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by bequanna 3y ago
Some screen time is ok, but this can be a slippery slope. Screen time for your child might buy you some free time, but is not a replacement for real interaction. In 20, 30, 40 years I guarantee you will give anything to be able to go back a
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by bequanna 3y ago
Minnesota has turned very anti-mining in the past several years and the Federal Gov't approving depends heavily on which admin is in power. I'd be curious to see estimates on when they think they can gain approval to begin extract
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by bequanna 3y ago
Yeesh… assuming that is all accurate that is quite a raw deal for customers. I don’t know much about the regulatory environment in CA but I thought there was either deregulation which allowed you to pick your provider or strong monopoly reg
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by bequanna 3y ago
Isn’t this rate jump partially the result of rulings that made PG&E liable for damages from fires started by overheated transformers?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Right. I just think property tax is the wrong lever to pull here. I think we should remove carrots (the tax advantages at the federal level) instead of trying to penalize via harsher taxes.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Companies don’t pay property tax, their renters do. I say this as someone who owned rental properties in an area that jacked up property taxes. Me and all the other landlords simply raised rent to compensate.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Yea, I don’t think the LLC liability game is that big of a deal. First, most of these companies will hold large liability insurance protection. But also, if someone sues and can prove negligence they can go further up the chain to the indiv
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by bequanna 3y ago
If a behavior is occurring that is technically legal but the majority believe the behavior is harmful/undesirable we pass laws to stop that behavior. In this case, stopping or slowing this is actually pretty simple: Change the tax code
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by bequanna 3y ago
Groundwater is regulated at the state level, correct?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Fair enough, but why isn’t every business/industry subject to this? Maybe all data centers, farmers, etc should have to provide detailed reporting on the energy they use.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> It's recognizing and mitigating systemic bias, where there is currently a massive bias for whiteness, maleness, heterosexuality, etc. Where is this “systemic bias” people keep crying about? I don’t see it in ads, in hiring policie
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by bequanna 3y ago
Good! Govt debt growth needs to slow. Too much money spent by govt is being wasted on undeserved transfer payments, creating do-nothing jobs and has been a huge contributor to inflation. Real efficiency is falling because of overspending in
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is a very bold prediction. Given how aggressively we expanded the money supply just a few years ago, mass bank failures seem quite unlikely as asset price increases generated quite a bit of equity leaving plenty of buffer room for loan
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by bequanna 3y ago
Good luck changing building regs to suit that. Also, it sounds like you’re proposing building adult dormitories. Is there any evidence people want that?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Hard to see things going that way. We've just started to rein in inflation. I don't think anyone (Fed, politicians, or the public) has the stomach for more QE.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Yep. Commercial -> Residential conversion is far from easy. I'm active in a multifamily investor group and what I am hearing is that it is damn near impossible to make this work and actually cheaper to just build new multifamily vs
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by bequanna 3y ago
Per Fed Chairman Powell in a recent interview, the Fed believes that mid-size and smaller regional banks (not larger banks) have the most exposure from bad commercial property loans.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Perfect is the enemy of good. Vaping is absolutely not safe, but smoking cigarettes is likely much more damaging to your health.
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by bequanna 3y ago
How can the “fairness” be determined if the specifics of the algorithm are not known to the judge, defense or jury? We can’t allow people to be prosecuted by evidence that relies on black boxes.
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by bequanna 3y ago
One thing I have wondered: does it make sense to just put most of our eggs in the solar basket in sunny states and then invest heavily in batteries and transmission lines to less sunny areas? Wind seems so much more expensive and maintenanc
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think the scammers work hard to create a strong sense of urgency to avoid this. If she would have been able to talk with her husband, the police or just had an hour to clear her head she likely would have seen the scam.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Russia is mostly contained and I don’t really see how EU would consider them a threat. They aren’t stupid enough to attack an actual NATO member country. Trade being cut off with Russia is more of a threat to Europeans than their military.
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by bequanna 3y ago
We are rapidly decoupling and I think most in the US/West consider China a strong threat at best and enemy at worst.
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by bequanna 3y ago
That is simply “he said, she said”. One person is lying, but we don’t know which.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Before fossil fuels “wind down”, won’t we see asphalt actually get cheaper as transportation shifts to electric?
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by bequanna 3y ago
The market is flooded with Product Managers and other tech-adjacent people who were the primary focus of the layoffs.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I've had good success with adguard on my raspberry pi: https://www.wundertech.net/adguard-home-raspberry-pi-install...
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don’t follow. Your original post was saying that it is OK for population decline in the northern countries because it is too expensive to live there. And population growth in other (less productive) countries is fine because it evens out.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is assuming that all people/groups are essentially equally productive, which is not true. People in more developed countries are >10x more productive than people in undeveloped countries.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> That is not the valid question. Well, luckily things in the US don't work this way. We don't build out unwanted infrastructure because "...most people don't have the imagination". The preferences of the ivory t

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