What? Pointing out that righties enjoy big government? Of course, only when it is against _them_ (black people, atheists, muslims, immigrants). It's always been true.
Most right-wingers do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT advocate for minimalist government. They're perfectly fine with government that hangs gays and kicks minorities and enforces strict "morality". And don't get me started on "individual rights", they don't care about anything but gun-fondling. Yep, China would be their perfect country.
Have you been in China? It is so capitalist that Ayn Rand would hide under her bed after seeing it. And state companies are nigh indistinguishable from US-style monopolies. Minimum wage is not meaningful, it's not survivable and even that is violated left and right. Tons of factories are STILL open as you can see by looking at the air in Beijing, more often than not regulations are used to extort (small) bribes. Actually, pretty much all regulations are as lax as you want them to be for a small sum.
As an example, my friend lives near a 24-hour construction site. The work is supposed to stop at 10pm but it continues throughout the night, with the associated noise.
To its credit, Chinese government is trying to stop the wild unbridled free market and at least force people to obey some laws. Turns out that living inside a pure capitalism is hell.
Actually, China is a right-winger dream: uber-capitalist, lax regulations, no meaningful minimum wage, no environmental protection. Add to that an authoritarian government that doesn't tolerate anything non-traditional (LGBTs, foreign religions, porn) and you get the wet dreams of right-wingers.
Kiva robots are the backbone of Amazon warehouses. Humans are still needed to pack things and put them on the shelves, but robots automate the most labor-intensive part - getting the required goods to packers.
I've switched my backups to wasabisys.com - it's fully S3 compatible and is reasonably cheap. You'll pay $47 per year per terabyte of data which is significantly more expensive than some other cloud solutions. However you'll get full 100Mb through and random access to your files, any time. And there's a multitude of ready-made OpenSource solutions for S3 backup so they can immediately use Wasabi.
It's not boring and it doesn't require any Chinese background other than the general history knowledge. But the books don't have much action in them, so I can see how many people can find that off-putting. I also immensely enjoyed the third book, especially how it subverted the usual tropes of "love wins at the end".
It makes no sense to investigate a case older than 30 years. The perpetrator will likely be dead or senile and if the case goes to court they likely won't be able to defend themselves - no witnesses will be reliable that long after the case and any material evidence will likely be lost.
They most certainly aren't unless you go up to the level of supercars. And manual transmission is basically a placebo - you feel that you're moving faster because you're doing something. And electric cars are instant, there's really no comparison.
Feh. And your car will behave like a pregnant sloth. You press the accelerator and it growls and then reluctantly starts to move. What fun is driving THAT?
You both lie. City traffic results in MORE range and AC on cooling barely dents the range even in Nevada. Heating has more impact but it's about 30% even in winter in Canada
I do these kinds of trips every month or so. You charge your car to 100%, drive 250 miles or so, drive into a supercharger station and park there for an hour or so while eating or walking around. Then you drive another 200 miles or so to a hotel with a destination charger. Stay there overnight and charge to 100% again and the next day you will arrive at your destination with some charge left.
"Antifa" is a virtue signal for right-wingers, a way to show that you're a part of them and not of the "lying media". Another signal is "Soros" who is apparently hiding behind every corner.
Nope. That's science. Unless you want to assume sci-fi level nanotechnology, vaccines are the only effective way to combat diseases, as far as we know.
Nope. Being "slightly better" doesn't work against co-evolving diseases, it might eventually make diseases to be less promptly fatal but it's highly unlikely to completely eradicate them. For example, malarial parasite is estimated to be millions of years old but people are still very much susceptible to it. Tuberculosis bacteria has a similar history.
Oh, and then there's the fun of new diseases jumping between species. HIV is a recent example.
So without vaccines you're looking at endless generations of people with constant high mortality (Red Queen's race, don't you forget) from multiple diseases. The only way to change this is to become smart and utilize vaccines and other forms of bio-protection.
There's no such thing as "weak immune system" unless you're talking about people with HIV or other similar disease. Native Americans had perfectly good immune systems but they lacked protective mutations against smallpox. To get these mutations you need many generations of ruthless die-offs, and they still won't get you perfect immunity. Smallpox was finally eradicated only through vaccines.
So, when there is no strong economic incentive and no social norms to push women away from CS (assuming there ever was), you can expect around 15% of CS majors to be female. Unless you think the women are more free and equal in Iran and China of course.
How about we reverse it? Why is Sweden and the US considered to be countries with no societal pressure on women? The proportion of female engineers in Sweden even 30 years was much lower than now ( https://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/... ). So you've basically proven my point that women have no problems at all with technical aptitude, it's the society that forces them away.
Russia misogynistic? Seriously? Right now Russia has one of the world's highest proportions of women in top government roles. Reference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/d...
There is very little misogyny in Russia, it's one of the achievements of the USSR. China is a similar story - Communist party actively promoted gender equality and it pays off now.
Nothing much. Until reactor is started for the first time, it doesn't contain anything that is not found in nature. It's basically more concentrated uranium, so it can be safely disposed of by letting it crash into the sea. And presumably, the reactor is designed in such a way that it won't become critical after immersion into seawater.
There are interesting developments in this area. For example, Kilopower ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is aimed to replace RTGs since Pu-238 is becoming too scarce. It will produce about 4kW of thermal energy and will be completely passively regulated by natural thermal expansion of components - no moving parts required whatsoever.
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Don't worry, just give Trump some time.
And this is bad... how? Leftists are de-facto winners in the new economy.
What? Pointing out that righties enjoy big government? Of course, only when it is against _them_ (black people, atheists, muslims, immigrants). It's always been true.
Most right-wingers do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT advocate for minimalist government. They're perfectly fine with government that hangs gays and kicks minorities and enforces strict "morality". And don't get me started on "individual rights", they don't care about anything but gun-fondling. Yep, China would be their perfect country.
Have you been in China? It is so capitalist that Ayn Rand would hide under her bed after seeing it. And state companies are nigh indistinguishable from US-style monopolies. Minimum wage is not meaningful, it's not survivable and even that is violated left and right. Tons of factories are STILL open as you can see by looking at the air in Beijing, more often than not regulations are used to extort (small) bribes. Actually, pretty much all regulations are as lax as you want them to be for a small sum.
As an example, my friend lives near a 24-hour construction site. The work is supposed to stop at 10pm but it continues throughout the night, with the associated noise.
To its credit, Chinese government is trying to stop the wild unbridled free market and at least force people to obey some laws. Turns out that living inside a pure capitalism is hell.
Actually, China is a right-winger dream: uber-capitalist, lax regulations, no meaningful minimum wage, no environmental protection. Add to that an authoritarian government that doesn't tolerate anything non-traditional (LGBTs, foreign religions, porn) and you get the wet dreams of right-wingers.
Kiva robots are the backbone of Amazon warehouses. Humans are still needed to pack things and put them on the shelves, but robots automate the most labor-intensive part - getting the required goods to packers.
I've switched my backups to wasabisys.com - it's fully S3 compatible and is reasonably cheap. You'll pay $47 per year per terabyte of data which is significantly more expensive than some other cloud solutions. However you'll get full 100Mb through and random access to your files, any time. And there's a multitude of ready-made OpenSource solutions for S3 backup so they can immediately use Wasabi.
It's not boring and it doesn't require any Chinese background other than the general history knowledge. But the books don't have much action in them, so I can see how many people can find that off-putting. I also immensely enjoyed the third book, especially how it subverted the usual tropes of "love wins at the end".
It makes no sense to investigate a case older than 30 years. The perpetrator will likely be dead or senile and if the case goes to court they likely won't be able to defend themselves - no witnesses will be reliable that long after the case and any material evidence will likely be lost.
They most certainly aren't unless you go up to the level of supercars. And manual transmission is basically a placebo - you feel that you're moving faster because you're doing something. And electric cars are instant, there's really no comparison.
Feh. And your car will behave like a pregnant sloth. You press the accelerator and it growls and then reluctantly starts to move. What fun is driving THAT?
You both lie. City traffic results in MORE range and AC on cooling barely dents the range even in Nevada. Heating has more impact but it's about 30% even in winter in Canada
Tesla already produces Model 3 with 310 mile range and top Model S has 346 miles.
I do these kinds of trips every month or so. You charge your car to 100%, drive 250 miles or so, drive into a supercharger station and park there for an hour or so while eating or walking around. Then you drive another 200 miles or so to a hotel with a destination charger. Stay there overnight and charge to 100% again and the next day you will arrive at your destination with some charge left.
"Antifa" is a virtue signal for right-wingers, a way to show that you're a part of them and not of the "lying media". Another signal is "Soros" who is apparently hiding behind every corner.
Nope. That's science. Unless you want to assume sci-fi level nanotechnology, vaccines are the only effective way to combat diseases, as far as we know.
Nope. Being "slightly better" doesn't work against co-evolving diseases, it might eventually make diseases to be less promptly fatal but it's highly unlikely to completely eradicate them. For example, malarial parasite is estimated to be millions of years old but people are still very much susceptible to it. Tuberculosis bacteria has a similar history.
Oh, and then there's the fun of new diseases jumping between species. HIV is a recent example.
So without vaccines you're looking at endless generations of people with constant high mortality (Red Queen's race, don't you forget) from multiple diseases. The only way to change this is to become smart and utilize vaccines and other forms of bio-protection.
There's no such thing as "weak immune system" unless you're talking about people with HIV or other similar disease. Native Americans had perfectly good immune systems but they lacked protective mutations against smallpox. To get these mutations you need many generations of ruthless die-offs, and they still won't get you perfect immunity. Smallpox was finally eradicated only through vaccines.
So, when there is no strong economic incentive and no social norms to push women away from CS (assuming there ever was), you can expect around 15% of CS majors to be female. Unless you think the women are more free and equal in Iran and China of course.
How about we reverse it? Why is Sweden and the US considered to be countries with no societal pressure on women? The proportion of female engineers in Sweden even 30 years was much lower than now ( https://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/... ). So you've basically proven my point that women have no problems at all with technical aptitude, it's the society that forces them away.
Russia misogynistic? Seriously? Right now Russia has one of the world's highest proportions of women in top government roles. Reference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/d...
There is very little misogyny in Russia, it's one of the achievements of the USSR. China is a similar story - Communist party actively promoted gender equality and it pays off now.
Yep, and comparing everyone to Hitler and Stalin is a typical tactic of whiny conservative-libertarian-anti-SJWs.
Nothing much. Until reactor is started for the first time, it doesn't contain anything that is not found in nature. It's basically more concentrated uranium, so it can be safely disposed of by letting it crash into the sea. And presumably, the reactor is designed in such a way that it won't become critical after immersion into seawater.
There are interesting developments in this area. For example, Kilopower ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is aimed to replace RTGs since Pu-238 is becoming too scarce. It will produce about 4kW of thermal energy and will be completely passively regulated by natural thermal expansion of components - no moving parts required whatsoever.
An original research need not contain disclaimers stating the opposing views. That screed was not an original research.
That's because Libertarians ARE the crony capitalism gang.