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by opo 8y ago
>...See https://i.myimg.io/wi9J.png OK, for many reasons we are just going to have to agree to disagree on that chart. (I just measured https://imgur.com/wTIt5tg and on my machine it definitely is more
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by opo 8y ago
I found your comment insightful, but I have to ask about this: >...I spent 6 months in prison as a conscientous objector. Could you elaborate? Under what conditions does a conscientious objector face a lengthy prison term?
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by opo 8y ago
>1) If it works for some of the most successful tech companies on the planet (Google / Facebook / Amazon,) why can't it work for us? The open floor plans hurt their expensive worker's productivity, but they have the m
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by opo 8y ago
>...It seems to me like the backlash against open offices is a small minority of programmers with autism spectrum disorders and chapped-ass syndrome. What makes you say that? The vast majority of the comments on this thread are from peo
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by opo 8y ago
>Your chart is even less granular than mine (hourly vs half-hourly), I think you might have posted the wrong image to imgur. You linked to: https://imgur.com/wTIt5tg I am not sure how you are getting half hour indicatio
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by opo 8y ago
A weekly chart like that isn’t really granular enough to show that. This chart is a few years old, but it shows that the peak demand was in the early evening: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=830 The pea
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by opo 8y ago
PG&E has an option where you can choose to have 50% or 100% of your power come from solar: >...When you enroll, PG&E will purchase additional, new solar resources to meet your electricity needs as well as those of other participa
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by opo 8y ago
>...Ground-based solar has a cost in terms of the land being unavailable for other purposes, such as agriculture or housing or even just maintaining ecosystems in their natural state. True, but I was mostly comparing the safety record.
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by opo 8y ago
>…it's unclear that we ever had the ability to build a large number of reliable nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants have been safer and more reliable than other forms of power. In terms of reliability, nuclear has had the hig
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by opo 8y ago
>... is bridges falling apart, underfunded police agencies, teachers leaving the profession because they don't want to live in poverty, schools without supplies, without music programs, without art programs, let alone STEM programs,
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by opo 8y ago
>...How exactly does a human's agency help their ability to negotiate for a job against a better cheaper robotic worker? Their old job might be gone, but a worker can develop skills that make them more employable - that might be lea
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by opo 8y ago
>...The analogy is humans now are to AI as 19th century horses were to the internal combustion engine. While this time things might be different, the analogy people always make in on-line discussions about the jobs for horses is silly.
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by opo 8y ago
Minor point: >...with all the work they put in at Harvard I think the experiments were done at Yale. Milgram wrote a book about the experiments and I agree, (at least as described in his book), they worked hard to test the hypothesis.
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by opo 8y ago
>...China is currently 2% nuclear Do you have a source for that? According to wikipedia it would look to be at least 50% higher than that: >...Nuclear power contributed 3% of the total production in 2015, with 170 TWh,[5] and was the
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by opo 8y ago
Nuclear has become a political issue in the US, and these kinds of decisions can be political, not done for economic or safety reasons as one might have hoped. As an example, the California Public Utilities Commission, decided to shut down
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by opo 8y ago
>...Nuclear is too late. Advocates do a disservice when they ignore the realities of capacity factors. As Bill Gates said in an interview: "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s.
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by opo 8y ago
>Nope, you can smooth that out by moving power east to west. 1000 miles is ~two time zones and has minimal transmission costs. That is probably a bit more complex and a bit harder than you are implying. Attempts to interconnect the main
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by opo 8y ago
>...but doesn't actually discuss the legality of such speech. Well, the article discusses the origin of the idea that "shouting fire in a crowded theater" is illegal. It also points out that Brandenburg v. Ohio is the act
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by opo 8y ago
>...You can't yell fire in a crowded theater. Wrong. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... >...The only difference is they've chosen to draw the line somewhere just o
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by opo 8y ago
>...However, if a small company is tackling a hard problem that does require tons of math, computer science, or pure ingenuity. Hell ya, brainteasers can be of great help. They don't even need brainteasers, they can just directly as
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by opo 8y ago
First hand accounts of 20 year old conversations are likely over dramatized, but I find a first hand account to be much more credible than someone reading a first hand account and deciding the first hand account just got it totally wrong.
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by opo 8y ago
>...Constitutional democracy sucks; it's just much better than any alternative. (I think Churchill said that.) He said something like that, but he didn't say he originated the thought. In the house of Commons, he once said: &
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by opo 8y ago
>...Aspirin is in 16th place, with 1.91% of fatalities. For scale, opioids are 8.3%, and anticonvulsants are 1.76%. Most of these are multi-substance exposures. For instances where there was only a single substance exposure, acetaminophe
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by opo 8y ago
>> aspirin wouldn’t pass >We have a number of drugs in the same class that are as or more effective with less frequent adverse effects, and the same price to market. It is also one of the leading causes of toxic ODs presenting to t
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by opo 8y ago
This point is controversial, in, as far as I know, we have to take someone's word that Ehrlichman made this quote. While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs", the actual substance of his policies seems to be different tha
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by opo 9y ago
>...I would be shocked if there's any fossil fuel generation online in 10 years, 15 tops. The odds of that actually happening are zero. For example, the National National Renewable Energy Laboratory, tried to model what it would tak
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by opo 9y ago
Esther Lederer wrote the column from 1955–2002 and is the person most people refer to when they refer to "Ann Landers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_Ann_Landers
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by opo 9y ago
>...The Government is putting the money in an escrow account until they figure out what to do. No, it looks like they are putting the money in escrow while both Apple and Ireland appeal the charge. From the original article: >..As exp
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by opo 9y ago
>...What the West (And the United States in particular) believes in is 'Free' trade - which looks an awful lot like colonialism, by another name. No, that is really a misrepresentation of the history of trade. While it is unfo
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by opo 9y ago
>...You can't do most blue collar jobs at 50, much less 65. The vast majority of blue collar jobs are in the private sector and they don't get pensions with COLA and free medical when they turn 50 or 55. It doesn't seem f

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