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by namlem 4y ago
China is on the verge of massive collapse of its financial system due to the real estate bubble. Not to mention the demographic crunch from its one child policy.
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by namlem 4y ago
Sounds like the problem is cost. Once we can eliminate the salary of the driver with autonomous buses, it will be much easier to run more of them.
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The Declaration of Independence holds no legal weight.
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The difference is that mainstream liberal capitalism has decades of real world results across dozens of countries while anarcho-capitalism has nothing.
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The key difference is that between a universalist democracy and a pluralist democracy.
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They have a factory and the first deliveries are planned for later this year.
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The battery adds a lot of weight so thing thing is heavier than a gas powered trike. I believe 1800lbs for the base model and 2500lbs for the longest range one.
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Assuming the equivalent of 6 hours of sunlight at 173W to account for the lower output in morning and evening, that's about 8.4kWh per day. To go 30 miles would require an efficiency of nearly 3 miles per kWh. That's very ambitiou
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If we did have better missile defense, it would be a secret. The last thing we want is for our enemies to know about it.
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I don't think any active Russian missiles have single warheads anywhere near 30MT. Their big ones are about 500kT, which Cheyenne Mountain could probably withstand just fine.
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Good. Fuck the taxi monopolies.
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Obsessing over injustices you have no control over is neither normal nor healthy.
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I don't think so. I think it really is about guilt and shame, because these people just rebranded Catholicism without realizing it. Most of them probably grew up Catholic I bet, and internalized Catholic ideology to such a degree that
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by namlem 4y ago
If you don't like the come up being too slow, then I suggest mushroom tea with citrus. Makes it hit all at once. One moment you're normal and the next moment you're tripping.
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They don't allow cannabis businesses that sell naturally occurring delta-9 THC products. Other cannabis businesses are fine.
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It will probably just lead to a rise in VPNs to access services that block British users.
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Except that the politicians get to pick their voters through gerrymandering instead of the voters picking their representatives like in a proper democracy.
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They can still do it to non-Europeans
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The hold up is with the FDA. The variant booster had been ready for months, it just takes a long time to approve.
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It's bidirectional and difference in governance absolutely produces differences in economies. After all, the economy is based on incentives, so when incentives change, so do economies. In Why Nations Fail there was a great example of h
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Historically all those kingdoms were also quite poor, and societies that adopted norms that favored larger governing coalitions, such as the Republic of Venice, tended to flourish.
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It hasn't been approved, no one is making it.
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Singapore is the sole exception to the rule that small coalitions produce worse outcomes for the populace. It was a fluke, Lee Kuan Yew just happened to be the right person in the right place at the right time. Generally speaking, small coa
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by namlem 4y ago
The problem is not democracy, it is electoralism. Deciding who should rule by voting simply is not an effective means for the public to wield power. There's a profound lack of granularity, an incentive towards short-termism, a bias tha
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by namlem 4y ago
If rational minds were allowed to prevail at the FDA, we would have had an Omicron booster months ago.
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Remember that they ask you about biases during jury selection, and lying counts as perjury. So make sure to never reveal that you were biased from the outset.
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Not if you just lie about your biases during the selection process. Never tip your hand that you were biased from the beginning, otherwise they can get you for perjury.
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Right now we are only seeing these extreme temperatures during brief heat waves. As warming continues though, these periods will become longer and more frequent.
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While I suspect this is probably not true, it is plausible due to the fact that there is a lot of land in the northernmost regions of the world.
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Ferrets are legal in neighboring Oregon and Nevada. Do they cause serious problems in those states?

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