Maarten88

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by Maarten88 5y ago
> We can moralize 2nd but fundament is always numbers. So you think it is moralizing to take people and fairness as the fundament? I certainly prefer that over numbers, if that makes me moralizing then so be it. What you are implying is
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> socialization of the health-care system shall produce the following [...] It should also produce better health outcomes for the people living there. Maybe you have a well-paid job and good insurance plan, and can enjoy good healthcare
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by Maarten88 5y ago
A sugar tax will accomplish a lot and is much easier.
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So this year they'll build around 700.000 normal F-150 trucks and only 15.000 electric ones, when they could sell many times more. It seems they are out of touch with the market. That may be understandable, as it is a bit nonsensical.
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Cuba?
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by Maarten88 5y ago
They are a monopoly in search, right? Doesn't that place extra obligations on them, such as to not abuse their power against competitors or the public?
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I would not want to stop these people. As an engineer, I find the technology very interesting and cool. And it is electric, so it is relatively less harmful than normal jets and helicopters. I do think that there are big challenges in peopl
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by Maarten88 5y ago
A high-speed train can connect inner cities just as fast as this gimmick jet. It is orders of magnitude more efficient and scalable, and much more safe. A good train could easily be more comfortable, if there is a market for that. Do you th
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by Maarten88 5y ago
Carbon Tax money is not thrown out of the window. It will mostly stay in the same country, and it will create jobs and wealth for people who are part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
If you build more dense and closer to work and shops, people can travel smaller distances. Public transport, walking and biking will become viable alternatives, resulting in fewer car trips. You could have less traffic when planning it well
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> no-one actually believes that is going to happen That is the problem exactly. We do not listen to scientists, because it's more convenient to ignore it. And when their models become reality, we'll just blame them for it, as t
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by Maarten88 5y ago
A bike lane can carry more people than a car lane. Especially in the US there is plenty of space you can take away from cars, both lanes and parking. The Netherlands did not knock down and rebuild Amsterdam to build bike paths. They took sp
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by Maarten88 5y ago
That just adds another argument against safe bike infrastructure in US politics. Poor people are even more undeserving than lycra-clad yuppies ;-\
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I'd suggest starting with bike paths to schools. Kids don't have the problems you mention, they also don't have an alternative when they want to travel independently.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
That reasoning illustrates the problem exactly. You should have read the article until the last line, I'll quote it here for you: > That is our failure, and it's a failure brought about to a large extent by bad policy that tell
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> You do realize that this is just your privilege? This is exactly what TFA is about. It should not be a privilege, but it is, because we made it scarce. Not because it is more expensive to create, it is not.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> remember those freedoms can also destroy your life, if you end up on the other end. Americans have to step over homeless people on the sidewalks, who got fired, who got sick while uninsured, who are addicted or mentally ill. Those who
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by Maarten88 5y ago
How much growth and revenue would they have missed had they allocated more resources towards better security and recovery plans before this, instead of better features? As a shareholder, you own the company including its problems. You don&#
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> Washington must protect and nurture these engines of competitive dynamism, but instead they're conspiring to kill the golden goose. I was with him throughout, until this. Here it seems, also for him, his personal interest gets in
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I think the problem was there wasn't a US canal available. Seriously: this shows to me that people will use any infrastructure that is most convenient/fast for them. If there are highways people will drive. Build public transport
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> Typically in the scale of millions per year. Which is nothing to walmart guy. Building a modern subway network with a couple dozen stations will cost a few billion easily. And that is just one small thing on a long list. I think you un
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I think infrastructure will be hugely expensive. When you want to build a city that is sustainable, you'll need to build subways, infrastructure for cars, bikes and walking, sewer systems, garbage collection, energy, communication and
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I wonder if this is true for me as a EU citizen. Per the GDPR, companies can use personal data without consent when there is a legal requirement, but I think they can't just hand it out without consent when they just feel like it. Mayb
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> A carbon tax is essentially going to hit the average person hard. I think that is just an excuse to not make changes that are necessary. Saying that something will hit the poor/average person/working family is an argument abo
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by Maarten88 5y ago
Isn't the IRS just executing the policies that elected politicians decide? It seems the IRS wanted to do the right thing 20 years ago, but they were stopped by politicians who were corrupted by lobbyists. Maybe US people should elect p
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by Maarten88 5y ago
That is projection. I think if you look around in the world you could see many countries where government works quite well, with little corruption, maybe a bit slow, yet offering services that are better and more efficient than businesses c
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VAT comes close to that and is common outside US.
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> ... a 5% fee. This is roughly in-line with baseline credit card transaction processing fees ... Dutch consumers mostly pay using IDeal, a payment standard created by all Dutch banks, that costs < 0.5% in fees to merchants. It has fe
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OP probably also thought about other societies involved, like the Indonesians, who did not really benefit, quite the opposite, and with far more people.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> If things should be changed, the public should vote to regulate. How can the public form an opinion if the information they get about it is skewed by the affected companies? What if their politicians get “donations” from the companies

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