ErikVandeWater

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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
We could always allow more legal immigration. Some countries don't have unfunded liabilities that can share some of their population so we can keep the Ponzi scheme going.
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> The US has always experienced relentless political activism against public education. Lol we spend almost 3x more on k-12 public education now (inflation adjusted) than we did in 1960. I really doubt the relentless political activism
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
The FBI has been getting a free pass, if anything. Recently illegally spying on a presidential candidate's campaign (of the opposing party of the sitting president), and currently ignoring corruption involving the President's son
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
The effects of lowering taxes on rental income is complicated. If you lower the taxes on rental income, more people will buy houses (and build new ones!) to take advantage of the reduction in taxes. However, they will still have to rent th
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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False dichotomy.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
It's all about the tradeoff. 100% renewable energy would nuke the economy.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
HN is getting worse with these kinds of posts.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
There are thousands of homes/apartments around where I live that are about equally attractive for me to live at. Most sold by different sellers. Housing is fungible.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
If you prove it takes 20 years to successfully sue you, you can get away with just about anything.
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Aren't there also invasive beetles that kill the trees?
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That's not what "associated" means.
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You really think the only speech Twitter censors is hate speech? Terrible.
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Well this analogy leaves out Twitter censorship, which makes Twitter unlikeable.
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A New Gun Law Reflects the Worst Instincts of Both Parties(reason.com)
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> The nature of aviation, where unplanned problems result in unplanned non-optional landings in random locations (instead of just pulling off the side of the road), would rapidly turn aviation into the most dangerous transport mode. Avia
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Creating jobs is not a goal. Might as well just pay those people salaries to do whatever they feel like doing.
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In addition, the extra expense associated with regulation to make planes ultra-safe makes it unaffordable for some people. Those people then go on to use a vastly less safe form of transportation.
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I'd say the difference is density of deaths. When people die in regular road accidents, it's just a few at a time. Not compelling enough for even a mention in national news coverage. When a plane or train crashes, it's hund
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
I know most money is created by private banks. But that is stable (it is assumed by ceteris paribus). If a government decided to stop taxing then that would be something new.
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Off the top of my head, some results would be: 1. No one wants to lend to your country again because you paid them back with currency far less valuable than expected 2. Nobody wants to use your currency as a means of exchange in internation
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
> a sovereign government has no need of revenue in the first place. Please explain this. Are you suggesting governments can just stop taxing, and print the money to pay their debts with no ill consequences?
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by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Taxing activities that have negative externalities is a positive use of taxation. It's better than forbidding such behavior for many reasons. The simplest reason is that it's better to make revenue dis-incentivizing something bad
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They have economically viable solutions. They're just not politically viable because the current system is designed for the profit of wealthy cartels.
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I'm pretty sure most of the damage was done before people realized the significance of deforestation. We certainly now know the impact of deforestation, and that it affects the entire planet.
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> Working close to Government... I've never seen any mission specifically seeking large-scale citizen-based tracking capabilities. They tend to keep those kinds of things pretty secret. We didn't know about all kinds of spying
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Imposing tax burden. Nothing's free.
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People place higher expectations on recycling than is merited. I'm not arguing it's better or worse than nuclear in the long run. Just saying there is waste. Also, latitude is irrelevant. If central Europe got as much snow as C
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In 20-30 years you'll have 1.5 million solar panels to dispose of. It's not zero waste at all. We're also talking Canada, which isn't the best for consistent sunlight.
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Something tells me the HN crowd wouldn't be looking to invest in whether the "Pepsi Energy Fields" are "symmetrical" and "in balance." I agree though that the HN crowd as a CEO would want lots of effort to

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