hcurtiss

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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Isn't the proposal that any evidence of the toxicity of cadmium be given to the legislators? Presumably with information about the cost of regulating cadmium in drinking water so that they can weigh the tradeoffs?
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Both norms are rapidly changing.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Yes, but how much pollution to accommodate is a decidedly political question. Science cannot answer how much is too much. If your answer is that no pollution is acceptable, that's not science either (frankly, it's more akin to a
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   That's one. And as I mentioned above, the uncertainty factors are pretty wild. Because some individuals within a species may more vulnerable to a toxic than those tested, the standard practice is to move the decimal point for the low
5. 575.▲
   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Agreed. The problem is that many of these decisions are not exclusively "science." They involve policy-making, and agenda-driven organizations are masking their preferred policy choices as "science." Toxic risk assess
6. 576.▲
   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   Imagine the money they'd save!
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   It’s the Wild West out there. If everyone is pumping something (or deflating the same), it will soon become background noise. I genuinely believe the solution to market manipulators is more of this, not less.
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   There are cheaper alternatives, though. Monero, for instance, which also has the advantage of increased anonymity, which can be important in those countries without banking infrastructure. https://www.monero.how/monero-trans
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   by hcurtiss 6y ago

   If that was an actual insurrection or attempted assassination, it was the weakest effort imaginable. That doesn’t necessarily change the thrust of your comment (that enforcement is appropriate) but the breathless hyperbole around what happe
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    And watching so many small businesses in my small town close, that was not at all a thing I hope climate change policy replicates.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I guess I'm not terribly disappointed that Google may depriving them of that kind of revenue stream.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    This is not good. I've moved so many people over in the last week. For purposes of getting them invested, this is a truly inopportune moment for an extended outage.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I presently have my 2020 MBA connected to two QHD displays. I couldn't get it to work with a single dock cable, but I connect the dock (which has lots of other peripherals) and one display direct to the second USB-C.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Any day now . . .
15. 585.▲
    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Agreed. And covering that amount of land mass would have profound environmental impacts.
16. 586.▲
    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Usually to outrun debt service.
17. 587.▲
    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I’m betting it was styled as a loan for tax purposes.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Agreed. Their behavior is entirely motivated by the politics.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    LOL - That crowd wasn't anywhere near "overthrowing the government." Don't be ridiculous. And armed insurrection or coup looks very, very different than that. More guns and explosives. Fewer selfies.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Revealing a political bias evidenced by selective enforcement is not "whataboutism." It's informing motive.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    That's a fair comment, but a non-profit that relies on donations (as opposed to selling services to somebody other than me) strikes me as very different than Facebook et al.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Exactly right. A consequence of the US tax code being so complicated is that regular people (even very highly educated regular people) do not understand even elementary tax concepts.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    LOL - They don't get a refund. They get to deduct those as business costs exactly like R&D expenditures. The argument from the *those are subsidies" camp is that they should have to capitalize them as a purchased asset (and
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    Smoking regulations can be substantiated with studies that do not rely on anonymous public health surveys.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I don't know. I'm pretty good with this change. There is abundant evidence of activism in certain scientific fields in the last ten years (particularly on diet). Verifiable data seems like an appropriate hurdle to me for expens
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    This all depends on your definition of "subsidy." https://www.forbes.com/sites/drillinginfo/2016/02/22/debunki...
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    I don't know, man. My wife's hybrid Rav4 gets 40+ mpg. That's amazing for a small SUV, and it's a fantastic car.
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    And then actively qualifying any recommendation by adding “cheap.”
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    It may not. But where it is a marketable asset, is it somehow wrong to trade on that fact?
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    by hcurtiss 6y ago

    All else being equal, isn't attractiveness also a marketable asset in most if not all industries?