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by mac01021 7y ago
The OP did not say we need to reel it in over the course of only 1 or 2 generations. They said that, until we do, the situation will remain precarious. I'm sure you can imagine an (admittedly extremely improbable) scenario where the g
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by mac01021 7y ago
Debt that must be repaid by a future generation (or just by other people under a different administration) will _always_ be worth it to the borrower. This truth can lead to frivolous borrowing that does not in the least benefit those who mu
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by mac01021 7y ago
You're right, I articulated my position extremely poorly. The needs of people and civilization should often win out over the needs of wildlife. But almost always in a way that sacrifices only wildlife within a confined spatial region
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by mac01021 7y ago
But isn't it a concern that should be thoroughly addressed before any government permits any use of the technology within its jurisdiction?
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by mac01021 7y ago
If it's going to harm wildlife, the technology should be forbidden, without qualification or exception. If not, I don't feel the need for faster speeds than what I get, but I would be very interested in getting more data per mont
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by mac01021 7y ago
It actually decays into CO2 in the atmosphere and then that CO2 remains there for the normal period of time.
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Silicon Valley gets in the game for carbon pricing and H.R. 763(citizensclimatelobby.org)
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by mac01021 7y ago
I don't think there is any paper that I want. Is there for anyone, other than maybe magazines?
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by mac01021 7y ago
So who are the originators?
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by mac01021 7y ago
That's true. I just object to the implicit "so it's not really a problem" or "so nothing need be done" that come along with "This is a self inflicted problem". I don't care who's fault it is
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by mac01021 7y ago
Corruption is hard to define. Lying to get into office and pursuing legislation that is supported only by moneyed special interests are probably both corrupt things a politician can do, and they certainly erode trust in the government. But
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by mac01021 7y ago
> Do you own ocean front property or did you just list that for some abstract reason? For one thing, "rising sea levels" is often used as a symbol, representing all the varied consequences of global warming, the most depressing
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by mac01021 7y ago
We didn't choose to be undisciplined and financially illiterate. That came of ignorant or negligent parenting, among other things. (And they didn't choose, for the most part, to be bad parents. It's just that no one taught
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by mac01021 7y ago
Why? Concretely, how do you see the police state and mass surveillance impacting your life in a way that is more profound than the effects of global warming etc?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Rough/vague answers I've been given: - our democracy is not perfect, and allowing someone to become too wealthy affords them too much power, effectively disenfranchinsing the masses. - Even if the floor is raising, its still too l
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by mac01021 7y ago
In my experience, people leave their carts in the designated spot, mostly well nested. And a store clerk has to come out for about 5 minutes to bring them back every hour or so. I don't feel like that amount of labor is a tremendous co
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by mac01021 7y ago
> The criteria for admissions in many undergrad/graduate programs is really not that high, and some schools are not very expensive at all. We could, at the same time, make standards a lot higher to obtain a student visa in the first
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by mac01021 7y ago
I've always thought it would be better if teaching and evaluation were done by separate people.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Perhaps the state of LA has the power to stop this pollution, but the residents lobbying for help from regulators， as depicted in the article, seem to be focusing their attention on the federal EPA. Unless I accidentally skipped a paragrap
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by mac01021 7y ago
People are sick of changing their clocks by an hour twice a year as "daylight saving time" starts and ends. So there are many proposals to settle on permanent summer time or permanent winter time.
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by mac01021 7y ago
Not many countries are anywhere near as big as the US, and those that are mostly have similar issues. I think a part of the problem is that, for someone in a little town like the one in the article, regulatory authorities and the federal le
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by mac01021 7y ago
Caring about something is not a binary, all-or-nothing affair. I care about some things a lot, others a fair amount, and yet others quite little. And for most of the examples given in the OP, I still find myself landing in the middle, betw
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by mac01021 7y ago
The "typical annual expenses" have a row for housing (as they should), in which the numbers are maybe interesting if you're interested in such things: - Unsurprisingly, a single, childless adult has the lowest housing costs.
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by mac01021 7y ago
You have to engage in whatever fundraising efforts are necessary to obtain the first $100. In this case, we both value progress in the philanthropic endeavor, so we make a contract: "if you generate $100 of investment in the endeavor f
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by mac01021 7y ago
I don't know anything about the pros and cons of this bill. The fact remains that a corporation's interests are frequently not aligned with other people's and in the long run, the ability for corporation's to have this
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by mac01021 7y ago
I'm not convinced that an idea (or a seed thereof) that is not formed well enough to be written down is ready for discussion with another person. An idea that has navigated through the internal dialogue I have to engage in to put it t
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by mac01021 7y ago
Isn't that what journalists and our congresspeople are?
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by mac01021 7y ago
Yes.
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by mac01021 8y ago
People throughout history have been prone to feel victimized. The Third Reich, among other movements was built on this phenomenon.
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by mac01021 8y ago
I've never seen a concrete or comprehensive description of the Georgist scheme. Say I own 5 acres of undeveloped forest, valued by the market at $100k. Can I immediately know what my tax bill will be, given the tax rate in my district

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