jasonlaramburu

Right and presumably the guy who actually freed him, vs just talk, is going to be more likely to pardon him?

Trump had 4 years to free Assange but did nothing. He will say anything to get elected. It's surprising how people don't see it. In Texas we call that 'All hat, no cattle.'

>When the cost of drilling oil and converting to gasoline outweighs the cost of manufacturing hydrogen, the current oil giants will pivot.

It is actually cheaper and greener to burn fossil fuels to make electricity for EVs, and just capture the CO2 emissions released than to produce hydrogen.

Virtually 100% of H2 sold today is 'blue hydrogen,' meaning it is derived from steam methane reforming of natural gas, a process that actually generates more Greenhouse Gas than simply burning natural gas [1].

'Green Hydrogen' produced from the electrolysis of water is incredibly expensive (about 3-4x more than Blue). Both are mature technologies that are unlikely to get cheaper at larger scale.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956#:~....

Ground-based sensors historically undercount methane emissions in 3rd party trials. They have a limited FOV which makes it hard to accurately measure a plume of gas, particularly when the wind blows. I suppose you could create a Dyson sphere of fixed sensors around an O&G asset, but that quickly becomes more expensive than a space based sensor.

Because these leaks can occur spontaneously, you really want real-time, continuous monitoring of a wide area with high resolution. Aerial sensors are impractical for this purpose. Only a large constellation of satellites can offer this.

Little Star Pizza is one, if not the best, pie in the Bay Area. It's very well known and loved. It is surprising that customers wouldn't be willing to order delivery directly from the restaurant, especially if they could pass along some savings.

Please consider reading the linked article first. The longest continuously active incandescent bulb in the world was switched on in 1901.

Please consider reading the linked article. The longest continuously active incandescent bulb in the world was switched on in 1901.

>It is possible (and not very difficult) to design LED bulbs that will practically outlive their owners

It is also possible (and not very difficult) to design incandescent bulbs that will outlive their owners. In fact, the first mass produced light bulbs generally lasted 2,500+ hours. In the 1920s, the major bulb manufacturers formed the 'Pheobus Cartel' in Geneva and secretly colluded to limit the lifespan of bulbs to 1,000 hours to boost sales [1]. Another example of planned obsolescence harming consumers and the environment.

[1]https://interestingengineering.com/science/everlasting-light...

>a carbon tax high enough to make your flight cast 8% more, would totally destroy the fossil fuel industry, as everyone would suddenly have a financial incentive to burn less of it.

This is not necessarily true. Oil has a traditionally low elasticity of demand, meaning that demand for it does not change significantly even when its price changes. This is particularly true in the US, where there are few public transportation options in most cities.

>When you’re trying to make the argument that privacy is fundamentally important, you can strengthen your argument by respecting other people’s privacy.

Why is the converse not true as well? If one believes the constitution does not protect the right to individual privacy, then don't expect it.

>$13k-20k is the anticipated low range during the next 'slump' year

What is the basis for this assessment? At least with a stock you can point to the underlying performance of the company. What factors affect BTC price other than sentiment?

Just because you produce a crop doesn't mean it's economical to harvest it. Farmers must produce sufficient yield to cover the cost of harvesting (fuel, manpower, equipment cost, etc) or they will just leave the failed crop to decompose.

How does the recent decision by the ETH devs to delay a significant change to the difficulty algorithm factory in? This 'difficulty bomb' would have made mining significantly less profitable.

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/06/276653...

The greenhouse gas emissions of blue hydrogen production exceed those of simply burning natural gas.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956

>Invalidating a box could result in up to a thousand votes being discarded indeed, which is quite small though for a national election.

I don't know what are the typical margins of victory for French Elections. In the 2000 US Presidential Election, George W. Bush won the Presidency by a margin of 537 votes in Florida. If the US had implemented French style balloting, a single attack of this kind in a heavily Republican district of Florida could have easily swayed the election to Gore.

>Even if that was possible, after the vote closes the ballots are counted and the amount must match the number of people who voted, so the result would be invalidated.

So an attacker could potentially invalidate hundreds (or thousands) of votes by stuffing a single fake ballot into the box? This seems like the illusion of security.

How is dropping an envelope in a box more secure? It would seem trivial for an attacker to create one or more fake ballots and slip them in the box along with their real ballot.

Kara Bell (the woman mentioned in the article who got the book banned) is infamous around Austin and Central Texas for creating inflammatory viral videos. She was recently cited by police for assaulting a Nordstrom Rack employee after they asked her to wear a mask [0]. The only reason this person has such an outsized impact on children's education is that relatively few people vote in school board elections, or attend the meetings.

[0] https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/lake-travis-school-b...

As far as we know, information cannot be transmitted faster than light, even between two entangled quantum particles.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r...

Actually the US is #12

The US is arguably the most developed country in the world and #18 in terms of per capita deaths. Nothing about COVID is that simple.

>Is it OP's position that an obesity rate of 3.9% is significantly lower than a rate of 4.3%?

Yes, in my opinion a 10% difference is significant. The source in no way contradicts that. If you believe 10% is not significant, that's just your opinion as well.

India has a significantly lower obesity rate than Japan and a much higher death rate. It is human nature to try and rationalize a tragedy (eg ‘obese people should just lose weight’), but in reality there are many complex factors at play in each country.

Hard to see how a black market for cigarettes will ever be as large as the current legal market, or as large as the prohibition-era market for booze. In most Western societies cigarettes are looked down upon in social situations. How many people, beyond those who are hardcore addicted, would go to the trouble of breaking the law for a smoke?

I thought Sweden was the poster child for ignorance as an effective means of COVID mitigation?

There are still large, unvaccinated populations in many developing countries.

It’s ironic?

Pretty sure that war was lost a long time ago.

>That means just in order to capture a single year worth of CO2 output will cost us 5 Trillion USD (5.000.000.000.000), which is around 6 % of the worlds' GDP.

The US is expected to spend a total of $6T on COVID relief with the passage of the Biden Plan (around $4T was already spent under the Trump administration)[1]. It's debatable whether or not this spend 'worked' as intended.

Investing in carbon removal will create entirely new industries. Rather than paying people to stay at home, it will create skilled tech jobs for Americans. In terms of justification, emissions reductions alone won't stop climate change at this point. It will take centuries for natural processes alone to remove our historical greenhouse gas emissions [2].

[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-spending-on-covid-rel... [2] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/14/981333730/carbon-emissions-co...

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