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>How about reduce that to 0 for night-time? No, GP is averaging out across the whole day. If you get 100W during daylight and 0W during night, you can average to 50W for an entire 24-hour period. GP took 30W as a conservative estimate, w
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My local group encourages a 24-hour waiting period to equalize the opportunity for group members to claim items. Generally, the people who really need a certain item don't have enough free time to constantly check the group, or are wor
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Well, let's use the CDC estimates for comparison: Estimated flu infections per season: ~25,000,000 Confirmed COVID cases last 12 months: ~22,000,000 Estimated COVID cases using 7x reporting ratio (CDC): ~154,000,000 If we co
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I have so many strong disagreements. First, GP is nowhere near "half-right". Most egregious is calculating a CFR which is one fifth of the true value (as best we know with the current data). This is much closer to "absolutely
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The CFR in the United States is 1.67%. Your numbers are wrong.
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Your numbers are wrong. There are 21 million COVID-19 cases in the U.S., and 350,000 deaths. That's a CFR of 1.67%. You picked the number of worldwide cases and compared it to the number of U.S. deaths.
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Even if corporations were to pre-emptively ban all speech that threatens to undermine the public faith in our elections, there is still a legal system which allows for complaints to be heard fairly. For all practical purposes, "How man
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I wonder if it's possible to make a fully-walkable city modelled after a college campus. Let's play with some numbers. I'll make some conservative estimates of space requirements. Indoor residential space: 400 square feet
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Do you have a citation for "harmful" non-ionizing effects? As far as I can tell, the body of literature has no conclusive evidence to suggest that radio waves do anything but heat the tissue that absorbs it. Rant: Like many things
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Meh, I'm not impressed. Of the dozen or so sources I looked at, half them are links to articles on right-leaning news sites or tweets parroting speech from Trump lawyers, with no links to primary documents. This isn't evidence. On
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My comment wasn't very focused, so I'll clarify: GP seemed to imply that there is some hidden risk about fusion power that nobody is aware of or talking about, as if such a risk is the greatest factor currently bogging down fusion
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What conceivable risk could there be that supports this hypothesis?
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I think you are severely overestimating the negative repercussions of "too many pet projects" existing in the world. If anyone gets left in the cold because they depended on a project that a maintainer gave up on, then that's
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I've never found this to be a convincing argument in favor of the electoral college as implemented. Why favor a system which constantly cedes power to the same small arbitrary electorate (swing states), year after year? States should a
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I agree that no electoral system should favor 100% majority rule. But as far as federal republics go, ours is exceptionally prone to abuse, to the point that political chicanery is often more effective than good public policy.
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As far as we know, the earth is a globe. What point are you trying to make?
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This is essentially false. There are several redundant safety and security mechanisms protecting nuclear weapons, one of which is the Permissive Action Link (essentially a combination lock on the warhead). This is the component in question
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There may be lots of free opinions, but I don't believe they have much value to the novice investor. I'll admit there are some hidden gems, but separating the wheat from the chaff requires more insight than these subreddits provid
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Yeah, your original point was very fair; GP probably didn't mean for his statement to be interpreted as its inverse, which I jumped the gun on. My reasoning was that if the inverse wasn't implied, then the overall conclusion sho
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Small clarification: I'm assuming that shareholder obligation is the predominant force upon corporate governance, not the only one. But, point taken.
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Allow me to clarify: The word "charity" is used in the perverted capitalistic sense, where Google's predominant "duty" is first and foremost to its shareholders. The capitalist incentive structure requires no more t
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IMO, Google's profit per employee isn't an indicator of Google's obligation to increase its customer service headcount. Taken to it's logical conclusion, we should let poorly-performing companies off the hook for having
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It's not so much "magic" as it is the sheer rate of molecular collisions in the cytosol. There are so many collisions happening that at least one of them will do what you want. Here's a back-of-the-napkin example, admitt
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How would you characterize the current public response to COVID-19? What aspects do you think indicate under-preparation? What aspects do you think are hysterical or overly cautious? To what extent do you believe it is prudent and reasonabl
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Not to mention that the in-app menu prices are frequently inflated compared to dining in. To be fair, I believe this is set by the restaurant in order offset the huge cut that delivery apps take.