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by mac01021 7y ago
There is a bill in the US House of representatives[1] that is _exactly_ the right idea, but it doesn't have nearly enough support at the moment. 1. The state charges a fee to emit greenhouse gases. 2. The proceeds of that fee are divid
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by mac01021 7y ago
To make a big difference you need to be social and political. Going vegetarian makes a tiny difference. Tirelessly badgering everyone you know until 10 of them go vegetarian makes a difference 10 times as big. Convincing 10 or 50 people to
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by mac01021 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that by "the world" the GP meant human civilization. And I feel like that's obvious enough that this objection that you and others raise has to be willful, disingenuous misinterpretation, just to be disag
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by mac01021 7y ago
I'm not sure all that logic is sound. First, having a child does not require you to travel more, get a bigger house, keep it warmer or cooler, buy non-second-hand clothes or do anything else with a significant carbon footprint beyond g
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by mac01021 7y ago
It is the cost of daycare and regular living stuff. At least for me with my 2 year old. - Daycare is 18k per year. - Extra seat on airplanes, depending on your travel habits could be 2k - Food, diapers, increased medical premiums might a
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by mac01021 7y ago
If they fire the employee who dumps the trash every time trash is dumped, then at some point they'll either have to not have the employees dump the trash or else no be able to find anyone who wants to work for them. But it seems like t
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by mac01021 7y ago
What does the law say about recipes of the sort that you find in cookbooks?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Still, though, what is a gene? Is it just a nucleotide sequence, as described using the letters A, C, G, & T? For a body of text like that, isn't copyright the more appropriate IP construct? A patent might be valid if it referred
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by mac01021 7y ago
These are definitely real problems. It's possible to have a remote company that only hires employees in one or a few states, though. As an employee, I would much rather work for one of those than one that required me to work from a sp
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He wants to pay 5% more for a couple more inches of leg room.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Sounds like a 24-hour diner.
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by mac01021 7y ago
> but its grocery section is rather lacking What do you regard as the grocery section? I go to the grocery store weekly and all I buy, pretty much, are bread, dairy, and produce. Do you mean stuff like breakfast cereal and peanut butter?
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by mac01021 7y ago
I live in New England and have never heard of Wawa or Sheetz.
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by mac01021 7y ago
That does seem consistent. But why adopt that strategy? Why not pull out the dissent by its roots?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Cap & Trade is weird. How are the caps set, based on what? And the system doesn't even reimburse the people who bear the externalized cost. If you want to address an externality, just address it directly by fee & dividend.
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by mac01021 7y ago
It's interesting that you can view the content, but just not like it.
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by mac01021 7y ago
It's true that there is no consensus. But the change described in the article is, in fact, compatible with the view that we should hive more immigrants and more diversity while at the same time screening immigrants more thoroughly to e
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by mac01021 7y ago
> do people actually think "infinite vacation" is a perk? I like having a fixed number of vacation days that I can take without question or explanation. It really depends on your manager and what the fixed number is going to be
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by mac01021 7y ago
It's possible to want more diversity, to believe the infusion of immigrants makes America great (or just better) and also believe we need to tightly regulate who is able to enter the country.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Wait, is that time dilation the reason he was the "last" soviet citizen?
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by mac01021 7y ago
> Without iTunes, customers can manage their Apple gadgets through the Music app. For a moment, I thought it sounded like a good plan.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Investopedia has the following to say. I don't know if it agrees with the distinction that you like to draw: "Communism and socialism are economic and political structures that promote equality and seek to eliminate social classe
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by mac01021 7y ago
> is it possible for the global economy to grow until nobody has to live in mud-huts without air conditioning? I think generally people agree with you that the answer is almost certainly yes. Given that lack of controversy, why would yo
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by mac01021 7y ago
Is that true? My physics is admittedly not great. However I though a 100% efficient lightbulb generates just as much heat, but at the place where the photons land (walls, floor, etc) rather than at the bulb. I think basically any time we us
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by mac01021 7y ago
While that prefrontal cortex factoid may be technically true, I don't think it's all that relevant. People of all ages are generally poor decision makers and parents, to the extent that they have a clear vision of the best path fo
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It's also not hard to imagine that he will enjoy complete impunity.
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I've contemplated this exchange a few times over the years, but I never feel like I really understand the point that Jesus is making.
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> Servicing the debt usually just means paying interest on it and rolling it over. That's not going to cause hyperinflation. I agree it's hard to imagine getting to that point but, at least for me, that could simply be a failur
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by mac01021 7y ago
My thanks in the sibling to this comment still stand. However, some of my original concern stands too. To quote myself: "Debt that must be repaid by a future generation [...] will _always_ be worth it to the borrower." T
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by mac01021 7y ago
Thank you for this. I don't think you've told the whole story here - for example, when it comes time for the government to pay the future debt they can do it by raising taxes on one part of the population or the other, or simply b

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