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by spangry 7y ago
Wholesale electricity price spikes happen in Australia too. For example, spot prices in Victoria hit $14,500/Mwh in January this year: https://www.aer.gov.au/communication/wholesale-electricity-p... It is simple s
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by spangry 7y ago
Which electoral laws did they break?
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by spangry 7y ago
Headline has been changed to: "An anguished Dutch teenager, who was raped as a child, dies after euthanasia request." They've also tacked a 'clarification' to the bottom of the article: "An earlier version of t
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by spangry 8y ago
Which policies or regulations in Australia are against the development of renewables? The Renewable Energy Target scheme alone provides over $2bn in annual per mw/h subsidies to renewable energy generators, and is legislated to continu
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by spangry 8y ago
The irony of this statement.
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by spangry 8y ago
I think the most recent flashpoint was the deplatforming of Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin). He accused white supremacists of acting like "white niggers" on a youtube livestream. In context, I think he meant this as an ironic insu
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by spangry 8y ago
As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped. Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even i
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by spangry 8y ago
That paper discussed in Science Magazine is very interesting. Here's part of the abstract from 'The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries' (2016) - https://gspp.berkeley.
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by spangry 8y ago
This is also why we should abolish federal and state minimum wage laws. Gotta support those marginal businesses!
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by spangry 8y ago
Agreed. Carbon pricing works via substitution effects: carbon-intensive goods become relatively more expensive so people substitute towards less carbon-intensive goods, all other things equal. Tax revenue hypothecation hardly ever makes
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by spangry 8y ago
"Essentially, the term is used when someone is upset that someone else has gotten the better or them or beaten them or bested them in some way. That is to say, they dominated them. You know, like when someone is raped." Your sou
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by spangry 8y ago
"Often" homophobic? "Nearly always" making light of rape? Are you just making this stuff up?
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by spangry 8y ago
I've been noticing a lot of anti-Facebook stuff popping up in HN recently. I think this is the 5th anti-Facebook post to make the frontpage in the last 2 days. I don't care about Facebook one way or the other, but I wonder how org
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by spangry 8y ago
I thought the ACLU had a rather interesting take on this issue: "Make no mistake: A lawsuit against Harvard that's purported to represent the interests of Asian-Americans would, if successful, primarily benefit white students. #De
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by spangry 8y ago
Even in the case of private property, if the public is generally invited in, some constitutional rights can still apply: ...ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens hi
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by spangry 8y ago
"On the issue of fake news, Facebook has held off on a total ban, instead limiting the spread of articles marked as false by vetted fact-checkers. However, that approach can leave fact-checkers overwhelmed and able to tackle only the
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by spangry 8y ago
Wikipedia states that the cause of different rates of diagnosis in men and women is not a settled question: "Boys are at higher risk for ASD than girls. The sex ratio averages 4.3:1 and is greatly modified by cognitive impairment: it m
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by spangry 8y ago
This happens to me too. I think people do this so they can dismiss ideas without having to refute them.
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by spangry 8y ago
What would be the practical consequences of losing this immunity?
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by spangry 8y ago
The Breitbart article states: "Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position." So I suppose that's confirmation of authenticit
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by spangry 8y ago
Sounds familiar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_tactics
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by spangry 8y ago
FYI, this is the tweet that got him locked out of his account: https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/styles/inline_...
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by spangry 8y ago
Honestly it's probably more like ASIO/ASIS asking the Attorney-General's department for these laws, then the public servant lawyers at AGs start pushing for them. You end up with the same problem: a bunch of non-technical law
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by spangry 8y ago
Why was beerlord's comment (same depth as this comment) flagged and killed? It was a perfectly reasonable (and informative) comment. Was it not sufficiently pro immigration?
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by spangry 8y ago
AFAIK nuclear power generation is outright banned in Australia (with the exclusion of the Lucas Heights medical reactor).
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by spangry 8y ago
"I can't wait for the mass exodus from Linux now that it's been infiltrated by SJWs. Hahahah" Poe's law in effect?
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by spangry 8y ago
It's not just a simple case of 'update the wiki'. You've actually got to modify the code and potentially break already established APIs (and break scripts that parse redis logs). But putting aside the fact that it's
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by spangry 8y ago
It was the CSIRO converting hydrogen to ammonia for transport, and then back to hydrogen again: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-08/hydrogen-fuel-breakthr...
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by spangry 8y ago
Jail, I'd assume. Holmes (and Balwani) have been indicted on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by a federal grand jury (they've pleaded not guilty). Wire fraud apparently carries a maximum
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by spangry 8y ago
I guess this group are an example of far left extremists in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States) "They engage in violent protest tactics, which has included property damage and physical vio

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