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Privatization doesn't make costs plummet, competition does. In most cases, our healthcare system is not competitive even when it is private. e.g. emergency rooms. You will just go …

Nothing worse than journalists who bitch about people who actually do productive things.

> 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 hypotheti…

Should be 1 - 1/R0, right?

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."

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.

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?

> 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 i…

True, but solar doesn't have demand responsiveness either, it has sunlight responsiveness, which is not the same thing.

> 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 pl…

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.wikip…

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 t…

It was a few days after

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?) Sure…

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?

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…

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 gov…

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…

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 …

Why should the state have power to police speech during elections? (FB shouldn't either)

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 t…

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 iss…

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 hosti…

You left out the first definition: > to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control