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by marvin 5y ago
It’s naive to assume military research labs don’t have this in an advanced state of development right now, or even combat-ready weapons that just haven’t been used yet. I mean, it’s obviously possible. That means militaries have at the very
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by marvin 5y ago
My point is it won't go up much during the small delay when the small percentage of as-yet unvaccinated young men simply take the other vaccine instead.
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That's a subtle point. My stance is that their ethical obligation in that regard stops at the border, given that the reason it's a consideration is malicious actors rather than a direct consequence. Otherwise you're letting e
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by marvin 5y ago
The real ethical tradeoff is "what's your chance of contracting covid and getting complications in the one-week delay between cancelling your Moderna appointment and getting the Pfeizer vaccine instead" vs. "what's
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These are US numbers, though. Norway, e.g., has tested like crazy and diagnosed 4% of its population with covid throughout the pandemic. Given that the US numbers for covid cases are at least three times higher, the risk assessment will nec
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by marvin 5y ago
Would be interesting to eventually hear Elon Musk's thoughts on Norway's role in Tesla's success. We were a very big market for them in 2013-2018, one might suspect critical.
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I'm fairly confident that widespread internet-based multicast communication is almost solely responsible for many of the profoundly weird things that have happened in global politics for the last six years. It's a very powerful ne
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by marvin 5y ago
You probably know this, but in case others are curious: In most fossil-powered cars, you can test the powered braking during start-up by pumping the brake and keeping pressure on it. When you turn on the ignition, the brake will depress fur
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by marvin 5y ago
My Skoda Citygo's line-keeping assist tries to drive me into the barrier every single time I go driving. Only a firm hand on the steering wheel prevents disaster.
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Wouldn’t that be 230 miles, or are there distinct international agreements that put China’s territorial borders eleven times closer their shores than other countries with a coastline?
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by marvin 5y ago
Well, in all friendliness, discussions that start with "how do you define" generally end up in a discussion of semantics, which is rarely an interesting place to go. I should preface this by saying I know very little about what&#x
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Vaccines reduce the likelihood of getting infected in the first place, and hence also the likelihood of passing it on after exposure. It doesn’t eliminate the possibility, but on a societal level it has a significant effect. I certainly agr
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Does anyone outside of propaganda or extremism actually, literally, take the stance that bank accounts or travel (blanket! Not certain countries) should be denied to unvaccinated folks? I ask because some situations where vaccines are req
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by marvin 5y ago
Are you saying that if the housing market has 10 million homes and 7 million people live there, prices will continue to appreciate to stratospheric levels because someone will magically appear to buy the excess 3 million properties and leav
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by marvin 5y ago
It would be super funny if the result of the increased interconnectedness of Scandinavia and Europe, sold as a measure to decrease the risk of extreme events causing power disruption, actually caused power disruption as we've now sold
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by marvin 5y ago
I’m told some folks in their early 20s were shown a 3.5 inch floppy disk and asked what it was. They replied «3D printed model of the save icon».
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by marvin 5y ago
There’s principles and then there’s principles. Maybe you wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice humans to Kali, but you might still be okay with working in an open-plan office for two years.
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by marvin 5y ago
> In some sense a clean environment and less dangerous future are "luxury goods" that societies and people want to buy if they can afford to, but should not be forced if they can't afford the expense. While I sympathize wi
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by marvin 5y ago
While I agree in general, I'd argue that energy/climate gas emissions are in its own category, because they represent an unpriced externality that will have terrible consequences if the world doesn't get serious about sustain
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by marvin 5y ago
It's weird that we have higher late-summer electricity prices that we did mid-winter this year. But all things considered, energy prices do in fact need to be high in order to support faster deployment of renewables and CO2-neutral ene
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by marvin 5y ago
It's not just about money. Ultimately, it's about respect. Considering the clearing price in a free market is good and all, but you have to consider there's a buyer representing real people, who determines the working conditi
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by marvin 5y ago
It's a wonder anyone wants to do the job at all, knowing all this in advance. I almost became a teacher once. Figured all the abuse would be a degrading waste of my efforts.
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Most of Norway's political parties have in their plans to phase in a CO2 tax of $230 per metric ton by 2030. That's not quite up to the level of the current market price of the CO2 sequestering methods that seem to plausibly wo
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by marvin 5y ago
Ending economic growth is the last thing we need to do, and even if we did, we would fail. This should be obvious on a forum for entrepeneurs, who work to achieve only one thing - economic growth. What we need to do is to ruthlessly tax ext
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by marvin 5y ago
Even Norway had lots of cases tracked to people breaking quarantine, after which police started checking up on them. I’d say an argument for not enforcing the quarantine in the hottest phase of a pandemic is in effect allowing such events t
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by marvin 5y ago
Cities rarely try this out in practice. There are examples of smaller cities that manage to keep up - e.g. Kristiansand in Norway, which kept the real estate price development slightly negative during a decade when the rest of the country h
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by marvin 5y ago
Everyone is suggesting ineffective solutions with idiotic side effects. The proper way of solving this problem is to build a lot more homes. Otherwise you'll be creating a plan economy where bureaucrats are constantly scrambling to all
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by marvin 5y ago
My point is, the political leadership in most of these locations wring their hands and say "oh no, it's terrible, our janitors and nurses and families with little kids can't afford to live here, it's horrible" and t
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by marvin 5y ago
All half measures to «fix» the housing market are just variations around this theme. If there’s political consensus against the only solution that fixes the root cause — building much more — then any other measure to alleviate the problem w
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by marvin 5y ago
This is a thing I don't get about climate politics in the Nordics. We have already implemented taxation that strongly disincentivizes a large source of CO2 emissions from businesses and private individuals. Gasoline is expensive here

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