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by prottog 4y ago
That's wild. I live in an extremely hot and humid part of the country, in the Gulf Coast; probably the area with the highest AC demand in the summer. I routinely exceed $300 a month in the hotter months. Do you have a particularly smal
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> instead you should ask why the wealthy aren't paying their share of the taxes? And what is the right share that the wealthy should pay, and how wealthy should one be to be paying that amount? I'm assuming it's some level
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> data sources saying otherwise generally are using pre-Fukushima stats. I thought only one person died as a direct result of the Fukushima meltdown? And the other deaths attributed to it were due to poor handling of the people who evacu
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> One of my favorite transformations: Spectacle Island, which doubled in size after being used as a city dump from the 1920s until 1959, is now a national park. Nitpick: it's a National Recreation Area, not a (capital) National Park
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> How many rich tech people from SV/Cali who paid top dollar for Texas property are now quickly fleeing after the recent political happenings that stripped the rights of half the voting population? Not very many at all, in my estima
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> by “funding corporate ability to murder” (my quotes re sentiment) I don't know about the discussion, but what I'm taking away from the article is actually what policing could be if the shield of immunity that fuels the "
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> I think people feel safer being where they have always been ( as unsafe it may be to an audience from a statistical point of view ). As they say: better the devil you know.
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It's always a balancing act, I suppose. Portland, like many other West Coast cities, is set in a truly beautiful location, with a marvelous blend of mountain and water; and with all the big city amenities on top of it, it does make for
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by prottog 4y ago
I certainly take your point, living in a city that has a similar climate. But in a truly walkable neighborhood, where your place of residence, place of work, and other supporting places in life (grocery store, gym, bars and restaurants, etc
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Mount Waialeale on Kaua'i supposedly received 683 inches in 1982[0], so perhaps it's not totally inconceivable that some other tropical place received about a tenth of that in a day? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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Sounds like the biggest factor is the lack of onerous American-style zoning regulations, which permits interesting uses of real estate to emerge intermingled with each other; as opposed to the suburban American standard of "everyone mu
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I hear the same about new tech-enabled equipment. I've always been curious, is there a market for continuing production of old-school, simple tractors and the like? Or is it one of those things that people complain about a lot but won&
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> Market capitalization is Market Price x Circulating Supply. It was always very strange to me that this is the case, even for more respectable financial instruments like stocks. I get that it's an easily-calculated number, and mayb
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I very much share your concern and frustration, but even I take convenience over principle in some matters. I happily use TSA PreCheck, despite hating the fact that you have to put yourself on a government list to restore a level of dignity
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> dying of Covid was considered to be a fine sacrifice to make to keep the economy flowing What you call "the economy" is actually people living normal lives, trying their best to make joy in a finite lifetime. It is exactly qu
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The labor force participation rate, for one, still hasn't recovered to pre-pandemic levels, and has been dropping every single month since August.
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> A significant chunk of current inflation is flat-out corporate greed. This argument cannot stand until it can answer the question: why are corporations all of a sudden greedy now, and not before? If they could raise prices 20% at any t
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by prottog 4y ago
To be fair, the person who made that statement is the FBI's legal attaché in New Delhi. One would expect a person in such a position to say something like that, to smooth relations with the host country. But yes, I hope the perpetrator
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by prottog 4y ago
I'm certainly not advocating that we pollute for fun. But if the choice is between polluting massively with fossil fuels or having people go cold and starve because there's not enough energy to produce fertilizer and heat people&#
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> We reached a point at which most of our problems are distribution problems. That's not true at all. The world's average household income is estimated to be about $10,000 a year, meaning that even if you magically solved the d
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by prottog 4y ago
You could, in a world of spherical cows. We could just as easily say synthetic fuels could power the entire USA if we just scaled it up.
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> That’s literally a last several meters problem. It can trivially be fixed with a tax incentive for landlords to install chargers. It's not just that. The grid is nowhere up to what is needed to support the majority of vehicles bei
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> there's going to be another massive asset bubble which will create tremendous inflationary pressure Asset bubbles don't necessarily turn out in cost-of-living inflation, as we saw in the era of QE after 2008; it was inflation
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by prottog 4y ago
Like I keep on saying, most problems facing humanity are energy problems. We must harness abundant energy from all possible sources instead of categorically denying one source or another for ideological reasons. We're not as far remove
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The same interstate commerce clause that the federal government interpreted as giving them regulatory authority over intrastate non-commerce, in Wickard v. Filburn.
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I hope they debate a bit more vigorously than they did in Canada, where they no longer require a person to be terminally ill or even be a legal adult.
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When someone becomes rich through this path, they aren't rolling around with a billion dollars in a vault Scrooge McDuck style. Almost all of their wealth that isn't taxed is already tied in their own business or in investments in
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> Your current life is only possible because you are inserted in a society, it's only far you have a debt to pay society back. Sure, but at some point it starts to sound abusive, like a narcissistic parent telling their child that t
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Nobody anywhere gets very wealthy just by working hard. Otherwise the world would be filled with millionaire janitors. > if you're using the excess to make yourself more money, rather than help improve other people's lives, you
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It's not as fringe as you think. Education at all levels (K-12 and higher ed) is increasingly teaching these concepts dogmatically, meaning in a decade or two such ideas will be much more widespread, as those students become adults. Th

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