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by opo 9y ago
>Can we focus on renewables and stop trying to sell people hazardous waste that can last for millenia? No one I know is opposed to renewable energy, but advocates really do everybody a disservice when they try to argue that an intermitte
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by opo 9y ago
>...The fear of that happening Yes, anything involving radiation causes fear. The reality is that the atomic bomb tests deposited tons of plutonium in the atmosphere and no one has detected any health consequences from that. I am not s
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by opo 9y ago
Is there any study that shows that adding distractions to people and removing personal privacy makes them more productive and/or lowers stress hormones? For example: >...In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewe
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by opo 9y ago
>How would you feel about larger offices that fit ~8, and housed your entire immediate team, but no one else? I've experienced that kind of environment and it is slightly better than the sea of tables filling a floor but is still ve
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by opo 9y ago
The FCC said at the start: "...As part of this decision, the Commission also refrains (or "forbears") from enforcing provisions of Title II that are not relevant to modern broadband service. " The rules they were enforci
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by opo 9y ago
>...And he wants to send it for free. No, I am pretty sure that Netflix doesn’t have free access to the Internet. (Just like the customers who request content from Netflix already paid their ISP for access to the Internet.)
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by opo 9y ago
>...As to counterfeits. for the consumer, this only matters if the quality is unacceptable (which reviews and returns take care of - at for me). That is the problem here with Amazon. With comingling of products, it doesn't really m
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by opo 9y ago
>I haven't seen Walmart sell anything online but stuff you'd more or less find in their stores where Amazon is a funnel point for a zillion online shops and lets me buy from them without worry. The "without worry" par
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by opo 9y ago
>Correct. You brought it up along with the presumption that I'm in favor of it. No, what I said was "Are you trying to argue that keeping coal plants and shutting down nuclear plants is a good idea?" >>>You are so
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by opo 10y ago
>...Nope. I'm arguing that shutting down both is a good idea - which is why Germany is shutting coal plants too: What you actually wrote was "I thought it was telling that the only world leader who reacted to Fukushima by manda
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by opo 10y ago
>That's just lying with numbers. No, those numbers are from the IPCC which represents the mainstream consensus. Take it up with them if you think you are right and they are wrong. Using the 20 years number is reasonable considerin
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by opo 10y ago
>100,000 tons of methane with a half life of less than 10 years. The math is complex and 1 ton of methane becomes more than one ton of CO2, You are downplaying the impact of methane. As I quoted in the last post, the IPCC estimate is th
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by opo 10y ago
>...I thought it was telling that the only world leader who reacted to Fukushima by mandating the end of nuclear power wasn't a hippy but a physicist. Are you trying to argue that keeping coal plants and shutting down nuclear plants
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by opo 10y ago
>...But you are absolutely right that its entirely due to natgas and that will maybe last us a decade or two but certainly not three. Citation? Unfortunately it looks like there are large proven reserves of natural gas: >...The U.S.
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by opo 10y ago
On the plus side, the CO2 from burning natural gas is less than coal and it doesn't emit mercury or the other particulates and doesn't have a waste issue like coal does. Unfortunately for those who care about climate change, (and
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by opo 10y ago
You are handwaving away huge issues here. As Bill Gates said in the same interview I quoted from before: >"...It’s kind of ironic: Germany, by installing so much rooftop solar, has it that both their coal plants and their rooftop s
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by opo 10y 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 a reasonable replacement for base load power. As Bill Gates said in an
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by opo 10y ago
>...Let's be fair: Mayer didn't have a real chance at fixing this company As a user, I found almost all of the changes made to sites like I once used (like the main page or flickr, or the finance page) to be worse than before s
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by opo 10y ago
You are bringing up a few new issues here. In regards to Apple, Tim Cook in his testimony to congress said: >...The Company’s FY2012 total US federal cash effective tax rate was approximately 30.5%.1 >…Apple does not use tax gimmicks.
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by opo 10y ago
If you want baseload power, you can choose between coal, nuclear and natural gas. Natural gas has estimates that range between 72 and 113, so depending on which you choose it might well be cheaper or more expensive than nuclear power. Nat
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by opo 10y ago
>...Nuclear costs are notoriously high, No, according to the US Energy Information Administration the levelized cost of nuclear has been comparable or less than coal (without the massive negative externalities of coal) https:/&#x2F
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by opo 10y ago
I agree with everything you wrote here. In your original post it sounded like maybe what you were saying was that the airline should have used peer pressure as a means to violate their contract with a passenger. There are much better choi
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by opo 10y ago
>The correct solution can be to never drag people off planes. The cockpit crew simply stops their checklist at "passenger manifest is correct", and informs the passenger cabin that takeoff will be delayed indefinitely until af
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by opo 10y ago
>...The airline owns the plane. They have the legal right to decided who is and who is not allowed on the plane. They allowed that particular passenger onto the plane, and then later they revoked that permission. When he refuses to leave
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by opo 10y ago
>...Yes, Apple's would be at a disadvantage due to higher tax rates but maybe that would be offset by the inherant advantages that California offers tech companies. What you are forgetting is that US law doesn't discriminate ag
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by opo 10y ago
>...But surely you accept that California has some inherant advantage? For now at least, it does seem to have an advantage and draws capital. (For example, Samsung has a huge R&D center in silicon valley.) Of course for every succe
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by opo 10y ago
>...Imagine it is 2007 and you can choose to invest in Apple and receive 60% of profits, or Samsung and receive 100% of profits. What's the better investment? Imagine it is 2007 and you can choose to invest in Yahoo and receive 60%
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by opo 10y ago
So are you recommending that a foreign company should only pay taxes on what they earn in the US, but a US company should pay taxes on everything it earns everywhere? (i.e. the US government should get 36% of the profits even if something i
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by opo 10y ago
>...The dogma of open offices assumes that most disruptions are informative I wonder - does anyone actually believe that anymore? I've always found that to be more the rationalization people use since it sounds good. I've gen
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by opo 10y 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 is a replacement for base load power. As Bill Gates said in an interview "…They have

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