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by opo 5y ago
>...That $4.5 number is completely worthless as a comparison to burglaries. It gives a sense of the scale of the abuse. A number of states refused to give out the data, so it is a low estimate. >...My understanding is that criminal f
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by opo 5y ago
>...I didn't say it wasn't a problem, but 2010 is always chosen specifically because of Madoff. Madoff also shows why that burglary comparison is meaningless. The article addresses this issue: >..."In a given year, one
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by opo 5y ago
>...but I find it funny that 2010 is always the year used when a specific annual amount is cited. That year includes the forfeiture of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme money which alone makes up some 20%-30% of that annual number. No, c
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by opo 5y ago
Just because there is a Dr shortage in the US due to having a limited number of medical schools, there are still thousands of students who get their degree and can't find a residency: >.... The matching challenge comes as the U.S. f
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by opo 5y ago
Like someone once said "I don't often bookmark a page, but when I do, I never look at it again."
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by opo 5y ago
>...From requiring pre-funding retirements years ago, USPS pension funding gets brought up quite a bit as some kind of a conspiracy, but that doesn't appear to be accurate. The issue for the postal service is that the law was change
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by opo 5y ago
>...$15/h was proposed as a sensible raise ten years ago Sensible? Different states and different parts of states have vastly different costs of living. The average wage in San Francisco is going to be different than rural Alabama
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by opo 5y ago
It really isn't clear to me what you are trying to say. As I pointed out, and you agreed, the 70% tax rates in the 1970's brought in <1% of total federal tax revenue. You then added: >…The same rate and thresholds in 2021 w
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by opo 5y ago
>...The same rate and thresholds in 2021 would represent a significant fraction of the tax revenue raised by the IRS in 2021. Estimates range between 5 and 15%, depending on the pundit. I don't understand what you mean here by &#x27
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by opo 5y ago
Let's not forget that the 70% rate brought in less than 1% of total tax revenue. (One reason that democrats suggested lowering the top rate in 1981.) Those high rates encouraged all kinds of unproductive investments to take advantage
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by opo 6y ago
>…Conspiracy is defined in criminal law. You cannot be convicted of conspiracy for activity that is legal. You can make up any random other meaning you like, for any word … Please don't try and misrepresent what I wrote. You wrote:
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by opo 6y ago
>By definition, it is not a conspiracy if it is legal. That might be your personal definition, but a common definition is: "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful" >...The only reason you don't se
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by opo 6y ago
Well as I said, cost should always be a consideration, but deliberately ignoring costs of some choices is not helpful. The levelized cost for residential rooftop solar is about as high as nuclear, but that cost doesn't seem to matter
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by opo 6y ago
>...Accidents did in fact happen and, given enough time and more reactors, will absolutely happen again. Well it is a straw man to claim that anyone says there won't be nuclear accidents. What people have said is that historically
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by opo 6y ago
According to the article: >...Amazon had sought to place a video camera in the NLRB’s Birmingham office, where votes will be tabulated, to keep an eye on the ballot boxes in the off hours between counting, according to an NLRB order deny
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by opo 6y ago
>...AFAIK, where reprocessing of plutonium from CANDU reactors was used to bootstrap nuclear warhead production. No, India appears to ave gotten plutonium from a small research reactor, not a CANDU reactor (though it was provided by Cana
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by opo 6y ago
>...The main issue with nuclear power in Europe has always been the storage of nuclear waste Why would you think that? In terms of the waste, right now nuclear waste can be recycled (as it is in France) which would reduce the amount of w
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by opo 6y ago
That is great. I like to bring up this clip from Castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaMdXjTn9rc
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by opo 6y ago
>... humans being taken care of is an accidental side effect No, in any non-totalitarian society, humans being taken care of is the main effect. In a market of buyers and sellers, it is only by making the buyer better off that the selle
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by opo 6y ago
>...It's because it's 2-3x the cost of other renewables. Cost should always be a consideration, but when people conveniently ignore some costs and focus on others, it does a disservice to the goal of decarbonizing the grid and
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by opo 6y ago
That seems to be true only if you only look at wages and ignore benefits: >...The allocation of national Shares of National Income income between workers and the owners of capital is considered one of the more remarkably stable relations
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by opo 6y ago
>...IIRC Google did have some objective data that purely looked at average commit rates and lines of code before and after working from home, and they saw a significant decrease in productivity during WFH In trying to find out more info
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by opo 6y ago
>... but the bottom has no floor. That really doesn't represent reality. The majority of federal spending goes to transfer payments: >...The federal government spent $2.87 trillion on transfers to individuals in 2017, accounting
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by opo 6y ago
>...I would have expected that the ratio would be much higher. And you are right - the land needed to actually generate the power is much different than that ratio. The strata report is also counting the land use for transmission lines w
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by opo 6y ago
>...I'm saying it's happening. Hopefully someday, but it's not happening yet. Those big battery farms installed by Tesla (et al) are used primarily for grid stabilization. Most current grid storage is pumped hydro and
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by opo 6y ago
It isn't as easy as you are implying. Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have be
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by opo 6y ago
It is pretty close to that and very good compared to other sources of power: >...Nuclear has the highest capacity factor of any other energy source—producing reliable, carbon-free power more than 92% of the time in 2016. That’s nearly tw
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by opo 6y ago
>...Does anyone honestly think the United States has institutions sound enough to safely manage nuclear power over multiple decades? All indications are that much was learned by industry and the NRC after TMI: "...The NRC said the T
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by opo 6y ago
The NRC does not regulate defense nuclear facilities.
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by opo 6y ago
>Wait, don't we want to penalize customers without solar panels? Why do you say that? If the government wants to subsidize solar power, isn't it better to do it in a way that is safer, less expensive and the benefits are share

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