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by evgen 5y ago
No, the US is not replacing nuclear with coal. It is shutting down nuclear that is aging out, but all energy growth in the past 20 years in the US has been renewables and gas. Mostly gas. The US is drowning in cheap natural gas from frackin
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by evgen 5y ago
Will do. Nuclear energy is 10x less deadly than rooftop solar per Twh and 4x less deadly than wind. Solar kills! Maybe we need to mount a campaign to shut down this deadly and dangerous form of energy generation. I will start working on the
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by evgen 5y ago
No, it is not the same. There is no 'there' there when it comes to the so-called metaverse. VR is constantly in a state of iterative failure: it solves problems no one has and does so rather poorly. The only thing that is differen
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by evgen 5y ago
Several chem processes use natural gas as the feedstock and some of the secondary byproducts also have industrial importance. As an example, the UK needed high-level government attention to a CO2 shortage that was crippling the meat product
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by evgen 5y ago
> I thought the Federalist Papers were published anonymously. They were not. They were published by three well-known political figures under a pseudonym that was widely known among their peers. Everyone knew it was one of three, and in m
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by evgen 5y ago
> Consider the Federalist Papers. At the time, the writers were not known Everyone knew who wrote the Federalist papers. It was an open secret. People may not have known the specific author of a particular passage or argument, but among
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by evgen 5y ago
This is certainly not the first time a vaccine required a booster. I had to get boosters for various diseases as my immunity waned and the idea that anyone should be surprised that a virus we have all collectively watched mutate into someth
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by evgen 5y ago
That was the oddest part of the selected tweet used by OP. There are dozens of great points from same source outlining all of the incredibly hinkey and downright illegal collusion between Google and Facebook, but the inclusion of Apple has
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by evgen 5y ago
> The only reason [Gallium] is relatively inexpensive is that there is limited demand for the minuscule quantities that are currently produced. It is possible that we might be able to find more if we actively start looking for it? This w
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by evgen 5y ago
A more honest title would remove 'states allege' and simply state 'evidence shows'.
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The suggestion implied was that the infra was there so that it could be monitored. The reality is that the infra was there because the US federal government was, and continues to be, one of the largest customers of telecom on the planet.
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by evgen 5y ago
The stake are higher in political discussion, but you do not have to search long to find uncivil behavior in just about any online interaction. People in a car repair forum might be kind to each other, but put those same two into a sports d
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by evgen 5y ago
So at first everyone was quick to point out that the responsibility for this accident was with the prop master and not Baldwin. It turns out they used a non-union prop master and I will not be surprised if it turns out that this guy was not
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by evgen 5y ago
> The majority of the world is made up of people like like me. No, it really isn't. You are a rather pathetic troll account trying to amuse us I guess, but I have seen better work from the 4chan crowd. Your limited understanding of
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by evgen 5y ago
Fair point. It has held up in a single state court of appeals, so I was definitely wrong about this being without substance on appeal, but the jurisdiction of the ruling is quite small and I am unaware of anything federal backing the claims
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by evgen 5y ago
Claim the EFF, but headline statement is not an assertion that has held up in court.
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by evgen 5y ago
If 'the West' is primarily made up of people who think like you then good riddance. OTOH, the rest of us are adaptable and curious. We like new cultural synthesis; new immigrants are a source of fun new restaurants, new media&#x2F
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by evgen 5y ago
This lack of any background in the humanities (including history, philosophy, or ethics) clearly shows. It is quite astounding to me how much a certain class of STEM grads like to wear their ignorance like a badge of honor and attempt to co
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by evgen 5y ago
I think several millennia of European history show that they actually cannot do this without resorting to genocide. This has literally happened in Europe within my lifetime so forgive me if I ignore your unfounded assertions that 'this
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by evgen 5y ago
I am assuming either you are joking or you are failing to see the ham-handed self-congratulation pg gives himself through this entire piece of shit. Paragraph 1: Einstein was smart, but he also had 'new ideas' Paragraphs 2-15 : Re
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by evgen 5y ago
He was the magic coach on the film and played the magician who appears in flashback as the one who employed Bale & Jackman as audience plants in the past as they were up and coming (in addition to Jackman's girl as his ill-fated as
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by evgen 5y ago
He was also great in a small bit in Heist. My awareness of Ricky Jay started as Ricky as character actor and it wasn't until a few years later that I came to realize just how much of a magic and sleight of hand wizard he was. If you ge
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by evgen 5y ago
Way back in the earliest days of the cypherpunk movement this was one of the things that people thought Chaumian blind signatures were going to offer and one of the crypto techniques that fascinated me the most. These signatures offered a
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by evgen 5y ago
Anonymity makes abuse easier. It diminishes the cost to the abuser and places almost all of the cost on the victim. I would also recommend that you not be so quick to push the blame back on 'the community', because when you do so
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Studies several decades ago indicated that daily low-dose aspirin (80mg or less per day I think) led to fewer heart attacks and strokes and this led to a lot of people taking a low-dose aspirin with their daily vitamins. When statins and ot
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by evgen 5y ago
> An educated and critically thinking populace who can question and analyze information independently and don't always require authoritive sources This is quite inaccurate, almost delusionally so. It is the sort of thing well-educat
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There is no display that accepts HDMI that would not work with a USB-C -> HDMI adapter. Add in the fact that HDMI is generally inferior to connectors like DisplayPort and you have a wasted slot. I can almost understand the SD card, but
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by evgen 5y ago
If you are not completely intellectually-stunted then you might actually know a bit about Russian history of the period. While few would excuse the later actions of Lenin or Stalin, the people who actually revolted against the Tsar had seri
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by evgen 5y ago
No, that is not what happened. Evergrande has been kept alive by the CCP and fed zero interest loans through lax banking regulations and massive property speculation by the public. The bubble it represents should have popped in 2008 but was
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by evgen 5y ago
The Hindenberg was also reportedly quite tail-heavy coming in for landing, which suggests a leak. If it was leaking at the tail and this was triggered by static discharge it would fit most of the facts.

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