sir_bearington

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by sir_bearington 6y ago
From an anonymous teenager. And even then this source only says "He used the `N` word" not that he actually called a Black person the word as a pejorative.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
The issue at hand, though, is that the consequences being levied are nowhere near commensurate with the word being used. The Times's own coverage stated explicitly that the word was used in reference. The notional that being fired is
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
No, other people who describe it were clear that McNeil used the word in reference not as a pejorative. Even the NY Times' own coverage said that he did not use the word as an insult.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
No, it's closer to "every site you could visit - Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, Instagram, etc. - can track you. And since Incognito mode doesn't announce when it's set, Alphabet is no different." As far as I understand
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
How many Gigawatt hours of underground H2 storage are currently deployed? What company can I call to install 1 GWh of hydrogen storage?
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
You could be tracked by anyone, not just Google. Private browsing doesn't save your search history, clears your cookies/sessions, doesn't save auto-complete suggestions. This is more about keeping things private from other pe
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
It is pretty far fetched. Think about the value proposition vs the risk of exposure of such a scheme. Blackmail is a major felony, and deliberately choosing not to report illegal content of this nature is as well. Why would Facebook do this
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
If someone actually finds a way to make a feasible storage solution from it. Nobody is installing hydrogen energy storage right now. Again, the answer is point to an unproven form of storage and assume it'll be a silver bullet.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Yes. Apparently a double digit percentage of people answering surveys respond "yes" to the question "are you deceased?"
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
So in the end, yes you are changing the goalpost to more specific forms of harassment. Women are more likely to receive explicit photos of have harassment sexual in nature. Men are more likely to receive physical threats. If you're exc
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
The context is that I provided research that reached the conclusion that men were more likely to experience online harassment. You provided an article that corroborates this claim, and now you're moving the goalposts to just specific t
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
The Pew study also found that men are more likely to experience harassment. I'm not sure why you seem to think it reaches the opposite conclusion. > Men and women experience and respond to online harassment in different ways. Overal
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
I think the above poster isn't resistant to the idea that harassment is commonplace for many people. What they are resistant towards is the repeated insistence that we should try and extrapolate broader trends from anecdotes. Here&#x27
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
What's the problem of helping people insulate themselves into an echo-chamber? Increased polarization, diminished empathy for people with different values, greater social-sorting, lower trust in institutions, and plenty of other proble
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
The issue is that Block Party seems to be unwilling to distinguish the latter from the former. Although with the current implementation it looks like it doesn't really matter. All this app seems to do is make it so that all mentions by
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
When people point to statistics in response to "lived experiences" they're not denying that it ever happened. They're refuting the claim (implicit or explicit) that this experience is representative of some broader whole
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Another interesting blog post by the subject of this article: https://blog.blockpartyapp.com/p/what-counts-as-harassment-a... I think Block Party more or less acknowledges that it's not about blocking actual haras
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Lived experience is definitely a buzzword used to try and instill more credibility in anecdotes.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Well let's hear it then. What is the mix? How many GWh of each storage type are we going to use? Typically plans for renewables + storage assumes some magical silver bullet like hydrogen or thermal storage that will make storage nearly
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
And what form of storage are you using? There's only 20 minutes of storage available via lithium ion batteries with current mining methods. Others like hydroelectric are geographically dependent, and are large concrete and earth moving
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
> the other 12 hours, so if you wanted to feed the entire California demand from expanded solar generation, you'd need to store up 420 gigawatt hours (1.5 PJ). You'd need 12 kWh of batteries per (average) kilowatt, which would
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
> I'm a lot more "in favor of the truth" than "in favor of renewables". And the truth is that there's plenty of lithium, but not with current extraction techniques.. And the truth is that I only ever said th
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
> The powerplant building company cares nothing about the economics of keeping the country powered 24/7, they care about the economics of building their plant. If their business model works okay while selling nothing at night, then
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
> Biomass has low energy density, but that has nothing to do with non-biomass renewable sources, or with storage. The implication that the low density of biomass carries over is a deception. No, it's not deception. Both solar and wi
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Right and who can I call to install 1 GWh of thermal storage? I can't, because this technology only exists in prototypes. The only actual use of thermal storage is in solar thermal energy, which hasn't experienced the massive dro
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
> Apparently you haven't done the math on this, but I did: https://dercuano.github.io/notes/lithium-supplies.html Only 5 minutes of storage exist in known energy reserves. Only 18 minutes exist in lithium reser
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
There isn't remotely enough storage available to make renewables at all feasible for decarbonization. To put this in perspective 8 Gigawatt hours is just under one minute of storage for the United States' alone. This is why pointi
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Nuclear can handle variable load by more aggressively cooling the reactor. Same thermal output, lower electrical output.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Realistically, buy solar and wind but never drive fossil fuel use below 40% because there's not enough energy storage.
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by sir_bearington 6y ago
Nuclear was considerably cheaper when it was built at scale. Both the US during the 70s and France both built plants at a cost of 1-2 billion per GW. Which, in the context of 24/7 carbon-free energy is fantastic.

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