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by ericd 3y ago
Might be helpful to define it for people - a pigouvian tax is a tax on something to balance out the negative externality it inflicts on society. A carbon tax like you’re suggesting seems like our best hope of averting disaster. I’m not sure
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by ericd 3y ago
No, we should just tax the shit out of carbon emissions and then redistribute all proceeds evenly per-capita. Much better than spending limited attention and political energy/capital on piecemeal bans. We need to halt 100% of new carbo
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by ericd 3y ago
Not sure why you’re talking about the deficiencies of the model sans radar throughout the thread, I haven’t noticed any degradation - on the contrary, the performance is better now than when the car was new a few years back. Do you have a s
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by ericd 3y ago
It takes very little force to disengage in the Tesla, at least when it works properly (I haven’t had it work improperly, but I could imagine a bug that prevented it from detecting that causing issues).
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by ericd 3y ago
Anecdotal, but I have a car with radar installed, didn’t notice that it was disabled, fwiw. It’s better now than when the car was new.
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by ericd 3y ago
That’s not the perception for FSD, btw, that’s the output of a much older generation model that you’re seeing. But yeah, it’s pretty bad.
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by ericd 3y ago
We’re certainly very lucky in many ways, but besides the financial aspect, a lot of it is just practicing it with the kids and getting them used to it, which is the case with many other things in their lives, and part of it is changing our
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by ericd 3y ago
I used to know these ratios better when I was reworking staffing, but I’m pretty sure state mandated child:teacher ratios are lower than that for preschool, lower still for toddler care, and something like 4:1 for infant care, and they must
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by ericd 3y ago
Hm I’m not sure if the numbers pencil out there, daycare can be $2k/mo or more, especially in cities. If we wanted parents to have 80% subsidized daycare, assuming $1k/mo cost and $20/mo per adult, we’re looking at 40 adults
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by ericd 3y ago
Sorry you’ve had to go through that. But rare childhood disorders are rare, right? Most kids are healthy, so most parents don’t have to cover that. Many people seem to think that having kids means an end to their having fun, my point is tha
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, bureaucratic requirements on schools and childcare centers are pretty onerous, and the increased costs, fewer childcare workers, and stressed parental budgets aren’t a good combo. I generally think early childhood care should be bette
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by ericd 3y ago
I’m sure, but that’s true of one of us requiring extensive medical care, too. Living is risky.
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by ericd 3y ago
I feel like this is a common misconception about having kids, that your life somehow ends, and you have to give up everything you care about in favor of them. We’ve been traveling with our kids since the first was 4 months old, and it’s bee
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by ericd 3y ago
Well, they can just work until they drop.
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by ericd 3y ago
That just means that whatever society believes that will go extinct, and other societies will take over their resources. But sure, some society can commit suicide if it wants.
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by ericd 3y ago
You can’t just magically have enough childcare workers willing to staff that abundance of childcare centers. It’s a free job market, and wages have to be competitive, given a tight labor market. We help run a preschool at the moment, and sa
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by ericd 3y ago
The variable speed inverter ones tend to be much quieter than the old single-stage ones that most people have, fwiw.
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by ericd 3y ago
It's revenue-neutral, so all money collected gets redistributed out evenly, per-capita (the "dividend" part). The way that then works out is that if you're responsible for less carbon emission than average in your countr
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by ericd 3y ago
Did the people there start getting money every month into their bank account (the “dividend” part)? If not, I imagine that that would’ve cleared that misinformation up rather quickly.
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by ericd 3y ago
We don’t need to wait for technical solutions to make things cheaper. We need a revenue neutral carbon tax with dividend. For most people, especially the poor, they’d come out ahead, and it would allow the market price signals to gently ste
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by ericd 3y ago
I don’t think it’s really Apple’s MO to outsource product design to any significant extent, though they do use a lot of contract manufacturing, my understanding is that they dictate how a lot of that’s done. Their brand is all about quality
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by ericd 3y ago
But they don’t have all the core competencies in house. I don’t think manufacturing a small, mostly solid state rectangles with maybe one major stress bearing hinge is the same as manufacturing a highly dynamic multi-ton steel machine that
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by ericd 3y ago
There's a big difference between unpopular and low-value. And it takes time to get really good at something, it can be helpful to be able to work for less, if your skills aren't yet good enough to command a high value.
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by ericd 3y ago
It's pretty common in France, at least, to have a pretty solid collection of cheeses like that. Really glad the US has been getting better in terms of options.
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by ericd 3y ago
>I guess my issue with inheritance is less economic and more moral. It just doesn't seem to fit with modern values yet is untouched as a debate topic. Ensuring that your kids are well taken care of is a core biological imperative, l
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by ericd 3y ago
There's currently a 40% estate tax rate for amounts above the generous exemption. Are you suggesting a 100% inheritance tax on death? With no exemption?
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by ericd 3y ago
I don't think the person you were replying to was saying that it was going to take over as the primary reserve currency, do you? So the US controls those international settlement rails, what does it do with that power to control BTC? L
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by ericd 3y ago
Wasn't that on Ethereum? My impression is that it has very different governance/promises.
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by ericd 3y ago
What do you imagine the US could do with its weapons cache to demand global compliance? Even extremely authoritarian governments that have tried to stamp out crypto usage internally have been unsuccessful, so it's not like the USG coul
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by ericd 3y ago
BTC's value is the massive network securing it, and the trust in the brand's security and resistance to debasement. Its value lives in peoples' head, similar to many other assets.

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