prottog

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by prottog 3y ago
That is all of human history, from the moment we wrapped animal hide around us and picked up a sharp rock. Humanity didn't get to be the dominant life-form on the planet by asking nature nicely to please not bother us.
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by prottog 3y ago
My sincere hope is that the poor non-Westerners will also be well air-conditioned. And yes, you are quite right that there is no free lunch. In my analysis, the opportunity cost of going all-in on degrowth and solar/wind is precisely t
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by prottog 3y ago
> You do not need to fight climate change, we need to stop it. The correct answer is neither; we need advanced technologies and material wealth that will allow us to master the environment more robustly. Consider that in the past 50 year
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by prottog 3y ago
As they say, a measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure.
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by prottog 3y ago
Got it, that makes sense. I suppose the CFTC may come knocking on your ass instead ;-)
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by prottog 3y ago
> It has zero impact on my life It has zero impact on your life now, but you should strongly prefer that they don't, so as to keep your options open in the future. An analogy might be making sure you don't leak a sextape of you
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by prottog 3y ago
> Bitcoin is not a security What makes you say that?
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by prottog 3y ago
It's a good example of why a stable government, strong property rights, and rule of law are necessary (but not sufficient) conditions for long-term wealth development.
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by prottog 3y ago
In addition to the points that the other commenters raised, generally externalities such as pollution are worse when the entity creating the externality does not have to worry about paying for it. This is why authoritarian governments are e
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by prottog 3y ago
As an aside, "bread" is probably my least favorite part of the standard American diet.
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by prottog 3y ago
Time for the McRib to come back!
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by prottog 3y ago
I would love to visit one day!
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by prottog 3y ago
Ah, I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_dry_forests Average annual rainfall of 24-39" is not exactly anyone's idea of a desert (I believe 10" a year is the typical definition), though looki
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by prottog 3y ago
> It's optimaly located for a 100% solar-PV system (see South Australia for comparison) How does it compare to South Australia? SA reaches from 38-26 degrees of latitude, with empty scorching desert in the north (towards the equator
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by prottog 3y ago
> they did pay $4B in other federal taxes About $1200 per person, to put it in perspective. Still quite little.
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by prottog 3y ago
> Where else can you drive 3 hours and go from dense rainforest to absolute desert I've never been to Puerto Rico. Rainforest I can imagine, but where on that island is there a desert, even a relative one?! When you say "absolu
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by prottog 3y ago
Both the California and US constitutions guarantee a right to a speedy trial, and California criminal code has specific provisions on how quickly trials must begin. Who is holding the California government responsible for this? What an outr
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by prottog 3y ago
Animal husbandry is so fascinating!
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by prottog 3y ago
Absolutely true, and it's a good point; but I'm not sure if the source I listed for Germany includes or excludes transfer receipts.
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by prottog 3y ago
> The decision to shut down our nuclear reactors came from a conservative government, where the greens were in the opposition. The conservative party was in government when that decisions was made, yes, but this discounts the decades of
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by prottog 3y ago
The median real wage in Germany grew until the 90s, stagnated for a while, then started declining in the early noughts[0], with the effect worse for new entrants to the employment marketplace (i.e. young people and immigrants). The latter i
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by prottog 3y ago
The number of ads on YouTube that peddle an "AI-powered X" is a clear tell. Just last night, I saw an ad for an "AI golf swing aid"!
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by prottog 3y ago
> with the collective survival Deaths from climate-related disasters have been falling in absolute numbers even as the world population grows. In fact, in the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, humanity more than doubled in number while climate
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by prottog 3y ago
I've heard elsewhere that it does not apply to private flights.
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by prottog 3y ago
They don't want the poor people to come over, or are they merely against "criminality and delinquency" coming over? Surely it's possible to to separate the people and the behavior (of the few, mind you).
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by prottog 3y ago
> We have solid data that building transit lines actually decreases crime. Do we? A cursory Google search revealed a couple of papers, one of which showed a slight increase in crime after the addition of a bus line[0] in Cleveland, and a
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by prottog 3y ago
> the 2020 admin threw more money at the problem than was necessary, and did it in the second form Yes, the Covid stimulus was an experiment in "helicopter money", with a predictable response in price, especially in light of co
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by prottog 3y ago
Which part of the country (or the world) did you move to, out of curiosity? Is it one with a much more stable outlook on water supply?
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by prottog 3y ago
One of the theoretical advantages of an absolute monarchy or any other totalitarian form of government is that it should be able to make unpopular decisions (i.e. prevent the people from accessing groundwater resources) that are good in the
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by prottog 3y ago
The water used in irrigation eventually (and pretty quickly) makes its way into the ocean, so is it actually a big deal?

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