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by opo 9y ago
>...It's still illegal to shout 'fire' in a crowded building I don't think so: >..."shouting fire in a crowded theater" refers to an outdated legal standard. At one point, the law criminalized such speech
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by opo 9y ago
>...The cost of building plants was and is immense, and was heavily subsidized for obvious reasons. Do you have any evidence that they subsidized nuclear as much as wind/solar have been subsidized in other countries? Rather than foc
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by opo 9y ago
>... Nuclear is fantastically expensive in every country regardless of regulations or NIMBYism. Not true. One example is France - they generate over 70% of their power through nuclear: >...France enjoys one of the lowest electricity
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by opo 9y ago
>...but it actually was a major event for everyone in their industry: before the Janet Jackson incident, every radio program at their station broadcast live. If a caller on the air started swearing or saying "obscene" things, t
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by opo 9y ago
There have been a couple of previous hacker news discussions on the problem of counterfeit goods being sold by Amazon. The problem here is that if there are counterfeit goods being sold by a 3rd party, you might get them even if the product
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by opo 9y ago
>...went through a few generations before other organisms evolved to feed on their carcasses, You might be understating the time frame here a little bit. Most estimates I have read said it took about 60 million years before evolved the
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by opo 9y ago
>Strike prices are in terms of the energy actually produced, so they can be compared directly. In a sense. But as I said, the low capacity factors will add in lots of additional cost if wind or solar is expected to some day be a signifi
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by opo 9y ago
What makes this difficult to compare is that a nuclear plant will likely have a capacity factor > 90% and wind will be < 40% and solar < 10& (in UK). The low capacity factors will add in lots of additional cost if wind or sola
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by opo 9y ago
Construction cost is not the real criteria that should be used to evaluate power. >...The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of a power source which attempts to compare different methods of electricity generation on a cons
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by opo 9y ago
>But it's not, Reprocessing is done in various countries around the world though right now it is cheaper to refine new ore. >...Also it would make the whole nuclear energy economically unfeasible. The fuel cost is a small part of
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by opo 9y ago
>...When you show me how to safely store radioactive waste for the thousands of years that are required to make it safe, I consider nuclear power as a safe, effective and economically viable option. Right now nuclear waste can and should
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by opo 9y ago
>...We are talking about materials that need to be stored thousands of years here, a couple of dozens billion Euros (or Dollars) are peanuts in that regard. The timescales are just insane with this stuff and make it very likely that we s
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by opo 9y ago
Natural gas might be as bad in terms of climate change as burning coal due to losses of methane during production/transporting, so it would be great to eliminate its use. Unfortunately we are far, far away from having grid storage th
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by opo 9y ago
>...I was a supporter of Nuclear, though Fukushima taught me a very important lesson. You missed the important lessons from Fukishima. A major power plant suffered about the worst possible catastrophe that it could have through a combina
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by opo 9y ago
I don't know the situations in Illinois or New York, but the fuel costs are obviously very low for nuclear power. PG&E says in regards to the Diablo Canyon power plant: >...At 2.78 cents per kilowatt-hour, DCPP’s average produc
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by opo 9y ago
No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do everybody a disservice when they try to argue that an intermittent power source without storage is the reasonable replacement for base load power. As Bill Gates said in a
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by opo 9y ago
>...Want safe drugs and devices? Who determines that? I am sure many consumers see the UL certification on electrical devices and think that the product design must have been certified a large government agency. Some public goods must b
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by opo 9y ago
>Libertarians never can describe what a free market really is. With a small amount of effort using google, you can find plenty of web pages describing basic libertarian philosophy - it really isn’t some kind of mystery. >...Is anti-th
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by opo 9y ago
>...You risk being awarded just a refund of the ticket, which I'm sure that United would offer anyway. And then you'd be down court fees and perhaps loss of earnings for a day to attend court. It's not worth it for ordinar
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by opo 9y ago
That sounds like a very small number, but that equates to about 126 people per day in the US alone. For some this might have been an inconvenience, but for others might be closer to a catastrophe depending on the reasons for their travel.
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by opo 9y ago
>It's very odd that you consider this a breach of contract, You are partially right in the sense of the one-sided document that they impose on their customers, they reserve the right to not let you board. In the case of the United
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by opo 9y ago
Everyone has a price they would be willing to give up their seat and it will be different than the person next to them. If you are traveling on a last minute ticket to visit a family member in the hospital, you might not be willing to dela
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by opo 9y ago
>...First, at this point it's reasonable to expect passengers in the US to know that their booking is subject to availability I question that. My guess is that the vast majority of the people who get a seat assignment when they boo
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by opo 9y ago
There is nothing inherently wrong with the idea of overbooking as it allows for more efficient use of planes, but if the airlines screws up and has too many passengers at the time the flight is to leave, involuntary bumping should not be al
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by opo 9y ago
>...The United thing happens when they let someone board first that they shouldn't have, and then tried to haul him off. No, the United "thing" (aka the assault) happens when they decide that a someone who made travel plan
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by opo 9y ago
>...You'd then sue them and be awarded damages because they breached their contract with you. But it'd cost you a ton of money to do that, and so nobody will do this. The limit on small claims court is usually 5 thousand and sm
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by opo 9y ago
I don't think you speak for all shareholders. Is there some evidence investors (except for the Carl Icahns of the world) want their companies to lose 40% of their foreign cash holdings?
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by opo 9y ago
>...This may vary by state/locale. Yea might be different where I am. Like any signed document, I am sure a lawyer somewhere created the templates for the selling agreement, the purchase agreement, the loan documents and closing do
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by opo 9y ago
You paid for a lawyer to go with you to the closing? Did they point out anything you had missed? (I've never heard of anyone doing that.)
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by opo 9y ago
I used Redfin to sell a house and the realtor helped get the property ready for market (which took a while) and pulled multiple comps to help watch the market trend. Place sold quickly for much more than I thought it would.

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