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by wang_li 8y ago
According to NPR in 2010 the US was importing 60% of the oil used. https://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-...
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by wang_li 8y ago
The o-ring was fine. It was the failure to launch from a temperature controlled environment that was the problem.
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by wang_li 8y ago
I guess whether people agree with you will largely be based on whether US regulations apply to US companies/persons or just US controlled jurisdictions. I'm of the opinion that people shouldn't be able to get around US laws w
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by wang_li 8y ago
> Given that the explicit "master" and "slave" relationship definition lacks any other common meanings in any other technical field of English (that I'm aware of), I'm not quite sure I understand your point.
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by wang_li 8y ago
>... I think you could assume good faith usage of those words and still have a problem with it. One should also understand that not all countries have the same political activists and race-baiters that the US has and therefore the words
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by wang_li 8y ago
As an American I don’t feel any guilt or emotional baggage. This kind of issue is brought up by people with severely underdeveloped moral codes who have latched on to the candy equivalent of morals. Which is to say, unsophisticated but prov
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by wang_li 8y ago
So? Is 6.8 tons per person carbon neutral? No? Then Europe needs to be cutting, not increasing, their emissions.
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by wang_li 8y ago
2017. The charts you linked to end in 2014. In 2017 the US reduced carbon emissions[1]. The EU increased their emissions[2]. 1 - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-... 2 - https://ww
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by wang_li 8y ago
Compared to Europe the US is doing better on carbon reduction seeing as the US went down and Europe went up. I'm not disagreeing that everyone should try to improve and the items you mentioned can be looked at, but comparing to Europe
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by wang_li 8y ago
The issues you mention are not directly health care related. There have been analysis of the mortality rate in the US, and when you remove people who die from things like being murdered or in automobile accidents and dying without receiving
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by wang_li 8y ago
Within the NHS specifically, there was the recent case of Alfie Evans[0], where the medical practitioners said there was no hope for him and the family wanted to take him abroad for care. The NHS and the UK legal system decided that his bes
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by wang_li 8y ago
Unless the NHS has no approved treatment, in which case you die instead of being able to go abroad for care.
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by wang_li 8y ago
Insurance companies are required to pay out 80%/85% of the collected premiums on medical care. Which means the remaining 20%/15% has to cover all the insurance company costs and any profit they can manage. If premiums are raised t
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by wang_li 8y ago
> Facebook/YoutTube/Google don't want to be common carriers though. They're DMCA safe harbors, but that's totally different. I didn't say they should be. I was correcting your analogy, then I reiterated the
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by wang_li 8y ago
> Why? Going back to the common carrier regulations pre-Internet, it's like you're saying that just because mail carriers have to carry anything (as long as it's safe), then magazines delivered by mail carriers would have
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by wang_li 8y ago
> To be honest, your objection really confuses me. You seem to argue that ISPs can do whatever they want, because we're inconsistent with other sites/etc. I don't have an objection against net neutrality. I have an objecti
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by wang_li 8y ago
The latter largely do not produce their own content and thus are not fundamentally different than what a carrier provides. Why would you say that it's ok for Google to ban Alex Jones from youtube, but not ok for level-3 to do the same?
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by wang_li 8y ago
Norway. They've got a trillion dollars in their sovereign wealth fund and like to imagine they are rehabilitating their reputation as not being bad for the environment even though the basis of their wealth is oil extraction.
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by wang_li 8y ago
According to ProPublica[1], in 2010 there were 1.6 million people in prisons in the US. Of those 128,195 were in private prison facilities. According to [2], the number of federal inmates in private facilities in 2016 was 22,000, which is d
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by wang_li 8y ago
You say "drug laws" but then link to stories about marijuana. If you want to discuss historical fact, you can't just focus on marijuana when the picture is much bigger. African-American leaders[1][2][3] quite often wanted tou
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by wang_li 8y ago
He didn't get a match against the AccurateRip database: > That single AccurateRip entry for this album matched my CRCs for all tracks except track #3 – they had 0x84B9DD1A, vs my result of 0xA595BC09. I suspect that original ripper
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by wang_li 8y ago
> ... create a healthy set of constraints for this kind of bargaining. They should simply put the burden of new obligations (debt or pension guarantees) on individuals rather than on the city. If you live in a municipality when they take
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by wang_li 8y ago
> Pensioners were given a promise and now we're changing the rules. There is a slight difference between the two situations you describe. That being that the promises being made to the unions were not being done by disinterested par
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by wang_li 8y ago
He has no idea if he has an exact copy of the actual track. He has a copy of the data that is consistently ripped by his drives. There is nothing to assure that these are the same. Sounding fine -- for some values of fine -- is the only way
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by wang_li 8y ago
In practice your statement reduces to holding up a color wheel and making sure the special colors are given a benefit in the selections process and unfavored colors receive a disadvantage in the process.
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by wang_li 8y ago
>It's strange that sentencing can be increased for crimes you haven't been convicted for. Sentencing is a range. Based on the facts presented to the judge during trial and through third parties in the sentencing phase (victim s
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by wang_li 8y ago
>How do you propose we do security otherwise? (Apart from delegating it to other parties so they think about the bits) The clear and obvious solution is to make developers, managers, executives, and major investors personally responsible
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by wang_li 8y ago
A complicating factor here is that when a child is separated from their parents and put into foster care a guardian ad litem can be assigned who have been known to argue that it's in the best interests of the child to remain in the US
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by wang_li 8y ago
Not that a dirty laptop applies, but it’s pretty well supported that a too clean environment is bad for the developing immune systems of children.
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by wang_li 8y ago
It’s what I mean. Losing the TCP session is more or less the only thing I care about with my vpn, ssh, and occasional cifs session. A dead putty window is 98% useless.

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