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by njarboe 2y ago
Parking: 100 Helicopters. Love it
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by njarboe 2y ago
You can probably reduce microplastic consumption, but it is quite a pain and more expensive. Try buying everything at the store not wrapped/bottled in plastic. This does not even work as well as you might think as many things are wrapp
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by njarboe 2y ago
Marketing does seem to work, especially over generations. I think the main reason trucks/SUVs were marketed so much was because of a 25% tax on imported light trucks and not cars. The so called "chicken tax"[1] was imposed on
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by njarboe 2y ago
The local eggs here have the same price but they are selling out very quickly. $9.50 a dozen and used to have them all week. They come in on Friday evening and now sell out quickly. People are probably buying more than they used to when ava
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by njarboe 2y ago
If the painter is doing a "work for hire" you should get the copyright.
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by njarboe 2y ago
I like gold and bitcoin. But productive assets seem more useful to hold in general. Fiat, gold, and bitcoin are debt tokens on future humans. I'd rather own things than future human labor. Feels a bit like owning people.
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by njarboe 2y ago
And emergencies will generally correlate with stock prices going down.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Does it really matter if the value of something is 95% speculative or 100%? Loosing 95% of the value of your investment is not a lot different than 100%.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Buildings can last centuries or even millennia. Whether spending the extra on that build quality is worth it, especially in a post atomic bomb world, is an exercise left to the reader.
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by njarboe 2y ago
With mass spectrometers measuring concentrations of things in the parts per trillion or less, some man made pollution is everywhere on Earth and many other planets.
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by njarboe 2y ago
This is great if it gets rid of the "resort fee" or "urban fee" that I have had to pay at hotels. Happened last week. An extra $40 a night. It is almost impossible to refuse and find a new hotel right when you are checki
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by njarboe 2y ago
I have a pretty libertarian steak, but I do sometimes think that banning advertising in general might be so beneficial for society that it would be worth taking the free speech hit. Not sure how in the hell you enforce it though. "What
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by njarboe 2y ago
It is nice if your profession has a yearly conference that most people go to. It is a place and time designated to see those colleagues in person and strengthen/maintain relationships.
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by njarboe 2y ago
I'm always amazed when I am reminded that there is still a pipeline through Ukraine moving Russian gas to Europe.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Yea. My inReach device stays charged for months when it is off.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Would be great if the US government somehow facilitated micropayment. Either by creating their own system or removing the capital gains reporting requirements on crypto (maybe up to $10k/year).
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by njarboe 2y ago
I don't think Russia would have invaded Ukraine if it still had nuclear weapons.
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by njarboe 2y ago
The Clipper was planned to be launched on the SLS, but due to delays in the SLS program and its massive cost ($2+ billion per launch), it was decided to use the Falcon Heavy to launch it even though the Falcon Heavy is a bit smaller and it
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by njarboe 2y ago
Self driving cars and cheap tunnels can solve this. Hopefully that happens some days. People are working on both (a lot less on cheap tunnels).
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by njarboe 2y ago
So maybe we try to create more of that type of living space?
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by njarboe 2y ago
Employers generally would prefer to pay people less. If you don't ask for a raise you often don't get one. If you ask for a raise, you generally need to consider quitting if you don't get so kind of raise. Men are generally m
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by njarboe 2y ago
And Argon makes up a little less than 1% of the air you breathe.
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by njarboe 2y ago
I quite enjoy visiting the La Brea Tar Pits and often do when I'm in LA. The geologist in me really enjoys seeing the natural oil seeps. The area around the museum has large open grassy areas. Often new seeps develop in the grass and y
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by njarboe 2y ago
Climate, regulatory, culture in Texas has it adding more solar and wind to the grid faster than any other state.
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by njarboe 2y ago
VAT is a "Value Added Tax". It does not tax revenue but the additional value added to something.
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by njarboe 2y ago
Will that happen in 1,2,5,10 or never years?
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by njarboe 2y ago
Agreed, but when will the exponential bend over. Moore's law went on for a long time, industrial revolution, population growth. Very hard to know in advance.
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by njarboe 2y ago
For now electric cars make sense for those who have a way to charge at their home. Otherwise not so great.
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by njarboe 2y ago
And crazy strong and twisted magnetic fields that will heat things up/create large forces on charged particles.
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by njarboe 2y ago
We started to access nuclear power as a new source, but then stopped for quite a while. It looks like things are starting up again. We'll see.

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