manfredo

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by manfredo 6y ago
Yes. You bury waste underground in an area with no groundwater. No geological event is going to bring a cask from 500 meters below ground to the surface, short of a meteor strike (which would make nuclear waste one of your smaller worries).
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by manfredo 6y ago
Battery storage gas great dispatchability. It's scale that it lacks. It's estimated that a country needs 3 days worth of energy storage for solar and wind to work. The US would require 7 years worth of Global battery production:
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by manfredo 6y ago
In tech circles it's pretty highly regarded. When learning programming, understand the stack comes very easily to MtG players since card players are resolved in a stack. Most highly competitive MtG players also come from math or other
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by manfredo 6y ago
We could easily eliminate a greater share of premature deaths if the government sent soldiers to force Americans to exercise at the point of a bayonet. Probably more than will die in this pandemic (~650,000 deaths due to heart disease each
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by manfredo 6y ago
Evaluating whether an opinion is partisan is not ignoring their reasoning or motivation. Quite the opposite, it is evaluating their reasoning and motivation and determining the extent to which that reasoning and motivating is influence and
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by manfredo 6y ago
It's interesting why this isn't the case in the US, too. Conservatives in the US are much older, and the people in the at-risk age groups are disproportionately Republican. Yet they oppose the lockdown. Liberals, who are the ones
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by manfredo 6y ago
In Rice's case, police were responding to reports of shots fired in the vicinity. By comparison, the protestors in Michigan (presumably this is what you were referring to) were attending a planned protest in a state with legal open car
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by manfredo 6y ago
another ~140 were armed with "toy weapons", such as the infamous shooting of Tamir Rice. But it's unclear whether that should go into the category of "unarmed" since this is still a threat perceived by police. Here
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by manfredo 6y ago
1,000+ includes all people killed by police, most of them armed. You need to filter for unarmed killings. Hover over "weapon" and click unarmed. It's 350 from 2015 to the present.
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by manfredo 6y ago
> When one group of people is holding signs that say "stop murdering people" and the other group is holding signs that say "I need a haircut," and you're mad that "the commenters" are not treating them
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by manfredo 6y ago
On average the police kill ~80 unarmed people each year, of any race [1]. By comparison, 40 million people are unemployed as a result of the pandemic and lockdown. Certainly, the impact of someone unjustly killed is vastly larger than that
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by manfredo 6y ago
Payment processors refusing to do business is a new thing. As is cloudflare and dns providers refusing service.
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by manfredo 6y ago
YouTube is taking a lot of ad money that would go to cable and newspapers. People's attention is finite. Less competition for eyeballs.
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by manfredo 6y ago
"hosting speed" -> hosting speech
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Some google products could stand on their own (Google Cloud) but most would have a lot of trouble. Maybe I'm busting out my tinfoil hat, but I think that's the point. YouTube and other businesses wouldn't be able to surv
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by manfredo 6y ago
It's definitely a hard problem. I definitely don't agree that companies need to host speech. Freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. I think a good boundary is to define whether an entity is actually hosting sp
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by manfredo 6y ago
In the realm of corporate censorship, I still believe that politics is much less important to companies than profits. My takeaway from censorship on YouTube and other social media is that it's levied at content that could reflect poorl
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by manfredo 6y ago
I bet that if Facebook and others start fact-checking comments about the dangers of nuclear power or GMOs then people will revise their perspective very quickly.
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by manfredo 6y ago
And rightly so. That's my point: using force to override democracy is bad, and leads to a world where might makes right. The same scrutiny should be applied to the groups torching police departments.
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by manfredo 6y ago
Tell that to the people who genuinely believe that termination of pregnancies is murder. I don't deny that you see abortion in a different light (and so do I). That's the point. It's clear that the comment above is written wi
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by manfredo 6y ago
This is the report for homicides (a different table from the one in the root comment that tracks arrests): https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-... Furthermore, this data is from reports no
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by manfredo 6y ago
So the police never arrest someone for non-violent crimes, and the only disincentive is to get fined. This basically just gives people a license to steal whatever they want and stalk and harass anyone they want, so long as they don't l
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by manfredo 6y ago
The riots were mostly contained to Minneapolis until the weekend. The riots in my state and across the Nation mostly happened after Chauvin was arrested.
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Voting hasn't worked. Oakland PD still has half of its budget to brutality complaints. It's been 7 years since the movement started and 66 years since voting was allowed for Black people. Voting isn't going to change any
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by manfredo 6y ago
This is a narrative that was taught in my high school. My college professors explained how wrong it was. Germany, despite the reparations demanded by the treaty, was in much better shape after WWI than WWII. The first world war ended withou
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by manfredo 6y ago
Lack of testing doesn't hide the rate of excess deaths. Japan is one of the oldest and densely populated countries in the world. On paper it would be experiencing the same results as Italy or even worse. Whether the infection rate has
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by manfredo 6y ago
Your link says Sweden has 33,188 cases and 3,992 deaths. Furthermore, it looks like this is out of confirmed cases of people checked into hospitals, thus ignoring the overwhelming majority of asymptomatic cases, and symptomatic but non-seri
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by manfredo 6y ago
> But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy
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by manfredo 6y ago
I am not aware of any country that has mandatory paternity leave. Do you have an example of this?
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by manfredo 6y ago
> In a nutshell: hate speech causes people to commit suicide. Can you elaborate on how we establish a causal relationship between hate speech and suicide? Let alone specifically hateful comments on YouTube? This doesn't seem corrobo

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