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by billions 7y ago
End the government mandated monopoly PG&E has. Let multiple companies bid for service on a per-city basis, with annual renewal.
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by billions 7y ago
Government entities have NO incentive to improve their quality of service from year to year. If they fix it, they get less tax money. If they don't fix it, they get more money. This over the years becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
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by billions 7y ago
PG&E has government mandated monopoly in these cities. "Buying out PG&E" means let mismanaged cities like San Francisco handle electricity like they handle the homelessness, transportation, sanitation and housing.
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by billions 7y ago
> Why is it automatically the case that (for example) administrative policies set in place by government regulators in Venezuela couldn't already be set in place by PG&E's private administrators? PG&E employees are not
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by billions 7y ago
Which nationalized entity would you like to emulate? Please provide one nationalized company that is an example of quality and value we can emulate. Would you like your power to operate like the DMV?
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by billions 7y ago
In computer science terms this is increasing technical debt. Your app is fundamentally broken. Instead of addressing the primary issue, we try to patch via a law suit. The patch introduces 2 new bugs: bankruptcy and blackouts. Solution:
67.
by billions 7y ago
Lots of downvotes - can HN offer any counter arguments? Surely you guys use logic to build circuits and algorithms, not down votes.
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by billions 7y ago
Venezuela nationalized sugar factories with similar reasoning with little success: https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuel...
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by billions 7y ago
I will not purchase another drone until I can pull it out of my back pocket and throw it in the air, have it automatically take some fantastic shots of my friends and land back in my hand.
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by billions 7y ago
How will other countries respond?
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China's President Xi wants country to 'take the leading position' in blockchain(theblockcrypto.com)
4 points by billions 7y ago|4 comments
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by billions 7y ago
Please turn off your computer. You're wasting watts shaming first world folk. Go convince the 3rd world to stop burning trash and making babies. Oh, right - they'll stop by themselves when they reach your level of wealth.
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by billions 7y ago
Via downvotes HN is making sure your opinion is invalid
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by billions 7y ago
Trains are less efficient than cars on a per mile basis. https://www.theprch.com/this-vs-that/fuel-efficiency-planes-...
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Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?
942 points by billions 7y ago|831 comments
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by billions 7y ago
Steve Jobs frequently parked his Mercedes in the handicap spot next to the building
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by billions 7y ago
Most things that get years of speculation and press never come to fruition
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by billions 7y ago
What if they are physically handicapped? What if they are lonely? What if they spend their time and energy investing in 3rd world countries? Consider checking your prejudice at the door.
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by billions 7y ago
Perhaps religious role models like Jesus Christ and the Buddha play a subliminal factor in disobedience, risk taking, etc
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by billions 7y ago
Is the Hacker News community open to alternative viewpoints on this subject? It would be informative to read a wide spectrum of opinions, like we get for things like microprocessor design and code libraries.
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by billions 7y ago
Soon you'll have the option to choose the currency of choice for your savings account (Cryptocurrencies included)
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by billions 7y ago
Don't forget free lunches. $10 bucks for an extra hour of productivity.
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by billions 7y ago
The Bering Strait has already completely melted and because of this native tribes can no longer cross as they had for generations
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by billions 7y ago
The most powerful supercomputers in the world are focused on weather analysis and they can only project a few days out. Yet, some people think they've got it figured out.
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by billions 7y ago
Always felt homeless photo diaries could be funded
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by billions 7y ago
Intel's monopoly handicapped Moore's law for a decade until competition reemerged.
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by billions 7y ago
you are all but guaranteed NOT to be influential. since you don’t pursue money, you won’t receive it. your ideas, while they may be very good, will likely not scale because you won’t be able to finance their visibility
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by billions 7y ago
Would prefer migration to a decentralized alternative
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by billions 7y ago
This. Running a startup forces you to see risk/reward in a manner you can’t unsee.
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by billions 7y ago
It comes down to statistics. We deal with road raging, texting, drunk drivers on a daily basis. We know our risks each time we leave the house. Safety is exponentially better than what the past generation had to deal with.

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