maoistinquisitr

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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
> Is the 40GW of production in China a "tax farm"? According to everything I can find online the answer is a clear Yes?
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Cash flows are in fact a reasonable proxy for energy in many cases. Manually tallying up the uses of energy and materials is a handwaving exercise at best, but net losses of cash in the energy industry indicate with certainty that you not y
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
If you can highlight a plant that is not a "tax farm" I would be interested to read about it. "we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
These claims are based on simplistic spread sheet models. We have REAL WORLD DATA . The real world experience throughout europe and the USA shows net losses. I repeat: if it worked the plants would be profitable and they would be going up
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Solar has a barely positive EROI. When all costs are considered it typically uses more energy than it produces. This has been studied extensively in multiple European countries. http://energyskeptic.com/2018/solar-pv-ha
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
It seems well past the experiment stage. The question I have is if the ideas presented in Hashgraph have already rendered the whole Blockchain approach obsolete. I think Bitcoin may be dead already and not know it yet.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
You do not have pure freedom of association. Both a set of laws and our culture do not allow you to refuse to do business with people.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
My hotel is a private company and I've found my guests and employees prefer not to interact with black people. Glad you support my right to refuse black guests.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
This is the heckler's veto. Free speech is a cultural matter, not just a protection from the federal and state governments.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
It sounds reasonable in theory to collectivize this stuff, but in practice the programs all run out of money. Politicians always over promise. This happens over and over again all over the world. I see no real alternative to freedom here. L
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
If you're worried about living too long you can buy an annuity. It makes no sense for employers or the government to make that choice for you.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Probably the opposite. American students with options are deliberately avoiding the fields the foreign students crowd because of the wage and working conditions suppression the added competition produces. Deliberately discouraging the huge
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
A traditional and effective measure against urban rat populations is stray cats. But for whatever reason people in the west won't allow that anymore.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
It really is worse in Europe on the fiscal front. About half of German municipalities have busted pension funds, for example. The problem is also huge in America, but it's an order worse and more imminent in Europe. Ceteris paribus the
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Stay tuned over the next five years. Most of the European welfare systems are teetering on the brink. The pension funds are busted, the healthcare systems are having huge budget problems, and yields are shooting up on the municipal and nati
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The cheap credit perverts the entire economy away from productivity growth, which is what produces real wealth that tends to be widely shared. It doesn't matter how the cheap credit is distributed, the credit just redistributes wealth
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
With the phone under warranty the new battery would be Apple's problem. This is about a defective product and fraud to cover it up, for reasons of cost.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The "two sleeps" thing is entirely about long nights far away from the equator. It never really happened in tropical climes, or during summer. Cheap lighting has simply allowed people away from the equator to sleep in the more nat
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
I'm addressing the very, very common phenomenon of post-Soviets, Indians, and East Asians coming here to a country superior to their own in almost every measure and talking smack about how dumb we all are here, with little basis in fac
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
Just goes to show you that school smarts don't make a successful nation. It takes a cohesive people and cultural heritage. This is why immigration is such a huge problem. I don't care how smart and high earning and proud of themse
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The Sino nations completely game these tests. Japan is legit. The Baltics are legit. The high entries for China et al are total nonsense and should be struck from the list. They game who takes the test, and it's not tightly observed.
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The system works for all groups. Russian-Americans outperform Russians. Nigerian-Americans outperform Nigerians. And so on. There is ultimately a problem of the students involved that is not going to change on the scale of a single generati
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
These anecdotes from smart foreigners contemptuous of Americans never make any sense against the stats. White Americans outperform all of them in the PISA tests. America only performs poorly in the PISA tests when you don't exclude non
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
> entitled to the best doctor The problem is "the best doctor" is essentially a lie. Modern medicine is mostly a huge fraud. Non of this hi tech crap even works when measured on the basis of lifespan. Disease is overwhelmingly
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The canals and rails are the expected endogenous result of a unified european or east asian people blessed with such land, after being formed by a thousand years of scarcity and warfare. It's not a monetary policy or tax thing. These p
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by maoistinquisitr 9y ago
The US economy expanded from subsistence farming to superpower mostly because of high quality coal and oil reserves, an excellent river transport network, and excellent topsoil. Ideas about monetary policy don't figure. Might as well w