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by opo 10y ago
Unfortunately economics is one of those areas where many people who have never studied it think they know everything about it. It doesn't help that politicians (of all types) take advantage of this ignorance to pander to their potenti
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by opo 10y ago
>Because nuclear leaves toxic waste that lasts over 10000 years in the best case; That might be theoretically true for the moment, but not in the near future. Right now waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of w
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by opo 10y ago
According to wikipedia, wind kills about 150 per trillion Kwh. This is significantly more than nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
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by opo 10y ago
Oh please... an ad hominem attack on the NBER?? >...The NBER is the largest economics research organization in the United States.[2] Many of the American winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences were NBER Research Associa
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by opo 10y ago
>...I think we're pretty close to being in agreement. Well... I think we agree on part of this and disagree on other parts... I think producers should be free to market their products as organic, cage free, free range, kosher, etc,
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by opo 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. >…It's a small move from here to say that people accept these crops as organic. And then another small move to say that since transgenic crops are no different from these other crops, that transgenic crops shou
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by opo 10y ago
>...To assume that those who prefer to buy organic are knowingly accepting that mutation-bred foods should be labeled organic I think is a little disingenuous. Disingenuous? I certainly didn't claim that people who buy organic unde
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by opo 10y ago
>...I just think that GMO cultivars should be required to be identified the way chemicals are, and meet similar safety standards to other food additives. This idea that GMOs are unregulated is a myth. If someone wants to argue for more
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by opo 10y ago
What is ironic about the GMO debate, is that the people most worried about GMO foods don't seem to know or care about the many crops that were created by exposing seeds to high amounts of radiation or chemical mutagens: >...Unlike g
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by opo 10y ago
>...That's interesting because it demonstrates that you absolutely can successfully introduce any arbitrary behavior in your child ... provided that you enforce 100% compliance. 99% compliance ? Expect WW3. Expect pain. But 100% com
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by opo 10y ago
>... Bed sharing for sleep when the parents do not smoke or take alcohol or drugs increases the risk of SIDS. Risks associated with bed sharing are greatly increased when combined with parental smoking, maternal alcohol consumption and&#
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by opo 10y ago
>...used by economically illiterate people Please don't insult people on this forum. In terms of your statement: >..."It's not zero-sum" is a popular and lazy fallacy Simply look at the simplest case. Unless coerc
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by opo 10y ago
>...I was still getting interrupted by phone calls. Calls that would last 10-20 seconds, that type of conversations in an open space wouldn't be as distracting. Think about the other people around you. When you are getting phone ca
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by opo 10y ago
Well all the research basically shows that productivity goes down when distractions increase, so you won't even see anyone quoting research to justify their decision. The executives who make this kind of decision generally know they w
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by opo 10y ago
>... But frankly, I don't give a fuck about whether Yahoo succeeds financially--I want my life and the lives of other people to be better. And I want that to be the goal of my government. In this situation it doesn't matter tha
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by opo 10y ago
>Truth though is fly ash isn't really that much more radioactive than any common sample of soil (1 to 10X). And uranium and thorium aren't particularly problematic. Radium is an issue here. But like I said, the air pollution f
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by opo 10y ago
>Problem citing a 1978 paper on coal power plant emissions is the emissions controls that have been added over the last 40 years. And of course the ancient plants that have been closed down. The transuranic elements in coal will either b
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by opo 10y ago
>...A 1978 paper from Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimated that coal-fired power plants of that time may contribute a whole-body committed dose of 19 µSv/a to their immediate neighbours in a 500 m radius.[46] The United Nations S
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by opo 10y ago
No that is simply not true. Just because someone doesn't think that the war on drugs is a good idea or that prostitution should not be criminalized, etc. doesn't mean they think "governments can do nothing right" libert
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by opo 10y ago
That covers materialist capture, but there is also non-materialist capture: >Materialist capture, also called financial capture, in which the captured regulator's motive is based on its material self-interest. This can result from b
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by opo 10y ago
There is a difference between nominal rate and effective rate. The effective rates are fairly close to the past for high wage earners, lower for low wage earners. >...In 1958, approximately two million filers (4.4% of all taxpayers) ear
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by opo 10y ago
Firms will charge the most they can whether or not they paid money for the spectrum they use. It is the amount of competition (for that product and its substations) that will determine the ending price that can be charged. So no matter wh
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by opo 10y ago
>Breeder reactors like fast neutron reactor main advantage is less radioactive waste, Generally they will also have more passive safety features and in the case of something like the IFR, an even smaller chance of proliferation. Less nu
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by opo 10y ago
>...Energy storage is possible. Possible, but except for pumped hydro, it looks like still a lot of work needs to be done. >...3) Fusion is attainable in the time frame we need it in, if we increase research funding, but its not requi
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by opo 10y ago
I have heard variations of this argument many times, but it isn't clear how this represents US history since WW II. By any measure (% of GDP, etc). government spending is much larger than it was in the post WWII era. By any measur
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by opo 10y ago
>... The broader question is whether the law should permit any third-party funding of litigation where the funder has otherwise has no connection with the merits of the dispute. Are you seriously trying to argue that contingency fee arra
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by opo 10y ago
>99.999% of everyone who knows what asset forfeiture is knows it because of John Oliver. Asset forfeiture has been controversial since it started being used much more frequently in the 1980s. I really doubt most of the people commenting
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by opo 10y ago
>Residents start their first year knowing literally nothing about practicing medicine. If this is true, it really indicates that how we train medical practitioners needs to be reformed. (If true, maybe there should be different programs
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by opo 10y ago
>...Hospitals would typically make a loss on residency programs otherwise; contrary to what some people believe, they're actually quite expensive to operate. How does that work? Residents make very little money and do a lot of work
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by opo 10y ago
The current government deficit is more than 500 billion. We can't currently pay for current government spending - not sure why you think the government would try and pay for a huge new entitlement when the political firestorm from tha

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