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by seadan83 2y ago
Addendum: I am not sure to what extent congress controls line item budgets for FEMA. Though, it would be on them to fund something. Second, we should also consider the net taxes of all existing asylum seekers that ever entered the country a
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I'm getting hit with a pay wall on your [1]. Though, it does say "The cost of power for industrial businesses". That is a more specific cost. With that qualification, I would agree your statement is supported. I am curious wh
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Respectfully, it might be a start that is now too late to be useful. Cell coverage is back in a lot of areas. Those in the cut off areas (via land transit) can't get the equipment anyways, and to boot any cost is a complete barrier. A
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Appalachia has some of the highest poverty rates in the country. They don't have money for food, let alone a $120/month service that they can get for cheaper via cellular data or conventional ISP At worse this is a non-gesture. Fo
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The practicality is the question. If an effort is going to be useful, it should be useful - and yes,it will have a cost.
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Were the home depots accepting credit cards? Second, poor communities, lots of people had no money to buy pre-storm supplies, let alone pay the equipment cost. By surrounding areas, are we talking areas people were evacuating to, or within
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Text was working well before voice calls. Had first voice call with family in area just yesterday. Data started working then too. Was texting with them 5 days ago though (sunday). Wifi and email would have needed a generator and satellite l
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This, the important communication is door to door. Letting distant relatives know you're okay is lower on the priority list. To boot, conventional satellite works fine for that purpose as well. Two issues though: stores need internet t
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Blame Congress. (1) they control budget and can add the additional funds. They also know that half a billion is being "diverted" from acute disaster relief. The budgeting is on them. (2) Congress needsto amend the asylum law to al
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Which is better, a fleet of rescue helicopters or a fleet of wifi blimps? I'm not sure FEMA would ever have the budget for a fleet of wifi blimps.
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Mountains. Lots and lots of mountains. Second, better to just plop a generator next to the existing infrastructure. The cell towers were recently "unlocked" and are serving any carrier. Third, where are you going to base the blimp
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My folks in the area just got power and data a day ago. That seems like a gotchya, how can you do anything for setup without power nor internet access? This kinda feels like musk offering to help the Thai kids trapped in a cave. The "p
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Why don't the good samaritans also pay for the service? Serious question. 300 bucks for the equipment, what is another 120 for a month? Why bring the 300 dollar kit if the service cannot be payed for? Some folks wanted to stock up, but
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by seadan83 2y ago
I agree. Giving the equipment out for free*, 30 days free, and no return charge would smell of true disaster relief rather than promo. * perhaps equipment charge after 30 days, or a half off on the equipment after 30 days. Those would very
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You undersell the benefits of intermittent power. Provides: charging of devices, charging of cars (reduces reliance on fuel), ability to heat water and cook. Very salient point as many americans are currently dealing with tge challenges of
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Not all coal is equal. Some burns more cleanly, some is easier to extract and process Though you make a good point it could be zero sum (or worse or better). Yet, it might be truly better to pay someone else to burn coal if its cleaner to p
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by seadan83 2y ago
I don't think any of your claims are supported by available data. Would you be able to provide some citations to give evidence for what you say? Going through point by point: > has left the UK with the highest electricity prices in
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> I am not calling others wrong, I am calling the definition incorrect. Yet you wrote: "Regardless, your last paragraph is also wrong". The last paragraph was stated borrowing money was to be avoided. Nothing about debt vs bala
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In what percentage of total cases and to what fraction of the total balance? Please bring citations. This strikes me as a very glib, noisy, and unsupported claim.
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> Credit card debt and credit card balance aren’t the same thing, in practice. In practice, but pedanticatically speaking they are the same. If I asked, how much credit card debt do you have, you shouldn't say zero just because you
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I think you are coming at this from quite the different angle. To semi quote what I was responding to: > always squashing PRs is not a good strategy [because of the following reason] Hence my question,if workflow X mostly solves the foll
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> what constitutes an "interesting" change, or what is worthy to be shipped without a CR FWIW, I have not seen much trouble in the ambiguity. Things like "move method" refactor, typo fix, add additional test cases, co
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Skeptics require proof before belief. That is not mutually exclusive from having hypotheses (AKA vision). I think you raise some interesting concerns in your last paragraph. > enormous amount of societal responsibility this puts on AI m
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After having done a few thousand CRs, I've come to believe that CR is of mixed value. Not always good, nor all good. Removing the bad CRs and doing CR when it is useful IMO helps maximizes productivity. First, I assume a few constraint
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Would you answer: > If every time you voted for a prosecutor, and every time your vote was in a minority, would you still feel you had a say in the bias of the prosecutor? You said previously at least by voting you had a say in the bias.
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My point is to demonstrate that a minority can be consistently oppressed by a majority. Thereby negating the vote of the minority. This is how people feel in northern California, eastern Oregon, and many other places. My point is that appo
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What solutions have you seen for problem (B)? The open source example is hard to fix AFAIK. Everything needs to be a PR, some changes to older code bases are simply going to be either large or multi-stepped (many commits, and sending them a
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Appreciate the concession. I was thinking as well that fruit leather would also be a really important food source in winter. Your last comment I find interesting: (1) in famines, it is the muscular men that die first, followed by the muscul
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> I prefer to decide for myself how biased the candidates > have my fellow citizens vote as well. I find those positions at odds to one another. Personally I don't want prosecutors to be neither appointed by elected officials nor
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> No, that's silly and not at all the same thing as a prosecutor being accountable to the electorate as a whole. In my perspective, it is exactly the same thing when you disagree with the electorate. Which is why (personnally) I don

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