know what they are talking about, but an ill-informed rando on HN who clearly has no expertise in either medicine, epidemiology, or statistics is the one we should pay attention to... Case numbers are rising. Death
785.
by evgen 6y ago
So bad form to reply to one's own comment, but am I the only one who finds it quite ironic that today the Swedish PM was warning of a growing second wave there because people were not following social distancing suggestions and it turn
786.
by evgen 6y ago
It is really not that surprising. People talk. When you work for a company like this you end up with a large portion of your circle of friends being current or former co-workers. I knew things there were not NDA-cleared for years after I
787.
by evgen 6y ago
I believe the point being made was that if it had not shut down its nuclear plants it would not need baseload generation from coal. Nuclear for base plus renewables and some small amount of storage capacity seems to be the ideal mix for cu
788.
by evgen 6y ago
So being interested in ecash in the 90s and attending FC99 is the criteria? Ok, I am Spartacus...
789.
by evgen 6y ago
Ssshhhhhh.... Sweden can only be used as an example when you compare it to complete fuck-ups like the US or UK, or if you add in countries that were hit early before we knew how virulent covid-19 was and that it could be spread asymptomatic
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by evgen 6y ago
Sweden with a lower population density and actually having meaningful warning about what was about to happen vs. Italy who took the brunt of the more virulent first wave? Yeah, Sweden failed. Take a look at the map on your own link and yo
791.
by evgen 6y ago
The continued belief in this herd immunity bullshit by people who apparently cannot comprehend basic statistics is simply beyond me. Sweden fucked up. They choked on this one, big time. Their excess mortality was far in excess of their n
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by evgen 6y ago
Stopping lay-offs? Probably not. Demanding hospitals provide free care that is relevant to preventing or limiting the spread of a dangerous communicable disease? Absolutely. As the saying goes: "The Constitution is not a suicide pac
793.
by evgen 6y ago
No, Bloomberg does not have anything to fear from claims of bribery or trying to buy votes. As long as this policy is applied to anyone who applies for it regardless of any stated voting intention. It is not illegal for political parties
794.
by evgen 6y ago
You have made a lot of claims about solar power that have been completely unsourced and are easily shown to be false. For all of the scary noises made by anti-nuclear activists it is actually a power source with an extremely good safety re
795.
by evgen 6y ago
I think it is somewhat clear at this point that it is net bad. While I cannot comment on the claims made by some FB employees rising to defend their own moral choices I can say that I left FB when the consequences of my work on personal pr
796.
by evgen 6y ago
> The problem people have with FB isn't how they produce the product, but who uses it. No, the problem is that the product they produce is _specifically designed_ to be used in this manner because conflict and argument increases &qu
797.
by evgen 6y ago
Yeah, that was the one that made me add the medical waste clause in my question. There have been a couple of cases of poor handling of these devices, but as far as I can tell there do not seem to be any deaths from actual reactor waste.
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by evgen 6y ago
Those of us who lived through the oil shock in the 70s are having a laugh at the 'just cut the energy supply' path. Would love to hear from people who endured the UK at the height of their 3-day week to see how keen people were a
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by evgen 6y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a single death that is directly attributable to nuclear waste from a reactor? (want to add that last clause because I do not think nukes should get blamed for someone improperly dumping medical equipment with coba
800.
by evgen 6y ago
Sorry, that was probably too glib of a response. How about this: John Oliver has a history of making ill-informed rants that conveniently skip relevant facts or counter-arguments for the sake of having a pithy little segment that sounds fun
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by evgen 6y ago
No, because people installing solar routinely fall and die. Because of the low power density of renewables like wind and solar you need a lot of installation sites and constant maintenance of same, which means a lot of opportunities for pe
802.
by evgen 6y ago
Since deaths from renewables scale linearly with installations I think that nuclear will continue to win that particular argument. Building more wind turbines and solar installations is not going to reduce the deaths from installation and
803.
by evgen 6y ago
One of the specific targets of the modular reactors that are now getting approval are these cost issues. If you build one reactor a year it will be big, bespoke, and incredibly overpriced. If you build a hundred modular reactors every yea
804.
by evgen 6y ago
Are you actually trying to use an ill-informed rant by a mid-tier comedian as the primary support for your argument? Seriously?
805.
by evgen 6y ago
> put them on your roof, problem solved. This is why solar kills more people every year than nuclear, and your hydro storage and batteries are not even a drop in the ocean compared to total load or daily capacity of even a small grid.
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by evgen 6y ago
The prosecutor can make whatever claims he wants in an extradition hearing, but until the case actually sees the inside of a US courtroom I do not think anyone really knows how these are going to hold up. In this case you are running into
807.
by evgen 6y ago
Same. Depending on the intersection and traffic there are places in zone 1 where the traffic signals seem to be considered completely optional for cyclists. I have also found myself needing to use a death stare to get some cyclists to sto
808.
by evgen 6y ago
This argument does not address the conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge. Please provide examples of the NYT, WP et al sending reporters out to do this and not being charged.
809.
by evgen 6y ago
Receiving and publishing are not specifically crimes and that is why the New York Times and Washington Post won in the Pentagon Papers case. Gathering the info or soliciting it are crimes. The latter is what Assange is being charged with
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by evgen 6y ago
They (the government) have _always_ said this and the courts have backed them up on it. Always. Ellsberg should have gone to jail and were it not for incompetent prosecutors and Liddy, Hunt, and the rest of the plumbers along with some FB

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