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by opo 2y ago
>...Using unrealized gains/assets as collateral is the way the ultra-wealthy avoid large swaths of income tax. There are many web sites that claim this, but are there any actual reliable stats on how many lifetime loans are being gi
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by opo 2y ago
The most famous example of this kind of use of eminent domain was the Kelo case which went to the Supreme Court. By 5-4 the court rules it was permissible to use eminent domain to get the land to build a campus for Pfizer. (The majority wa
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by opo 2y ago
>...I submit you have not flown very often lately because I've never seen a plane 60% full in a long long time. The load factor will likely vary by location and time of day, but overall from April of 2023 to April of 2024, the load
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by opo 2y ago
>> In the coming decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will need to transport that material to future storage facilities. >No doubt at great cost, none of which is being factored into current nuclear projects or energy prici
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by opo 2y ago
This quote like many others are funny because people pretend that they can exactly remember things said decades earlier. Andy Hertzfeld later updated this entry on his website: "....Here is Mike Boich's recollection of the '
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This likely varies by country in Europe and even what part of the country (rural vs urban). For example, a survey done in Germany found the following distribution of how often people went to a restaurant: Once a month: 44% A few times a m
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by opo 2y ago
>...The Washington Monument syndrome,[1] also known as the Mount Rushmore syndrome[2] or the firemen first principle,[3][4] is a term used to describe the phenomenon of government agencies in the United States cutting the most visible or
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by opo 2y ago
>When vision was available (Jimmy Carter and solar panels on the White House comes to mind) ... The panels installed on the White House were not photovoltaic solar panels - they were solar water heater panels. >...(Regan tearing them
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by opo 2y ago
You are ignoring state government expenditures. >...The US government's Bureau of Economic Analysis as of Q3 2023 estimates $10,007.7 billion in annual total government expenditure and $27,610.1 billion annual total GDP which is 36.
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by opo 3y ago
>...Apparently the man was a half-wit who disliked reading and easily mesmerized by video; a typical TV-watching zombie. Your source says: >...While Reagan found the videos helpful and asked for more, the original idea for the televis
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by opo 3y ago
>...Canada a population of 40M bringing in 1M population in an year was a terrible move. Do you have a citation for that number? Most sources say Canada takes in about 1/2 that: >...Currently, annual immigration in Canada amount
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by opo 3y ago
>...Now liberals want to water down or eliminate qualified immunity, but they've lost all power on the court. Which liberals on the Supreme Court want to water down or eliminate qualified immunity?
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by opo 3y ago
The AskHistorians group on reddit has a section of the FAQ devoted to Jared Diamond which you might be interested in: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/historians_views...
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by opo 3y ago
>That's true, but also quite meaningless. Before the nuclear phaseout started, renewables contributed less than 7% to electricity generation, now it's over 56%, so it more than compensates for the missing nuclear generations. Y
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by opo 3y ago
>That article is from January 2023, so the numbers in there are 2022, not last year, Thanks for the clarification. The numbers are a little different, but unfortunately the main point is still true. Before the phaseout started, nuclear
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by opo 3y ago
31 million dollars is actually a lot of money to waste on an arguably immoral program. Multiply those tens of millions by the 40 years of the program and you are talking about a lot of money that should not have been spent.
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by opo 3y ago
>I don't think rooftop solar is that simple: Money is fungible and not unlimited - a dollar that goes to subsidize residential rooftop solar is a dollar that would go much, much further if it was used to subsidize utility grade sola
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by opo 3y ago
It is actually worse than that. Even the relatively small amounts of money we are willing to spend to combat this are often not spent well. One example, is rooftop solar. Rooftop solar is very, very, expensive compared to utility grade so
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by opo 3y ago
The problem with rooftop solar is that it is very, very, expensive compared to utility grade solar: >…Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings and nuclear power have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of en
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by opo 3y ago
>Government-run prisons may be badly run, but at least they don't have an overt incentive to exploit the inmates as much as possible. Everyone who benefits from the prison industrial complex has a an overt incentive to exploit the i
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by opo 3y ago
You think it is different in government run prisons? There are valid reasons to be against forced prison labor, but the prevalence of it has little to do whether the prison is run by the government or a private company.
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by opo 3y ago
It isn't difficult to find critiques of the book from different economists. The problems they find in the book are much more substantial than quibbles about the phrasing he uses to describe the Federal Reserve. For example: http:&#x
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by opo 3y ago
Who has ever said that solar/wind or any other form of power is going to be 100 times cheaper than what we have now?
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by opo 3y ago
>...This is why residential solar get such stiff propaganda against it by utilities, going as far to say that residential solar "freeloads" on the grid The problem with rooftop solar is that it is very expensive compared to uti
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by opo 3y ago
>Turkeys will also look straight up in the rain with their breaks open and drown. That appears to just be urban folklore: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drown-and-out/
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by opo 3y ago
There isn't some simple silver bullet here. While the US ends up subsidizing other industrialized countries for prescription drugs (and that should be stopped), it is a small percentage of overall healthcare costs: >While prescripti
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by opo 3y ago
>...Okay, so first thing I wasn't talking about the great wall. That wasn't created until the Ming dynasty The most famous parts of the Great Wall were built in the Ming Dynasty, but stretches of the wall were first built centu
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by opo 3y ago
>...But spoiler Genghis Khan found a way around that problem. It was Kublai Khan who founded the Yuan dynasty. >...After two decades of sporadic warfare, Kublai Khan's armies conquered the Song dynasty in 1279 after defeating the
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by opo 3y ago
>It's also the simple fact that the average blue collar worker hasn't seen rising wages since the 80s. You probably need to define what you mean by average blue collar worker as there are many ways of looking at this data (and
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>...It was just $75k. There were no meaningful gains in measures of happiness beyond that magic number. That was contradicted by later research: >...But in 2021, Killingsworth, a happiness researcher and senior fellow at the Universit

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