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by barney54 9y ago
This is a good point. It's why the federal government should prohibit local monopolies for the provision of internet services. A major problem is that for years localities allowed/encourage monopolies for telephone and cable and n
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One reason it's bad that MTA is only paying interest is that the transportation world is changing. Autonomy, Uber/Lyft, and other technologies may mean that subways systems like the MTA is in a death spiral where fewer riders mean
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by barney54 9y ago
If transparency is good, then these reporters should be more transparent with the information they have. That's not too much to ask. Doling it out like this isn't very helpful.
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by barney54 9y ago
As an avid cyclist, I'm not sure I'd say that cycling is necessarily an "efficient" transportation option. I love to ride my bike to work. It makes my day much better. If I could, I would ride to work everyday. Howeve
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by barney54 9y ago
In the future cars might be so safe you don't need a seat belt. Another thing that changes with autonomy is a reduction of crash-related features.
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Mark Rober explains that in the video. Though I think there are a couple big prizes where the value exceeds the price to play.
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The Clean Power Plan is designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. CO2 emissions have climate impacts, but don't cause the dirty air like in these photos.
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This isn't the case in the United States. Air quality has increased for decades. https://www.epa.gov/air-trends
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The growing toll of suicide in New Zealand(theguardian.com)
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by barney54 10y ago
I'm not so sure that solar is cheaper in the developing world. As these Indian villagers said protesting solar, "we want real electricity, not fake electricity." http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060026477
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by barney54 10y ago
Yep. If we want to employ a lot of people producing power we should just have people ride exercise bikes.
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I'm not sure there are many people who are willing to make money at any cost. That sure isn't the case here on HN.
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by barney54 10y ago
I'm not sure what you are saying. Are you saying there are no backyards in American or that the suburban neighborhoods are not safe to walk? Parks in big cities are completely different from large yards. Parks are nice, but large yard
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by barney54 10y ago
I'm not sure the data support the claim, at least in the US, that we under provision transit. We slight subsidizing driving, but not by much, and I agree that that should stop. Here's the numbers. http://ti.org/a
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by barney54 10y ago
As I understand it, the size of the watershed is known. Here's an estimate from a couple days ago: https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/831182017685495813
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by barney54 10y ago
Except for ESPN. The marginal cost of adding ESPN is about $7 per subscriber. http://www.whatyoupayforsports.com/numbers/
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by barney54 10y ago
Currently there are 100,000 cfs flowing down the main spillway. That's how they dropped the level of the Lake so quickly. But, you are correct that the main spillway is heavily damaged, but they are still using it because they don&#x27
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by barney54 10y ago
The sad thing is that the FDA first had to be convinced to allow trans fats to be listed. Later it required them to be labeled.
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by barney54 10y ago
Pipelines and trains and trucks have already been proven to be safe. There are hundreds of thousands of miles of pipelines in the U.S. today. The EIS showed this new pipeline would be safe.
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by barney54 10y ago
This is similar to Dave Ramsey's advice on spending money. Here is Megan McCardle's experience here: https://www.google.com/amp/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/3...
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by barney54 10y ago
Where is the evidence that any of the data sites are at risk of being shutdown?
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by barney54 10y ago
Why is there any threat of these databases going away?
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by barney54 10y ago
True, but this isn't a case of people speaking from their own point of view. The social media account represent the Departments in an official capacity.
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by barney54 10y ago
Here's an explanation--the new management of the agencies want to review the social media policies.
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by barney54 10y ago
I'm not from Wyoming, but laws that mandate certain electricity sources are pretty common: http://ncsolarcen-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
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by barney54 10y ago
Utilities don't necessarily support this because it keeps the status quo. Utilities make money buy building new plants and charging ratepayers the cost of the plant plus a rate of return on capital. That's why utilities supported
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by barney54 10y ago
I agree about music, but completely disagree about video. We watch Amazon Video 10 to 1 compared to Netflix. Amazon's selection works for us.
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This is another nice appreciation of Hentoff: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/08/nat-hentoff-19252017
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by barney54 10y ago
It's not necessarily a generational thing. John Podesta was suspicious and sent the phishing email to campaign IT. Clinton campaign IT screwed up and told him to click the link and reset his password. Podesta is in his 60s and the IT p
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by barney54 10y ago
It would be nice for the people who are down voting you to provide a counter example.

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