travisoneill1

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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Nothing worse than journalists who bitch about people who actually do productive things.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> 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 declar
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Should be 1 - 1/R0, right?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
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."
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
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.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
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?
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by travisoneill1 6y 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.sc
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
True, but solar doesn't have demand responsiveness either, it has sunlight responsiveness, which is not the same thing.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> The rise of variable renewable sources means that there is an increasing need for electricity grid flexibility, the IEA notes. “Robust electricity networks, dispatchable power plants, storage technologies and demand response measures a
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Polonium is actually very stealthy. It's an alpha emitter which is not detectable by most equipment, and it was very nearly not detected even by the UK government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alex
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I would agree that such a situation would be a problem, but I don't agree that it applies. Trump violated Twitter's TOS plenty before he was president, and Twitter didn't ban him then, so I don't think they were doing t
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
It was a few days after
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The same type of right wing nonsense they are going after now. This type of stuff was all over Reddit/FB/Twitter back then. (Remember all the nutty Obama conspiracy theories?) Surely advertisers back then didn't want to ap
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
So why didn't they crackdown on this type of content back in the Obama administration when the threat of political blowback also wasn't there?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
This would be an issue, but I dispute point 1 because the leaders of the tech industry would very much like to wash their hands of politics and be seen as neutral platforms so they can save money on moderation. Most of these same platforms
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
1. Democratic party threatens tech industry with heavy regulation because they don't censor to the degree that the Democrats want. 2. Democratic party takes over control of the government. 3. Major companies in the tech industry work t
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Yes it is legal with the caveat that it has to be in favor of black, hispanic, or native americans. And that racial discrimination is allowed to extend to much more tangible things like hiring/promotions and university admissions. Ho
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Prosecutions aren't something that should be done by mob demand. In the case of Breona Taylor the police were returning fire. You can question whether they should have served that warrant, but you will never in a million years convic
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Why should the state have power to police speech during elections? (FB shouldn't either)
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
At the time the constitution was written "everyone" in any given industry was thousands of small businesses each of which was only subject to the public pressure of the people in the town in which they were based. So it was liter
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
When the government is threatening regulation against the private-sector because these companies don't censor, then I think this could potentially be considered a 1st amendment issue.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
But since this action appears coordinated across major platforms and likely in response to political pressure from the now in power Democratic party (Amazon is being paid for hosting, so no advertisers fleeing issue), I think there now may
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
You left out the first definition: > to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
"Reform the police" is a slogan and accurate.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The problem is that "defund" means remove all funding. So these people are playing word games.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Are you suggesting that the design was made with the intention to take votes from Gore? Because that would be necessary to call it a "stolen" election. I acknowledge the possibility that the outcome was in error.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Getting angry when a stranger makes a statement that you disagree with is not a normal social reaction, or at least it wasn't until recently. The possibility of error is just one reason that it shouldn't be.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
How so? The vote differential from FL was clearly within the margin of error of the counting methods, but that only suggests the possibility of a counting error, not a steal.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
No they aren't. According to the Oxford English Dictionary: de·fund prevent from continuing to receive funds. "the California Legislature has defunded the Industrial Welfare Commission"
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
When I was a kid my family went to DC for a vacation. We walked up the stairs of the capitol and in through the front door. It's a sad state of affairs that barricades are necessary now.

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