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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
Good point. Also note that a 4-family home is going to be generally much more energy efficient than 4 single-family homes, since there are fewer walls that leak heat to the exterior. So the author's recommendation to build more multi
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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
I think most papers only seem contradictory because: 1) the conclusion has been simplified to the point where the meaning is lost (e.g. "coffee is good for you!" vs "black coffee is marginally better than soda, red bull, high
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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
I love that Wildbow writes the female point of view that you assumed he was a she (assuming that wasn't a typo). He's still going strong--current work is Pale ( https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/about/ ) whi
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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
In a sense yes, but I wouldn't call that an incentive, any more than I have an "incentive" for Chipotle to give me free burritos. I'm not the one making the decision there. The people who are doing the polluting have t
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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
People have thought of this--a popular kind of proposal is to return all the tax money as a dividend to everyone evenly, to ease the financial burden. I think a carbon tax with dividend actually fits the criteria you are describing pretty w
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by NumberWangMan 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Wouldn't that mean that steel producers just end up passing on more of the cost to consumers in the form of higher prices, resulting in reduced steel consumption? It sounds like a tax would work fine.
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
I don't think it's the only solution, but it's pretty much a necessary part of any comprehensive plan of attack. It's the best tool we have. You're totally right that some current "winners" who benefit fr
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
Hey, they have some info on this: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/19/value-per-acr... Usually the tax values of properties are available to the public, as well as digital maps of plots. You
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
The funny thing is, I've watched his talk and he basically says "there is no solution". We've kinda screwed ourselves already, and whatever option we choose is going to hurt. But although we're in a hole, we do ha
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
You're touching on another important issue. Zoning that mandates homes be built away from jobs and businesses means that more density causes drastic increases in traffic. But allowing mixed use development gives people an option to c
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
You can both be right! Many massive transportation projects absolutely a waste of money when you weigh the costs and benefits. We shouldn't do those. But that doesn't mean that spending so much money on sprawling infrastructure
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
I think the root problem with single family homes is not their existence, but several factors: 1) They are implicitly subsidised by cities in the form of having way more infrastructure and public services dedicated to them, per-capita, than
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
Nice, this looks really useful! By the way, the table of contents for your articles is cut off on the left, for me.
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
But if you think about it, MOST people DO wear masks -- and to mitigate climate change, the strategy is not to convince everyone to voluntarily change their behavior, it's to price in the externalities, changing incentives, and let the
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
H.R. 763, as I understand it, puts taxes on imports from countries that have not implemented similar carbon taxes, in an attempt to avoid disadvantaging domestic businesses. Goods exported to other countries will allow a tax refund as well
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
> Or they may eat farm-to-table and shop at local farmers' markets. On the other side, step into any Wal-Mart or dollar store, and almost everything there was manufactured and shipped from Asian continent. Good point. Rich people w
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
As an absolute percentage, yeah, it's not that big. But considering how frequently most people fly vs drive, it's a decent chunk. Regardless, thanks for the references. I didn't know actual figures for air travel, it's
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
Rich people may not eat more food, but they may eat food that is shipped in from all over the world. They don't drive dozens of cars at once, but they do have lots of things delivered, and tend not to take public transport as much. T
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
The way I've heard Sandi Metz talk about it is basically that Don't Repeat Yourself isn't the important thing, but it's what we tell beginners who don't realise that having 15 copies of the same logic all over their
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
Hmm, but consider that it works in both directions. In places that are not as dense and expensive, the public places won't increase rents of the surrounding properties as much, but neither will they take away as much tax revenue. Bot
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
Hmm, that's a good point. Though, wouldn't an LVT that encourage companies to push all their employees to work from home, where possible? There are certainly benefits to that, but it might mean that certain industries get taxed m
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
I agree. I think the single tax was conceived in a time where most productive activities took the same amount of land. Nowadays, you have farms on the one hand, and something like tech companies on the other. It would be kinda crazy to t
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by NumberWangMan 6y ago
A lot of people focus on the fairness of the Land Value Tax, but the consequences of using one are just as interesting if not more. This tax has been put into practice in some cities in Pennsylvania, and there's evidence that it has a
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by NumberWangMan 7y ago
I would recommend Nutritionfacts.org as a source of high-quality information about nutrition. Dr. Greger (the creator) and a team of researchers read everything they can about nutrition research, examine the studies with a very critical ey
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Even more -- cows' milk is optimized for baby cows. We think it's weird to even drink human breast milk as adults, but think nothing of drinking bovine milk.
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by NumberWangMan 8y ago
Hmm, ok. First off, let me say that I won't judge you at all for eating meat. I'm not an ethical vegan -- my reasons are about 90% for health, and 10% for environmental concerns. It's weird, but it's only after becomi
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Meat is very calorie dense due to the fat content -- if you don't eat it, you need to substitute a plant food that is also relatively calorie dense (like beans, lentils, or potatoes) but also, probably just eat more of it. I found tha
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by NumberWangMan 8y ago
Olive oil is not a healthy fat (as much as I'd love it to be) -- it's got a substantial amount of saturated fat, and the interviewer is correct -- it's very easy to get a lot of empty calories with oil. Aside from that, weigh