Burning coal causes cancer. A lot of cancer.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-...

Burning coal also produces a ton of radioactive waste. [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

Depends on your definition of "radioactive waste". From the figures I've seen, coal fly ash is pretty similar to say granite in terms of overall activity and isotopic composition. It doesn't seem to enhance the concentration to the same worrying levels that say rare earth mining does, probably because the radioisotopes and all the other unwanted non-carbon trash is heavily diluted by all the carbon.

You don't inhale granite.

I'm sure you know this because you read the article (lol) but the plant was shuttered due to lack of energy demand. So it isn't a question of coal vs. bitcoin, it's a question of beautiful lake frontage vs. bitcoin.

It was converted to natural gas a few years ago. Its quite an editorialized title.

Ah, I didn't realize that natural gas was a carbon-free energy source. Nothing to see here! :)

No, but it's an important distinction to make since NG produces half the emissions of coal for the same energy output. Using an NG plant to mine Bitcoin is stupid enough, no need to lie to make it seem even worse.

This is fundamentally incorrect.

Vaccinated people have a lower viral load, thus are less contagious, thus lower the R1.

If the r1 is below 1, then you eventually get to herd immunity. The more vaccinated people there are, the less dangerous the disease is, and the less contagious it becomes.

Herd immunity is not binary: it's a gradient, and if you are on the right side, things get better.

Vaccination is variolating: it lessens the impact of the infection, not preventing the infection, and thus the potential to be contagious.

A vaccinated person who has been infected is still contagious, just less so than an unvaccinated person.

"Google won't get back to the mojo that gave us search, gmail, and maps before the petro curse is cured." - DHH

Search, email and maps are essentially all search products, just with different domains, that's why google invests in them.

Yes, but until then, the dam is still leaking like a sieve, and any hole that can be plugged needs to be plugged.

This. 100% this.

In the US, you can look up every single non-profit's finances.

The 990 form has almost everything you would want, though, not line-item level of detail.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organiz...

100% this.

SO much of what is considered "non-profit dysfunction" is a direct result of funders restricting donation utilization.

Only X% for opex, y% for capex, z% for comms, where x+y+z == around 5% of funds donated.

Can't run an organization like that well.

Same.

It is not "all or nothing".

it's defense in depth, and if masks, which are literally dirt cheap and only a minor inconvenience are even somewhat effective, that adds to the overall mitigation efforts and should be mandated.

It's not hard folks.

"Turning off SMTP relay only prevents other people from getting spam. I'm not going to do that, even though it's a one line configuration change and doesn't really impact my use case. Moreover, the default should be open SMTP relay"

It’s also a matter of relative cost efficacy with reasonable effect sizes. Studies like this begin to empirically place magnitudes into different ballparks.