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by jellicle 6y ago
You are mostly right, but the missing part is that you don't need to turn the CO2 back into a hydrocarbon fuel, you just need to turn it into something that isn't gaseous CO2. So carbon capture hinges on the idea that we can find
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by jellicle 6y ago
> Corporations should not pay income tax at all. It's a direct tax on savings and investment No corporation pays (or has ever paid) a dollar of tax on money spent for investment in the business. Corporate taxes, by design, only affe
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by jellicle 6y ago
Of course we can? And do? It's trivial to run a greenhouse at different temperatures and see how the plants grow. Trivial to adjust light, rainfall, mineral balance, pH, etc. Kids do this in 8th grade science fairs. Honestly HN. Here&#
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by jellicle 6y ago
No. Crops need light, excellent soil, heat, and water. Warming the north provides heat but none of the other 3. Canada and northern Russia are lands of rocks and trees. You can't grow crops on rocks, at least not in the way that commer
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by jellicle 6y ago
I'm glad to hear you are calling for employees to be able to freely form a union and strike (which employees are mostly banned from doing today).
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by jellicle 6y ago
The thing you describe as valuable... isn't. The idea of someone who spends Monday in Madrid, Tuesday in NYC, Wednesday in Moscow and can't be bothered with too many apps is just an idea. That person doesn't actually exist. T
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by jellicle 6y ago
I do love to see people come out with a public statement that says "We believe that a guy who, in public meetings, representing his organization, picks toe cheese from between his toes and consumes it in front of people, is absolutely
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by jellicle 6y ago
It's from Stallman himself: https://stallman.org/saint.html
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by jellicle 6y ago
Universal healthcare in the USA would have a negative cost; that is, today, the US government spends more than Canada does per capita on providing healthcare to the population. And then private individuals spend as much more again. And for
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by jellicle 6y ago
Here's a summary from 2004: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/ "During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hu
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by jellicle 6y ago
Click on the service you want to log into, wait 30 seconds-10 minutes for email to arrive, THEN click on email and click on magic link.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The USA is wrecking their economy to bring in their right-wing dictator/coup attempter/puppet. Generally the US works very hard to eliminate any sort of socialist government worldwide, particularly a democratically elected and sup
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by jellicle 6y ago
Press release: "While the self-driving feature of our car had been engaged earlier in the drive, the driver was in control at the time of the crash."
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by jellicle 6y ago
They don't have to track you at the destination if they can track you at the source. Everything you type into your Android search bar is part of your Google profile of you.
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by jellicle 6y ago
At the time, the regulatory agency had ordered load-shedding of something like 1/3rd (more? I forget) of all Texas customers due to insufficient power. 1/3rd of Texas was in the dark. So what happened was the market was establish
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by jellicle 6y ago
The starting idea - federal tax share has shifted to individuals from corporations - is true, because of a long-term intentional shift to do that by successive governments. Once upon a time, corporations paid taxes. No longer. The idea to s
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by jellicle 6y ago
You seem confused about what I wrote. Suggest you read it again. All you've done is reiterate some Bitcoin dogma without attempting to grapple with reality as it presents itself to you.
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by jellicle 6y ago
You're still wrong. Any exchange, due to the crazy lax regulations in the industry, can do this: * accept 100 bitcoins for deposit, giving their previous owners "100 claims against exchange X" in return * sell those 100 bitco
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by jellicle 6y ago
> Climate change deniers are not the problem. The problem are people who admit that climate change exists and is a serious problem but then do nothing substantial about it. But those are climate change deniers. The stages of denial are d
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by jellicle 6y ago
Tech utopia as drawn by illustrators imagining what tech overlords might want: Jetsons, flying cars, Disney Tomorrowland Tech utopia as drawn by actual tech overlords when they actually get to build their dreams: Rio de Janeiro favela slums
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by jellicle 6y ago
This proposition, discussed and shown by Piketty in his 2013 book, was not at all obvious before that and even today many people would argue (wrongly) that it isn't true. So if it's a natural law of wealth, it is a very recently p
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by jellicle 6y ago
Really? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952 "Bitcoin uses more electricity annually than the whole of Argentina, analysis by Cambridge University suggests. " Using more electricity than most nations
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by jellicle 6y ago
The boosted unemployment payments made this result a lot less bad than it could have been. However, those are long gone now and will not be returning. We can expect the results of 2021 to be much worse.
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by jellicle 6y ago
The Fed can increase its overnight rate to 20% or 200% in one meeting. There is no situation ever where inflation of the sort you're talking about can't be instantly and completely killed. Supply shock inflation (oil embargo) is a
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by jellicle 6y ago
In aggregate 1000 people starving to death and one Elon Musk are doing "just fine".
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by jellicle 6y ago
The primary requirement for a decentralized social network is "one app and it works". If your network requires anything other than installing a single application via the normal, easiest software installation pathway, it has fai
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by jellicle 6y ago
Why not? They're doing the labor. You're just assuming your conclusion here. Your premise is that "having capital" deserves a reward and "doing work" doesn't, and so your conclusion is that having capital
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by jellicle 6y ago
The US doesn't do those things because at least one of the major political parties opposes them, not because "software iz hard".
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It's exactly what happened here.
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by jellicle 6y ago
Not Robinhood on the other end of the transaction, but yes. If you and someone else both mashed SELL at the exact same instant, they'd get $48 for their stock and you'd get $47.99 and your confirmation screens would both say &quot

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