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by ParksNet 4y ago
What US rail decline? Rail has a higher freight modal share in the US than any major European countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
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Munro Live: Tesla Model Y 4680 Structural Pack(youtube.com)
1 points by ParksNet 4y ago|0 comments
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Switch has 30% with a 5% rebate to consumers. Steam has a regressive 20%/25%/30% tiered commission structure. There are sweetheart deals we have no knowledge of, like Apple's deal with Amazon to get Prime Video onto their dev
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Apple's greed (in maintaining the egregious 30% commission for so long) is going to undermine their entire ecosystem. If Apple moved voluntarily to 10% or 15% for all, there never would have been the industry pressure for this sort of
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by ParksNet 4y ago
The UK is already pushing this: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bil... "Requiring Category 1 services to ensure adult users are given the option to verify their identity, and tools to
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by ParksNet 4y ago
The EU is just following the WEF agenda: https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/wef-wto-global-dig... Next step will be Digital Identity required to post online, and police action against wrongthink. We've alre
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by ParksNet 4y ago
New game developers don't make any money. The gaming industry, both free and paid titles, is overwhelmingly hit-driven, and bigger professional teams can more consistently deliver high quality content. The median title on Steam earns o
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by ParksNet 4y ago
This can be fixed with carbon tariffs. Calculate theoretical carbon tax impacts on their exports, and then levy tariffs of the same value.
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Indoor CO2 scrubbers (even just to separate CO2 from inside air and exhaust it outside) would be a great technology right now, since it would allow us to reduce ventilation requirements and thus save on heating/cooling costs.
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by ParksNet 4y ago
What's the cheapest Carbon Capture system we can imagine - $100 per tonne? Most are running at about $500/tonne right now. At just $15/tonne of Carbon Tax, we halve CO2 output, mainly by destroying the economics of coal: htt
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Excess CO2, and the impacts on human cognition from it, are the great threat to civilization. We need geoengineering to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere. Iron seeding* and global Carbon Taxes seem like the best options. https://en
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by ParksNet 4y ago
I think the author misunderstood Epic's use of 'Creator': It means Content Creator, as in Youtubers and Streamers. This 5% is basically a referral or affiliate bonus. By contrast, Amazon only offers 1% for video games: https
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by ParksNet 4y ago
The USA doesn't even have ingredients listed out per 100g. Comparing packaged goods is very difficult. The solution is not to tax and spend more money on socialized medicine, its to cut sugar out of packaged food products to reduce dia
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Apple has already reduced MNOs to 'big dumb pipes' [1]. Hard to see the motivation to take over a low-margin and mature business. Their motivation seems to be to gradually reduce in size, and eventually eliminate SIM cards - presu
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by ParksNet 4y ago
You can build housing that doesn't get mouldy and is well insulated by having proper insulation and a modern ERV. It seems like Japan's policy of 'disposable housing' doesn't stand up to expensive electricity.
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People are having their job offers rescinded days before they start(cnbc.com)
14 points by ParksNet 4y ago|0 comments
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by ParksNet 4y ago
"The dry conditions come after years of falling oats acreage as U.S. grain growers swapped it out for more profitable crops such as corn." 40% of US corn goes to Ethanol production. If we're serious about reducing food prices
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Total Incompetence or Extreme Evil 2020-2022(bowtiedbull.substack.com)
2 points by ParksNet 4y ago|0 comments
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Here's California's energy usage by hour from 2017: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341393321/figure/fi... We need some kind of alignment between Electricity producers / the Grid, and
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Sub-Saharan Africa is irrelevant, economically. Majority of the population engages in subsistence-level agriculture, or resource extraction for foreign companies. IQ Is measured at an average of 70 or lower: https://www.worlddata
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by ParksNet 4y ago
If we want to be serious about grid storage, look to the gigantic fleet of EVs we're building out. All of those vehicles should be able to charge and discharge to the grid based on daily demand and user preference. I'm looking at
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FDA Denies Petition to Ban All Phthalates in Food Packaging(consumerreports.org)
153 points by ParksNet 4y ago|92 comments
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by ParksNet 4y ago
I wonder if many of the gender dysphoria issues and related politics we're seeing now have an underlying factor of hormone disruption due to widespread pollution. We should be pursuing the banning of bisphenols, phthalates, and PFAS fo
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Look on Etsy for locally made cottons socks. Investigate getting a reverse osmosis home water machine installed under your kitchen sink, and ensuring the tubing coming out of it all the way to the faucet is metallic.
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by ParksNet 4y ago
Modern America does: they're called Bars, Nightclubs, Saloons, HonkyTonks, Festivals, Beaches. I met my wife at a Meetup for 20-somethings hosted at a Brewery (Bar). I'm from Australia, and meeting women at these venues in America
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by ParksNet 4y ago
We need to ban entire categories of chemicals, if they are ever going to be in contact with food or potable water, including at end of life: phthalates, bisphenols, PFAS. We also need to ban polyester clothing, at least for categories washe
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by ParksNet 4y ago
The solution is population reduction through medical and social encouragement of having fewer or no children. Its not realistic to expect to modernize 1.3 billion Indians into a fossil-fuel intensive lifestyle. The infrastructure and sophis
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Gas stations are also just too small. Most in my area can accommodate 4-8 cars at a time. EV charging is much more suitable for places like Supermarkets, Malls, Restaurants - places where people spend much longer amounts of time and with la
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by ParksNet 4y ago
We'll only solve inflation when we solve the Welfare state. We need to abandon unemployment and single-parenthood payments, and raise the pension access age to 70 alongside a privatization of social security. This will force people bac
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by ParksNet 4y ago
The US is suffering from a lack of cheap EVs. The cheapest EV, Nissan Leaf, has a 5-month waiting list and is still $20,000 - and only after $7.5k in tax subsidies which expire this year. Meanwhile, China has a lot of options starting at $5

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