Aunche

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by Aunche 3y ago
It wasn't exactly intentional but the results were great for competition. They were forced to invest in Apple and to stop bullying them, and now Microsoft is completely dominated by them in terms of personal computing.
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"I know that you did it, so who cares that the evidence provided is questionable." If you're 100% confident that they're guilty, you should have no problem with providing better evidence than, "an employee said a
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by Aunche 3y ago
From Google's perspective, it would be like be charged with murder because you told them to "go to hell", which proves your intent, even though in context, it was obviously a mundane argument.
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by Aunche 3y ago
As the name implies Baumgartner is a restorer, not a conservator. Conservators tend to consider his methods rather aggressive, though I imagine part of it is being envious of his popularity. If you just want to spend a moderate sum of money
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One heavy plastic bag may look visually less offensive than 3 lighter ones, but is it better for the environment? Would the money people spend on "reusable" disposable bags be better spent on enforcement of littering of cleanup?
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by Aunche 3y ago
It makes sense to prioritize tackling low hanging fruit with solutions that we know to work rather than ones that inconvenience us and make us feel like we're doing something, but don't actually do anything. The only benefit the L
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by Aunche 3y ago
You don't have to teach anything. If someone has a better place to throw their trash than their local dump pile, they'll do it because they don't like that place either. The vast majority of river plastic comes from developin
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by Aunche 3y ago
A plastic bag that is reused as a trash bag that ends up in a properly lined landfill isn't going to release microplastics in the the ocean either. The problem is that people really like sexy solutions over practical ones, so you end u
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by Aunche 3y ago
I'm assuming this is the from cotton fertilizer runoff.
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Some of these numbers don't make sense. Unbleached paper and biopolymers definitely require a nonzero amount of energy to produce, so how can they have 0 greenhouse gas emissions? How can biopolymers have negative water use?
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>This is simply because if there was 0% unemployment, it would be impossible for businesses to hire anyone without poaching from another business. According to the law of supply and demand this would result in wages rising rapidly and wi
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by Aunche 3y ago
People always discover that certain things they want require centralized planning, like welfare, a strong military, or high tech goods. The problem with socialism in practice is that it always ends up being more about being anti-capitalism
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Government has provided services long before socialism was a concept.
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> The history of Easter Island is debateable That doesn't really change that there used to be a lot of forest and larger animals that could have supported a more fulfilling diet that were extinct by the time the Europeans arrived. I
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by Aunche 3y ago
Ah yes. The famous capitalists who caused famine in Easter Island and told Chinese people to decimate the forests of China to fuel the smelting of small quantities of pig-iron. Ostrom didn't debunk the tragedy of the commons. She merel
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by Aunche 3y ago
> most importantly it gives the government more money to spend. Most popular carbon tax proposals are revenue neutral. Whatever the government collects in carbon taxes would be redistributed to everyone as a check. You're correct t
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by Aunche 3y ago
You think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring extreme poverty don't even account for a problem that you instantly thought about? > In all these statistics, the researchers are not only taking people’s monetary income
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by Aunche 3y ago
Humans are the cockroaches of large mammals. We're tropical apes that managed to survive in the some of the coldest places without anything that resembles modern technology.
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The existence of a few restaurant co-ops doesn't preclude the existence of a soulless megacorp like McDonald's. If your goal is to give more people a fair wage, it's much more effective to expand as much as possible.
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by Aunche 3y ago
> At most places I've been involved in the workers are more careful with money because they are standing together and want the business to succeed. This doesn't contradict anything GP said. Worker owners are careful with compan
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>More specifically, the discrediting was caused by a combination of the deliberately dishonest or at best wildly inaccurate intel, the sense that pro-war elites in government and media were manufacturing consent for the war, and wrong pr
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by Aunche 3y ago
Ok. So global inequality is lower than it's ever been since it could reliably be recorded.
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by Aunche 3y ago
https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-2/ In figure 2.3, it shows that global inequality hasn't been lower since the 1870s, back when virtually all but the rich would be living in poverty by the standards of today.
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He made $400 million from stock sales. He got paid 20 million by Moderna. If the first employees agreed to sacrifice their salaries for more equity, they would be similarly well paid.
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At least in my local bubble in NYC, people working from home as consuming more fossil fuels. They're moving to the suburbs, buying a car, or flying around the world as digital nomads. Obviously, it's not representative most office
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by Aunche 3y ago
That's not really about an opposition to green energy though. It's your standard NIMBY excuses about ruining the view and whatnot.
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You're acting as if I made a contraction, but I didn't. Montana is getting sued because they aren't destroying jobs, and neither is any other state. The government is granting free money to people who buy solar panels, EVs, e
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Everyone is happy when the government throws free money at them. That's why even the most climate denying and self proclaimed "fiscally conservative" politicians will vote for subsidizing new solar jobs in their free state. W
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The biggest failure of populists is to convince themselves that lobbying is bribery. Lobbying played a significant role in environmental regulation and civil rights. However, now that lobbying has become taboo among grass roots movements,
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Then they need to accept that housing prices will rise because of this. It's as simple as that.

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