bigfudge

56 ms·

751.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Sounds good. Respect for employment standards and the environment with fewer billionaires’ vanity projects. Sign me up.
752.
by bigfudge 6y ago
In the UK at least this isn’t actually true. The studies done use tax records to estimate effective tax rates, not just published tax rates.
753.
by bigfudge 6y ago
There are great videos of a Swedish three year old on a half pipe on a balance bike! My kids were not so fearless, but my son did a 8 mile ride (flat ex railway line) on a balance bike when he was 3. And before anyone accuses me of pushy pa
754.
by bigfudge 6y ago
But riding with training wheels looks miserable... it destroys the smoothness and joy of a bike. I'm surprised kids want to persist with it at all... My kids loved balance bikes (i.e. normal bikes with no pedals) because they don'
755.
by bigfudge 6y ago
I really wish I could flag this post. Your previous overfamiliar quip was graciously handled... quit while you’re ahead.
756.
by bigfudge 6y ago
I guess poverty relative to cost of living and median wage may also be relevant
757.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Can you give the breakdown by income too? There may be drug and other cultural issues in big inner city areas that are predominantly black, but my strong prior is that this is a poverty/ disadvantage effect as much as race.
758.
by bigfudge 6y ago
The UK is more urban than US and has a small fraction of the murder rate.
759.
by bigfudge 6y ago
So, I came to post this because I'd really like some informed opinion on whether the conclusion drawn is at all likely. Beyond posting xkcd cartoons about extrapolation, is there any reason to believe this is overly pessimistic?
760.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Tie heavy duty straps with a small float attached to it before you dump it over the side, then use a tug to pull it away.
761.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Yes - that's kind of what I had in mind when I first suggested it. When containers fall of ships they often wash ashore on the UK coast. Even a container of motorbikes arrived in Cornwall recently... I'm presuming that only happen
762.
by bigfudge 6y ago
How so? I lived in the city and this is what I thought at the time. I might have been mistaken (which is part why I posted it here... to hear alternative arguments).
763.
by bigfudge 6y ago
At the time, London transport was pretty much at gridlock anyway and made the city pretty hard to live in IMO. It wouldn't have taken much to threaten the major income-generating source of the country (look up the economics of the city
764.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Right, but you don't need to leave them there. If it's limited depth you could pull them away with barges.
765.
by bigfudge 6y ago
This is true more generally. When I lived in London and the IRA campaign was going on I never understood why they didn't just set fire to a few stolen vans on Euston road/City road/Waterloo bridge every morning rather than ac
766.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Is there a reason they couldn't have a smaller crane on board and dump them over the side. Surely even losing the cargo would be cheaper than keeping it blocked at this point?
767.
by bigfudge 6y ago
An R vector would be `1:1000000`
768.
by bigfudge 6y ago
It’s not anti scientific to include a prior assumption that the food industry will suppress relevant data about the health implications of processed food. They have a long track record of doing this. I’d argue that this is actually a more r
769.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Some, but CO2 is not the only concern here. Greenpeace is a broad-spectrum environmental campaign group. As I've commented elsewhere, I'm not inherently anti-nuclear, but cost is not the only issue. The political and institutiona
770.
by bigfudge 6y ago
But this is such a straw man. Nobody at Greenpeace is suggesting we use natural gas to hydrogen at scale. It's part of diversifying the energy economy in ways that _can_ be sustainable in future. This is a way of pump priming an infras
771.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Presumably they leak or heat up though to some degree?
772.
by bigfudge 6y ago
I doubt that is true. In Iraq and Afghanistan there was wide variation in the number of civilians killed by different units. Some of that may be context-effects, but I doubt all of it. Also, having people in the loop reminds at least someon
773.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Let's be clear Israel itself was born from "extreme views" implemented by violence. There are no examples of this kind of civil conflict that have been solved by simply overwhelming the other side. Dialogue needs to happen, a
774.
by bigfudge 6y ago
I agree that intuition is just implicit knowledge for these factors... the problem is that making these explicit in recipes would just make them boring and tedious/complex to make. I'm not going to be able to make the thermal mass
775.
by bigfudge 6y ago
That isn't true in Europe, but even accepting your argument: this is a problem for the nuclear industry. Unless we can see evidence that the system as a whole (i.e. nuclear industry plus government of various levels of corruption) can
776.
by bigfudge 6y ago
The difference is, most of these costs _are_ factored in to renewable costs because there are few subsidies (at least at grid level). In contrast, there is a huge implicit subsidy to nuclear by punting the issue of nuclear waste storage to
777.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Without any evidence, this is just an adhominem. Please cite an example of obfuscation or misrepresentation.
778.
by bigfudge 6y ago
When people worry about land-use of solar, I think about exactly this. There are large chunks of central Spain that would be largely improved by covering them in solar panels (joke, but only just in some places).
779.
by bigfudge 6y ago
The real long tail risks from nuclear are the long term ones, which aren't factored in because we don't know what nuclear storage sites will be like in 100 or 1000 years. That's what many rational people object to about nucle
780.
by bigfudge 6y ago
Who is actually doing this work? I have had an idea for a kind of 'public meta-analysis' site, where we could give simple headline figures for important questions like this based on consensus estimates. A bit like the Cochrane or

More ›