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by ghouse 7y ago
Which housing regulation? Building codes for earthquakes? Or zoning which prevents apartment buildings in the middle of single-family housing neighborhoods? I assume you mean the second, and not the first.
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by ghouse 7y ago
And how are we paying for this sixth branch of the US military?
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by ghouse 7y ago
> It recognizes that income derived from investments is riskier and applies a discount. It's unclear why as a matter of tax policy we want to discount taxes because risk is taken. If an investment results in a loss, that loss is pe
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by ghouse 7y ago
> Here in Denmark the highest tax bracket applies to almost 10% of the Danish population. The Top 1%, Top 0.01% and billionaires are not taxed more than the Top 10%. Because in America, the top 0.01% makes their wealth through investment
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by ghouse 7y ago
The tax code enables and reinforces outlier wealth using tired arguments like "encouraging investment" and "double taxation." United States centric observations: For example, charging lower tax rates on capital gains th
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How a Manual Transmission Works(youtube.com)
3 points by ghouse 7y ago|0 comments
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by ghouse 7y ago
There may be some unintended consequences with that approach...
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by ghouse 7y ago
They're still building out their second generation bus fleet.
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Ubiquiti Launches a Speed Test Network(speed.ui.com)
4 points by ghouse 7y ago|1 comments
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by ghouse 7y ago
Not all planes have the same greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of a huge tax on flying, tax on greenhouse gas emissions and let the market optimize based on including these economic externalities.
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by ghouse 7y ago
The cost to mitigate global warming is much less than the cost that humanity will bear if it isn't mitigated. This is often argued as binary: 0) doing something will destroy the economy, 1) doing nothing will destroy the world. But i
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by ghouse 7y ago
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 excluded hydraulic fracturing from both the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemptions_for_hydraulic_fract... If it's as safe as we're led to belie
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by ghouse 7y ago
Heat makes people less productive - https://www.forbes.com/sites/ucenergy/2018/08/29/heat-makes-... Heat makes people more aggressive - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar
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by ghouse 7y ago
> Much better off without fuel for local and global shipping and power generation and raw material for plastics? No. That's an absurd characterization of my position. I do believe we're much better off when the market, absent d
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by ghouse 7y ago
In the past decade, (2010 -> 2019) the area efficiency of commercial crystalline solar modules has improved from 14% to 20%. This is modules, not cells. That's an increase of more than 40%. More detail here - https://w
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by ghouse 7y ago
>This is ridiculous. It's not ridiculous. I was taught about the carbon cycle, greenhouse gasses, and climate change in a United States public high school in 1993. 26 years ago. >Meanwhile let's ignore that society, globally
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by ghouse 7y ago
If as a society we stop thinking about electricity reliability as a binary issue, we'd save a lot of money. We can achieve 99.999% availability with extraordinary safety in fire-risk areas, but it's very expensive. Would some co
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by ghouse 7y ago
If you want electricity, you may be required to pay them to extend the infrastructure to your house in the middle of nowhere (at your cost) and then they are required to provide you power and maintain the infrastructure (and assume the liab
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by ghouse 7y ago
To serve customers in high-risk areas safely, it's much more expensive than to serve customers in low-risk areas. Insulated overhead conductors or buried circuits are expensive. Yet the current regulatory paradigm requires that the cus
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by ghouse 7y ago
Well, not entirely. Maintenance liabilities dramatically outstrip compensation. See https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme for another point of view.
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by ghouse 8y ago
And here is where it came from: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b2fybb/ani...
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by ghouse 8y ago
They do pay their taxes. This is a problem with the tax code, not the company.
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by ghouse 8y ago
Yes, from 2-9 PM on weekdays during "Summer" May through October, the rate is $0.47151 for PG&E (on the EV tariff). Shifting behavior to only charge EV, run dryer, dishwasher outside of those hours is fairly easy. Due primari
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by ghouse 8y ago
In California, the three largest utilities do charge hourly rate * hourly consumption. There are "Peak" "Partial Peak" and "Off Peak" periods defined by summer/winter and weekday/weekend. Paper bill
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by ghouse 8y ago
Source?
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AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System(youtube.com)
2 points by ghouse 8y ago|0 comments
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by ghouse 8y ago
Reclamation does not un-concentrate the materials found in the impoundment. Typically a "Mine Plan of Operations" which includes the reclamation plan is a contouring of the topography and vegetation. Some mines require indefinite
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by ghouse 8y ago
Transformer "explosions" don't last very long. Transformer fires are a different color. [0] As others have noted, the color suggests arcing. Arcing has a number of different causes, but should be brief -- system protection
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by ghouse 8y ago
I read ATDT -- thought "Oh, the Hayes command to dial - wonder what it means now." Great story. Good memories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
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by ghouse 8y ago
Do you have a citation for California's change in policy? A brief search suggests that CA still does controlled burns: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/5/14/17352394/jerry-brown-budget-...

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