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by grecy 3y ago
> wood heat, which is terrible for outdoor air pollution FYI, newer wood stoves have a catalytic combustor and burn the gasses as they leave the wood box 2 or even three times. They are much, much more efficient and drastically less po
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by grecy 3y ago
You're right, the article I linked is not covering all of 2023 which I did not realize. Give it another quarter or two :)
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by grecy 3y ago
If you can't beat the competition, stifle them!
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by grecy 3y ago
https://insideevs.com/news/672690/tesla-model-y-second-only-... Exert: "Remarkably, the Model Y was the second most popular vehicle of any kind in the US after only the Ford F-150 pickup truck"
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by grecy 3y ago
The FUD that continues to come from big money around EVs is impressive, if not a little boring and dumb. These graphs are getting mighty steep with no letting up. Any business or market segment in the world would be hailed a massive success
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by grecy 3y ago
> Build houses That would be great. So, ah, when are we getting started and when will they be done? We've seen time and time again big infrastructure projects are hamstrung by red tape and NIMBYs, it's never going to happen.
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by grecy 3y ago
Companies are not people. Because these companies are buying residential property, actual people miss out. Would you be OK with a private company owning so much drinking water you and your family miss out?
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by grecy 3y ago
I'm worried about the housing crisis that is gripping so many countries where regular people are utterly incapable of buying houses because they're wildly unaffordable and there are not enough. Private companies can profit of comm
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by grecy 3y ago
We wouldn’t let a private company buy all the drinking water or food so they can profit from it, and we shouldn’t let them do it with housing. Only humans should be allowed to own residential property and we should limit how many so there e
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by grecy 3y ago
Because unionized workers consistently have higher pay, better benefits and more rights. Next time you see the headline about some company laying off thousands of people while simultaneously making record profits and paying their CEO some n
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by grecy 3y ago
> that renters also dream of one day owning multiple homes they can rent out This is precisely what needs to stop. As soon as you have some people buying multiple houses to make a profit from, you make housing un-affordable, and there
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by grecy 3y ago
> Does step 1 mean I can't rent my apartment from a company anymore? Why should a company own a residential property for the purposes of renting it out and spinning a profit? I'm saying we must remove that if we want housing
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by grecy 3y ago
> or you strongly incentivize a lot of people to not go for this. By very definition if we do literally anything that makes housing more affordable, we make it less of a good invetment, which means a lot of people will not go for it.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Step 1 is good in my opinion, though you might need some carveouts... like say a property being held in a trust to be passed onto a descendant. What you're saying makes logical sense, though I think as soon as you make a carveou
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by grecy 3y ago
Housing can not simultaneously be affordable and a good investment. So the politicians either keep housing as a good investment (un-affordable) and piss off the younger people who can't afford to buy, or they make housing affordable (b
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by grecy 3y ago
Remember, you need a place to live, so you can't compare buying a house to spending nothing. The question that matters is whether buying a house makes better financial sense than renting a place to live. Now, there are a few hacks here
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by grecy 3y ago
I assure you very few locals carry their phone at the ski resort. They're easy to break in a fall, the cold kills the battery, and the feeling of freedom from not having one is magical.
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by grecy 3y ago
> I don't really get the impression that current recycling techniques are lacking Big money is trying as hard as possible to convince people not to buy EVs, and "The batteries are not recyclable" is just another wonky ar
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by grecy 3y ago
I don't have a phone, and it's always an interesting exercise to either try to find a clock, or ask someone for the time. Thankfully there is no cell reception at our local ski mountain, so nobody carries a phone, and clocks are p
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China's New Hyperloop Train Just Hit a Record 387 MPH During Testing(robbreport.com)
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by grecy 3y ago
More than 50% of all people will have cancer in their life.
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by grecy 3y ago
Cancer rates will soon be over 50%, and obesity and heart disease have never been higher.
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by grecy 3y ago
> has really turned "picking up a hobby" into "selecting and purchasing the correct gear, talking about the gear, and deciding which gear to purchase next". Thank you for saying it so clearly. I used to love reading
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by grecy 3y ago
Huh. That 100k karma might finally be worth something!
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by grecy 3y ago
> Are you sure you didn’t just end up coming of age at a particular moment, specifically 2006-2012? I'm 42, so, ah, no. What I mean is that basically since forever things were cheaper in the US than in Canada. Gas? 25%-50% cheaper
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by grecy 3y ago
There is no magic, you just state what you're looking for early in the process and go from there. If you absolutely can not relocate, then remote is a condition, and you will turn down any offer that is not remote. If you absolutely ca
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by grecy 3y ago
It's always incredible that "statistics aren't perfect" suddenly doesn't apply when we're talking about the biggest GDP or Military.
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by grecy 3y ago
We Canadians used to regularly talk about how cheap the US was, and load up on gas, food, beer, cheese and all the rest when staying in cheap hotels and getting cheap meals with cheap entertainment (concerts, sporting events, etc.). If you
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by grecy 3y ago
I know many people working in tech who work 3 or 4 days a week. My last programming job nearly 10 years ago I was working 4 days a week, and at my job before that there were 3 programmers who were 4 days a week. Simply list it as a requirem
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by grecy 3y ago
That sounds like a very clear sign it's time for you to fire your boss and find a better one.

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