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by njarboe 4y ago
Maybe true, but you never make the shots you don't take. Space-X has had a reusable orbital booster for almost a decade and no one else has built one yet. Tesla continues to ramp up production of the 3 and Y at 50% year over year. Next
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It is very hard to get approval to be a bank and they are highly regulated. Many in crypto liked the idea of being able to run a bank out of their bedroom similar to any other SaaS business. Like many jokes, a truth told sideways can be qui
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I might be if you have lots of exceptions and exemptions to the tax, but you should set it up as a tax of $$/ton of CO2 emitted (with credits for sequestration). You can change the tax rate but you don't have all of these piece me
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Do you happen to live in California? If so, most of the egg price increase is likely due to compliance with Prop 12 regulations.
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I understand it is a big problem. It would be great if when property values shoot up then the rate would be reduced, keeping the payment about the same. Have the revenue go up a little over time. Property taxes mostly pay for schools. I rea
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by njarboe 4y ago
Return all of the CO2 tax to the people. Everyone gets a check for the same amount each quarter.
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Let's just have a CO2 tax already. Revenues given back to the people directly split evenly per person.
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While pay taxes is a pain, having a society where people pay different property tax rates creates many problems. Imagine not wanting to move near your new job because your monthly property tax bill would double. Many of California's pr
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FYI, SpaceX developed all of their engines in-house[1]. Other American rocket companies use Russian engines and Congress's bill forbidding that going forward has put ULA in a very bad place because Blue Origin's BE-4 engine still
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by njarboe 4y ago
The "PATROIT" act did have sunset clauses. It kept getting re-uped but finally expired on March 15th, 2020 mainly due to Trump's veto threat. The vote on the bill to extend the act was indefinitely postponed.[1] So you are ri
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It is customary when you edit your comment and make substantial changes that you put a note at the bottom identifying the edit (see below). This helps avoid people being confused when they read a comment referring to or correcting the origi
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My neighbors large barn in the gold country of California has support pillars under the floor that were treated by charing. Built around 1890 and they are still in good shape.
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240V are what run electric stoves. I guess no cooking either. Why don't we just have a functioning grid like civilized society?
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Smart metering is installed and rates vary with the time of day. Some people can afford to not care about that so asking people not to charge their cars might help.
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Governments should run gambling at even odds. Then your gambling is a bit like saving. You put in money each week and every once in a while you get a big payoff, but you are net even. Most current state lotteries have worse odds than the ma
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by njarboe 4y ago
It gets almost no press but China has a very active space industry and is quickly advancing its space technology. Russia's space technology has not advanced much since the 1960's. China has built its own space station in the last
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Public construction is more expensive. I think private US construction cost are not nearly as out of alignment with other countries (once past the permitting phase of course).
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Some people (mostly men) actually enjoy dangerous situations. Especially if there is a purpose for the danger. Look at all the people doing extreme sports. The military, police, and fire fighters are the main jobs left for people like that.
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$50 a month shared by a whole village. Not so bad.
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Nothing happens in Antarctica because the world powers signed a treaty in 1959 causing that to happen[1]. If it was open land that was allowed inhabited and owned by people forming new governments, I would bet you would see settlements spro
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by njarboe 4y ago
I believe at most 4 year universities, in the US at least, you pay by the semester or quarter and not on the number of classes you take. So the university won't generally make more money if you test out.
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by njarboe 4y ago
The US, due to fracking, is now a net exporter of oil most years. Hopefully with more electric cars in the fleet each year oil use will also decline dramatically. We should use that opportunity to distance ourselves from Saudi Arabia. Unfor
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by njarboe 4y ago
Melbourne is on the coast so an offshore platform will work on that endpoint. New Mexico has a spaceport already. Baring one opening up near Denver, flying to the west coast and then taking a Starship would be possible.
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If you want only an ATM card and not a debit card, you might be able to get one. Banks don't advertise it, but I got an ATM only card from Bank of America.
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by njarboe 4y ago
This is how life was evolved. How you exist. 4 billion years of band-aid fixes, dead ends, cycle after cycle of living, trying, reproducing and dying. Beautiful, amazing, tragic, and full of terror. It's how the world works. Humans are
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Billions of people travel in cars. Those lives are on the line every day. One million people die in car crashes each year. The amount of injuries to people and property is huge. Preventing most of this carnage is a major goal of these self
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Maybe Starship can turn that trip into under an hour in the future.
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I would like to have the option of only needing the password and no password reset unless you visit an office somewhere in person. For like Google, banks, brokerages, etc. But maybe that is less secure than two-factor online systems? Seems
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"corn farming states have a preponderance of senators" And the first primary or caucus state of the election season is Iowa. The state produces the most corn in the Union and by far the most corn per capita. Large corn subsidies w
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Deserts are great places to grow things if you have the water available. Basically the foundation of civilization. See Egypt and Mesopotamia. Almonds grow great in California and are a great cash crop. We need to trade something to China fo

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