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by manfredo 6y ago
Also, he did state that he had been involved in gangs, as per your own source: > “We all have a personal story,” Patton told an audience at the Domopalooza tech conference in Salt Lake City in March 2019. “It’s probably what drives you e
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by manfredo 6y ago
> I'm glad he's reformed, but participating in a racially motivated drive by shooting is not your typical brain dead teenager moment Being made homeless at 15 isn't your typical teenager experience, either. Omitting the fa
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Looking at the original article, it looks like he continued associating with skinhead groups in his time in the military He refers to associating with these groups in the past tense, in his 1992 testimony (at which time he was 19). As
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by manfredo 6y ago
> If I was contracting with him, I'd be concerned about why his criminal history wasnt communicated sooner given how relevant it is to the nature of his business (especially with concerns about racial discrimination in the criminal
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by manfredo 6y ago
He mentions that he associated with white supremacists, in the past tense, in his 1992 testimony. That would still mean he has not associated with white supremacists since he as a teenager.
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by manfredo 6y ago
What's hard about transporting it? The US manages to ship these just fine [1]. These casks can be transported via semi truck and shipping container [2]. Maybe Europe doesn't have as good waste container standardization. 1 https:&
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by manfredo 6y ago
Yes, because air conditioning units have net positive heat generation. Though they usually use water as their heat sinks, and if that water is flushed then it effectively eliminates the heat in a practical sense if not a thermodynamic sense
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by manfredo 6y ago
17,000 tons of uranium is less than a 10x10x10 meter cube of uranium. The US already has a disposal site constructed in the desert, but we're not using it yet. Europe also has a dig in Finland. Most of it stays on site because there&#x
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by manfredo 6y ago
Nuclear waste is a trivial problem. The amount of waste is incredibly miniscule. The entirety of the US waste generated from nuclear power generation fits into a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 yards high.
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> You. Are. Allowed. To. Use. Cookies. Under. GDPR. Until a government bureaucrat decides that your usage is not necessary and they threaten you with a fine. You are not the one enforcing these laws. What you think is a reasonable interp
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by manfredo 6y ago
> Many people click "add to cart" without logging in because that is the service they want. Nobody voluntarily clicks "track and analyze my activities on this site", because that is not a service people want. You real
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Right, and the easiest way to fix it is to throw up a cookie disclaimer and forget about it. So disclaimers become ubiquitous. Are you familiar with Proposition 65 in California? Any product of business location that has any detectible amou
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by manfredo 6y ago
Right, and now you get sued by a group claiming that you don't need carts for non-logged in customers. Do you need to provide carts for non-logged in customers? No, says the lawyer, you selfishly used cookies to track people without
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by manfredo 6y ago
Perhaps in theory. But in practice, nobody wants to risk being fined because a court determines that some data wasn't required to provide the service. Do you really need to have persistent carts for non-logged-in customers? Can'
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by manfredo 6y ago
I wouldn't recommend it. It's a bad analogy and if I saw someone use it I'd think they don't have a good grasp on web technologies. Cookie tracking is used to do things like persist shopping cart items without logging in
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by manfredo 6y ago
> The idea that all gig economy jobs will go away if labor costs rise and they pay more humanely ignores basic economics. What? I really had to do a double take. If the net cost of employing a driver rises while the revenue per employee
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by manfredo 6y ago
When the alternative to being a "wage slave" is being unemployed, then no this doesn't come off as problematic at all. Lyft and Uber drivers aren't slaves. They chose this line of work on their own volition. You might th
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by manfredo 6y ago
Interestingly, there's some parallels between bicycle deaths and motorcycle fatalities. 126 male deaths, 16 female deaths (out of >800 total? I guess the deaths identified by gender are a smaller subset). The figures are similar for
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by manfredo 6y ago
This isn't just by a small margin. Both Social Security and Health and Human Services are close to twice the amount spent on defense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget#/... https:&#x
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by manfredo 6y ago
I don't think the idea is that it's meant to be competitive against extraction on land. What it does do is expand the potential uranium supply to make nuclear power viable as a global power supply on the order of hundreds of thous
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by manfredo 6y ago
How, exactly are we ranking by quality? The only anti-body study that's been published in a peer reviewed journal has indicated an IFR ranging from 0.12% to 0.2%. The author did make note of these criticisms that the infected rate was
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by manfredo 6y ago
If you're talking about this CDC website, it does track CFR [1]. And as I said, the CFR rate is higher than the IFR rate. Several years the seasonal flu has a CFR above 0.13%. Measuring IFR is inherently speculative, unless 100% of the
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by manfredo 6y ago
No it's not. The IFR of the flu is 0.1%. The CFR is higher. The Case Fatality Rate will always be higher than the Infection Fatality Rate. The people who present cases will be a strict subset of the people who are infected. Early studi
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by manfredo 6y ago
This is due to testing methods that undercount the denominator. Countries conducting random testing have yielded an IFR of about 0.4%. 4x deadlier than the flu.
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by manfredo 6y ago
The R0 of Measels is 10-3x as high as COVID-19, at 12-18 as compared to 1.7 to 5. The total number of people affected to achieve herd immunity is fixed. Distancing reduced the rate at which people get infected. And contrary to what you clai
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by manfredo 6y ago
The infection rate relevant insofar as it means the population will approach 100% infection [1],- and subsequent immunity or death - faster than other regions. Densely populated areas like New York will have a sharp spike and sharp decline.
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by manfredo 6y ago
NPR reported that 1.3 million would have died without social isolation in the US. This is 20x higher than the latest estimate. On hacker news I've seen people claim figures ranging from 1-2 million, to 3-6 million on the more extreme e
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by manfredo 6y ago
The death counts rise extremely quickly, but also drop quickly as well. The total amount of deaths is represented by the area of under the graph, not the maximum. This is a tall, but narrow spike. Also, bear in mind that you're being v
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by manfredo 6y ago
Calling COVID-19 "just the flu" is certainly wrong, but it's still fair to draw comparisons between the two. The latest projected death estimate for the US is 60-80k, down from an original estimate of 100-240k. We're abo
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by manfredo 6y ago
Are infections and death tolls in the countries with much less restrictive measures an order of magnitude higher?

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