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by hvb2 1y ago
Investing is choosing how to put your money to work just like how you choose what vendor to give your business. Here's a though experiment. If you could invest today in a company that will result in the destruction of your town (say a
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Renewables overtook coal's share in the global electricity mix(ember-energy.org)
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by hvb2 1y ago
> yet electricity prices around the world are mostly increasing Part of that is a result of not pricing in externalities so we've never paid the actual cost. On the other hand, demand is going up a lot which means a lot more investm
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by hvb2 1y ago
If everything was geared towards efficiency, there wouldn't be any investigative journalism or open source software. Everyone would be shooting for their own gain and we would all be worse of as a result.
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by hvb2 1y ago
Doesn't > And FWIW those millions the Waltons have given aren't that much relative to their overall funding Contradict > precisely to give the impression of 'being funded by listeners like you.' Here you have one o
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by hvb2 1y ago
Norway disagrees, it depends on your environment
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by hvb2 1y ago
> But that means the cost of building all those natural gas peaker plants is part of the cost of solar (it's never included in the LCOE). This is a weird position to take. How would you price out nuclear then? As that cannot respond
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by hvb2 1y ago
But California has this: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook
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by hvb2 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec For those interested
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by hvb2 1y ago
> Land and exploration costs are definitely included in fossil fuel costs. I think most major solar projects include land and infrastructure so only comparing the costs of the panels is like comparing hydro only based on operating the da
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by hvb2 1y ago
Transmission is more of a problem with the centralized forms of power generation? So transmission should be a net positive for solar? Construction and disposal I'm not sure to be honest, intuitively I don't think those are much mo
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by hvb2 1y ago
Because land doesn't need to be vacant to develop solar? Residential or industrial rooftops are perfect examples. Heck, sound barriers along freeways etc are now even profitable
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by hvb2 1y ago
This. We're about to find out how expensive those are going to be...
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by hvb2 1y ago
Germany has deployed a lot of solar because of the Stromeinspeisungsgesetz from the 90s. It was the first feed in tariff law in the world afaik. It made it that you were guaranteed a certain rate for x amount of years. As a result people we
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by hvb2 1y ago
40% of growth, not 40% total
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by hvb2 1y ago
Commercial crew was a call for the private sector to fly astronauts to the ISS. 2 private companies were selected, one is flying currently, the other? Still trying to get there. If this second provider was a NASA project everyone would be s
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by hvb2 1y ago
Uh you don't have data on that for white collar crime. If you do, please share. Petty theft is done for different reasons to white collar crime. I agree with you that the punishment is not a deterrence for small offences. I think there
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by hvb2 1y ago
If the chances of getting caught are small, and the chances of being convicted are even smaller, should the punishment be harsher to have the same deterrent? You do understand how the petty theft criminal represented by a public defender is
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by hvb2 1y ago
Isn't that exactly how the criminal justice system works? Because you know you're not going to catch all the criminals you want the punishment to serve as a deterrent? Punishing more of them is easily said, when the crime is much
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by hvb2 1y ago
And their promises. The "it'll make all your devs 6x as productive by the end of the year" types of promises. But those probably explain the valuations
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by hvb2 1y ago
> Is anybody who identifies strongly with a political party is interested in hearing fair or balanced news? Yes. Same for conflicting opinions. Since this is HN I'll use a software analogy: I love it when people tell me how bad my i
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by hvb2 1y ago
Sure, but you might compare those people with people winning a lottery. You don't see the failures that are way more common
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by hvb2 1y ago
> In the long term, yes definitely So, in the automotive industry they've been paying too little to attract people. Meaning they now have a shortage. That's still on them. Sounds to me like they made some really nice profits fo
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by hvb2 1y ago
> The last 10/10 difficulty problem I solved probably happened in my kitchen while I was chopping some onions. Let me guess, you had tears in your eyes when you found the solution?
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by hvb2 1y ago
That's such a great idea. Especially since you're also helping the restaurants out. Nowhere near that area otherwise I would've petitioned straight away
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by hvb2 1y ago
> Almost every country short of Liechtenstein would be bankrupt if other countries stopped buying their debt. Sure but not many countries never seem to run a deficit. > and India should welcome Americans just as well. Somehow I'v
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by hvb2 1y ago
> America exists for the sake of Americans, not the world, first and foremost. We can help other people after that point. But you do want to sell to all of the world, am I correct? So you basically want the pros and none of the cons? And
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by hvb2 1y ago
The real value is probably in the fact that the non single use bags have actual value. As a result they're not thrown away so easily. IIRC the real reason for phasing out single use plastic is the pollution problem and us not having a
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by hvb2 1y ago
Uh? What? Care to explain? I know it's considered a sport but a moral duty?
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by hvb2 1y ago
History says otherwise People dont need to starve as we already produce way more food than we consume. As for the not having to work part, I'm not sure if that's going to be beneficial. Work gives people structure and purpose, as

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