IronRanger

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by IronRanger 6y ago
That is the political justification but several studies have found that the benefits flow mostly to the wealthy. If you are poor in a 3rd world country, you cannot afford a car. This study from 2012 shows the top 20% get 43% of the benefit,
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by IronRanger 6y ago
There are still countries around the world which subsidise fossil fuels. Not indirect subsidies like exporation writeoffs for corporations, but actual incentives for consumers to consume in the form of below-market pricing. https:/&
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by IronRanger 6y ago
And if that weight and cost budget was just used for batteries, instead of an engine and drivetrain, you'd get a much better electric vehicle.
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Those people exist - they are called successful founders or senior executives.
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by IronRanger 6y ago
The solution is to tax vehicles by weight, and time and location of use. Melbourne, the State Capital of Victoria, has a big problem with congestion at peak hours. If road use charging like in Singapore or London was introduced, it would sh
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Is this a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century?
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Monthly deaths per million – 1851 to 2020 (Sweden)(swprs.org)
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by IronRanger 6y ago
According to the statistics from Sweden and Germany, 2020 deaths are tracking the same as prior years, and the death spike in Sweden from COVID is about the same as the 2009 Swine flu pandemic. So in regions with reasonably healthy people,
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by IronRanger 6y ago
The purpose is gatekeeping, and setting a minimum basis of quality. If the annual fee was $0/year developers would be worse off due to the flood of low-quality applications. This is exactly what happened on Steam when the platform was
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Moon dust is basically like asbestos: https://www.businessinsider.com/moon-dust-is-toxic-2012-7
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Instead of lockdown, why don't Governments issue free Vitamin D to all households and at all pharamcies, all winter? The cost would be a few million - against tens of billions for lockdown.
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Its also a motivator behind Brexit - regain some control over who comes in and out.
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by IronRanger 6y ago
We'll have to wait for annual death statistics for the final answer. So far, Sweden's annual deaths are tracking the same as prior years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
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by IronRanger 6y ago
The scientific evidence seems to indicate no net effect on annual deaths from lockdown, when comparing Sweden vs Norway though: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.11.20229708v... Indeed Sweden's
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by IronRanger 6y ago
Sub-replacement fertility is a factor of housing costs. Immigration drives down wages, and increases housing costs, making housing less affordable. All that immigration serves to accomplish is population replacement.