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by skore 14y ago
Reminds me of the image jokes on Google+ signup screens. Subtitle: Very funny google, asking me about data that you already know.
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by skore 14y ago
True, but even if they're not life and death - the implication is that you don't cut costs on health care, because somewhere down the line, you might regret it. Also, of course, a lot of the things that may be minor in comparison to true li
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by skore 14y ago
I believe the system we have here in Germany is quite similar and yes, I think it's working rather well.
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by skore 14y ago
A very good article that reminds me of an understanding that I've come to a couple of years ago - that free market capitalism and health care just don't mix. Having the option to choose against a service, or being physically able to choose
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by skore 14y ago
Is there something missing in your post? You write that throwing money doesn't work... and later mention that doctors still don't wash their hands. It seems like there was something in between where you gave an abstract of that problem?
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by skore 14y ago
It absolutely will. Sourceforge is adequate if you want to manage a project within an established team. But Github really unlocks an entire community to participate, shattering the barrier of entry to anybody who wants to chip in.
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by skore 14y ago
It would be interesting to see the NYT double down on this... only to have Tesla reveal that they did in fact record this conversation and it matches their version of the story.
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by skore 14y ago
I don't think that matters. It is well established that just asking people to recount an event is extremely unreliable. However, the difference between "ask ten people" and "have a journalist write an article for a major newspaper" makes th
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by skore 14y ago
Sometimes you don't have control over a subscription (semi-spam), other times it makes sense to at least have them archived "just in case". The bottom line is: I have decided that whenever I run into a "this is wasting my time" situation, t
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by skore 14y ago
I used to be pretty into these kinds of things (typical case of "lifehacking to a point where it becomes a new job"), but eventually, only two things helped: 1) Discipline 2) Relentless Filtering Any reasonably advanced mail app worth its s
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by skore 14y ago
Indeed. Most of the time, it seems to me like it appeals to the people who read it as "Ask grudging resignation, not permission".
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by skore 14y ago
There are a lot of for-profit companies that use GPL. I have one myself (albeit a very, very small one). As for community - I think community is often more corresponding to usefulness of code, not license of code. That's why there is often
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by skore 14y ago
> GPL guys feel ignore[d], BSD guys feel elated. Well that's quite a big "speak for yourself" if I ever saw one. If you're only in it for being recognized, ANY project you embark upon will be a huge disappointment, at least for quite a
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by skore 14y ago
Quite to the contrary. I prefer GPL code and don't think people are generally selfish and evil. I do think that "the market" does that to people - It is often very profitable to be selfish and evil and the question is whether you have it in
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by skore 14y ago
> Other types of pollution are much harder to track I was trying to explain to you why I find radioactive pollution unacceptable, replying by telling me that there are worse types of pollution does not really add to the discussion. You
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by skore 14y ago
Good to know that you're willing to go that far to try to make a point in an argument. Once again: Adding radiation when there are other options is what bothers me.
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by skore 14y ago
> so you have to accept that you are implicitly supporting it. Nope, I don't have to do that. You don't just get to claim I'm in a catch 22. Actually, this appears to be what the article echoes as well: Everybody is telling Germany they
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by skore 14y ago
No, because, as has been pointed out to you in another branch of this discussion, it is actually economically reasonable to build a solar cell that will yield more power than you put into building it. Seriously dude, get over your obsession
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by skore 14y ago
> Every single pollution tops radioactive waste since radioactive waste sits in a storage cask Of course, preferably, every type of pollution should sit in a storage cask. I was under the impression that we were discussing the potentia
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by skore 14y ago
Nah, fear isn't really the issue here, I would say that I have a rather calculated understanding of why I find radioactive waste so problematic (and since you asked, you'll have to endulge the full explanation). For me, it comes down to wha
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by skore 14y ago
> There is no technological reason to fear the rail shipment of nuclear waste. It is not difficult to engineer enclosures that will withstand the most energetic possible train wreck. Actually, it is difficult and there is considerable
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by skore 14y ago
Hmm, this is slowly turning into word-twisting. Obviously, "pollution created" is a negative benefit output and "energy produced" is a positive one. I guess the actual problem in our discussion is that you have a profoundly different unders
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by skore 14y ago
> Fly ash is much worse, since it's also radioactive My apologies, I was indeed talking about radioactive waste in general being hard to top in terms of pollution. It goes without saying that I'm not terribly happy with how this country
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by skore 14y ago
Oh, ok then. I thought this was a business discussion - cost input vs. benefit output. Instead, it seems like we're arguing for what would give us the perfect energy perpetuum mobile.
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by skore 14y ago
A) I live in that country and I can tell you that we're quite OK with it. B) Still don't like your oversimplification in terms of CO2 - and we "send around CO2" all the time. I simply don't think it matters. C) Again, solar power isn't far
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by skore 14y ago
> renewables produce HUGE amounts of pollution compared to nuclear. It's not even close. There is hardly anything as destructively polluting as nuclear waste. It's not a even race indeed. And yes, I know how "little" waste nuclear produ
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by skore 14y ago
Absolutely agreed - but we can "solve" energy differently. Not so much for other applications. So nuclear waste in energy is completely avoidable. Not sure I understand your second paragraph.
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by skore 14y ago
That's false on a number of levels. A) It's not just solar. B) A lot of the manufacturing actually happens in Germany. It's just that recently, China is spinning up the competition. Market at work. C) "costs more energy than it produces for
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by skore 14y ago
Reasonably budgeted? More like recently decreasingly subsidized . Germany is making an investment towards a more diverse, ecologically sustainable energy market. That's expensive in the short run, simple as that. The four big players don't
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by skore 14y ago
> We have enough uranium to supply our energy needs for centuries That's incredibly short sighted. And not just the measure of 'centuries' (even if that were true, it's still arguably just postpone the problem). Energy demand is going u

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