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by opo 6y ago
>...but my panels give $350/yr more to the grid than I use. You are likely confusing wholesale and retail prices of electricity. Even just considering solar, the cost for a utility to generate the power itself is likely between 2-4
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by opo 6y ago
This is suggested quite often, but no one is going to sell you a liability policy to protect you from committing crimes. When police officers commit blatant misconduct the officers involved should at least be fired and criminal charges shou
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by opo 6y ago
>... I haven’t had to pay more than $12/month, and that is the fee we are charged by PGE to be hooked into the grid so we can sell them our excess. Wow. If you are only paying $12 a month for access to the grid, you are paying a sm
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by opo 6y ago
The issue isn't so much the number of birds, but the type: >...Although fatality rates for raptors may be lower compared to passerines, raptors are especially vulnerable to collisions due to their flight behaviors. Given the life hi
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by opo 6y ago
I am pretty sure everyone reading HN understands the basic idea of insurance. The issue is your specific claim that "Walmart took out life insurance on its employees because they were betting that their horrible working conditions ma
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by opo 6y ago
Thank for adding more info about some of the lawsuits, but you haven't given any evidence for the key claim you made in your original post: >...Concrete example, Walmart took out life insurance on its employees because they were bet
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by opo 6y ago
>...Walmart took out life insurance on its employees because they were betting that their horrible working conditions made people more likely to die than the insurance companies thought. No, Walmart was doing it since they thought the po
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by opo 6y ago
>...It's going to be hard to tie financial responsibility to individual officers in a way that doesn't ultimately come back to tax dollars anyway. No one is going to sell you a liability policy to protect you from committing cr
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by opo 6y ago
>...The Spanish Flu was called that because at the time everyone (for xenophobic reasons... sound familiar?) No, it tended to be called the Spanish Flu because Spanish newspapers simply reported more about the epidemic: >...Spain was
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by opo 6y ago
The usage goes further back then that. The first use was in 1896 by William Jennings Bryan in his Cross of Gold speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
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by opo 6y ago
>...Also, I hope Biden restructures the Supreme Court and they overturn Brandenburg v. Ohio, paving the way for criminalizing hate speech in America so law enforcement can finally crack down on these groups. There are many who would like
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by opo 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? According to this article, they are much less than that: >...royalties, at least among the top houses, are basically the same. Authors are paid, for hardcovers, 10% of the cover price on the first 5,000 co
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by opo 6y ago
>...Typically private enterprise has been against segregation Unclear why you were downvoted. Another example of this was Plessy v. Ferguson where the railroad worked with a civil rights group to bring the case: >...On June 7, 1892,
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by opo 6y ago
Why do you think Bezos doesn't pay taxes?
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by opo 6y ago
From your source: >...The US Senate's November 1992 report concluded that "by any standard, the credible evidence now known falls far short of supporting the allegation of an agreement between the Reagan campaign and Iran to de
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by opo 6y ago
>...and such jewels as Reagan colluding with Khomeini in order to secure his own election. This has been a common conspiracy theory, but there is little evidence of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_cris
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by opo 6y ago
The real bipartisan push for harsher penalties in the US came in the 1980s after basketball star Len Bias died of cocaine overdose: >...It became the sole focus of legislative activity for the remainder of the session on both sides of th
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by opo 6y ago
The alleged Ehrlichman quote is brought up often but it should be taken with some skepticism. The surviving members of his family don't believe he made the quote: >...Multiple family members of Ehrlichman (who died in 1999) challen
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by opo 6y ago
>...Not only that, if I recall correctly the Wright brothers actually died penniless. I don't think that is true. Wilbur died in 1912 in the middle of the patent disputes. >...Orville made his last flight as a pilot in 1918 in a
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by opo 6y ago
Thanks for finding that. I don't think we really know what a fair CO2 tax should be since it is hard to say what are the long term societal costs of an extra ton of CO2 in the atmosphere. (Though we will likely find out in the next 50
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by opo 6y ago
>...The war on drugs was started as a way to target people of color by Nixon. Before then, MJ was around and used, it is a plant and good pain killer that you can grow yourself. And Nixon stated that is why he was doing it in the White H
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by opo 6y ago
>...Exelon has stated that for new nuclear plants in the US to compete with NG CC, CO2 taxes would have to be $300-400/ton. Where did they say that?
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by opo 6y ago
>..."electricity from nuclear energy will be so cheap, it will be useless to install a meter in privates homes". That was simply a statement from the head of the AEC at a meeting with science writers along with a lot of other b
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by opo 6y ago
>Ok, tell me how do you plan on restoring the dying nuclear industry? That is a different discussion. France built France built over 50 reactors in about 15 years, so obviously a rapid buildup could be done if that ends up being the bes
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by opo 6y ago
The Exelon proposals I've seen are for a carbon tax of $40 increasing 5% a year. Where are they proposing a $200 tax?
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by opo 6y ago
The levelized cost of energy report I linked too ( https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... ). is the latest report and is dated OCT 19 2020. Consumer rooftop solar might be the most highly subsid
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by opo 6y ago
>...It is all about nuclear no matter the cost. Oddly, this is the exact sort of behavior I sometimes see with the advocates for renewables. Cost should always be a consideration, but when people conveniently ignore some costs and focus
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by opo 6y ago
>...Windmills kill ~300k a year That is a low estimate: >...The most comprehensive and statistically sound estimates show that bird deaths from turbine collisions are between 140,000 and 500,000 birds per year. As wind energy capacity
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by opo 6y ago
>...Businesses want to avoid paying taxes when possible, but it's generally not worth their effort to play tax games. A business doesn't pay taxes unless it's making profits, and it would have to be making sufficient profi
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by opo 6y ago
>...Actually, history bears out that higher tax rates result in corporations re-investing more of their profits in the company and less in tax-avoidance accounting. Can't speak for all companies, but higher tax rates generally means

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