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by njarboe 6y ago
I would say making people feel safe when using public transport in the US is harder than building a rocket at this point in history. And building rockets is still very hard.
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by njarboe 6y ago
You can't layer down to less than nothing. Even if you are naked, most people will find being in 100 degrees of heat with 80% humidity extremely unpleasant. And it is the high humidity that is a major factor. 110 and 15% humidity is mu
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by njarboe 6y ago
Cars, motorcycles, and airplanes existed before 1970.
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by njarboe 6y ago
I can't think of any product that has been developed since 1970 that can kill people. The exceptions are medical devices and pharmaceuticals. I sure hope self-driving cars can be an exception, but that will definitely take a federal la
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by njarboe 6y ago
Got a Prop 65 text from AT&T when my new internet modem was installed. What a joke.
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by njarboe 6y ago
Real estate is going up, and now it is happening everywhere in the US, not just in the hot coastal cities.
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by njarboe 6y ago
There is no reason that the Central Banks can't be given the authority to buy stocks. You are also leaving out the Bank of Japan which has bought over $400 billion [1] during their "Great Stagnation". [1] https://f
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by njarboe 6y ago
For $12 a month you can have no ads on YouTube and YouTube Music.[1] That's what I do. Less than one movie ticket per month (back when that was available). [1] https://www.youtube.com/premium
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by njarboe 6y ago
The US government (Fed?) could create a micropayment system for the US dollar with that charges little to nothing for transactions. This would allow another whole way of pay for things on the web. Have a browser wallet with a bit of cash in
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by njarboe 6y ago
Google IPO'd at $85 a share with a market cap of $23 billion.[1] Quite a big oversight by Blank to say it IPO'd for under a billion. It is too bad good companies don't list sooner to let the public get some of the gains. I wo
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by njarboe 6y ago
Elon Musk is not CEO of SpaceX. He is CTO and is in the trenches building the rockets. He is fully cognizant of the whole machine and he expects his engineers to be also. That way the design can be changed without regard to departmental inf
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by njarboe 6y ago
Until Blue Origin is offering similar pricing with their New Glen rocket, I'm sure SpaceX will keep launch costs at a good premium to their costs while using this moat to make money in other areas like the SkyLink project.
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by njarboe 6y ago
They are designing for full and rapid reusability (like an airplane) and unlike the Falcon Heavy, the second stage is not thrown away, but also fully reusable. Seems plausible to me. If I remember correctly Musk estimated $2 million cost pe
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by njarboe 6y ago
Sure, but California has similar levels of sales tax to Washington and the highest state income taxes in addition.
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by njarboe 6y ago
Well, Austin is has been known for decades as the one city in Texas where people with "California" like values can feel at home. They have immigrated en-mass and continue to change the native culture at a rapid rate, I would imagi
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by njarboe 6y ago
Earning more usually involves working harder, longer, and/or taking more risk. Taxes reduces the reward for doing these things, so people are less likely to do them. Everyone would love to earn more if the extra money just drops from t
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by njarboe 6y ago
Most problems and gaming of the tax system comes down to the fact that people are taxed on income and businesses are taxed on profit. Maybe we should tax businesses on income also, but that would be a very different world. Might as well mak
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by njarboe 6y ago
Which also does not have state income tax.
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by njarboe 6y ago
Which is great. A high property tax keeps the price of housing down (what people will pay for a house is cost per month, basically mortgage plus property tax), makes people want to have new housing built so that housing prices don't go
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by njarboe 6y ago
If the US government was serious about wanting to let nuclear power development happen in the US, they should set up a location where companies could work with live nuclear material while developing reactors. Workers could be required to ha
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by njarboe 6y ago
I did on internship in Texas when living in California. I had to pay California state income tax on what I earned there. Luckily Texas has no state income tax or I would have been paying in both states.
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by njarboe 6y ago
I'm sure Facebook buys all the data on you that it can, which in America is an amazing amount of information. Your auto mechanic is likely already selling what is being done to your car to CarFax, etc.
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by njarboe 6y ago
New York city has its own income tax rate of 3.9% for high earners. This can be quite a bit of money for hedge fund managers/owners. I've read that some of them live outside NYC to avoid the tax but need to hire a full time person
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by njarboe 6y ago
Rural California north of Sacramento is similar to those places and a lot of no mask wearing also. It is a large portion of the state. Check out a map to get a good feel. Texas is big, but California is not far behind.
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by njarboe 6y ago
"Anyone can publish anything targeting anyone" happened in the past when the printing press was developed and paper got cheap enough that people could just print up pamphlets or newspapers and give them away on the streets. Around
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by njarboe 6y ago
Commercial aircraft were also totally unreasonable for quite a time after Wright's first flight in 1903. Musk has explicitly stated that a "safety first" attitude does not get people to Mars. His hierarchy of action is "
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by njarboe 6y ago
"I fear that, what if a company like SpaceX over promises and under delivers and causes more damage to the field long term than if they had not done anything at all?" Not sure how you think SpaceX could cause more damage than doin
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by njarboe 6y ago
Why are people even interested in peoples' opinions on how other people might fail? Musk has said that he thought SpaceX had a less than 10% chance of even getting a rocket to orbit when he founded it, but trying was worth it anyway. N
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by njarboe 6y ago
"Finally, fracking appears to “spoil” the wells: cheaper and faster but in the end you get less of the reserve than you could more conventionally. I say “appears” as this analysis has only surfaced recently (though I believe the big fr
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by njarboe 6y ago
Your second link shows that the US is now a net exporter of oil. The leading graph even has text on it stating "The United States has been a net exporter of petroleum since Sept 2019".

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