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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Nuclear should be part of the solution. Solar is just too cheap not to do be part of it too. Since there are on demand sources (natural gas peakers, batteries, etc.) and because solar isn't replacing clean sources at this point in time
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Making and installing solar panels doesn't cost anywhere that much CO2. Best numbers I see suggest payback in ~3 years assuming they're produced with coal power (and the numbers are better if they're produced with cleaner pow
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
And the fact that Twitter employees aren't all near an office. If you live in Minneapolis, you're not exactly going to be happy that you have to go into the office (closest one is 6+ hours away in Chicago). It's not even a ch
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
In my city, the curb appeal of the wealthy suburbs with good schools is absolutely there too. But the inner city knife-fighting schools actually get more total money per student (because the state makes up the difference and then some). Tha
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
That and the Boogeyman of food safety liability.
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
The problem with getting rid of district-based funding is that the worst schools often already get the most per student funding because the state (at least that's the case where I am!). Ultimately the problem is that more money doesn&#
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Most of this is supply imho. Manufacturers are selling EVs with months or years long waiting lists and would be selling a lot more if they had inventory anywhere. And then also more go to CA because of CARB laws, leaving a select few for th
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
It really is starting to feel like the fringe of the environmental movement have really been the bad guys all along. Blocking nuclear starting in the 70s, focusing only on recycling in the 80s and 90s (consumption doesn't matter as lon
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
The managers (in my experience at least, being on both sides of that table) don't have a shred of power in compensation discussions. That makes it a lot harder for the employee to negotiate (by design). Every compensation decision that
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Or just have HR actually do their jobs and understand who is and isn't creating value instead of setting arbitrary salary caps...
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
And most of the places that have major recurring flooding issues are hyper local (for now at least). We're talking neighborhoods or parts of neighborhoods, not full cities (yet). The number of affected properties is relatively small, b
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Building a whole house in SF costs 1.7m. Building it in the Midwest or South costs 1/5 of that...
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
You don't need to go inside in SF to find people shooting up heroin...
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Unaffordable is relative. $150k for a 1500 sq ft house is pretty common there...Detroit needs better incomes, not more housing. On the other hand, SF needs more housing, not more income
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
There's a big difference between applied calculus and theoretical calculus. Colleges teach theoretical and then wonder why students struggle to apply it.
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Its bad for the ~third of households that don't own housing. But from classic wealth distribution metrics, I suspect it's overall a good thing for inequality (because so many people own their own houses).
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Hyundai already removed it (kind of) from some of their hybrid ICE cars! I say kind of because they just combined it with the traction battery and designed it to last the life of the car (using lithium instead of lead acid).
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
But the key point they're missing is that we live in a reasonable world because of these types of programs!
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
That's a permissions problem, not a demand problem. If the free market would be let loose there, we'd have skyscrapers on every block. The issue is nibmy-oriented citizens who are actively resisting that.
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
If housing units are increasing in double digit percentages per year, then we're talking! Otherwise, it's at best keeping up with population growth.
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
And SF isn't exactly a model of good urban planning either. It could double or triple its density and be just fine!
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
The only real way to fight this is oversupply imho. Can't financialize something that doesn't generate outsized returns. If expected returns are lower (and risk higher) than the next financial class, money will move to that other
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Nature did that for us...it's called the Cape of Good Hope! It just takes a lot longer...
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
I'd prefer going without heat ... And I'm in the north! Other than the certainty of frozen pipes
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
It weakened significantly before landfall though. Still a major hurricane, but the human toll was a failure of systems, not because the storm was that strong
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
Absolutely. But not the individual storm. Just the frequency of those storms
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
It was cat3 at landfall, though a strong cat3
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
That's even pushing it. Texas had a 20-year freeze and it pushed the grid to failure!
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
But the problem with your example is that Katrina wasn't even that impressive of a hurricane and not at all unprecedented from a weather perspective. It was "only" a category 3 at landfall. A major hurricane, sure. But major
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by aperson_hello 4y ago
When there's a shortage and all the companies suddenly go from paying $8/hour to 15+/hour? Like right now?

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