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by kbutler 7y ago
Conflict of Interest?
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> Show me where the ADA says that software developers must think about assistive access to content, and that not doing so is illegal. The ADA is not software specific, but specifies that you must provide access. Courts have been increas
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You could just stockpile long shelf-life foods and literally save today's production for future consumption https://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/stockpiling-10... > You need actual future goods product
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The replies miss the point: Shifting from natural gas heating and water heating cannot help flatten the duck curve, except by overall raising the demand for electricity. Most car charging is currently overnight, which doesn't match use
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by kbutler 7y ago
Each of those has major problems. Water heating is usually natural gas. Electric vehicle charging during the day prevents charging at home. So employers would need to come on board paying for charging stations with employee parking. And sho
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If free will is an illusion, then the influence of the algorithms is also illusory. Furthermore, Google had no choice but to create the algorithms as they have, therefore holding them (or anyone) accountable for any harm is meaningless. Muc
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"For the US to be powered exclusively by wind power it would require 26,619,401 acres of land, an area nearly equivalent to the state of Tennessee." https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf (w
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Coal and nuclear (and natural gas) are about the same land use area footprint ( https://www.strata.org/pdf/2017/footprints-full.pdf graph on last page). Solar (3x), wind (5x), hydro (25x) are much higher land use.
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1. per kWH. Nuclear is very, very safe. Global avg 90 deaths per trillion kwh, vs coal 100,000 deaths per trillion kwh. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d... If you really
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> the role CO2 plays with respect to climate change Is CO2 responsible for about 50% of warming since 1850? Or 100%? or more than 100%, but natural variations have masked part of the warming we would have seen? > whether global war
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To a 2013 article? (HN headline should include 2013)
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> Government needs to be at least as big as the corporations it seeks to regulate Why? Does the board need to be as large as the company? Seems like this would eventually lead to (or read as), "The government needs to be at least as
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If the land could make more profit with another use, that profit is a net loss (opportunity cost).
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But Georgism is the things George advocated, therefore: George advocated for the things George advocated
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Always interesting when a statement is unpopular, but no counterarguments are presented. A bit more clarification from the researchgate link above, talking about the movement toward presumption of innocence (POI) in China (emphasis added to
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by kbutler 7y ago
Actually, yes. (Hopefully you were asking rather than woke-scolding). Presumption of innocence traces back to roman law (hence "occidental" from the latin, meaning the going down/setting of the sun, or "western", r
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by kbutler 7y ago
The point is: Buy at 1K Hold while value goes up to 10K Tax on wealth at 10K (Next year) Tax on wealth at 20K ... (N years later) Sell at 1K With a liquid asset like stocks, it is at least possible to pa
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by kbutler 7y ago
Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome: this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie); this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up); this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32); this.supported = (this.cor
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They didn't necessarily have computers, but they used computers.
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There are people who can't afford groceries now - we don't fund that by having the government pay for all groceries for everyone.
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by kbutler 7y ago
My son had a minor in & out surgery earlier this year. Could have done it in the office, but the doctor recommended a surgical center that was out of my insurance network. "Our patients have been very happy with the price." I
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by kbutler 7y ago
Leaving out the oxford comma is like relying on JavaScript automatic semicolon insertion - it works fine, until it doesn't.
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Standalone cameras lack the killer feature of availability. "The best camera is the one you have with you." Every potential camera owner already has a smartphone. This means the standalone camera purchase has to compete with the
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decimate: kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.
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Tarball dumps are OK. The GPL doesn't require change history. Although it can be quite helpful, it would be quite hard to define universally - what level of history is required? It could range from "every character typed" to
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"IT'S ALL IN THE NAME Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our fo
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I described the variance between public and other mass shootings above: "Statistics change if you include other types of mass shootings (family more white, felony more black) which are much more common than the "public mass shooti
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I looked for it, but there are lots of confounding factors, particularly that statistics don't really distinguish between accidental poisoning/overdose and attempted suicide by poisoning/overdose. There is a good discussion o
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> I am not sure what the race of murder victims has to do with gun death rates, the race of the gun using murderer is more important... The race of a murderer is strongly correlated with the race of the victim. "As with homicide in
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by kbutler 7y ago
Common physics example, but it disregards how women actually walk and stand in heels. They walk on their forefoot, rather than balancing their weight on the heel. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-higher-the-he

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