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by fasthands9 1y ago
Good point! I guess I was thinking energy bills, but you are right this would be the case.
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by fasthands9 1y ago
This is interesting - though I suspect the net effect in the US is opposite? I believe the energy needed heat a building from 0F to 70F is much more then the energy needed to cool it from 95F to 70F. And its still the case that the northeas
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by fasthands9 2y ago
Aluminum bats are better than wooden bats. You need arbitrary rules on technology for sporting equipment. I have no strong feelings on these bats, but there are concerns other than just fairness from one team to the next.
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by fasthands9 2y ago
It also seems possible that students do better on tests when the air is cleaner, but that doesn't necessarily mean the students learned more. Imagine if some schools installed air conditioning in their gym one year. Running times aroun
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by fasthands9 2y ago
If I went to the store to grab a bottle of water, and they were selling fluoridated water and fluoridated water, I would choose the non-fluoridated water. I drink tap water now with fluoride so its not like I care strongly, but its a bit we
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by fasthands9 2y ago
I don't see how this would necessarily apply to every scenario. Transmission is expensive and storage is still not ideal. Briefly reading the article it seems like the author is assuming there is like a 1:1 global marketplace where any
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by fasthands9 2y ago
It seems as if the group targeted trans member in their recruitment - and then used evidence of general marginalization to justify their crimes. If you look up old reddit threads about the murder of the landlord, you can see many people def
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by fasthands9 2y ago
The murders are very sad but the pseudo science here has some humor to it. Like they take the fact that the brain really has two hemispheres, and make some wildly unscientific claim that this means each person has two beings within it that
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by fasthands9 2y ago
That table saw looks very nice, but also $7,000? That's not the same market that people are talking about. I'm not so sure if other companies have the ability at a sub $2000 price point! Bosch came out with their own system that t
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by fasthands9 2y ago
My comment is pointing out that the regulations will never go into effect. The scheduled vote on the regulations was postponed this year, and it seems unlikely it would pass once it becomes Republican majority next year.
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by fasthands9 2y ago
Mostly unrelated, but I don't think SawStop is releasing its patent anytime soon like the article states. That SawStop press release was the CEO saying they would do so if the CPSC rule was passed, but the rule wasn't voted on. An
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by fasthands9 2y ago
Home prices have almost quadrupled in California since 2000. If you bought a house in California in 2000 for $250,000 you are only paying taxes on it as if it is worth $360,000, due to prop 13, even though it may be worth closer 1M. If you
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by fasthands9 2y ago
Since this article is just a list of thoughts, a few other ideas: - Dual incomes. It was easier to move when only the father worked. - In the 1960s (which this article uses as a baseline) 70% of households had cars and this number was growi
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by fasthands9 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Right now the owner of a house can sell a house and get cash, which is worth X dollars a month when invested. Or, they can choose to keep the house and rent it out. They will get Y dollars a month for rent,
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by fasthands9 2y ago
This would make renting more expensive. It may make owning cheaper when property owners sell off, but presumably renters entering the market (who are in no position to buy) would be hit the hardest.
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by fasthands9 2y ago
This type of study seems perfectly designed to get moderate voters to take climate change less seriously.
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by fasthands9 2y ago
I was confused by this too. In the article they do clarify it is "vehicular homicide" which is the same thing as "vehicular manslaughter" legally. A very serious crime, though often times people walk away with this with
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by fasthands9 2y ago
I believe new world monkeys are speculated to have crossed over about 40 million years ago - whereas humans are closer to 40,000 years ago. I think the northern boundary is just because there is a giant desert, though I admit it is still su
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by fasthands9 2y ago
That is what I meant. An abortion clinic cannot fire you from your job at Google. And Google would not fire people from protesting at an abortion clinic, or from protesting Israel in a public space. If you got hired by an abortion clinic an
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by fasthands9 2y ago
You could also ask what would happen if the group was pro-Trump, pro-life, or anti-affirmative action, all of which are positions with more support than anti-Israel protests. They would also be fired. As awful as these groups are, they gene
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by fasthands9 2y ago
I'm skeptical that the consensus among employees is that Google should abandon this project and make less money. I am part of a union where a few people showed up to a meeting to endorse a resolution on IP. The resolution passed at the
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by fasthands9 2y ago
The 28 employees do not own the company. They have no right to make life difficult for everyone else who is happy to work there. Removing bad actors is good for the other employees on net. I wouldn't want to work at an office where I h
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by fasthands9 2y ago
For all we know they were sending 10 times as much and this was the smaller amount of gold.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
California is ranked 15th in dollars collected per house by property tax. In terms of "property tax as a percentage of personal income" it is only 24th. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/us-property-taxes-by
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Even a sane prop 13 could be neutral on property taxes, just not give such a bonus for never moving. There is a lot of value society loses when people have an incentive to never upgrade/downgrade their property because the transaction
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by fasthands9 3y ago
That is not plainly not a progressive tax. The average rich person and the average poor person each seeing their taxes go up the same dollar amount is the definition of a regressive tax. That comparison doesn't apply here. The average
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by fasthands9 3y ago
One especially hard thing for sentencing public policy is when every crime is compared to every other crime. It is impossible, I think, to come up with a "ranking" of crimes that everyone can agree on. And because that's impo
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by fasthands9 3y ago
I am skeptical there is a sizable amount of low-income people that were driving into lower Manhattan on a daily basis. You cannot find daily parking in this area of Manhattan for less than $30 either way. There are also exemptions for peopl
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Luxury goods taxes are a textbook example of a progressive tax. I think this example isn't super clean, but it's closer to that than a tax on the poor or even middle class.
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by fasthands9 3y ago
Another way you can phrase that is that the lion share of the tax will be on wealthy people, so it's a progressive tax. I've seen conflicting studies - but in general I don't think poor people living around Manhattan have car

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