Everything posted by swansont
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Geoengineering
! Moderator Note Can you please summarize what you are linking to, as required by our rules?
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Google vs Nation States
This is an example of Google being accountable to the law, if they are leaving a jurisdiction where they are not willing to comply with a local ordinance. To comply with their laws. They aren’t resettling. They are making their product unavailable. Not really different than with a physical product that doesn’t comply with e.g. a safety standard - If a widget uses lead in its electronics, there are places the company can’t sell the widget. Countries have laws to regulate this. One problem is the fines they impose are often too small to change the behavior
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New Study Claims Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist
It’s not mentioned in the article. What is this “direct” relationship?
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Banned/Suspended Users
bear33 has been banned as a sockpuppet of bearnard44 (banned for spamming)
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Blow to US Democracy -Split from: U.S. presidential election modelling
I can now shift my concern to the likelihood that all the vending machines at work will have been emptied by national guard folks
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Is It True that Hot Water Freezes Faster than Cold Water or that Cold Water Boils Faster than Hot Water?
“Mpemba effect” is the search term you want
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A very tough (and possibly controversial) poll about sexual abuse and rape
! Moderator Note There’s a lot that’s gone sideways with this thread. ! Moderator Note You weren’t the one quoted. Why did you think they were talking to you? ! Moderator Note You never justified your original statements, nor did I see you retract them. What I see is bad-faith discussion, so we’re done with this little disaster
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Electric energy
Positive charges. Similar to mechanical systems, they are moving to a lower energy state (“downhill” in an electric sense) It can. In the case of EM waves, there’s no charges moving transferring energy and DC only gives static fields. Zero frequency. The details depend on the kind of bulb, but “converting frequencies” is not part of the physics model. The input electrical frequency doesn’t matter. The input electricity could be DC.
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Lab rat with mysterious itch
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
In perpetuity? We both mentioned the 10-year time frame.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
You’ve argued you can’t raise it all at once, and here you’re apparently arguing you can’t raise it incrementally. So I guess there’s nothing to discuss with you on this aspect. If you’re buying a $500 bike, I’m thinking the hourly wage of someone at the store is only a small part of that, so bumping the minimum will have a small effect. But maybe that kid sticks around longer with a better wage, and you don’t have to train someone new every time some kid bolts to another job that pays more. That may be a reason Amazon went to $15 an hour recently. They apparently saw the value in doing so. It’s funny that in these kinds if examples, an edge case is used (a kid working their first job, making $10 an hour) instead of something more representative. That seems to happen a lot.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
If they had raised it 7% per year we’d be there, but they didn’t. The current proposal is to raise it over 3 years, not one. - - - - Back in 2010, most states were at or very near the federal level. A few went over $8, with Washington topping the list at $8.55. Somehow several of the states have been able to increase their minimum wages over the last decade without having unemployment spike. Others let the wage stagnate. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s0651.pdf Seems like one of the arguments I’ve seen is since they’ve ignored the issue for 10 years that should prevent fixing the problem now (but not worded that way). I don’t find that compelling. If you built up a sweatshop business based on suppressed wages, well, you’re going to have to figure out a better business model.
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A very tough (and possibly controversial) poll about sexual abuse and rape
! Moderator Note You have not established this to be the case, and your “logical conclusion” is implying that the justice system would be discarded in these cases, and is likewise without support. This is not in keeping with our rule on making arguments in good faith. I will leave the discussion open so these points can be explored, but am closing the poll
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Covid -19 vs other infection stats.
Number of people in hospital ≠ number of deaths If e.g. 20% of hospitalized patients die, then the occupancy is 5x higher than the deaths. And the length of stay matters, too. And AFAIK it’s ICU capacity, specifically, that’s being strained. Do these other afflictions result in an ICU stay?
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Cell phones been found to increase skin temperature, but what causes the rise?
And at least half the radiation is going to be sent in a different direction than the face. The phones work, after all.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
Which underscores the issue: a large part of the economic adjustment will be because the minimum wage has been suppressed. If it had been indexed, the accommodation would’ve been incremental.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
But the impact will be less for those making more than the federal minimum. The scale was the point I was making. The population, and economy, is much, much larger today.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
More than twice as many people were freed by 1865 (~3.9 million, out of a US population of about 31.5 million) than are working for the minimum wage (1.7 million in 2018, out of a population 10x larger than in 1865), so I would expect the economic impact to differ https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/home.htm#cps_mw_whe_hist.f.1
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Cell phones been found to increase skin temperature, but what causes the rise?
They don’t say anything about a battery in that abstract, but OK. It heats up when the circuit is drawing current. No, that’s not a valid conclusion. The processor is not doing as much in airplane mode. It’s not just the RF from pinging the tower. ”transmitting at full power (+2.6 degrees C) and in stand-by mode (+2.0 degrees C)” puts a limit on the RF contribution, and it’s no more than 0.6 degrees out of the 2.6, which agrees with their conclusion that RF is a small contributor Yes. Notice that this summary is not consistent with your earlier one.
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Cell phones been found to increase skin temperature, but what causes the rise?
What’s problematic about it? When a computer’s processor is running, it heats up. It’s not the battery, as such. It’s the current, and resistive heating.
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Cell phones been found to increase skin temperature, but what causes the rise?
“Our results suggest that direct RF heating of the skin only contributes a small part of the temperature rise and that most is due to heat conduction from the handset.” It’s in the abstract of your link. If you put a warm slab of material next to your skin, the skin temperature will go up. Conduction and insulation.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
You’ll still do what you’re supposed to do. Fantastic. (You brought it up first. It’s not up to me to clarify what you meant; only you can do that) The next issue is what will trigger the job loss. Because people quitting a second job because they can make a living wage with only one job is not a bad outcome for workers.
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
As I’ve tried to convey, you have to quantify it to draw a conclusion. Thus far you’ve refused to do In the US this often means it’s a lie, so yeah, kill lies about politics
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
FFS, YOU’RE THE ONE WHO CLAIMED THIS! Raise the wages high enough and few can afford to eat any any place...they won't have jobs Also in areas in the US that hiked their minimum wage, like Seattle, WA. Which is why data >> think-tank projections
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Minimum wage/BUI (split from Immigration)
That would be why a number is needed