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by m0zg 6y ago
> Barr is trying to rush to provide a win That seems implausible. Under the best of circumstances this is going to take half a decade. Wheels of justice turn slowly.
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by m0zg 6y ago
I'm really tired of this line as well. Had they failed to contain Chernobyl, much of Eastern Europe would be contaminated for thousands of years. It is true that today's reactor designs are much safer than RBMK, but I will prefer
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by m0zg 6y ago
Just the little bit responsible for Chernobyl and Fukushima is not a part of the design at all. No big deal. :-)
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by m0zg 6y ago
How so? Unlimited, non-radioactive fuel and inherent safety of the system alone could tip this scale pretty severely in favor of fusion once it becomes energy-positive. And remember, once that happens, investment is going to be through the
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by m0zg 6y ago
It's purely gatekeeping, just like in a lot of other fields. A lot of people make a lot of money from it, so it's not going anywhere anytime soon, unfortunately. I too don't see why one would need a degree to give me a bottle
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by m0zg 6y ago
Well he didn't get to stick around, did he? As powerful as he was, he was immediately disowned by everyone once his victims came forward, and there was corroboration and evidence. Whereas here it is suggested that we make judgments bas
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by m0zg 6y ago
If this account were to be taken at face value (which it shouldn't be until evidence is presented), then the professor was abusing everyone for years, not just a handful of students. That, indeed, would not be allowed to continue. I&#x
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by m0zg 6y ago
That's a good question, so I'll answer it with a question. Do you think Joe Biden should withdraw from the race due to the "credible" rape accusation? If the answer is "no", because there's no hard evidenc
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by m0zg 6y ago
Because you don't get to stick around if you abuse people to the extent described in the article. At least I haven't seen it, in a quarter century of my adult life. I quite frequently see folks who treat any demands that they do w
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by m0zg 6y ago
Fair warning: you _never_ get the full picture if you only hear one side of it. It is possible that the advisor is a manipulative asshole (though it's unlikely that they are to such an extent), or it is possible that the author grew up
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by m0zg 6y ago
> Surgical masks in a closed room That's what my dentist was wearing. :-) I'm still alive.
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by m0zg 6y ago
By far the easiest way to get promoted (beyond very junior levels) is by changing jobs every 2 years. And by "changing jobs" I do not mean changing jobs within the same company. I mean changing them for real. That way employers ha
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by m0zg 6y ago
Exactly. Every time going gets hard there's a temptation to just fire up the browser or youtube. You have to make a conscious effort to _not_ do this. You have to also be _bored_ to do anything of value. It's very easy to be enter
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by m0zg 6y ago
Dunno man, raising kids is hard work. Although I heard incremental difficulty of raising more than 2 is sub-linear.
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by m0zg 6y ago
That is true, but you don't need to be a genius at that. The bar is really low - most people don't even negotiate their pay.
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by m0zg 6y ago
There's plenty to do: I can have hobbies again. I have finished a lot of old projects in the past 6 months, some of which sat in my garage for almost a decade. It's really satisfying. I'm practicing on the guitar again, too.
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by m0zg 6y ago
> entire day or two watching Netflix and staring at your phone More like years, nowadays. Some people (most?) never recover at all, because it's cheaper and more addictive than smoking. Apple's detailed time tracking was a reve
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by m0zg 6y ago
Por que no los dos? Give offices to those who need to focus and open plan to those who like getting distracted all day. Seems like a win-win to me. What's with this dogmatic "everyone must sit in a bull pen" trend?
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by m0zg 6y ago
Oregon has the improved version of the algorithm: if perp_is_left_wing: release() drop_charges() It's been running for 120 days and counting, in a fiery, but mostly peaceful manner, per CNN reports. Only a few peop
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by m0zg 6y ago
TBH, having witnessed the work of some great salesmen as a VPE of a successful startup, I think with training you could do a _passable_ job of it, but you're unlikely to be amazing at it. So do what you can in the interim, but spend an
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by m0zg 6y ago
Counterpoint: Sukhoi Superjet had its "deliveries" years ago, and now several of them have crashed and nobody wants to buy or fly them anymore. And that _Sukhoi_ - those guys have been designing and building planes for 81 years. J
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by m0zg 6y ago
That's the kind of thinking that leads to rolling blackouts and landfills full of solar batteries.
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by m0zg 6y ago
IMO, the entire $100B should be allocated to fusion. And then add as much money as necessary until it works. Put together a Manhattan project or something. It does seem like we aren't that far off this time. Most other things on that l
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by m0zg 6y ago
But the key issue is, _who gets it first_. If older people get it first, you get what happened in New York and New Jersey. If young people get it first and you effectively isolate the old, then the number of cases doesn't matter - youn
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by m0zg 6y ago
It's a movie rated "mature" featuring sexualized depictions of 11 year old girls. 11 year olds (the only even remotely "appropriate" audience for the film) can't legally watch it. It's a film filmed by ped
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by m0zg 6y ago
They may end up with _fewer_ deaths per million when all of this plays out in full over the next couple of years.
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by m0zg 6y ago
Precisely the age range which is _not dying from COVID_. Like at all, almost. They should be prohibiting gatherings of those 50 and up, of any size, and offering free grocery deliveries and assistance to those 60 and up so that they don&#x2
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by m0zg 6y ago
We'll see in another year. Truth of the matter is: C19 is endemic, and everyone will get it sooner or later, much like common cold. Another, more pernicious mistake people make is they assume we're out of the woods with this, wher
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by m0zg 6y ago
You need help from an optometrist then. There are two clear downward trends, one starting in late April, and one starting in late July.
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by m0zg 6y ago
Meanwhile, the much maligned Sweden is experiencing no uptick in deaths: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ , and US death counts are dropping as well.

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