lopmotr

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by lopmotr 7y ago
Nuclear fusion won't be free energy at all. The plants will still cost money to build and operate. If you're only counting fuel cost, then solar and wind are already free energy. Even conventional nuclear fission is also almost fr
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Are there really that many people who think climate change isn't happening or isn't caused by those factors? That sounds like a strawman.
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I had a look at all your references but didn't find any cost estimates or clear predictions of serious harm. One problem it mentioned was that already depleted shellfish stocks might not recover if we stop overfishing them. We're
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What migration? "up to 630 M people live on land below projected annual flood levels for 2100, and up to 340 M for mid-century, versus roughly 250 M at present" 250 million people already live in those annually flooded regions, so
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by lopmotr 7y ago
No. Before investing money in solving a problem, you have to at least have some estimate of how severe the problem is, typically measured in dollars. We don't have that. Instead, we have people shouting "the end is neigh", wh
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by lopmotr 7y ago
This kind of fantasy reminds me of people wanting giant escape slides and parachutes for the occupants of skyscrapers right after 9/11. Just because a journalist writes a shock-inducing story doesn't mean we need some extreme inve
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's apparently a bit smarter than GFCI. [1] says it measures the loss in the wire to determine if a person or whatever is touching it. So that would protect people against shocks from touching both wires, which GFCI can't do. [1]
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There are special thicker 16 and 18 AWG Digital Electricity cables [1], so you probably wouldn't get that 2kW with CAT6 unless it's just peak power with a low duty cycle. They are rated for 300V so they might actually use close to
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It seems to affect different people differently. Some commit suicide and blame their childhood abuse so it was probably bad for them (or they were led to believe it was bad). But perhaps those severe cases also had severe psychological and&
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by lopmotr 7y ago
On your first point, the idea that genetics influences behavior is not discredited. On your second point, what's wrong with eugenics? Even if it is wrong, who decides what knowledge falls into that category of inevitably leading to bad
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by lopmotr 7y ago
advice
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Popular news stories aren't representative of the real world. There's no sense trying to imagine some cohesive picture of the world from them. It's like somebody discovering a mutant shark with two heads and saying there&#x27
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Because criminals are part of society and also need protecting from the government. Without that concept, we'd just have the death penalty for every crime, no matter how minor.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Just a feedback. Your TLDR is ambiguous about whose account clearly seems to be childrens'. I took the wrong meaning from it at first and thought you meant the fake children were sending things.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Here's a funny idea. How much is children's psychological damage from exposure to sexual ideas and images innate, and how much is cultural? Taboos about body parts don't seem to be entirely universal. I wonder if we could sol
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They already have that threat from guns, and already have ways to protect themselves. Bulletproof glass would stop a drone too. Drones don't sound like a real problem compared to guns which somehow haven't assassinated every polit
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by lopmotr 7y ago
While it's not perfect, it's surely far superior to counting the number of citations of research papers published by the academic staff, who might not even be teachers. Isn't that roughly how the popular rankings which prospe
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Somehow the author manages to squeeze his exaggerated opinions about Trump and global warming to an article about ancient cave art. Why do they keep doing this?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think it's a particularly American idea to want to cripple the police. They don't trust their government or their police, and perhaps rightly so, I don't know. Where I'm from, I would be happy if the police could use c
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Though the engine won't stop it rolling away on a steep hill, it will keep the speed down instead of wildly accelerating. So that can reduce the danger and destruction it causes.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What's really wrong with that? The government already has the systems in place to collect tax so it sounds more efficient than trying to do it privately. In my country the tax system is also used to collect student loan repayments even
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Perhaps it's easy enough in America. Where I am, there are multiple rewards programs separate from credit cards. Some shops have their own special card, and some are part of a bigger scheme with a common card. It's all a mess. I h
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's the same thing. Retails also don't pay for their stock, rent, wages, or anything because it's all pushed into the price to the consumer.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The whole existence of credit card rewards seems like a failure of the system. Since merchants agree not to charge more to high fee credit card customers, all the other customers end up paying the fees for those rewards. So everyone has to
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by lopmotr 7y ago
In San Francisco, long term homeowners can afford to have it vaporized because the gains they've made far outstrip what they'd get from other investments. Morally, it should be vaporized because the value comes directly from their
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Housing is cheap in small towns. As I understand it, America has "Section 8" housing which pays most of the rent for unemployed people and they pay 30% out of their unemployment benefit. So are homeless people really just choosing
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There's a discrete jump in the career value of the education between not quite finishing a degree and graduating. It's not because there's some super important final semester that's worth much more than any of the previo
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Do you feel the same about people speaking a language you don't understand? It has the same problems of being a noise that you can't pay attention to because it doesn't make sense but you can't shut out because it's
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I wonder if groups with actual members will be OK. I'm a member of one and have several years of message digests in my email. I just downloaded all of them. For groups without members, or with no-one bothering to read them anyway, mayb
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Isn't a failure to judge something correctly the reason they went to prison in the first place? Are you saying they're so well reformed that their judgement now exceeds that of normal people? In that case, there must be other jobs

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