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by opo 7y ago
>...Open offices work in favor of your salary. That is not how it works with highly profitable companies like FB, The extra cost to give people some privacy and allow them to less distracted is a tiny percent of the costs to pay the emp
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by opo 7y ago
>...To summarize the issue: we have a mixed economy. We do not have what advocates of capitalism want: a purely capitalist econom ... I agree. I asked for an example in my message, since, as you point out I've never heard a "p
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by opo 7y ago
>...I've heard Peter Schiff blame "crony communism" on a radio show. That sounds like something different than the OP said. >...It's not like you haven't heard the term before, so I'm not sure why you&#x2
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by opo 7y ago
With the 2008 crash there is plenty of examples of incompetent/unethical/(possibly)illegal actions taken by government, industry and consumers that helped cause it. Also economists came up with many possible suggestions (often co
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by opo 7y ago
You said that "frequently" right wing media would mistakingly claim that any result they didn't like was "crony capitalism" when the issue in question would not fit the definition of crony capitalism. It is unfortun
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by opo 7y ago
Cronyism is found in all political systems and in some systems like fascism might even be considered a defining characteristic. People trying to manipulate the political system for economic gain is unfortunately always going to happen whet
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by opo 7y ago
>...Yet we are supposed to believe that open plans lead to increased collaboration and sharing of ideas. Yea the research shows that open offices lower collaboration: >...Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interacti
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by opo 7y ago
Doesn't Walmart basically have free shipping? I've never tried it, but according to their web site: NextDay Our fastest delivery option, available in qualifying ZIP codes. Free on $35+ orders of eligible items—no membership fee!
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by opo 7y ago
>...Yes, the west has done research and maybe a couple of demo reactors of insignificant power. Granted that the power level for EBR II was insignificant compared to a commercial reactor, but it did run successfully for about 30 years an
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by opo 7y ago
>...I know you can re-process fuel for normal nuclear reactors. But that doesn’t give you: “less hazardous and only needs to be stored for a much shorter time” waste I am not very familiar with the Russian breeder design in particular, b
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by opo 7y ago
As your link says "...Elvis points out that one eighth of the iron in the asteroid belt is more than a million times greater that the estimated iron ore reserves on Earth, which may suffice for centuries." By the time we start run
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by opo 7y ago
>...but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop. Emergencies make it impossible, but even a relatively common illness makes comparison shopping unrealistic. I disagree. Almost all
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by opo 7y ago
The first federal minimum wage was .25 in 1938. An inflation calculator shows that would be $4.54 in 2019. Based on that, I would have to conclude the minimum wage has more than kept up with the inflation rate. https://bebusine
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by opo 7y ago
I think this is an insightful point: >...We're all constrained by what we're used to thinking about, and simply improving what we're already used to. But, in regards to: >...It's like when Henry Ford said if he&#x2
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by opo 7y ago
Less than 10% of prisoners are in private prisons - getting rid of private prisons would have little impact on support for the drug war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison Which isn't to say that public
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by opo 7y ago
There are reasons to be skeptical of this alleged quote by Ehrlichman. As user GatorD42 pointed out when this was brought up before: >...Baum claims Ehrlichman said that to him in 1994 while he was researching for a book he published in
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by opo 7y ago
>...The "predatory" part was towards his competition. In areas where they operated he dumped product below cost. Actually from reading your link, I don't get that impression that Standard Oil dumped product below cost to p
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by opo 7y ago
Burning coal is overall much worse for the environment and people, but in terms of climate change, it might not be much better than coal. The CO2 emissions from a natural gas plant are lower than a coal plant, but it isn't clear that
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by opo 7y ago
>dude, can you read 4 sentences... Ad Hominem. We are done here.
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by opo 7y ago
>... presented with data Let's see... You take a report 16 years old and then you cherry pick the 270 number by ignoring all the other factors that wold be relevant if the world decided to get all of its energy from nuclear energy.
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by opo 7y ago
This ignores many factors. Why are you assuming we won't reprocess fuel like France does? The CANDU reactors can already use Thorium. Why are you assuming we wouldn't have breeder reactors? If we ever actually ran the risk of r
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by opo 7y ago
For the first 2 decades or so, methane is about 86 times worse than CO2: >While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2. >In thos
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by opo 7y ago
>...I’m aware this is a tangent, but I couldn’t find any mention of nuclear weapons in the wikipedia page for Operation Downfall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall There is a section of that wikipedi
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by opo 7y ago
The real issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projected costs had exploded: >...Although retiree h
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by opo 7y ago
>...Renewables + storage are now cheaper than nuclear as a carbon free and dispatchable resource. Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variations.
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by opo 7y ago
>...While nuclear is certainly going to be around longer than coal, the impact is just as catastrophic, Coal plants will kill more people this year than nuclear has done over the last 100 years - and that includes the Chernobyl accident
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by opo 7y ago
I agree with your main point that reactor designs today are safer designs than those from the 1960s. Though you also wrote: >...Or we could have done it after Three Mile Island (which harmed no members of the general public but clearly
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by opo 7y ago
>...This is similar in the sense that design, oversight, and general knowledge of nuclear is much more advanced today than when Chernobyl was built. That is true, but even when Chernobyl was built, no western country would have licensed
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by opo 7y ago
>...It is fair when you're talking about human hubris and what it can lead to. Chernobyl (and other reactors like it) should've, could've, would've done x,y,z, but that disaster did occur, A totalitarian regime built
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by opo 7y ago
>..As bad as Chernobyl and Fukushima were, MUCH worse accidents are possible. Chernobyl would have been illegal to build anywhere else in the world since it was such an inherently dangerous design. It isn't really fair to compare i

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