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by rsj_hn 5y ago
It's like California shutting down their nuclear plant. Well, OK it imports 30% of it's electricity from the rest of the grid already, so that can go up to 40%. Utah will add another gas plant, turn that on at night, and Californi
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Newer data says otherwise OK, GLWT. > And variability is easy to deal with: overbuild and/or storage. Southern Australia shows how it is done. Australian energy is 72% fossil fuel, 11% hydro, rest solar and wind. https:/&
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Maybe because the U.S. isn't Iceland or Norway? No country is actually running on solar and wind -- it's too variable. Norway is running on Hydro, Iceland is running on geothermal.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The issue isn't whether nuclear energy is complicated, but whether it's part of the discussion. Of course it has to be part of the discussion, so this makes COP look less serious, as it seems like they are catering more to Green m
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Biden will not be attending either. But you can send delegates. China isn't sending any delegates (neither is Russia).
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
China is also not participating, so that should tell you how serious this is.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Yes, the policy we followed doesn't seem to be so effective. Then why do you think it saves more lives than it costs? Merely arguing that it is really ineffective isn't helping your case that all these lockdowns cause more good
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
First, I'm talking about life-years, not excess deaths. Second, I'm talking about opportunity cost. Saying that a lot of people died under your preferred policy does not measure what the opportunity cost of that policy is. It real
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> The numbers you want are out there The long term cost numbers will become known. But let's say that over a 3 year period there are 600,000 excess deaths, of which 80% are due to covid, so that would be 1.4 million life years, and
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
First, you are literally just repeating the claim without taking into account whether this was 78 year old dying one year earlier or wether this was a 20 year old soldier dying in war. Second, you are not counting how many of these excess d
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
There is a difference between a 75 year old terminal cancer patient dying one month earlier from covid, and a 20 year old soldier dying. If you are just counting "lives lost" and view these as the same, then you are not really eng
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Hmm, the "air shower" I got from a Thaddeus Russell's podcast about famous dissolute men, in which he covered Churchill, Franklin, and others. You can ping him on Twitter or elsewhere for a source. For Franklin's schmooz
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The industry output tables I mentioned do not measure "spending" per se, they measure value-add , that is, spending minus purchases of other sectors, so private sector should be netted out. Conceptually, say you have a government
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Thanks, hogfeast! I am really interested in economic history, so I was aware of the enclosure period, but don't know much about it -- can you recommend some reading material to this and also the Swing Riots? (I know I can google, but b
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The autobiography is wonderful, and brilliant, but understand it is not so truthful. The type of aphorism you cited is typical of his output. It most likely never happened, but it should have happened. This is like Franklin's great p
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That's exactly what this piece is.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
reviving the old saw about whether it's better to fight a dog-headed robot or a robot-headed dog.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
If you are focusing on government production, then how would you measure that? Well, one thing I can think of is BEA gross output by industry tables. It only goes back to 1997 https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?reqi
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The article in the thread does not discuss the mechanism by which populations migrated to factories! Or are you reading a different article? Where are you getting these ideas that peasants were forced to move into the factory towns against
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
You cannot have "voluntary communism". The point of communism is to ban certain things -- e.g. make it illegal for private people to own capital. The entire definition requires that it be involuntary. In capitalism, there are work
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I'm curious where you are getting this alt-history. Do you have any academic or popular primary references? Who do you read for economic history that supports these conclusions?
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
The idea that a solution might not require an increase in taxes truly drives people nuts. It's a shame because it explains why the US government spends so much more on education and healthcare than other nations, yet we have such terri
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> I don’t get how anyone who saw future dystopian sci fi in the 80s doesn’t understand that it’s all the result of increased privatisation. In what sense has there been increased privatization since the 1980s? Note that I'm not cont
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
For progressive takes, I recommend Thomas Frank. Chris Hedges is also good in that he has coverage of working class issues, but like the rest of the alt-reporting crowd, there is a lot of strident oversimplification and too much crusading.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
I agree with your major points, but with some modifications: > It means government won't retaliate against you No, that's the meaning of the first amendment. Free Speech is a principle of tolerance not limited to the governmen
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
> Online "news" needs to get hits and thus make money. Being actual news is a far distant priority to that. Yeah, I get why Time hires these kids. They fired the senior reporters to cut costs and pay peanuts to the replacements
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
Right, but that instant drop was lockdowns. Basically the whole nation went into lockdown, then partially re-opened. Now you have a partial lockdown situation. E.g. restaurants limited to X people, etc. If she had written a piece that said
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This piece is a good exemplar of the problems with modern journalism. First, let's take a look at the statistics cited in the piece which support the main thesis (the whole article is built on two facts): * highest quit rate since ....
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
And intelligence, skilled labor, organizational capacity, and especially wisdom.
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
This is how you get to a place where college education is triple the cost of the rest of Europe (and much worse in quality), healthcare is double the cost and much worse in quality, and housing is skyrocketing. "But I thought subsidizi

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