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by pydry 1y ago
Currently renting retirees are forced out already if they dont pay their rent. Can you confirm that you wish to see this practice completely banned (i.e. no payment of rent) to prove that you're not taking a two faced stance on this
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by pydry 1y ago
Ukraine has tried multiple times to blow up the Kerch bridge with underwater drones and have now largely given up. Underwater drones are not anywhere near as relevant in this war as airborne drones.
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by pydry 1y ago
It had a lot to do with it. Kursk was a heavily forested area where the Ukrainians largely had small troop deployments hiding under tree cover where fiber optic drones would hunt them down. There are thousands of videos of this in Kursk a
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by pydry 1y ago
Or they complain that they know everything has gone to hell but if they blow the whistle revenge will be taken against them. Everybody who worked with the 2005 Toyota Camry ETCS would have known what was up when it killed a few people, for
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by pydry 1y ago
Ive noticed that some of these types tend to be well meaning young people (often girls) who are super excited to have scored a job doing developer outreach for $BIGTECH. It's a clever political tactic coz a 50 year old white male middl
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by pydry 1y ago
>You’re again not considering electrification of current loads that burn fossil fuels You're not considering cost. >Unfortunately, a lot of these loads are closer to 24/7 The exact opposite is true. Heating, cooling and car
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by pydry 1y ago
This is only true in certain contexts. Most of the time software quality is looked over not because it genuinely isnt important but simply because it's hard to perceive. Ive watched many businesses appreciate the benefits of software q
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by pydry 1y ago
This might be the beginning of the end of tech VC startups in general. High interest rates make VC funding more expensive and now bigtech can swoop in, poach all the necessary staff and deprive investors of an exit. What is the point any mo
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by pydry 1y ago
and? when the value of your land goes up it is because it brings benefits. you can capitalize upon those benefits or you can sell up. neither are bad options.
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by pydry 1y ago
>You can implement a framework based on any of those measures, but crucially as above they are not an LVT, they are a "proportionate tax on total value based on extrapolating previous sales minus human estimates of improvement value
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by pydry 1y ago
And that headteacher's salary can increase too because the tax base went up. No such luck for the poor schoolteacher whose rent went up. All she will contribute to is her landlord's vacation fund. >Or the schoolteachers get dri
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by pydry 1y ago
Im very pro building more homes as well but to call it quick OR easy is wrongheaded. An LVT is an excellent stopgap and a way to incentivize the creation of higher density housing where it is needed.
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by pydry 1y ago
>we should scale up nuclear too. With a 5x higher LCOE and lead times of 15-20 years instead of 1-2 for solar/wind deployments, allocating money to scale up nuclear as well will just make the transition happen slower and at higher c
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by pydry 1y ago
>The claim, which I disagree with, is that spreading those taxes across nearby land incentivizes those property owners to sell their land to someone else who will improve it. The only claim here is that if you own land which makes you $1
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by pydry 1y ago
An LVT would need relatively few exceptions and rules in order to function well and is unavoidable by design . What we have right now for most taxes is the exact opposite of that - e.g. with sales, income taxes, etc. Mostly there are just
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by pydry 1y ago
>I agree with many of the arguments here about the theoretical impacts of a land value tax, especially the section "an LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land" Which is more of a feature than a bug. The alternative to
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by pydry 1y ago
>Take, for example, the case of surveying land for oil. Imagine a landowner invests significant time, money, and effort into exploring their property to determine whether it contains untapped oil reserves. LVT is for building property or
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by pydry 1y ago
Lazard says utility solar and onshore wind is ~$40 per MWh while nuclear power is ~$200. Offshore wind is more like $70, but also has double the capacity factor, so requires less matching storage. We've been told for about 3 decades th
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by pydry 1y ago
It's also coz people have moved en masse to cities for better opportunities and end up physically not having enough space for kids even if the housing is stable. The war on affordable housing is probably going to continue in the west u
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by pydry 1y ago
>And honestly, I'm still skeptical of the price difference. PV needs lots of things (transformers, transmission, storage, disposal, land use, etc) that are frequently not priced in. You should be less skeptical. With a LCOE differen
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by pydry 1y ago
It's not enough. Ive done this and still often gotten different results for the same question.
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by pydry 1y ago
could do but im not sure what there is to be gained from unnecessarily spending trillions more to decarbonize.
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by pydry 1y ago
We can either pray and wait for a technological breakthrough that makes storage tech way cheaper than gas or we can just use taxes and subsidies to make it happen now. It's not so hard. Lavish subsidies were used to make nuclear power
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by pydry 1y ago
Power2gas+solar/wind produced energy is a lot more expensive than natural gas and requires solar/wind to routinely overproduce. ...hence why there isnt much of it. It either requires subsidies or for natural gas to be taxed more.
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by pydry 1y ago
Yeah, if you discount it being zero carbon, syngas is not cost competitive with natgas at all.
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by pydry 1y ago
I would have loved to have seen somebody predict mass wfh only being possible within the confines of a pandemic and being shut down shortly after. Or that minus a few exceptions like blockbuster the majority of high street /mall stores
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by pydry 1y ago
One of the reasons I dont expect the australia storage model I cited to be wildly different to, say, Finland is that areas of the world which dont get a lot of sunlight tend to have a lot more wind and hydro potential per capita. I doubt
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by pydry 1y ago
Let's start with privatizing the risk of it going kaboom. Why do we need red tape that pushes the cleanup costs onto taxpayer shoulders? It's so safe! Sophisticated private insurers being willing to shoulder the full financial
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by pydry 1y ago
It'll probably be fulfilled in 3 stages 1) Gas peakers - where every kilowatt hour delivered by solar or wind is just a kilowatt hour of gas that would otherwise have been burned. We are generally still here - still burning gas while i
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by pydry 1y ago
This hype cycle is definitely more like the original hype cycle of the internet in the late 90s - back when "the high street was going to disappear", "we'd all be hanging out in VR" or that it would "democratiz

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