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by manfredo 6y ago
I'm not sure what the above poster means by "outlaw", but yes police do investigate and have sometimes issued fines for public statements that don't invite violence or harass but espouse unpopular views: https:/&#x
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Statistics on how much CO2 something emits can vary wildly. For instance, meat consumption has high CO2 emissions when you include the CO2 emitted by transporting grain to feed animals. But most typical studies would include that under emis
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I'd put my money on less utility. Dogs can be used for hunting, managing herds of pasture animals, guarding things, tracking animals and people by scent, and more. Pigs can learn tricks and be trained to sniff for things (e.g. truffles
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> It's actually the fiscally conservative thing to do. Every study around social programs show they grow the economy more than they cost it. The idea that government spending somehow manages to pay itself back is the complete opposi
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There's no way to "fix" the laws of supply and demand. Making games is a lot of people's dream jobs. People are willing to take a pay cut and worker longer hours to have a job in the game development industry. Same reaso
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I think this is largely how it works, but it's not explicitly separated into two pots. Rather, things like legacy status and family donors are factors in a multifaceted admissions process. Someone who donated twice as much might not ha
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The waste is buried under hundreds of meters of rock. And even if the containers eventually corrode, the waste needs to escape from this bedrock. The only way this is going to happen is either deliberately or through a meteor hitting in jus
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Modern societies run on heat engines, and nuclear power is still a heat engine just with a carbon free source of heat. It's possible to run a carbon free modern society without drastic change in energy use, through using nuclear energy
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Is it really? Yucca mountain is basically right next to the site where the military conducted over a hundred nuclear weapons above ground, and a few hundred more below ground. Putting nuclear waste in an area that's already contaminate
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Because there's not very much of it. The whole reason why nuclear is good is that fission of uranium has a much greater energy density than combustion of hydrocarbons. And crucially this waste is solid and can be buried underground. Un
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> 1. yucca mountain can not sustain a million years due to strong seismic activity Where does it say this? Here's the paragraph under earthquakes: > DOE has stated that seismic and tectonic effects on the natural systems at Yucca
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> I keep seeing justifications like that and it makes me want to puke. First of all: The total number of victims is unknown and it is still rising. Even for Chernobyl. The total number of victims was unknown for Chernobyl. We didn&#x27
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1. Forever. Uranium is a heavy metal, it's toxic regardless of it's radioactivity. 2. The US already has one [1]. Congress stopped it's opening, but it's sitting there built ready to be used. Europe also is constructing
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Because it's not a problem. There's actually very little of it. It occupies a volume the footprint of a football field and 10 yards high [1]. Storing it is pretty foolproof: bury it in an area with no aquifer. The main risk of con
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First, point out that Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, and Fukushima amount to extremely small numbers of deaths relative to the power these plants generated. For three mile island and Fukushima this figure is zero among the public. Less than two
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This isn't evidence that DRM is useless. Quite the contrary, it's evidence that DRM can yield resounding successes. What a lot of people don't understand is that DRM has fulfilled its purpose if unauthorized copies are staved
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What does racism have to do with it? The crucial part of section 230 is [1]: > No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content
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Stock prices have discrete changes, though, in the form of individual transactions. Zoom in far enough that your graph is entirely occupied by the time between two transactions and you have a straight line.
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> Sorry, but this is so naive. Or I guess, a superiority complex? Or basic knowledge of immigration statistics. Visa applications vastly outnumber the amount issued. Of the 330 million people living in the US, ~45 million are foreign bor
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Is the resentment coming from childless people and directed at parents? Or is it coming from parents and directed at childless? Anecdotally I see a lot more of the latter in this thread. It reminds me of a time when a co-worker complained i
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Women have the choice to whether or not to bring a pregnancy to term nation-wide. I'm sure you can identify edge cases where people aren't made aware about contraceptives and birth control due to an isolated community, but the ove
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> If all of a sudden, say, 50% of the people having children now, in developed countries, would decide to not have children, we'd probably have societal collapse. That's what happened in societies where the population went down
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The last ice age occurred gradually over the span of millennia. Anthropic climate change is occurring in an instant by comparison. Not to mention, humanity survived by mass migration, something that's a lot harder for integrated global
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But crucially, commercial spent nuclear fuel is in containers. Spent waste from weapons development was often just dumped in a pit and buried. Our priorities were very different in the 1940s and 50s. Seriously look at this picture [1]. That
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Getting the waste to a storage facility is very easy. You put it on a semi trailer and move it to the storage site: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/avery-w2/images... Nuclear waste is radioa
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We do have a permanent disposal facility built, but congress chose to forbid its operation. This is a self inflicted problem: we don't have a permanent disposal facility because we refuse to use the permanent disposal facility we built
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Is this the cleanup cost for civilian power generation? Or for military reactors and nuclear weapons, too? Because all the nuclear waste from civilian power generation occupies a volume the size of a football field in footprint and less tha
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Well, at a high level that's what's being done. Nuclear fuel is mined from underground and the spent fuel is put back underground. But it's much better to put it in a known location where it's away from water sources. N
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> I will be happily become pro-nuclear the moment that all the real-world externalities are actually priced in. How much do you think it cost to have 1,000 square miles in the Ukraine uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years? What if such
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Absolutely. The entirety of the nuclear waste from US power generation fits in a volume the footprint of an American football field, and 10 meters high: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-.

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