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by q1w2 5y ago
What's telling is the contrast in covid vaccination rates between nurses vs doctors. The vast majority of doctors get themselves vaccinated, whereas a large portion of nurses only get vaccinated as needed legally.
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by q1w2 5y ago
None of the charts seem to take into account any absorption at all, regardless of the duration. Having a chart 120 years long, and not including absorption, means all the numbers are significantly wrong. Also, 120 years is on the upper ran
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by q1w2 5y ago
Two things I find unsatisfactory in these data... 1. It doesn't touch on the Earth's natural absorption of CO2 - so we cannot conclude here that the additional CO2 emitted remains in the atmosphere (I mean we know that from other
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by q1w2 5y ago
This was especially poignant in the spring of 2020 when scientists and health officials were telling people that masks were NOT effective at preventing covid-19 infection. ...and that such idiotic positions were amplified on social media a
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by q1w2 5y ago
> or the company as a whole seemed to be violating the policy There is no requirement for a company to follow principles listed in the CoC. > And no one refused to do their job. They refused to stop doing things that were against the
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by q1w2 5y ago
The purpose of the motto isn't to give employees carte-blanche to do whatever they want. It's supposed to be a catch-all for situations that the company has not taken an explicit position on. If the company says "xyz isn&#x2
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by q1w2 5y ago
The point of a motto like this is to provide guidance when there's no specific company guidance. When the company publicly says they will do business with China, the vague motto doesn't allow you to refuse to do you job.
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by q1w2 5y ago
The issue is that they used their own interpretation of "don't be evil", even when the company TOLD them that certain things were not evil. The phrase is meant to be a catch-all against policies that are not specified - not a
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by q1w2 5y ago
Correct, HOWEVER, since these employees also broke other more explicit rules in the employee handbook, then the more specific rules will apply, not the incredibly-vague-obviously-not-a-carte-blanche-to-do-whatever-you-want clause.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Thanks. The story is now flagged.
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by q1w2 5y ago
anecdotes get propagated if they fit a certain narrative, and don't if they don't. That's why we cannot use them to argue a point.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Correct - and term limits would make that situation much worse.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Never underestimate the power of large groups of people to do irrational things in a state of mania, and to pressure/harass the rest of the population into silence.
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by q1w2 5y ago
> the common idea is that civilization arrived later into northern, colder Europe Some people interpret the notion of "civilized" people vs not-civilized people as racist. I don't agree with that - but that is why that wo
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by q1w2 5y ago
It's so hard to know if it was used as jewellery, or if it had some practical application as well, and was also decorated. We'll likely never know. I agree that calling it a pendant just because it has two holes, is a bit of a
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by q1w2 5y ago
> The biggest opponents of doing anything about AIDS, anything at all, were conservatives trumpeting family values. Hard to take an article seriously after reading this part. > The outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the USA was largely due t
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by q1w2 5y ago
You see - this comment is so vague, I still have no idea what (in the tech) they're fighting about.
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by q1w2 5y ago
No, because there are still many hours until it's going to be cooked.
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by q1w2 5y ago
General anesthetic has been shown to cause brain damage. Surgery on infants without anesthetic has been shown to cause emotional differences in children. There's no good solution. Doctors were weighing consequences with little data.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I supported the verdict, and even I don't think that discussion belongs here.
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by q1w2 5y ago
> ...we'd expect to have contemporary documentation of it. Are there many surviving documents outlining the reasoning surrounding each design choice?
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by q1w2 5y ago
If only certain identifiable individuals are at risk of severe covid, I expect there would be no lockdowns, and that those individuals would be given the warning to lock themselves down as they see fit, for their own protection.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This does not include the energy needed to mine and manufacture the raw materials needed to build the solar panels. Most of those rare-earth elements in photovoltaics comes from vast mining operations in China.
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by q1w2 5y ago
You do not need to power down/up the nuclear plants at all. This is a myth. It is cheaper to just throw away any excess power it generates. Uranium is so energy dense that it doesn't cost anything to do that. This is amazing wh
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by q1w2 5y ago
Exactly - the plants don't need to ramp up/down. They just throw away the output. ...which is fine because the main cost of the plant isn't the input resource of uranium (which is insane if you think about it). That is how i
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by q1w2 5y ago
Building millions of solar panels is an ecological disaster waiting to happen. ...not only for the destruction of natural habitats, but the CO2 emitted in manufacturing and replacing all those panels, and the garbage disaster of disposing o
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by q1w2 5y ago
Even the limit oft cited of "100 years" only refers to current proven mines. It does not include any estimated reserves and the results of additional prospecting. There are large swaths of nations that have never even been prosp
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by q1w2 5y ago
> 1) Extrememly high construction costs and cost overruns This is like pushing someone off a cliff and then accusing them of being clumsy. We MAKE nuclear plant construction expensive. We shut down storage facilities, we ban transport
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by q1w2 5y ago
They have a different extreme low-density advantage that they only need to stay up, and the wind blows them over.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Probably gradual optimizations in flying from Alaska, thru the Aleutian islands, to Kamchatka Russia, to Japan, to Korea, to China, to Taiwan, to the Philippines, to Indonesia, to Australia. In fact, going directly over the Pacific is only

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