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And here some of the other side--that the paradox of choice might be s myth: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/more-is-...
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The challenge is that there isn't a single car company making money on electric vehicles. Even Tesla selling their cars at around $100k is still seldom profitable (and when they are it's because of selling credits). It's toug
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So if you like free markets or are on the right you are not "enlightened"? Is that what you are saying?
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This is not at all true. The Kochs are easily outspent by the left every year. Just look at the Sierra Club's, NRDC's, EDF's, LCV's, Center for American Progress, and other's spending every year. And these are just
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Why? Are they cheating their customers?
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Except that it did not happen as advertised. Peak oil was advertised as "running out of oil period," not "running out of easy-to-access oil." The problem is that for as long as we have been using oil, we have been runnin
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Other than the fact that there isn't evidence of fracking contaminating groundwater...
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I support the death penalty, but I believe all executions should be carried out Ned Stark style. As in, if you are the Governor, and can commute the sentence, then you should be there and actually carry out the execution. If you can save a
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That is the story of Shenandoah National Park. It was created through eminent domain in the 1920s and 1930s and poor people were evicted off their land: http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/eminentdomain-origin-.
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True, but Delta owns a refinery. http://articles.philly.com/2015-04-17/business/61222460_1_mo...
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Coal still produces more electricity than natural gas. There was one month recently when Mat gas produced more electricity but that was an anomaly. In a few years however, nat gas will dominate.
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Leaving it in the ground with today's technologies is very expensive in terms of opportunity cost. You can leave it in the ground, but people don't want to pay $5 per gallon for gasoline. The climate models don't show high c
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"Will it be priced aggressively to compete with the Tesla’s Model 3’s $30K range?" Since when did Apple ever compete on price? Then again, Tesla isn't actually selling a car for $30k yet and reports are that they are losing o
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Why is the internal combustion engine a step backwards? Electric cars have some benefits, but they have had those benefits for more than 125 years. For more than a 100 years the problem has been cost and range and that hasn't been solv
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Decoupling does not reduce the overall bill for ratepayers. It keeps the utility whole when they sell less electricity. The reasons that CA has lower bills, even though rates are high is the weather (how much air conditioning is used on the
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Why is Cuomo a saint for ignoring science (as we saw when EPA's hydraulic fracturing report came out)? And why is he a saint for denying thousands of New Yorkers good jobs? Even with the bust, North Dakota's unemployment is signif
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The fact that peakers are more cost efficient than flywheels or other storage tells you how expensive storage is. Plus it tells you that our electricity grids have been very robust to not need storage.
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This is a really big deal and the story deserves more coverage since apparently it happens all the time. Who would have thought that we have to continue to foment for free speech even in 2015, but apparently we have to!
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One interesting factoid--women are easier on these trucks better than man. At least that's what the tour guide told me when I toured some of the oil sands a couple years ago. But even thought women are better than men by being easier o
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Google can do some exclusives for tournaments and I have to imagine they are already in talks with some top streamers on Twitch to come to YouTube. This would be a good time to be a streamer with a lot of fans to get in a little bidding war
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So how does Hacker News think that Twitch and YouTube Gaming are going to work with VR. Seeing the gamer and their reactions is part of the appeal of Twitch, but that changes with VR where you can't see someone's eyes. Amazon (who
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If the numbers in this article are correct, more water goes to environmental purposes (ie. Protecting the Delta Smelt) than for Agricukture. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416918/no-farmers-dont... I don&#
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But the reason that Time Warner has a monopoly because the city granted them a monopoly--not because of technology. Plus, politics and regulation make it difficult for new entry into their market.
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Rebuttal: http://judithcurry.com/2015/06/04/has-noaa-busted-the-pause-... The greatest changes in the new NOAA surface temperature analysis is to the ocean temperatures since 1998. This seems rather ironic,
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Rebuttal: http://www.sierraclub.org/nuclear-free http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear... Sierra Club and Greenpeace are two of the largest and well-funded environmenta
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And you can watch the entire 7 hour trip from Oslo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE This is very relaxing to have on in the background.
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The question is why? Why should the U.S. spend billions on a great passenger rail system? High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits? Japan and Europe's high speed rail is nice, but it hasn't nec
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Where is the evidence that there are a huge number of sloppy operators? That isn't in the NY Times article.
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During the day, the plane ascends and then, to save battery power, slowly descends like a glider during the evening.
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Or alternatively, invest in a good pair of headphones--also good ROI.

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