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by ppf 5y ago
Does this address the low standards required for pork production in the EU? Intensive pig farming, primarily in the Netherlands and Denmark, makes it incredibly hard to compete if your country has higher standards, let alone if you as a far
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by ppf 5y ago
I concede nothing. From my original comment, "Also, I have yet to see any concrete data on how much the various vaccines reduce transmission.". It would be nice if it does, and it is plausible that the vaccines do reduce transmiss
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by ppf 5y ago
My turn to accuse you of dishonesty - intellectual, this time. All the vaccine developers have promised about the vaccines is that they will reduce symptoms, as I'm sure you are fully aware. Unless some later study is done that provide
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by ppf 5y ago
Reduced case numbers is not the same as reduced transmission. As the vaccines have only been tested to reduce symptoms, it would not be surprising that we are seeing fewer cases. In fact, it would be expected, as people don't generally
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by ppf 5y ago
The installation and maintenance of EV charging points is a good equivalent to the much-touted "refining and distribution" costs in the well-to-wheel CO2 and energy efficiency calculations. The energy cost of the electronics and o
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by ppf 5y ago
If so, they also have the choice to get vaccinated themselves. Also, I have yet to see any concrete data on how much the various vaccines reduce transmission. It would seem to me tehre isn't much difference between a person not display
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by ppf 5y ago
So close to what I want. I want something I can use as a "home server", with a priority on having as much control over the hardware as possible. Ideally, it would be an interesting project to design one, but I suspect that the res
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by ppf 5y ago
I have an alternative theory, called the "anti-singularity". It posits that there is a point in technological development where both future development AND maintenance of key technological tools will become impossible, and from th
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by ppf 5y ago
That person used my very questioning of it as an example of something that "assumed bad intent", etc etc, as the memo said, "will not be tolerated". Scale that up to a workplace, and I can see how that could go sideways.
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by ppf 5y ago
It depends how you interpret it. Someone gets to decide what a "positive workplace" is, and exactly what "casting doubt" and "nonconstructive" mean, and then they are free to be intolerant of those who go again
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by ppf 5y ago
You have just perfectly demonstrated how these new rules can be used to crush even a hint of dissent. I'm out.
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by ppf 5y ago
>I think that with the fact that fabs/custom silicon are becoming much more accessible I don't think Google making their own silicon gives any indicator that it is "accessible". If anything, to me it indicates that on
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by ppf 5y ago
I am not sure that is the intent of this memo. > Williams wrote that while counterperspectives and unpopular opinions are “always encouraged” to help make decisions, “repeated interactions that are nonconstructive, cast doubt, assume bad
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by ppf 5y ago
>many employees said they appreciated the clarity Anytime corporate-speak includes the word "clarity", you can be sure it is anything but clear.
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by ppf 5y ago
A conspiracy? From the independent and free-thinking Guardian? If they have been infiltrated by money-grabbing property ownwers, then there is no hope! Seriously though. I think that the Covid enforced WFH has shown many people that there
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by ppf 5y ago
If only it were that simple to contain an airbourne virus! It's incredible to me just how quickly "not wanting to live under house arrest" has become a "freedumb", and sad how quickly people are willing to throw awa
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by ppf 5y ago
>on the flip side it also vastly accelerated telework which allows people to escape cities with insanely high costs Not really. We aren't lucky enough to have space in our family home for an office for either my wife or I to work fr
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by ppf 5y ago
Try explaining that to the "any death with Covid must be avoided at all costs" crowd. There is a good chance that the months preceding the global lockdown will mark the high point for all forms of progress on wage, wealth, and gen
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by ppf 5y ago
If it's that bad, we should stop nibbling around the edges of the problem with complex and wasteful solutions that make a few percentage points difference, and just ban cars.
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by ppf 5y ago
It blows my mind how people cannot see this is what has happened. No conspiracy theory needed - the rich and powerful just got a whole lot more rich and powerful by continuing to act like they do while everyone else was placed under effecti
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by ppf 5y ago
>Maybe overall CO2 production would be less, maybe more According to most EV proponents, that is the entire point. We are being slowly forced to switch to EVs that are much less convenient, and incur a much higher manufacturing cost (in
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by ppf 5y ago
No, it's not an order of magnitude, although I find it disingenuous to use the peak load from 20 years ago, when the UK National Grid has changed quite considerably since then, and has lost 16GW in production capacity [1] We're al
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by ppf 5y ago
True, but mandating a switch to EVs is certainly not an engineering limitation.
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by ppf 5y ago
As parts and systems (cabling, transformers, etc) get replaced, I have no idea if the new parts will maintain this "excess current" (assuming OP really was talking about that), but even if they do, the power still has to some from
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by ppf 5y ago
> That's about 70 GWh of overnight capacity that could have been used...Our grid excess capacity of 70 GWh means we can charge just under 11 million cars before we're using more than our current peak electricity demand. You&#x2
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by ppf 5y ago
This is an opinion I am slowly arriving at - EVs are a very expensive way to force a change in how far people expect to be able to travel.
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by ppf 5y ago
As I understand it, the UK's original street lighting served the dual purpose of absorbing the night-time production of coal power plants, which are hard to throttle. Now that we barely use coal, and instead regularly throttle our gas
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by ppf 5y ago
Exactly which parts of their business model should be illegal? It's pretty standard Silicon Valley stuff - give away your product until there is no competition left, then you can do what you like.
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by ppf 5y ago
Stop buying their product - ie, advertising.
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by ppf 5y ago
Uber, Lyft, Air BnB, Paypal, etc etc, would beg to differ.

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