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by markvdb 5y ago
> If coal is the cheapest, that means it is the best way to create electricity right now. Only it isn't. Not including the negative externalities (too much pollution, too expensive), not excluding them (too expensive).
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by markvdb 5y ago
I am certainly not saying that is not the case. I'd just like to have practical examples of success stories of deregulation in this area. I haven't found any yet myself, and I have plenty of counter examples...
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by markvdb 6y ago
I am genuinely very curious to learn about a deregulated place with 15 competing providers available to a single place to live. I wonder what drives that rare phenomenon. Please tell me more about this!
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by markvdb 6y ago
> You are not driving prices down by regulating them, you are driving them down by introducing more choice and competition Deregulation has proven _not_ to work for internet service providers. They're natural monopolies and oligopol
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by markvdb 6y ago
There's lots of very negative points rightly to be made about the Soviet Union, but lack of investment in high quality childrens books is definitely not one of them. These things were heavily subsidised, so cheap even by USSR standards
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by markvdb 6y ago
It's certainly possible to view these things from other perspectives than a narrow transactional economic perspective. Can you imagine some of those?
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by markvdb 6y ago
> If there is outrage over CEO pay, it doesn't make sense to come from the unions or left politicians, it should be coming from activist hedge fund billionaires, which it does. One doesn't have to be a shareholder or even a dir
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by markvdb 6y ago
> “Our helicopters will be assigned as a mobile fleet in the provinces of the region, primarily in Diyarbakır, Van, Şırnak, and Hakkari,” Police Chief Mehmet Aktaş explained. All these provinces are in the southeast of the country, where
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by markvdb 6y ago
That will work as long as other countries accept it.
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by markvdb 6y ago
My pleasure. Making people happy makes me smile.
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by markvdb 6y ago
mpv ytdl://ytsearch:'Khraniteli'
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by markvdb 6y ago
Are you able to discuss this with your significant other? You may want to come to an agreement on questions like: - What is work time? How will my partner know? - Are there any scheduled breaks? - Are there any moments during work time when
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by markvdb 6y ago
This should make some people sleep badly. Assuming somewhat efficient allocation, a 30 day delay delivering 15 * 10^6 one-shot vaccines equals ~1100 deaths[0], plus many long term health issues for survivors. Fingers crossed this f*ckup won
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by markvdb 6y ago
Just to give some perspective on how far things have changed since 1998, have a look at https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/17/world/apple-removes-the-d... .
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by markvdb 6y ago
Build a bypass in the empty desert to the east of where the ship is stranded. Deal with getting this ship unstuck in parallel.
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by markvdb 6y ago
This bond still yielding is an anomaly though. Instability will often manifest as inflation, but not always. Any idea which current countries have not experienced revolution, hyperinflation, annexation, and more intense events than just low
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by markvdb 6y ago
The loyalties of a country's government should absolutely be with its constituents. That loyalty does not necessarily mean that the health of its inhabitants only should be the government's concern. I can perfectly imagine a healt
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by markvdb 6y ago
I do not care one single iota about who was first or paid most. What is clear is that people are dying unnecessarily because of this competition. The ethical thing would to be minimise the number of people dying of covid-19. Distributing th
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by markvdb 6y ago
Than you for spotting this. The HN layout engine mangled that bit I'm afraid.
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by markvdb 6y ago
https://archive.is/J6Hkj The Washington Post mentions 14 * 10^9 DEM, or ~7.2 10^9 EUR or ~9 10^9 USD at the time.
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by markvdb 6y ago
Impounding the driving license and/or car for a limited period of time could be a more egalitarian, privacy friendly and easier to implement alternative. Your idea of some form of progressive rate punishment sounds really good. Time is
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by markvdb 6y ago
US culture and infrastructure seem to be super car focused and almost universally toxic to people riding bikes. That looks like a problem to me. Could some focus on the car side of the problem help solve this with less expenditure of politi
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by markvdb 6y ago
You're forgetting at least Malta.
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by markvdb 6y ago
The story is about history. The main source to this story worked as the personal European Parliament assistant to Jean-Marie Le Pen [0]. Some Le Pen quotes from that year below [1][2]. Showing this strong support for the most famous holocau
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by markvdb 6y ago
"Into the story stepped his son Pierre Malinowski, at 34 years old a maverick ex-soldier who once worked for Jean-Marie Le Pen and now runs a foundation in Moscow dedicated to tracing war-dead from the Napoleonic and other eras. "
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by markvdb 6y ago
Both electric and ICE cars are being subsidised: - direct car purchase subsidies (almost exclusively electric) - oil production subsidies. You might want to have a look at [0]. - wind and solar electricity production subsidies. - road infra
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by markvdb 6y ago
That would be an extremely hard sell. Look at Bombardier. They built the CS300. Once it started to gain any traction, it was trade bombed by the US government. The CS300 is now the Airbus A220.
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by markvdb 6y ago
I must admit I was just thinking out loud, not bothered by any relevant knowledge. Thank you for your thoughtful explanation.
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by markvdb 6y ago
What about a triple beam setup? The individual beams would be only half or a third as powerful, making them safer to human eyes. Only where they cross they would carry enough power to zap the mosquito...
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by markvdb 6y ago
https://fritz.substack.com/p/protecting-your-capital-during-... might contain some interesting hints. The HN discussion is relevant as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26062255 . My significa

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