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by jlmorton 5y ago
When you have syndromes with a huge number of symptoms, including extremely common conditions, and the symptoms are largely untestable, relying on patient self-reporting, then you're going to catch a lot of people with these symptoms.
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It's really bizarre that whenever solar is mentioned, someone chimes in with some claim about toxic materials in the panels, yet rarely do you hear these complaints about other ubiquitous products with hazardous materials, like televis
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Moderna has said for over a year that anyone is free to use their IP. Intellectual property has precisely zero to do with production capacity.
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We just ran a massive experiment, called Covid-19, which caused about 10% of San Francisco residents to leave the city. This is not quite the same thing as an immediate increase in supply, but instead a large drop in demand. The net result
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by jlmorton 5y ago
Yeah, I don't see any issue with Starlink getting subscribers. HughesNet has 1.3 million subscribers in the US and Canada alone. ViaSat has 600,000. There are 10x that on slow rural DSL. And that's just North America. Demand i
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by jlmorton 5y ago
> We need to get away from FF motors, turbines, and airborne transportation unless they can be made GHG negative. We need to get away from carbon emissions, not particular sources. We need to add a price to carbon and keep increasing it
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by jlmorton 5y ago
If you are in AWS, or have connectivity available, AWS Database Migration Service makes this relatively trivial. DMS for Postgres is based on Postgres Logical Replication, which is built-in to Postgres, and the same thing Bucardo is using b
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by jlmorton 5y ago
No doubt this is true, but it sure would be nice if we could instead tax the oil and raise revenue for the public good, rather than deliver profits to private railroad companies.
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by jlmorton 5y ago
I'm not aware of any locality in the US that has a pure Land Value Tax. There are a few localities in Pennsylvania that have a split value tax, with separate rates for land and structures.
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by jlmorton 5y ago
To be clear, in Warren's wealth tax proposal, it doesn't matter where the wealth is located. If you're an American citizen, you would be required to pay the tax on all of your wealth above $50 million, no matter where it is.
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by jlmorton 5y ago
There is a basic accounting truth at the heart of this: If land and housing are good investments -- that is, they return any amount greater than wage growth -- then at some point in the future, wage income workers will not be able to afford
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by jlmorton 5y ago
> The extremely wealthy will move their wealth into complex multinational financial vehicles In Elizabeth Warren's proposal, they would be subject to a 40% exit tax on the wealth that they moved. If they didn't pay the exit ta
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by jlmorton 5y ago
Entrapment is not against the law, but it is a legal defense at trial against a charge. In any event, this is not entrapment, because it was not coercive. It's not entrapment to offer someone a reasonable amount of money to commit a c
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by jlmorton 5y ago
Boom is designing the plane around e-fuels, essentially ethanol, which will be created from direct air capture of CO2, water, and renewable electricity, making the fuels carbon neutral. But you can't drop-in replace A-1 with ethanol,
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by jlmorton 5y ago
As others have said, a carbon tax can be designed to refund either the entire amount, or a portion of the amount back to consumers, which might also transform it into a non-regressive tax. But perhaps more importantly, you wouldn't be
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by jlmorton 6y ago
In what world is Russia maximally sanctioned? Compare sanctions In Iran to Russia and I think you'll find Russia is barely sanctioned at all.
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by jlmorton 6y ago
No need for a hill! You can dig a deep hole, and fill it with concrete weights.
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by jlmorton 6y ago
Note that while it's annoying, it's certainly an option to plug-in the leaf blowers.
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Agreed, good riddance, but the noise is not going to go away, it's going to become a high-pitched scream, rather than a lower-pitched buzz.
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Note that it's $9000/mWh, or $9/kWh. That's a regulated maximum wholesale price, not a fixed price.
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by jlmorton 6y ago
Housing costs are not high because the dollar has been debased. They're high because of high demand and lack of supply in many urban locations, primarily because of local zoning and permitting processes. If housing were expensive beca
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by jlmorton 6y ago
> One of those has been decimated by a fiat printing press, the other has been a great investment How has the US dollar been destroyed? It has enjoyed remarkable price stability, very close to the target rate, which is what everyone exp
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by jlmorton 6y ago
How do we use our spy satellites for information about an epidemic? I'm really struggling to understand what you're suggesting here. I'm aware there is a whole cottage industry of conspiracy theorists that point to satellite
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by jlmorton 6y ago
It's not like Russia embarked on a massive project of vaccinating 150 million people in November. The manufacturing capacity was not yet there. The vaccine underwent Phase I and II safety trials, and was thought to be safe. Russia th
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by jlmorton 6y ago
If I've already signed up to ride a large soda can filled with 4,600 metric tons of cryogenic methane and oxygen into a near-perfect vacuum, only to re-enter the atmosphere at orbital velocity, I suppose I could deal with a flip maneuv
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by jlmorton 6y ago
They could, but most don't. During public safety power outages in 2019, most gas stations could not pump gas.
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House prices are absolutely included and are the single largest item in CPI. It's Owner's Equivalent Rent. Overall, shelter represents 33% of CPI.
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by jlmorton 6y ago
You're literally replying in a thread about a massive, rapid drop in average rental prices after a large increase in the vacancy rate.
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The law didn't ban recording police officers, it banned one-party secret recordings, and the police were treated the same as everyone else.
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When I'm coding, I often listen to music, and when I listen to music, I often end up singing along. One thing I've noticed is that I can type out code at the same time I'm singing a song aloud. If I tried to do that while wr

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