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by j_walter 5y ago
Actually it does have hydrogen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_coal >The carbon content of bituminous coal is around 45–86%;[1] the rest is composed of water, air, hydrogen, and sulfur, which have not be
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by j_walter 5y ago
This is a frustration for those who see themselves as planning for the future. The obvious renter vs. landlord issue going on right now is a huge talking point. Many renters haven't paid for over a year because they were "protec
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by j_walter 5y ago
Good! If people are too stupid to realize a scam like this or pay for something illegal then they deserve to get bilked for a few hundred bucks.
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by j_walter 5y ago
Pooling in PoW still means the pool operators are the ones to vote on proposals through the block mining. That is the whole point of decentralization...if one or two large pools (Ethermine and Sparkpool) get too big then they can sway prop
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by j_walter 5y ago
Billionaires no...but he did fundraise for his movement and put all of the money he got for his noble prize into it as well. Lets not confuse the 60's civil rights movement with anything going on today though...there is a lot more sha
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by j_walter 5y ago
Just because funding comes from large donors doesn't mean something isn't a grassroots movement. Do you think any other grassroots movement doesn't have large donors? The largest donor in this case was $1M...do you think the
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by j_walter 5y ago
PoS doesn't exactly lower the barrier to entry. Anyone with a GPU can mine (very unlikely to be profitable as a stand alone miner)...but staking 32ETH is a pretty high cost right now ($90Kish). However both can be overcome by pooling
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by j_walter 5y ago
Unfortunately a lot of nuclear plants went offline and very few were built in the last 20 years. As they aged they were deemed to much of a risk and shut down. If they had continued to have been built then Solar would not have gained so m
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by j_walter 5y ago
Lies, damn lies, and statistics...
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by j_walter 5y ago
Nuclear is far from the best source of electricity, but it is far less damaging to the environment than coal or NG if handled and designed properly. If countries can work together to put them in places that protect from major earthquakes o
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by j_walter 5y ago
Having dealt with these things before the rules that the company is required to follow are very strict and even a single person from "management" could make an honest mistake and cause the election to be invalid. The union has to
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by j_walter 5y ago
Feasibility study concluded in Sept 2020 (it started in 2019)...but lots of money has been spent already and with little to show for it. The MBPDX organization was started in late 2017...and they still don't even have a "team&quot
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by j_walter 5y ago
I'm sure it depends on the size and efficiency of the municipality...but the ones around Portland are about as incompetent as they come. Don't forget that many are subsidized...so yes what they are paying monthly may seem to be ch
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by j_walter 5y ago
The problem is local governments are not competent enough to do so...and even if they figure out how to do so it's at a large multiplier of the cost of any major ISP. https://municipalbroadbandpdx.org/home There is a l
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by j_walter 5y ago
Only for specific DCMA violations...no different than taking down videos for copyright violations. No one is arguing these types of "censorship" because it's theft...it's when opinions are taken down for being "wro
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by j_walter 5y ago
There is nothing that says public utilities can't treat their customers like crap...
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by j_walter 5y ago
They could stand up to the strong, but they choose to go along with it for their own personal reasons (ie, make it in Hollywood or become an Olympic athlete). However even after those things happen the abused continue to keep silent.
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by j_walter 5y ago
I couldn't agree more...but many people chose to remain completely silent when abuse happens. The culture surrounding this has changed a lot in the last 20 years yet we keep having these types of events that people pile on only after
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by j_walter 5y ago
> The suit was followed by an outpouring of current and former employees saying they’d been harassed or mistreated at the company. I never understand why in the world we currently live in there are so many people willing to be silent for
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by j_walter 5y ago
> passive incompetence is probably more likely than active malice. Well this is pretty much the norm at most levels of government around the world. There are no real performance indicators being used to judge accomplishments or effective
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by j_walter 5y ago
Didn't stop Intel or TSMC from building in Phoenix...where there is literally no water and they are having one of the worst droughts ever.
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by j_walter 5y ago
God put it there...
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by j_walter 5y ago
You are confusing conservatives with republican politicians. You are also forgetting that 110 "liberals" in congress also voted for the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...
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by j_walter 5y ago
Not true. There are multiple grades of water that are used in a semiconductor plant and not all of it needs huges amounts of treatment (like process cooling water). However extracting the heat out of that water tends to cause a lot of eva
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by j_walter 5y ago
Sure...except just because fabs are being announced doesn't mean they will actually be up and running any time soon. The recent supply chain issues only add to the long lead times on 300mm tools that have been seen for the past 2 year
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by j_walter 5y ago
Yeah...probably not. The article is poorly written and jumps to conclusions on a number of facts. Even the intro is just a jumble of random abstract thoughts like this: > Also there are famous scientists agree that NP=P. Hilbert, a grea
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by j_walter 5y ago
The cost will vary widely. SF currently spends $60K per tent in their encampment program...expand that to house 5K people and you run into problems. Portland spent $58M on a jail built in the 90s that never opened and was then sold a few y
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by j_walter 5y ago
NYC doesn't have the good weather that LA does. NYC also puts pretty strong limits on the people living in the shelters. There are a large portion of homeless that don't want to give up drugs, pets or other freedoms...so they pr
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by j_walter 5y ago
You make room for the 5,000...and word spreads and soon you have 10,000 more. Unfortunately with the homeless crisis we have the ones that try to support them more just end up with more of them. It's really a never ending battle...
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by j_walter 5y ago
You are right that it's not a startup, but a ~200 person company is far from Google or Apple and you can't really compare them. Change.org is about social justice as I would say their major goal is not profits so the pay will be

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