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by mikeash 7y ago
Do police have any obligation to be honest in these requests? Even if it’s opt-in, I’d be afraid of cops using the system to harass personal enemies by making requests that say they’re looking for an active serial killer or whatever.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Seems like the other way around to me. Most oil gets used pretty quickly after it’s produced. Most gold sits in vaults doing absolutely nothing.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The end game for Starhopper is the Super Heavy/Starship combo, which (if it all works out as planned) will be able to lift around 100 tons to low Earth orbit and be fully reusable with no refurbishment needed between flights.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, but not all fines are for minor violations, and not all fines are a pretext for revenue collection.
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by mikeash 7y ago
> If they are going to use minor violations of the law as a pretext for revenue collection, they should call it what it is: kleptocracy. Context!
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by mikeash 7y ago
Why?
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by mikeash 7y ago
“Money making scheme” is putting it mildly. If they're offering to not tell your insurance company in exchange for paying a larger fine, I would describe that as “extortion.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
Fines must be completely decoupled from the people levying them. They should be required to, say, give these funds to a blind trust which donates them to charities which don’t operate anywhere within 500 miles of the dining jurisdiction.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The folks in charge get paid by the government and the amount the government is able to pay is highly dependent on the amount of funding it gets.
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by mikeash 7y ago
They pretty clearly said that it’s about being prevented from using their own property the way they want.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The market value is a pretty reasonable way to determine the potential.
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by mikeash 7y ago
How do you justify people occupying extremely valuable land that they aren’t using to anything close to its potential, while also not paying anything close to their share of the taxes that keep the local government afloat?
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by mikeash 7y ago
There are definitely a few! It’s just not the norm.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yeah, I’ve visited a couple dozen Supercharger locations and never seen solar either. I think the main purpose of the batteries is just to cut down on demand charges. Even a smallish older Supercharger can pull 500kW if a bunch of cars arri
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by mikeash 7y ago
Solar panels aren’t required at all.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Tesla was doing quite well installing charging stations before the SolarCity acquisition, and the acquisition of a solar panel company did nothing to assist.
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by mikeash 7y ago
What makes the risk of malfunction higher compared to a standard power supply plugged into an outlet?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Split phase 240V is plenty for stoves.
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by mikeash 7y ago
There has to be some basic set of shared values or else it’s just shouting.
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by mikeash 7y ago
If you think CBP monitoring protestors isn’t abuse if it’s happening within 100 miles of the border, then I think we share too little common ground for this conversation to ever be productive.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Fraud risk is higher, which means the cost of insurance is higher. I think this cost actually goes up more than just proportionally, too. Criminals will preferentially target higher value accounts, and they’ll make off with more when they d
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by mikeash 7y ago
The original comment mentioned the gold standard, which is just gold certificates used as everyday currency. If you don’t trust that sort of stuff then the gold standard is totally irrelevant anyway.
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by mikeash 7y ago
There are several other important points that your summary misses: * A history of harassment by CBP towards inhabitants of the reservation which is driving people away. * CBP is abusing this surveillance technology to monitor protestors. *
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, costs are low, but so is the potential revenue from loans right now. I never said anything about storing bills or coins.
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by mikeash 7y ago
If you trust others to keep it for you, there are companies that let you buy gold online that they will store for you, and there are even gold ETFs. If you have a brokerage account, buy some shares of GLD and you’re done.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I assume cows are mostly raised and slaughtered for their meat, with leather as just a sort of bonus. That would mean that the supply is extremely inelastic: farmers won’t raise and slaughter noticeably fewer cows just because leather price
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by mikeash 7y ago
You’re the second reply who seems to think that I have no idea how banks actually work or why they can often pay interest. Did you just skip my second paragraph, or what’s the deal?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Nothing is stopping you from storing your savings in gold right now. You don’t need the gold standard for that.
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by mikeash 7y ago
I’m well aware of how banks work. See my second to last sentence in which I describe how the price of storing money in a bank is set and why it can be negative. Banks are definitely storing money. They’re just not storing physical currency.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It was built to monitor the reservation, for the purpose of monitoring border crossings.

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