Related: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/the-fake-nerd-boys-of... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23767010)
Nothing worse than journalists who bitch about people who actually do productive things.
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The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will. Marching to put pressure on authorities to enact reforms is basically the opposite of an insurrection. Without the authorities the protests are pointless.
And look I can only speak for my city since I was there but calling the protests violent is technically true but misleading in the way “there was a fight” is misleading in zero tolerance school policies. Being at the front of the protest was terrifying because the police were itching for any excuse to escalate and purposely obstructing people, grabbing and pushing the crowd daring someone to push back. Tensions are already high and the police acting like schoolyard bullies doesn’t help, and finally some guy finally breaks with a “get your hands off me” they get pulled down to the ground and start getting beaten, people step in to defend the guy and pull the cops off him, more cops rush in and boom — “violence.”
The shit at the Capitol was absolutely moronic and they had basically zero chance of achieving their goal but the intent was there and that’s really what matters.
> The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will.
So, you mean like hypothetically taking over 6 blocks of downtown Seattle and declaring it an autonomous zone?
travisoneill1 commented on 18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated covidvaxcount.live/... · Posted by u/codeconut
At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.
Should be 1 - 1/R0, right?
Self driving is an unsolved problem, so I don't see how Waymo's CEO is qualified to say whether or not Tesla's plan is "how it works."
travisoneill1 commented on Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA weforum.org/agenda/2020/1... · Posted by u/yk
We don't know how much those reactors cost to build then (it was mixed with the military nuclear program and the paperwork I understand does not exist to disentangle the spending). They are cheap now because they are not being charged for the cost of their construction. We do know that France cannot afford to replace them now; new reactors would be far out of the running economically.
So economically viable if the government subsidizes the construction. I would be happy for my tax money to go to a project that gets 70% of electricity generation off of carbon.
travisoneill1 commented on Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA weforum.org/agenda/2020/1... · Posted by u/yk
The issue is not primarily technical, it's economic. Operate a nuclear plant at lower capacity factor and the economics becomes even more hopeless.
If the economics are impossible, how is it that France currently runs 70% of its grid on nuclear and has electricity costs substantially lower than the EU average?
travisoneill1 commented on Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA weforum.org/agenda/2020/1... · Posted by u/yk
You’re messing with these stats a lot (I assume this is not malicious). The 50% renewables are not the cause of the extra 350g of CO2 in Germany.
The way you word this it sounds like renewables == bad, when in reality Germany is burning a boat load of coal which is causing the extra emissions, while France’s emissions are offset because they have lots of Nuclear power.
Nuclear power takes 20-50 years to come online- it’s too late to rely on it and burn fossil fuels in the mean time. That ship sailed long ago.
> Nuclear power takes 20-50 years to come online- it’s too late to rely on it and burn fossil fuels in the mean time. That ship sailed long ago.
South Korea builds nuclear plants in less than 5 years on average.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/2027347/south-korea-s...
travisoneill1 commented on Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA weforum.org/agenda/2020/1... · Posted by u/yk
I understand the contrary: nuclear power is extremely inflexible - not dispatchable, no demand response. You can't turn it off and on.
True, but solar doesn't have demand responsiveness either, it has sunlight responsiveness, which is not the same thing.
Privatized healthcare, on the other hand, is a disaster.