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by dpierce9 5y ago
Wouldn’t a better analogy be: I run a shipping company. You want to send a package. It is illegal for me to handle and ship certain things (e.g., nuclear bombs). Further, I don’t want to handle any of those things. Furthermore, if I find th
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by dpierce9 5y ago
They sold Amazon calls going into COVID. A call is a right to buy so selling a call means you have an obligation to sell the stock to the buyer at the strike price on or before the expiry (assuming American option). Can’t see the strike pri
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by dpierce9 5y ago
I don’t think your carbon footprint math is right. Every liter of diesel burnt produces about 2.35Kg (a gallon produces about 20lbs) of CO2. This would imply your diesel gets 30km/liter or 70mpg which seems awfully high. Audi’s current
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by dpierce9 6y ago
Title insurance doesn’t even necessarily cover property border disputes. It can but it depends and some title insurances exclude it.
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by dpierce9 6y ago
This article does not explain the mechanism at work. How are Federally guaranteed, privately originated loans functionally different from Federally guaranteed, publicly originated loans in terms of education cost inflation? They could only
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by dpierce9 6y ago
Definitely a real live possibility. It could also just be lost. Probably physical copies, tons of turnover over many years and sites. This seems less likely but there is a perverse incentive not to admit it is lost unless required by law.
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by dpierce9 6y ago
At least part of the reason is regulatory. The national grid regulator (FERC) gets its foothold through the interstate commerce clause. Since Texas heavily restricts the interstate interconnections it is not regulated federally (or at least
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by dpierce9 6y ago
GDP can’t be spent. The Pentagon budget is about 750 billion and federal tax revenues are about 3.5 trillion so the pentagon budget is about 20% of tax revenues. The ‘about’s here are fudging billions.
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by dpierce9 6y ago
Neat reference. I agree with you on CTs. The original poster suggested two things: solar is not responsive to demand and that coal plants are responsive. My response is intended to be narrow to those points: coal plants don’t really produce
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by dpierce9 6y ago
Different plants have different ramps depending on where they are in their output curve, how hot they (or various parts) are, and how their operators want to run them (max ramp is generally higher than economic ramp) but, while it isn’t my
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by dpierce9 6y ago
Coal plants also can’t produce on demand because of inertia and long start times (though they can balance a bit). The only thing that can ‘produce’ on demand is battery. Combustion Turbines come in a close second. The peaks in the grid util
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by dpierce9 6y ago
This is largely theoretical. The Kemper demo plant is a disaster in terms of massive cost overruns, many years of delays, and inconsequential net energy production. They ultimately abandoned the project.
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by dpierce9 6y ago
This isn’t quite right, though perhaps a nit, plenty of formal systems are provably sound (only true things are provable) and complete (all true things are provable). For example, the predicate calculus you learn in Logic 101. Formal system
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by dpierce9 8y ago
Various forms of this type of decision-making already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_caucuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting
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by dpierce9 8y ago
Does anyone think that ‘don’t be evil’ is enough? Evil is basically the worst someone can be. You can be bad, wrong, repugnant, reprehensible, vicious, and malignant and still not be evil. Honestly, why is there so much credit given to a co
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Congress can override the FCC using the Congressional Review Act. Simple majority in each house. The CRA also prohibits the agency from introducing similar regulations ever again. Call your Congressperson! Particularly if your members are o
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Aside from fees, the trade price is different. ETFs have intraday prices while index funds have a NAV that settles after close.
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Not a lawyer but I worked for a different agency. The burden is incredibly high here because courts provide a considerable amount of 'deference' (See Chevron Deference or Chevron v NRDC) to agencies as long as they follow the rule
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by dpierce9 9y ago
C&I? PPAs are effectively the collateral for project finance in these cases so you can't build one of these things unless you have a PPA in place (unless you are vertically integrated or running a pilot). A solid percentage of new
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by dpierce9 9y ago
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30112 If you can't get a loan to build wind farms, why was new 7.7 GW of capacity added in 2016? Also, Alstom, Invenergy? I know you are trolling but come on.
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Argument from authority. A said X, A is an authority on X, Therefore, X is true. This is a valid inductive argument. It is valid when A is an actual authority, when they are speaking truthfully, etc. It doesn't guarantee the truth of
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Philosophers are concerned with two points: soundness and validity. A valid argument is one where the conclusion follows from the premises. The way to think about this is 'If I assume the premises are true, is my conclusion likely to b
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by dpierce9 9y ago
It is interesting that the hockey stick can be both a lie, fraud, and never exist. The satiric brilliance of many of your 'arguments' is that they aren't even logically valid. Suppose the temp in 2006 was the same as 1000 yea
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Great satire. The way you delicately ignore the evidence of temperature increases (e.g. the hockey stick graph) while saying you are not aware of any significant temperature increases is quite artful.
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by dpierce9 9y ago
Visit West Baltimore. It isn't a favela in the sense of either density or construction but in terms of missing economic opportunity, informal economy, very weak city services.
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by dpierce9 9y ago
That is why non-recourse private debt sells for 40 times par /s
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by dpierce9 10y ago
That is one of the things museums do, the curators put things in the museum because they think people should look at it (the act of which of course becomes part of it). Suppose you picked up a book on real analysis without understanding bas
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by dpierce9 10y ago
Why should context not matter for art (or anything else really)? Suppose you come across a what appears to be a picture of Mozart in the sand on a beach. Doesn't it matter to your understanding of what you see if it was drawn by an art
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by dpierce9 10y ago
From The West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1bZ0F3zVU
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by dpierce9 10y ago
I was almost hit by an Uber driver who shouldn't have been on the road so, while I love this new taxi stuff, I have first hand experience with real negative externalities. I was almost hit the day after a blizzard in Maryland this past

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