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by mikem170 6y ago
Gotcha. Thanks for the links! I'm just finished reading about the people in Texas who got $10k bills. I'm wondering if these people, residential customers, knew the rate limits were increased for those 32 hours? It's not fair
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by mikem170 6y ago
I drew an equivalence to highlight that the problems related to the record 100 year cold weather crossed regulatory boundaries, which was the topic of discussion. In Louisiana 2 million people lost power (42% of the state population), 800k
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by mikem170 6y ago
How about towns, dense in the middle, with greenways out to nearby nature? My thinking is there is more space for nature if people are a bit concentrated in one area. Hong Kong is an extreme example, over two thirds of the land is nature [0
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> the recent Texas power outage is the result of a free-market system for energy Texas was not the only area that had problems. Louisiana is regulated and had outages, people with no potable water, etc [0] Nearby states did not have av
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by mikem170 6y ago
Japanese style zoning, allowing density to grow as population grows, allowing mixed residential and commercial appropriate to the density, with designated industrial areas, set forth in a way that neighbors are not allowed to micromanage ot
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This is a big topic! I'm not for unfettered no-regulation zoning, I think we have established that. I'm going to ramble a bit, maybe get closer to where we disagree... You described enjoying the wildlife in your neighborhood. I re
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I'm curious the name of the town you referenced that voted zoning out, if there's more I can read. I found a reference that modern zoning was started by the Germans in the late 1800s [0]. This article also mentions the the basic i
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The difference seems to be that you place more value on what the group has decided versus what an individual may have wanted. That is the definition of tyranny. You and your gang of neighbors would be telling other property owners what they
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I understand that you may value your neighborhood. But I think it is tyrannical for you to tell other people they can't safely develop on their property "because you say so". Why should your vote cancel out that of another ci
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Fiddling with the demand side causes problems. Better would be to lift the restrictions on supply, loosen the zoning laws. /Soapbox (not aimed at you): I've been reading zoning regulations in several localities. "Land of the
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Tons of tracking happens via javascript dom calls. Lots of identifying information and analytics. Some web sites runs hundreds of scripts. I browse with javascript disabled, except for sites/domains that I exempt like banks and stuff.
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The velocity of money has a lot to do with inflation. How many times per year is a given dollar spent? The assumption is that as the pandemic ends that this velocity measurement will increase, that people will be out buying and selling thin
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I agree! I'm an uber-networking geek and I've been happy with the slowest offered cable modem speeds. Sometimes as cheap as $20-$25/month. I've had 5mb download speeds (1mb up) for a house with two people, watching netfl
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by mikem170 6y ago
>I don't think that understanding your dependencies is a reasonable criterion I agree, I've never gone as far as reviewing/understanding source code for all the libraries I use. Might be nice to have the time ;-) >it is
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by mikem170 6y ago
I think that I follow your logic. But retirement funding is so dependent on an individual's expenses, ability to generate income, expectations, risk tolerance, and available resources such as assets and family. These are all different
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I would guess the typical example of this might be a working age person who lived paycheck to paycheck then had a non-trivial medical issue to deal with. They may have already had other house/car/student/credit-card debt. The
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by mikem170 6y ago
For the benefit of others who may be reading I'll mention a couple of other programs... There's Medicaid, the federally funded healthcare program for the poor. It is free. As a single person there are really low limits on how much
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> Yep, the US healthcare system basically means you have to be a multimillionaire when you've retired That's just not true. Everyone qualifies for Medicare when they are 65 years old. An extra $150/month gets you supplemen
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by mikem170 6y ago
I believe that the flu causes more long term damage than people give it credit for. For example, here's a paper talking about the flu and heart swelling: [0] > During the Sheffield, England influenza epi- demic from 1972 to 1973, th
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In kids it has basically that affect - no worse than the common cold. Maybe the big difference is that living adults didn't catch covid-19 as kids, because it is new. Since kids are growing up in a world with covid-19 they will catch i
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I'm curious what people think of these calculators. I wonder if people are surprised by the numbers, given that news headlines don't quantify the risk in detail. Also people may think differently about the same numbers. I made my
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by mikem170 6y ago
My bad. You are right that my edits made a mess, I didn't even do a good job of fixing it on my last edit. I didn't know at the time that I removed the Fauci remark that you had already (correctly) pointed out that it was wrong. I
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by mikem170 6y ago
I was relating the number who died in the U.S. versus the total population, calculated from published deaths per million per country [0] The link you provided says that 2.2 million people globally reportedly have died of covid. Out of world
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That's a personal disaster, but not a disaster for society.
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Ok, then I'm ridiculous, I should have flagged that I removed that statement when I couldn't find a reference, didn't catch that there was followup already. Let's get past that and continue the discussion.
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But don't the states make some pretty immediately impactful decisions, like mask mandates enforced by health inspectors and sheriffs, school and work closings, curfews, etc. The feds have things they can do. I guess a lot of that is s
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I apologize, I edited that out when I looked for a reference and couldn't find one. I thought I remembered reading something to that effect, but couldn't be sure.
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I took 1347 deaths per million people in the U.S. [0] and did the division. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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But we live in democracies, and there are a lot of people who feel differently than you might. Not just Trump. They look at the same numbers and dangers and don't agree. Besides, the authority and responsibility to respond to a pandemi
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Everybody thought it would fizzle out, like sars-cov1 years before. Nobody in North America or Europe wanted to shut down the economy on a possible threat they were not sure would happen. The only countries that were ready for covid19 were

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