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by diordiderot 2y ago
>infamously, nearly incapable of quickly completing major public works Unless it's roads
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Taxing wealthy > This is because average tax rates rise more quickly with income in the UK, and are already higher at the top relative to the median, than in most of the European countries that raise more revenue overall. > Austerity
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> lowest rate of investment High costs of 1. Energy 2. Transport 3. Housing Are the cause of low private and public investment. The author treats the lack of public productivity growth as separate from the lack of public investment but t
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Just opt out blacks and females no?
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Feels like early industrial revolution vibes. Some of the hype turned real, just not how and a lot later than anyone expected. Same thing happened in the post-atomic age. But the gaps between revolutions are getting shorter.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs. There's a slim chance that frontend work runs into Jevons paradox. Rather than churning out simpler interfaces faster, the complexity will grow. M
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by diordiderot 2y ago
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> Memphis They said safe my guy
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by diordiderot 2y ago
In the American South community is as easy as picking a church and going to your kids public school sporting events. Are there problems, of course, like all societies. But it's easy and it works.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> the US would violate the treaty Other parties were already violating the treaty by not spending 2%. It's simple Tit for tat. > Trump claimed (again) that the less-spending-than-recommended nations somehow owed payments to the U
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Well it certainly wasn't the French
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by diordiderot 2y ago
No it doesn't. Fuel tax income is ~100 Billion Road expenditures are ~200 Billion (Combined state and federal)
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by diordiderot 2y ago
The term is called 'growth ponzi scheme'. Regions wax and wane in economic importance, less so when they're dense and urban.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
I believe the road budget was 132.8 billion between 2016 and 2030
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Something like 40% of Republicans believed Obama was 'responsible' for 9/11 in 2015/16 (failed to prevent, not personally perpetrated)
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Can you describe the earliest symptoms you recognized
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by diordiderot 2y ago
It takes a decade plus to build a HVDC line because of western political incompetence. I'd bet the chinese could run a line from Bejing to Lhasa in 6 months.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
My point was that long distance power transmission is a economically viable means of tackling the "renewable intermittency" problem. > I find that fact that the UK would depend on another country for power generation in a serio
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by diordiderot 2y ago
The UK imports 5 Twh of electricity from France as it is so I guess you should start up the auctions. After failing to successfully launch a Trident missile for 8 years it probably wouldn't change much. You've only managed to send
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Transmission loses are 3% per 1000km so moving electricity from morroco to the UK would result in ~6% loss in electricity. Saying > There will be times when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine Is just FUD. The wind
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Yeah those junior analysts should just transfer to Goldmans Poughkeepsie branch.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
More people are moving in then there are units available to accomidate them. This can be solved by, you guessed it... building.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Just shy of 1% of people die each year (~389,000 people) but the birth rate is just over 1%. That means all immigration counts towards the pop increase
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Yes it is.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> The reality is that American cities need highways. Not through the middle of them. > people will always prefer single family homes. Millenials and genZ prefer walkable neighborhoods and public transit. edit: pre-50s america had much
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by diordiderot 2y ago
> generous financial supports Hard disagree. The housing / labor markets systems are fundamentally broken and tossing what is effectively scraps at people won't cause them to have a second child in their one bedroom or move 1.5
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by diordiderot 2y ago
Thanks!
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by diordiderot 2y ago
What site generator is this? I see this layout around a lot.
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by diordiderot 2y ago
ISPs don't want to charge they want to extort.

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