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by javagram 5y ago
Solar roadways were always a terrible idea. Solar railways would have the same problem. Putting solar above parking lots and parking decks is a much more viable way to use vehicle-related infrastructure for solar. Using desert habitats are
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by javagram 5y ago
> but what happens when the company you work for outsources jobs abroad, is making questionable HR decisions, etc. I'm not sure it's right to say that any discussion about anything political is banned when a company policy that
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by javagram 5y ago
> If it is the latter, an answer I can't find anywhere, why did we need to waste so much time developing a vaccine? Wouldn't it be equally efficacious to introduce one virus to the body on day one, four on day two, and so on un
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by javagram 5y ago
> That probably had something to do with living in China in the past and having developed immunity against SARS. Only about 8000 persons have been recorded to come down with SARS. Were you one of them with a diagnosed case of SARS (10% f
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by javagram 5y ago
> Which will be "fun" because our societies now have a hyperactive immune system, and there will be considerable political pressure to "do something" about the next flu wave. So, do something by taking a flu vaccine l
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by javagram 5y ago
> There was a huge push for open APIs for over a decade and then they started taking it away under the guise of 'user safety' when really it was due to 'can't make more money' with it. Cambridge analytica is a we
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by javagram 6y ago
Morgantown PRT has 20-person capacity cars. That doesn't seem so inefficient. On the other hand, it only operates as a PRT during off-peak according to the wiki page - during peak hours, it's just a standard scheduled service like
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by javagram 6y ago
> Most of those cases haven't quite been "healthy." 25% of those who died under age 21 had no pre-existing condition, according to the CDC analysis. https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/09/15
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by javagram 6y ago
1000s of satellites are irrelevant to atmospheric pollution. The numbers are so small compared to the vast size of the atmosphere it isn’t really a concern to worry about. Atmospheric pollution from earth based sources is different because
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by javagram 6y ago
According to https://www.foxrothschild.com/publications/where-retweeting-... “ under a plain reading of the statute it is clear that retweeting falls within the confines of Section 230’s immunity [...] Unsurprisingly,
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by javagram 6y ago
Statute of limitations is a concept of criminal law, since none of the described actions are criminal it wouldn’t apply directly. I do find it questionable to dig up decades old actions that were apparently dealt with at the time by appropr
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by javagram 6y ago
> If you’re young and healthy, the chances of dying from COVID are basically zero. Hundreds of young and healthy people have died from Covid-19. The risk is “basically zero” but so is the current known 1 in 7 million risk of dying from t
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by javagram 6y ago
> Serious question, how many of those people would have died in the past 12 months if they didn't get COVID? The number is most likely not 500,000, but it also probably isn't 0. This can be answered using “excess mortality” dat
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by javagram 6y ago
No, they were on his personal site where he writes voluminous “political notes”. The only reason that didn’t create more controversy before is that he is very left-wing politically and so are most power brokers in the industry. So being out
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by javagram 6y ago
This appears to be about events that are at least 15 years old, if not older? Does sound like a pretty terrible manager. An unpaid volunteer position on the board doesn’t really seem like the position where these problems would happen again
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by javagram 6y ago
All the evidence we have public is that Minsky was innocent. He wasn’t even accused of doing anything bad. The victim stated Epstein asked her to proposition Minsky, but she did not say he accepted. Stallman’s defense was a hypothetical tha
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by javagram 6y ago
He has given paid talks for the last decade or two I believe. Considering he was sleeping on a mattress in a MIT office, hopefully he saved a good portion of that in a bank account. He will also be eligible for social security and Medicare
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by javagram 6y ago
> Are those actual, real concerns or just post-rationalizations and coverups for depleted stockpiles which would lead to panic buying? It was a real concern, you could find American scientists quoted in news articles years before Covid c
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by javagram 6y ago
I have my phone number and mailing address on my Facebook, set to friends only. Why not? When I grew up, we had a phone book listing everyone’s name and address and phone number so you could find them to contact. I consider all of this esse
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by javagram 6y ago
> Sorry but I don't believe it. > In the very beginning of the South African variant there was a report that it wouldn't protect against it and other variants. They're the most expensive vaccine and they want to keep se
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by javagram 6y ago
Seems like they aren’t asking for anything in particular for identity verification but just creating a slight annoyance via asking to re-verify. Facebook does prompt people to upload Photo IDs sometimes but I doubt Netflix wants to get that
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by javagram 6y ago
In those 3 examples you’d still both file your taxes at the same address and be legally eligible to vote there too. Seems easily distinguished from the case of independent adults who sleep in different homes every night and have separate ad
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by javagram 6y ago
> Pay-per-view is probably more appropriate for those who only want to watch a couple movies every month, put ppv isn't available. Customers instead share their accounts with family members PPV is available for most movies, you can
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by javagram 6y ago
> In the US, unless things are different from TV, you can get trained by someone else with a license in a regular car and do an exam. Be cautious about believing TV drama is realistic. States I’m familiar with require 30 hours of license
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by javagram 6y ago
Making payday lending illegal will push poor people who desperately need the cash to seek it from organized crime instead. There’s a reason those bills get stopped and killed. They sound good on their face, but when you dig into the details
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by javagram 6y ago
> But plenty of other countries have those too and manage to not have an insanely complex tax-filling regime? Citation needed. How can you have a non-complex tax filing regime when you have so many deductions and credits that only the ta
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by javagram 6y ago
The 3mbps upload speed for 25/3 does seem too slow with the rise of Zoom and other tools that can actually use the upload. Defining broadband as 25/10 or above would make more sense. 25/10 is plenty for work applications. 100
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by javagram 6y ago
One of the main features of crypto is that it enables tax evasion. No need to worry about carrying suitcases of cash, gold or jewels onto an airliner anymore and getting caught when you want to move money across a border without a recorded
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by javagram 6y ago
> Institutional investors did do what people suspect wsb of doing. Buying based on observing market conditions or seeing the posts in reddit wouldn’t have been questionably legal afaik. Only actively coordinating e.g. through posts on R
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by javagram 6y ago
“ I am not "anti-vax" -- but this shit is unprecedented.” I’d suggest you hit up Wikipedia and learn about medical history. The smallpox (eradicated worldwide) and polio (eradicated in all but a couple countries) vaccine pages mig

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