relativitypro

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by relativitypro 6y ago
1. This dumping was litigated in the 60s and happened before this 2. You can’t predict the future 3. This is the efficient market at work, don’t solve any problem until it becomes a social, political or environmental reality you can’t legal
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by relativitypro 6y ago
1. Saving human lives may not be the best metric (given that even this metric is evolving in time, and I claim unknowable) 2. The green revolution benefits were several orders more significant, and will be seen as the spark that enabled cli
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by relativitypro 6y ago
“Renewables” doesn’t address climate change, low carbon grid-scale power does.
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Screenshot displayed seems generic coding style.
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Yes. We do many worse things to ourselves, and they have all the potential and realized risks that nuclear promised. The only difference? We’ve been inundated with ads from the coal industry. Deaths from nuclear power, including all the her
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Well. I’d like to have had kids, and am jealous of those that have. While the pandemic is a curveball, people With kids are investing in their future and continuing their families. I think the frustration comes from the perspective that you
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Cannot be the right call. The tax payers lose in the coverage and they lose in the lawsuit. Having police officers paid so little that you put up with 18 violations, or willfully ignore them out of comraderie is fundamentally a system that
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by relativitypro 6y ago
I guess the equitax data breach will lead to real consequences. Just not for equifax.
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Is this your env or you? Chances are you are a Silicon Valley native, and you have at least 4-5x the reaources and advantages of kids on average in the us. Many don’t or can’t go to college, not because they wouldn’t if they were you, but
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by relativitypro 6y ago
Energy markets are highly subsidized, in China too. To have this discussion, one needs to include information about the entire energy market. If you heavily subsidize low-no carbon footprint sources, you devalue the others. Additionally you
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by relativitypro 7y ago
Saying it is easy to ramp up machinery implies that it actually is... while your point that human capital is more valuable than tools is correct, ask yourself why a sophisticated pump costs 10k$ and requires a medically trained person to op
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by relativitypro 7y ago
This seems to be the cutting edge of capitalism, emboldened by legal force and lobbying. Once you allow incumbents to rewrite the rules, they will do so to entrench and enrich themselves. “Too big to fail” “Too big to jail” “Lower interest
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by relativitypro 7y ago
You had me at nuclear, and lost me at technology that won’t ever be licensed by the nrc in the next 20yrs. How will you save the climate?
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by relativitypro 8y ago
Proper time is an invariant that could be used for this... still corrections apply (as you suggest, for the two observers). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time