edbob

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by edbob 5y ago
> Of course, voter ID proponents have let out the private partisan internal logic lots of times when they thought only people aligned with their faction were listening Can you give a good source or two please?
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by edbob 5y ago
Property tax rates are higher on a percentage basis, but property values can be much lower, so you can still come out ahead on the property taxes. larsiusprime had a good analysis [0] that gets into some of the details. [0] https:/&
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by edbob 5y ago
It's not the best use of statistics that I've ever seen by a long shot, but I just wanted to point out that your claim that it was "bullshit madeup" was inaccurate flamebait. He didn't say which subset of universiti
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by edbob 5y ago
Disclaimer: I got two shots of Moderna some time ago. Your source shows just how strongly anti-vax Biden was, making the case that the vaccine can't be trusted because of political influence. Since Biden can't give us any credible
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by edbob 5y ago
The statistic is on the high side of the range, but it is accurate. > When exploring the makeup of Ivy League institutions and universities in New England, results, such as the case with Brown University, were as high as 60:1 in favor of
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by edbob 5y ago
I keep seeing this brought up on HN. Isn't it telling that you have to go back 70 years to find a good example? At that time, the Democratic Party was still in bed with the KKK. It's not relevant to today's politics.
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by edbob 5y ago
Here's hoping that D'Andrea was the biggest part of the leadership problem. He certainly represented himself as having too much power.
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by edbob 5y ago
This is substantially misleading. Due to the 2011 outage, the Texan regulations are stronger and more strictly enforced than the federal regulations. Additionally, the primary issue with natural gas was due to suppliers not being able to ge
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by edbob 5y ago
The ERCOT projections I've seen are short-term [0], which means that after the most dismal days, the slightly less dismal 15-30% days "exceeded expectations". The fact-checkers reported this supposedly great performance witho
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by edbob 5y ago
How would we fix it without building nuclear plants? I don't think building a bunch of fossil fuel plants is going to go over well. Even Texas hasn't built anything other than wind and solar in years. Maybe we tolerate it because
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by edbob 5y ago
Consumers were insulated from this because they only pay the price in their contract, not the wholesale price. There was one provider that offered lower rates in exchange for not giving that protection, which did not work out very well.
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by edbob 5y ago
Could this be due to France's high use of nuclear energy (~70%)? I wish we had that, but it's nearly impossible to build here.
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by edbob 5y ago
It's nearly all wind, whose output fell all the way to 12.5% of installed capacity over a three-day period when homes were freezing (February 15, 16, and 17). [0] Output consistently stayed in the 15-30% range while I was watching it i
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by edbob 5y ago
"Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." "Article 36. Citizens of the People's Republic of Chin
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by edbob 5y ago
Houston is controlled by progressive Democrats. Plano is more even but voted for Biden by a 9 point margin, hardly representative of "right-wing politics". Plano, like many Texas cities, is racially diverse, while Irvine has hardl
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by edbob 5y ago
This is absolutely disgusting. Google has appointed themselves the unaccountable police of the Internet, secretly blocking websites for unspecified "compliance issues". > It is highly significant that—after more than three year
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by edbob 6y ago
What specific posts did Parler refuse to delete, and what is the evidence that they refused to delete them? IIRC, Parler was deleting posts that AWS complained about as they reviewed them, but had a large backlog, and AWS decided they were
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by edbob 6y ago
Or a fireball.
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by edbob 6y ago
My larger complaint was about rich people who don't care about the several dozen deaths, uncounted injuries, and billions of dollars of property damage caused by the riots because it doesn't affect their class. I don't watch
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by edbob 6y ago
> Those links are being/have been broken. No amount of added rigor will fix that. I don't know what will. The institutions could start telling the truth once in a while. Statements like "27 police officers injured during l
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by edbob 6y ago
Oh, you are correct. It seems that mcBesse chose their wording extremely poorly there, as "force" is indeed indefensible. I apologize for misreading that.
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by edbob 6y ago
Perhaps you cannot, but I can.
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by edbob 6y ago
> Why do you believe a slider would force people not to share misinformation? There must be some basis for that opinion. "Force" is a strawman, but there is a clear basis for thinking that an accuracy slider could cause people
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by edbob 6y ago
This is an extremely dangerous conception of truth. Even when practically everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth, the one guy that didn't was still correct. Yet he was pretty likely to be oppressed or killed for havin
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by edbob 6y ago
Do you have any thoughts on the cause of "the absence of other civil rights leaders"?
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by edbob 6y ago
He's not the governor, and I don't know anyone here (in Texas, not HN) that cares what he says. However, you did not paraphrase him so much as lie about what he said. "you deserved it because you'd rather die than have t
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by edbob 6y ago
It also doesn't explain why "black" was preferred for a time, then it was verboten, and now it's preferred but you have to capitalize it. Nor does it explain why "African-American" was required for a time even
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by edbob 6y ago
> If it is just users, why ban them and not browsers or anything that can access Facebook? Because Facebook is controlled by the right people, and Gab is not. Consider the unbelievably offensive and sometimes illegal content (including c
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by edbob 6y ago
Jan 6 is proof that 0.001% of the "election was stolen" crowd has stopped listening and would make their argument with pistols. We're talking about people expressing heterodox opinions on social media. They are not the same g
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by edbob 6y ago
Off-topic, but I really enjoy products whose packaging I can dispose of well because it's all paper and/or metal. I buy Celestial Seasonings tea because there's no foil, and I can compost the tea bags. But there are still ple

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