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How to be less racist/bigotred?
  • It is a paradox because there's no objective, universal definition of tolerance. It's literally impossible to be tolerant of everything. So you're left with different forms of what intolerance people deem acceptable.

    People make the same mistake about bigotry. It's impossible not to be a bigot. You just don't want to be the wrong kind of bigot. Now if only we could all agree on exactly what that was.

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    Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them
  • It's not fishy (at least not intentionally so). It's a limitation of their database. It can only show 1000 comments. So it won't find your very old posts when you sort by them.

    So they're not restoring comments. It's just very difficult to find your old comments to actually delete them.

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    The U.S. is paying Russia $1 billion for enriched uranium. Every year
  • That's just flat out wrong. Reprocessing is significantly more expensive at current uranium prices.

    And so many states would throw up tons of roadblocks for reactors shipping their used fuel offsite to a central reprocessing facility.

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    The U.S. is paying Russia $1 billion for enriched uranium. Every year
  • No, not directly. You'd have to divert it and only irradiate it for short periods of time (30 days rather than the 18 to 24 month cycles that current plants have).

    Proliferation isn't a significant concern for reprocessing within the US. It's primarily a concern for other non nuclear weapons countries that start it because they can then create nuclear weapons.

    The US has no need to do that. They have more plutonium than they need for current weapons and it has a half life in the hundreds of thousands of years so it will last forever.

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    FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore
  • The benefit of the 4k is that you get HDR. On a good TV, that's far more noticable than the resolution improvement and certainly worth it.

    But then you're looking at 60-100 Mbps bit rate for good quality (50-80 GB file size for most movies).

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    Alabama Failed to Carry Out Its Last Two Executions. It’s Trying Again This Week.
  • What I mean is that take a situation where someone was convicted of murder, but the reality is that was a false conviction and they were only guilty of manslaughter.

    I shouldn't have used the "innocent person" phrasing because that's too low resolution for this discussion. You can't always neatly put a person into innocent/guilty categories.

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    57 electric cars range tested at highway speeds - who wins?
  • I should have made it clear I was primarily talking about the DCFC situation in the US. Europe is better off since they're more population dense and their trips tend to be lower mileage.

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    57 electric cars range tested at highway speeds - who wins?
  • Around town DCFC are irrelevant for most EV owners since they chsgre at some.

    I don't know if that's an honest mistake or if you're just making up things since there are no rest stops with DCFC. It's against the law to do that on public rest stops.

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    57 electric cars range tested at highway speeds - who wins?
  • As I stated, DCFC stations aren't available everywhere. They're often 100+ miles apart. So it doesn't matter if you can make it 185 miles between subsequent charge stops with a comfortable buffer if your only DCFC options are at 100 miles at 200 miles. You're stuck stopping at the 100 mile stop.

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    Alabama Failed to Carry Out Its Last Two Executions. It’s Trying Again This Week.
  • I'm not sure why you act as if all innocent people are completely innocent. It could be that they made mistakes and we're careless and that was a part of what led them to being falsely convicted.

    Literally zero incentive is an extremely high bar and certainly incorrect.

    I understand wanting to ensure there's a better incentive than currently exists, but giving them the death penalty for false death penalties is just a roundabout way of stopping the death penalty. So you may as well just do that directly.

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    57 electric cars range tested at highway speeds - who wins?
  • That doesn't make it a bullshit test. It makes it a different test. IMO range is more important than efficiency.

    And if DCFC stations were everywhere, then I'd agree that would be more of a factor. But given that a 15 mile difference in range can be the difference between 100 miles between stops and 200 miles between stops, I'd still say range is more important than charge speed.

    Doubly so since the highest range EVs are also among the highest charging speed EVs.

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    Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?
  • Nah, if Google maps says it takes 10 hours, then it takes 10 hours with stops unless you're in the bottom 10% of traffic (such as if you're a truck towing a trailer).

    If you're like most people going 5 to 10 mph over, then you'll beat Google maps time by about 15 minutes per 2 hours of drive time without stopping.

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