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by gwright 6y ago
This is just another way of saying there the margin of error has been reduced to an unacceptable level. It is only going to get worse if California continues towards its renewable goals. I found this article helpful: https://www
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by gwright 6y ago
Of course it isn't imagined, but it is also only feasible in very specific geographic locations. What is imagined is that it can be expanded at scale in order to offset the intermittent nature of renewables.
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by gwright 6y ago
Stop playing word games. I'll continue to advocate for specific police reforms that are plainly described and that I have some hope of understanding what is being proposed. I won't advocate via the mantra of "defund the polic
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by gwright 6y ago
> If you included 24 hours of storage in the LCOE then solar and wind probably stop looking quite so cheap. But if you ignore the biggest innate trade-off then they become the cheapest energy around. But this is the basic disconnect in t
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by gwright 6y ago
Can you purchase grid scale storage batteries? I don't think so and so the old ways of thinking are pretty important right now if you don't want rolling blackouts.
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by gwright 6y ago
> Our infrastructure, at least the antiquated American power grid infrastructure, is built with the assumption that production and consumption is balanced. All power grids require that balancing. Old, new, American, non-American ...
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by gwright 6y ago
You are going down a well trodden path on HN where the problems of intermittent power generation are waved away and declared as not an issue because there are other technologies that will be available real soon now that can solve this probl
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by gwright 6y ago
That is an argument against nuclear power in France as an economical base load generation mechanism. The remaining points about the intermittent nature of renewables and how difficult it is to incorporate them into a reliable grid economica
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by gwright 6y ago
It is an interesting question. My first thought is that a core element of the Boston Tea Party was that the colonist had no representation, there was no legitimate way for them to participate in their governance and they were protesting spe
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by gwright 6y ago
I realize that we all struggle to overcome confirmation bias, but I really am not seeing the police preemptively gassing people prior to the riotous or threatening behavior. I don't doubt that there might be some examples of this but i
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by gwright 6y ago
As a way of communicating "spend more money training police", "defund the police" utterly fails. And the really extreme advocates really do mean "defund the police" as in no policing or police force at all.
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by gwright 6y ago
> The authorities there could very easily preempt this by arresting the police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back and charging him with attempted murder. You think the mob will stop? You are advocating for a justice system driven b
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by gwright 6y ago
> It's being abandoned as a tactic That is at least an honest statement that what is going on isn't "civil disobedience". Yet there are people who are insisting that the riotous activities can be accurately given tha
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by gwright 6y ago
My understanding is that in many historical examples of civil disobedience there was often an prior understanding between the protesters and the police as to what was going to happen. In a sense, it was scripted. I'm not going to try t
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by gwright 6y ago
I would argue that those are examples of non-violent approaches. Another tactic is to "play dead" so that the protesters have to be physically carried away, tedious and time consuming. But those tactics are very different than wha
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by gwright 6y ago
Improved training requires more money, not less.
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by gwright 6y ago
You aren't making the case for abandoning the rule of law, you are just asserting that it is the right thing to do in this case. Your argument seems to be that everything possible has been tried to address police violence and that ther
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by gwright 6y ago
Perhaps I focused too much on one type of civil disobedience. The examples you cite are useful in illustrating that the disobedience has to be peaceful. Or perhaps it might be better to say that the moral authority or message of the protest
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by gwright 6y ago
> Riots should not be a first resort but when other types of civic engagement have failed they're a wholly legitimate tactic to force change. This statement is devoid of any explanation as to what types of "change" are imp
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by gwright 6y ago
I would add that another component of civil disobedience is a willingness to accept the consequences, to be arrested without violence or any resistance. I should have included that in my original comment.
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by gwright 6y ago
Without trying to pick sides, the argument would be that these redistributive programs will not enhance public safety but instead will make things worse. For those who can afford it, the safety "gap" will be addressed by private s
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by gwright 6y ago
Your proposed strategy opens civil society up to endless denial of service attacks. Normal life grinds to a halt every time someone feels like they need to "protest". Would you be OK with a single person just sitting in the middle
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by gwright 6y ago
In my mind civil disobedience, as an ethical concept, is about refusing to comply with one or more laws that you believe to be unjust. Disregarding the Jim Crow laws seems to be the "textbook" example in this regard. So blocking a
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by gwright 6y ago
Perhaps I assumed a bit too much. You did indeed suggest that everything had to be replaced as opposed to discarded. I don't see how that is practical in the real world though. I still would argue that your generalization that all poli
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by gwright 6y ago
I wasn't responding to the specifics of that case. I was responding to the implied assertion that a crime is required before police interaction is justified, which is wrong. I tried to make that clear but apparently I wasn't clear
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by gwright 6y ago
> Wearing a ski mask in public during the summer, although odd, is not a crime, either. I don't know much at all about the McClain case, but your statement seems to have a flawed assumption that a crime is required before police can
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by gwright 6y ago
> I don't see how you "reform" a culture like that. You do it through hard work on real reform at the local level, something that BLM (the organization) isn't really interested in. I don't agree with everything b
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by gwright 6y ago
Your post wasn't clear if that is what you intended to say. A single "national unemployment insurance scheme" is not at all the same thing as 50 separate state schemes.
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't know who "we" is in your statement, but unemployment insurance is state by state in the US, not national.
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by gwright 6y ago
You're being too simplistic. If it were that obvious there would be no need for white papers and it would have been done already. The actual cost of construction and maintenance are going to vary from place to base based on geology, ex

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