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by manfredo 7y ago
Maybe theoretically possible if we have exceedingly cheap nuclear power. Fill the coasts with reactors that are optimized not for power generation but for transferring the waste heat to desalination facilities.
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by manfredo 7y ago
> it applies only to employers using threatening to terminate in order to coerce political activity, not actually terminating someone for political actions. So your idea is that it's not okay to threaten to fire an employee over pol
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by manfredo 7y ago
Both are prohibited, "...through or by means of threat of discharge or loss of employment". It's illegal to do influence employees through means of discharge or through threat of discharge. Firing someone for political activi
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by manfredo 7y ago
Uranium in seawater is available in much larger quantities. We would not consume the amount of uranium over the next billion years even if we used nuclear for all of humanity's energy demands [1]. It is renewable in all but the most li
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by manfredo 7y ago
I understand what you're saying, but the point is you're wrong. A company cannot go around firing any employees that donates or otherwise supports a candidate from a particular party, for example. The protections read: > No emp
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by manfredo 7y ago
Many CEOs derive a significant portion - often even the majority - of their compensation from performance-based bonuses. Compensation not only reflects performance, it is directly tied to it.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Because they fired an employee specifically for their political donations. Your claim that firing employees for their political activity is ok as long as it's not a company policy and only one-off instances is not what law groups are s
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by manfredo 7y ago
How is policy of terminating employees who donate to certain ballot propositions not amount to coercing political participation? It's directly coercing employees against donating with the threat of losing their jobs.
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by manfredo 7y ago
> It is also not censorship nor is it illegal to terminate employment with someone based on their political actions. It is in California: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
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by manfredo 7y ago
I found a source claiming that the total cost of their nuclearization program was 400 billion Francs (at 1993 inflation): https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr... At an exchange rate of 1 franc (
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by manfredo 7y ago
More specifically, he was asked to step down when it came to light that he donated to proposition 8. This proposition was passed. So by the logic of Eich's firing the majority of Californian voters would be excluded due to their politi
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by manfredo 7y ago
Is it? France generates over 70% of it's electricity from nuclear energy, at costs cheaper than most of its neighbors. Building up massive hydrogen storage and generation infrastructure is likely more expensive than building nuclear pl
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by manfredo 7y ago
Nuclear is renewable through uranium seawater extraction: https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514
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by manfredo 7y ago
I think this is missing the forest for the trees. The specific recommendations to his course is only one section in the broader theme of intolerance for different viewpoints on the demographics of computer science. In particular Reges seems
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by manfredo 7y ago
> When uttered by a teacher, it can easily be taken to have an implied "therefore I'll make less of an effort teaching them, or to encourage their career". What part of Reges' writing left you with this impression? He
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by manfredo 7y ago
If it's true then we will end up establishing discriminatory policies to try and achieve parity when the pool of people interested in computer science are not close to parity. I've witnessed this at several companies who set diver
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by manfredo 7y ago
Cambridge Analytica claimed that they had deleted the data they collected.
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by manfredo 7y ago
This person held a research position in the psychology department of a world renowned university, and claimed to be writing an app to gauge Facebook users' personalities. T This is more than just "simply working at a university&qu
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by manfredo 7y ago
#1 is speaking from a position of hindsight. As I said, we can claim that Facebook should have been more skeptical of the intentions of university researchers, but this far from being negligent in their enforcement of their data use policie
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by manfredo 7y ago
Only if you're being metaphorical in what you meant by "checking the wrong boxes". Kogan had a research position in psychology at a world renowned university. He leveraged this position to claim that his work was for academic
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by manfredo 7y ago
> The problems that Facebook has created are not solved with EULAs, and Facebook's responsibility on having created this whole mess is not brushed aside by claiming that third parties did not clicked on the right checkbox when downl
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Choosing to give away your property to third parties is not comparable to being robbed. Facebook collected the data on unsuspecting users and proceeded to willingly give away the data. Thus Facebook is responsible for what comes out of
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by manfredo 7y ago
> And what did FB do as due diligence? Very little. When FB discovered the breach, what did they do as a response and to mitigate the effects to the affected users? How did they recover damages and/or enforce specific performance of
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by manfredo 7y ago
From what I gather, Facebook did have a compliance program in place to ensure that data was only shared with those that met its usage policies. Aleksandr Kogan was working at the University of Cambridge at the time, so the claim that he was
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by manfredo 7y ago
Specific individuals aside, the point was to explain that Bosworth was talking about how Facebook shouldn't use it's platforms to benefit the candidates of their preference.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Someone who worked at Facebook for the better part of a decade responded that they felt the media coverage was unfair to Facebook. You were suprised by this response because from an outsider's perspective you felt that Facebook employe
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by manfredo 7y ago
There are a significant number of tech workers I know that do genuinely believe that companies should leverage their technology to benefit the candidates that they feel would be better for the country, and do things like ban Trump's so
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by manfredo 7y ago
> Without Facebook, this wasn’t already happening. This double negative is a bit confusing. Targeted political messaging absolutely was a thing before Facebook and even the internet. Correlate info on zip code demographics, the readershi
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by manfredo 7y ago
Yes, it does need to get mined refined and transported. But the fissile energy density of uranium is, literally, a million times greater than gasoline or coal. It doesn't take much uranium to generate a lot of power.
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by manfredo 7y ago
Because solar and wind leads to continued dependency on coal and gas. The reality is, nuclear is the only geographically independent method of providing carbon free energy around the clock. The closure of nuclear plants leads to increased u

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