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I’m not sure you read that correctly. You paid far less than the total cost of installing that infrastructure.
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The cost of installing that stuff is way more than 13k
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That might be achievable in rural areas in America The issue is generally that American grids have WAY MORE overhead line miles than European grids
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Economic efficiency gains from specific power pricing are vastly undermined by the huge positive externalities of having electricity. Solar panel and battery investments reduce your demand for power from the grid, and in many rate cases wil
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2y ago
Hydro Quebec‘s territory is nowhere near as vulnerable to forest fires as California’s.
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Using tax money to subsidize higher rates on certain areas is roughly the same as just charging people all a slightly higher rate. “The people” in expensive areas have literally no agency in finding an efficient solution. They don’t have an
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I’m not specifically familiar with PG&E but the whole point of a rare case with regulators is that they cannot set the price at whatever they want. They need regulatory approval of the rate.
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No, their argument is sound. It’s just missing the point of utilities. They’re saying that the cost of providing electricity to the cities, where everything is densely located and there are fewer trees and fewer overhead lines needing under
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2y ago
Violence against everything got us the fair housing act of 1968 I don’t think it will work against an autocrat
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I worked on some DEI programs. The problem was mixed. Most companies (at least the ones with DEI programs) thought they had big DEI issues because minorities had worse outcomes. But if you looked hard, that wasn’t usually the case. It was m
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2y ago
That seems unlikely
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I challenge you to build a beaver dam in 30 days.
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It went both ways. They actively attempted to amplify the narrative that the war in Gaza was entirely on Israel and that it was the democrats fault despite relatively no interest from the republicans in actually helping those in Gaza. It wa
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> pro-Palestinian content This is an issue heavily pushed by the Republican Party
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2y ago
Personal favors from presidents willing to play ball are more valuable than tax cuts for all
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I don’t think people kill insects for the joy of killing though
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Why is it bad for its effect on you?
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2y ago
Effect size of -0.3 standard deviations on working memory. P value of .02 corrected for FDR. Not huge. Sounds believable to me.
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2y ago
Ads
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2y ago
I think it’s fairly crazy that you believe you have an authentic view into the happiness levels of these people.
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2y ago
Gotta get the gnome and mines earlier in the game to get more juice out of the hearts
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Fun game! I lost a few points short of killing the dragon as I assumed it would work out that he was definitely killable if you wasted no heals. Turns out that’s false. I can now fully clear the board very quickly. A few insights: Since the
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2y ago
Runs instantly on my phone but is cropped and unplayable Does not run in edge/Firefox/chrome on my windows 11 laptop. Just rapidly changing colored bars forever.
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2y ago
Don’t forget the chance for him to shit on domain experts for having models that fail to account for everything as if that’s supposed to be a gotcha
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2y ago
We’re not talking about a digital dollar so much as a government mandated spending program for all citizens or perhaps retail account owning individuals.
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It _could_ be like that. But we’re very deep down slippery slope hypotheticals by this point.
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The other thing stopping it is the law and the fact that the US dollar is the global reserve currency and that would be a pretty great way to ruin that
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Perhaps that’s because it was batshit insane
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I see a few papers published that did exactly this successfully. It also just sounds crazy that it wouldn’t work well. It’s odd to me that you would confidently claim it’s “beyond awful”.
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Remember that around 80% of the population lives in states that effectively render their votes worthless because of the electoral college.
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