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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Yes, using natural gas for the things that only natural gas can do would be an excellent public policy. However that's not the policy we are pursuing. We are pursuing very blunt instruments to try to discourage investment in developing
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No, because prices are set by supply and demand, not the total social cost/benefit that obtains when all effects, direct and indirect, are taken into account. It is the discrepancy between market equilibria and total social cost/b
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Seeing as how natural gas is a required input for making synthetic fertilizer, without which billions would starve, it's hard to think of a product with more positive externalities than natural gas. Every time you go to the supermarket
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Billionaires purchase very little consumption, as a fraction of their wealth. Most of their wealth is invested. So if they locked up their money in a vault Scrooge McDuck style, what would happen is that interest rates would rise, and asset
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I like Tesla's products - they have good engineers that are building cool stuff - but I still think the stock is overvalued and people don't understand all the off balance sheet liabilities and risks faced by Tesla. For example,
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This is endemic to the whole world now, which has supply chains stretched across the globe in a just in time inventory system. Some economist should figure out what percentage of our productivity gains weren't really productivity gains
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The celery juice is added after cooking and the jerky is eaten cold. But yes, the celery juice will have nitrates -- the human body will naturally produce nitrites anyway -- the concerns are about heating the nitrites -- e.g. frying bacon.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
You can get all of these without nitrates. I am munching on grass-fed nitrate-free beef jerky sticks right now. https://www.amazon.com/Whole30-Approved-Protein-Calories-Ori...
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Metal recycling is fine and there was a thriving industry in metal recycling before anyone heard of "recycling". Metal recycling also does not require any subsidies. Your typical auto junkyard is a good example. The issue is the s
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> There is gentrification in some of the southern Chicago neighborhoods Fun Fact: The Obama Administration was instrumental in tearing down a number of low income housing projects in Chicago and exporting them to nearby cities in Illinoi
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I think you are ignoring the racial angle here. San Francisco became trendy because it was a major urban center, a walkable city, with less than a 6% black population, and that population was relegated to the Bayview area, which of course d
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I recommend finding better news sources. As a simple example, there was an employee of a TV news station in Moscow that started screaming pro-Ukraine things on the air, on live TV. She was given a 100 ruble fine (for causing a disturbance)
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I intentionally made predictions that could be verified after a year but would also be minority views on this site, since repeating where I agree with the majority does not add to the debate. Sure, they won't all happen, but say, a 50%
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
All problems requiring this type of collective action are social problems. There are many vacant houses in the U.S., and many cheap houses -- pretending this is about shortage of physical housing is just foolish. This is about shortage of
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> Done. Solved. But they don't do it. Why? This is called the Napkin Fallacy . When you write down some solution to a long standing social problem on a napkin in a coffee shop, and then instead of asking "What is wrong with my
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> Well, that and corporations have been pointing the finger at inflation, raising prices without meaningful competition, and we see profits at record levels. [1] There are a few object lessons in "how to lie with economic data"
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
It takes more than 3-6 months, but is definitely worth it. There are a number of universities offering online classes.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I mean, how do you communicate with someone that has no ability to make quantitative estimates? Yes, getting rid of prop 13 would require the administrative complexity of one specific job of one department to increase. No, this does not con
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
This may be difficult to understand, and I can accept if you refuse to believe it, but it's possible to say that two steps are needed without the first step also accomplishing the second. "e.g. 1) switch to more funding on propert
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
A "majority" of any sizeable group is not going to be rich. What is important for fiscal impact is that the rich are leaving, not that other people are also leaving. If you want to see data, we can look at IRS data: "New York
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Nothing wrong with decreasing population, but when your richest citizens are leaving, and poor migrants are coming in, then you start having fiscal problems, particularly for a state that has decided to fund itself with income and sales tax
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Let's not pretend that we are babes in the woods, with glistening eyes just opened to the world, trying to decide for ourselves what a "luxury car" really is. This is a well defined market segment for suppliers and consumers
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
No, the argument is about what is moral or immoral. Saying "I'm not going to have an assisted suicide right now " or saying "I will allow you to have an assisted suicide right now " is completely irrelevant to the
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Base Model Tesla 3: 49K Long Range: 56K Performance: 62K Fully Self-Driving is another 15K add on and there are other add ons as well. So let's say 49-80K depending on trim and options. A 2022 BMW 3 Series goes from 42K to 57K. A 5-Ser
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I think a reasonable feature for a password manager would be to do NIST recommended checks, such as comparing passwords to databases of known compromised passwords and alerting/recommending rotation or rejection of the password if a ma
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
No, they lowered corporate taxes. They raised taxes for the majority (but not all ) of the high income workers by reducing the deduction for state and local taxes (which, along with the mortgage interest deduction, should never exist)
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Whether the government of France has the right to draft you is completely up to the government of France to decide, and they can change their mind at any time. At best you can be comforted in knowing that your bodily autonomy is being voted
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do. I'll remember this the next time I need to pay taxes, am drafted to serve in the military, or have to abide by a court judgment I don't agree with
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
V2 is not going to make up for a deficit of 12 million troops. Red Army went from about 1 million men to 12-14 million men by 1945 (which number it depends on whether you count the Navy and other branches). Germany invaded with 3.7 million
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
You mean the shockingly civilized society that is a drug trafficking capital of the world with a recent spate of mafia murders? The one with 1.55 births per woman? I always laugh at dying European societies that consider themselves "ci

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