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by opo 6y ago
From the transcript in your link: >…The Soviet Union’s declaration of war, on the other hand, fundamentally altered the strategic situation. Adding another great power to the war created insoluble military problems for Japan’s leaders. I
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by opo 6y ago
You are also oversimplifying. For example, how effective would the Soviet Union have been without lend lease materials from the USA? >According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning t
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by opo 6y ago
The infamous "shouting fire in a crowded theater" was mentioned by Holmes in U.S. v. Schenck which had nothing to do with fires or theaters. The case involved whether Schenck could be convicted under the Espionage Act for the cri
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by opo 6y ago
Not really sure your point. Are you saying that there is no upper safe limit for B12 for all people? >...Case details: A young woman was treated with multiple daily doses of 1 mg of cyanocobalamin for severe pernicious anemia. After a t
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by opo 6y ago
Yea I thought that was common knowledge since at least when Paracelsus said it 500 years ago: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
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>...So i think open office is not a problem, problem is whats happening around you in that open office. Yea libraries have created the only type of 'open office' where people can actually be productive. The way they do it is t
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by opo 6y ago
>...use that money for renewables, transmission, and storage. If grid storage was simple or easy, it would have become ubiquitous decades ago. To deal with seasonal variations in power output, would require new massive battery systems t
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by opo 6y ago
Rather than asking a hypothetical, it probably would have been better to test it. Create an open floor plan with say 100 engineers. Survey job satisfaction before and N months after. At that point decide how people can be the most product
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by opo 6y ago
Here is a different take on it: "...But Jobs's response is a perfect demonstration of what to do in this situation." https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/20-years-ago-steve-jobs-de...
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by opo 6y ago
>...I live in Scotland. In the past 20 years we've gone from around 12% electricity from renewable to around 90%. Scotland has done an amazing job of decarbonizing the energy sector. That said, the important thing about electricity
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by opo 6y ago
>...I do agree though that even I used to be completely against nuclear power because of the unsolved waste problem. In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste could be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https:/&
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by opo 6y ago
All indications are that much was learned by industry and the NRC after TMI: "...The NRC said the TMI accident also led to increased identification, analysis and publication of plant performance information, and recognising human perfo
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by opo 6y ago
>...It's not like you could take a used fuel-rod and throw it into some breeder to have energy. Not to speak of the old cladding. I mean, I'm not against it, but it's not that simple. You are moving the goal posts. Your or
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by opo 6y ago
In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fue
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by opo 6y ago
>...Personally, I think the grand calculus may tilt slightly in nuclear's favor over fossil fuels, but the risk can't be swept under the rug. Slightly? No one except the Soviet Union said the Chernobyl style plants were reasona
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by opo 6y ago
No one except the Soviet Union said the Chernobyl style plants were reasonable designs. That kind of design would have been illegal to build anywhere else in the world. No one ever promised that there would never be a nuclear accident - th
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by opo 6y ago
As time goes on, more workers are experiencing health effects that might be due to their years of work cleaning up the spill: >...More than 30 cleanup workers at the December 2008 TVA Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant coal ash spill are d
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by opo 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. When you wrote "Milton Friedman's biggest lie" the implication to the reader is that Friedman is deliberately saying something is true when it is not. As the wikipedia article says, Friedman di
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by opo 6y ago
>...Milton Friedman's biggest lie is a law, You are misrepresenting what is called the Friedman doctrine. He didn't claim it was the law of the land. As the wikipedia article states: >...The Friedman doctrine, also called
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by opo 6y ago
>...it was very under the radar in the US until Facebook paid what seemed like an ungodly sum ($12bn) at the time. Facebook paid a lot more than 12 billion: >...When Facebook announced its plans to acquire WhatsApp in February 2014, W
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by opo 6y ago
>..Wind turbines kill a negligible number of birds compared to other threats. The source you list gives an estimate for bird deaths that is an order of magnitude less than the Audubon society or the US Fish and Wildlife service. But the
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>...It's not necessarily the amount of waste that is the problem, it's the incredibly long duration of its radioactivity. In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount o
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by opo 6y ago
We should obviously be worried about other green house gasses, but methane is a particularly bad green house gas in the short term. >......The IPCC reports that, over a 20-year time frame, methane has a global warming potential of 86 com
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by opo 6y ago
>...Unfortunately, there's no time left for nuclear (fission) France was able to go from nothing to getting almost all of their electricity through nuclear in a couple of decades. It is possible that we will be able to ramp up grid
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by opo 6y ago
>...- no one has yet solved the waste problem (okay, the US has ample free land, but the rest of the world does not!) In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of waste: http
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by opo 6y ago
>...Compare ~10 megatonnes of methane leaks worldwide It isn't clear we fully understand the extent of methane leaks in the US and probably have less info on many other countries. This is illustrated in the Aliso Canyon leak: >..
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by opo 6y ago
>...That’s intentionally deceptive. Part of the Hacker News guidelines is to assume good faith. As the IPCC says: >..There is no scientific argument for selecting 100 years compared with other choices (Fuglestvedt et al., 2003; Shine,
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by opo 6y ago
>Methane’s global warming impact is front loaded, Methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale. This is the timeframe we need to worry about right now to avoid the worst affects of climate change.
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by opo 6y ago
In terms of climate change, natural gas is comparable to using coal. The CO2 emissions from a natural gas plant are much lower than a coal plant, but it isn't clear that if you account for methane releases during production/transp
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>...3 years later when I did get another loan, the banks saw my foreclosures and short sales and were more than happy to give me a mortgage that was 50% more than my prior one. It was just business to them too. FHA loans are guaranteed b

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