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by uvdiv 14y ago
The press release makes a seemingly absurd claim: Each solar power system is designed to generate more energy from the sun over the course of a year than is consumed by Tesla vehicles using the Supercharger. wtf?
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That's some loophole! Pay a $210,000 contractual fine for buying less power than estimated, or spend $70,000 achieving that estimate... in three days... with a space heater.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Your example only reiterates my point, that violent gangs sieze property by force, and that the failed Honduran government is incapable or unwilling to defend its citizens and their property rights.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The article suggests he was killed over a land dispute. Which, really, exemplifies the point of the Canadian-governed cities: mediating property disputes in first-world legal systems, not anarchic violence.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I like how they suggest data centers be more like supercomputers. Why are supercomputers using 100% of their CPU time, while data centers are siting around wasting it. Some companies, academic organizations and research groups have shown
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I can't say I like right to work laws, but I think they are necessary so long as unions, which I think are natural and legitimate market phenomenons, are weak I think you're confusing right-to-work laws with something else. Those prohibit
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Buying solar power from residential users is usually a loss to the utility (hence other ratepayers). Especially when they want to sell at retail electricity rates rather than wholesale -- which is what net metering essentially does. http:/
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It's union politics which gets their legislation passed. No one would support price-raising taxi cartels if the question weren't coated with rhetoric about wages and welfare. Let a taxi union explain it: http://www.nytwa.org/campaigns/stop
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Some scenes from the inside: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-taxi-official-t... I like the imagery of the murderous taxi kingpin driving a gold-painted Mercedes. (page 3)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It's like a criminal racket, except it's the city doing it.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
you eliminate protein, you still have to deal with the properties of water (anothe ~+100ish F leway before it boils; as noted by other commenters). +500ish F, if you're on a planet similar to Venus. +1000ish F, if you allow supercritical
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Venus for example is hot as hell on the surface but there is actually a band of the atmosphere which humans could hangout unprotected in, its breathable, The atmosphere is carbon dioxide with an aerosol of liquid sulfuric acid. (?)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The ban in Libya and Egypt is voluntary: Google said it decided to block the video in response to violence that killed four American diplomatic personnel in Libya. The company said its decision was unusual, made because of the exceptional
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by uvdiv 14y ago
You've got it entirely backwards. In your scenario, the atheists would be risking their first amendment protections because they're the ones threatening to murder someone. No, the parallel was accurate. The guy in California threatened no
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I'll evade your difficult idea with a more pragmatic rebuttal: give almost any government in the world some legal speech model like what you describe, and you will be in prison for spreading the "false, dangerous delusion of atheism". The
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by uvdiv 14y ago
So, to get this straight, speech is not protected by our first amendment ideology when it: * Is demonstrably untrue * Endangers the public The first amendment guarantees freedom of religion.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Yes, but in this case it's overtly political -- they are blocking videos on the basis of their speech content.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I know Google famously censored political speech in China until Sergey Brin made his stand [a], and it continues to censor videos in e.g. India [b] (blocking content which could provoke Hindu-Muslim violence). But in those places, the court
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Is this a first? Google voluntarily censors anti-Islam video in Libya, Egypt(eff.org)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
But all these historical figures who are proven to be wrong or misguided won't be historical figures if you make them live forever... is this unequivocally positive? And if it isn't, how do we deal with it? We already have political disse
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The peak load for South Australia was 1.8 gigawatts. No, that's the average load at a particular time of day. (Averaged over all days over two years). The peak is about twice that: South Australia experienced a mild summer with only a
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Google, Facebook censoring "inflammatory" speech in India as violence spreads(reuters.com)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Microsoft should sue the Seattle Times for desecrating their beautiful logo with compression artifacts. edit: I retract that, Microsoft is doing the very same thing: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/08/23...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
let's me pick the hashing algo, All of the choices are hash functions designed to be fast (like SHA-256, the default), which you do not want for password derivation because being fast to compute means easy to brute-force. You can test b
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That looks like they're using unsalted SHA-256 as a password derivation function? And they reimplemented every cryptographic primitive themselves? I'll pass.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
He wasn't an ordinary cop, he was a high-ranking "deputy director of security for counterterrorism" in NYC.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
True: CORRECTION: Let me rap myself on the knuckles here for the above update, which was flat incorrect. As commenter JD points out, IBM’s 1967 market cap was not $1.3 trillion in real dollars, it was $192.3 billion. The NYT’s data was alr
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The guy making the comment about a military response involving armored cars and heavy weapons is completely insane and should be removed from his position. He is a danger to the public. It appears he was already fired, some allegations ab
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It's the first line of the post. http://spirit.as.utexas.edu/~fiso/telecon/Borowski_6-27-12/B...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Where is this meme from? Most Interpol notices are red (3 out of 4). The color codes are not a ranking of severity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol_notice#Notice_types http://www.interpol.int/fr/Expertise/Notices (while not eve

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