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by notJim 6y ago
Partly I think nuclear triggers a cognitive bias where humans will tolerate ongoing low-level shittiness, but really struggle with large catastrophes, even if the catastrophe is far less damaging than the ongoing low-level damage. However,
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by notJim 6y ago
You can also get Blu-rays from Netflix if you watch more. The real costly thing for this approach is tv though, isn't it?
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by notJim 6y ago
> From just a cursory inspection using my Apple TV 4K I'm confused, how are you getting this information? Does Apple TV have a way to display the bitrate ceiling? Also, do you find the bitrate differences noticeable? On my 4k tv, I
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by notJim 6y ago
You can also make the taxes progressive, so wealthier pay more. I'm also not sure if this looks at total costs or only premiums. People don't go bankrupt or have surprise bills [1] for medical reasons in other countries the way th
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by notJim 6y ago
What's even wilder is that in the recent primaries (both 2020 and 2016) of the "left" party a major argument was that this system is so awesome that it must be protected at all costs, even if moving to something like single-p
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by notJim 6y ago
For comparison purposes, it's useful to think of things like retirement contributions and healthcare premiums as taxes, even if they're not formally taxes. There is an article comparing this across countries that argues that if yo
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by notJim 6y ago
This is being studied in the US, there is some detail about it in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-tru... The Pacific DC Intertie supplies power to Los Angeles from
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by notJim 6y ago
Why would you assume that a random clerk has the ability to opt you out of junk mail? If you want them to do that, you're going to have to lobby your representatives to ban them from doing so, and offer another source of revenue that m
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by notJim 6y ago
Without the banana, isn't the sandwich uncomfortably dry/sticky?
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by notJim 6y ago
> aristocracy was zero sum and rent seeking where billionaires aren’t necessarily How can you look at companies like Google, Apple and Facebook and conclude they aren't rent-seeking? Google's entire business is essentially rent
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by notJim 6y ago
I find this attitude odd. Billionaires are accountable to no one at all, yet have enormous power over all of us. To you this is a good thing? Our political system is obviously a total disaster, but at least we have the power to change it if
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by notJim 6y ago
Are you saying 19 full days of energy storage? Why do we need 19 days? Isn't it more like N hours per day, which can be recharged overnight and the following day? This seems like a very disingenuous presentation of this information.
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by notJim 6y ago
Turnout can be pretty low in city elections, so the cranks may not represent their constituents, but be overrepresented among voters . For folks reading this: there are probably YIMBY or other pro-housing/infrastructure groups in your
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by notJim 6y ago
> If anything, the lesson to be learned here is that if your business depends exclusively on another company for its survival then it’s not your business. But this means it's nearly impossible to build a software business that'
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by notJim 6y ago
It does, the article mentions that painted eyes can deter bicycle theft, for example. There are more examples in the article.
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by notJim 6y ago
Or even better, for repetitively-discussed topics, just generate the entire comment thread to save us all time. Examples: nuclear power, housing/transit policy, Tesla/Elon Musk.
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by notJim 6y ago
It's possible to point out issues with a submission without insulting the submitter or author. Calling what is presumably a person the equivalent of GPT-3 is needlessly rude. Even insulting the work, but not the (presumed) person behin
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by notJim 6y ago
Do you have a source for this? It's commonly stated, but I've read that earnings for trades are over-stated. Just googling around, it looks like a plumber around here makes $35-70k, which I'd expect most to be able attain in
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by notJim 6y ago
Consuming less is definitely a big part of climate plans I've seen. Consuming less doesn't have to mean a reduced standard of living. This article mentions heat pumps for example, which consume much less energy. Other plans I&#x27
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by notJim 6y ago
What is the state of the world with these modern reactor types? Are they in use anywhere, or still limited to research experiments?
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by notJim 6y ago
Painting the house is a stand-in for having control over the building. You might not want to, but you might want to run ethernet or plant different plants or install a better dishwasher or any number of other options, which may or may not b
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by notJim 6y ago
You seem to think I am in favor of those laws. I'd encourage you to re-read my comments, where I am arguing the opposite.
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by notJim 6y ago
> There is no evidence of a revealed or stated preference for SFHs among American homebuyers when presented with multiple choices In fact, there is strong evidence that at least 2 people in the US prefer SFH when presented with multiple
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by notJim 6y ago
Are we allowed to talk about both? The idea that SFH is the preferred default is one of the drivers of those laws. It is part of the ideology of SFH, and deconstructing it will help deconstruct the implementation of that ideology in things
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by notJim 6y ago
If you go to IKEA in LA, do they deliver? What about Home Depot? In my experience, most of the time they don't, but I think in Europe it's different.
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by notJim 6y ago
This is why I said "not widely available", rather than "utterly impossible". If I buy something from Home Depot or IKEA in the US, and want it delivered, I generally have to arrange it myself, which generally involves fi
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by notJim 6y ago
Now that you mention it, I actually have seen that arrangement before. It can look really cool if both people have complementary taste.
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by notJim 6y ago
So that's not an arrangement where both occupants get to control the building then. It's a situation where you get to control it, and if your tenant doesn't like it they can pound sand. It obviously does not address the scena
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by notJim 6y ago
I don't think they meant to imply that these things are requirements for everyone. More like highlighting and discussing the reasons a person might feel pushed to prefer a particular type of home.
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by notJim 6y ago
In your two-family home, who gets to decide what color the building is? It would be sort of interesting to have an ongoing war between both occupants, but probably not a good way of structuring things long term.

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