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> We have infrastructure solutions today Prove it. If you say it's a solved problem, then go ahead and deploy the replacement. What should power ships if not fossil fuels? Sail? Batteries? Hydrogen? Go ahead and tell me the replacem
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> Every Russian soldier, vehicle, or round of ammunition expended in Ukraine for increasingly diminishing returns is a Russian soldier, vehicle, or round of ammunition that will never harm a NATO member. Sure, and it's also 10 dead
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Government creating thinly traded markets that gatekeep essential services is always a bad idea. It funnels huge fees to wall street and creates opportunities for financial manipulation. It is Clinton-era neoliberal grift. I thought the fia
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Africa has long been where a lot of US trash (which is ostensibly "recycled") is being dumped. But as in many other fields, China offered the scale and infrastructure to efficiently huge quantities of Western waste that Africa lac
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The post-depression panic about share buybacks was uninformed and lacked evidentiary basis, as there were only very unique situations in which a company could actually boost its market value this way -- namely if it was fighting some kind o
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> Seems like another easy win for the rats at the tax payers expense! This is the unofficial city byline: "New York City - where the rats always win."
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You can look at 2019. What changed was not the US Economy, but China refusing to accept US trash, which happened in 2018. Some articles: https://www.rethinkdisposable.org/ban-china-ending-recycling... https://e36
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Lower end consumer electronics are fine with chips that aren't the absolute latest. The point isn't that they won't find buyers, but rather that they will earn less money building a fab in a location with much higher labor co
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You are confusing the definition of a category with the realization of category members. We say that a horse has four legs and two eyes, but horses are born with three legs sometimes, or get into an accident and lose a leg, or they are born
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When I was in SF, they still had the different bins, and most people believed that what they put in the green bin was recycled (assuming they put the correct items in there). But what was actually happening I don't know. I do see &quot
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There is an economic problem here, which is that only a small subset of trash can be recycled efficiently -- metals, some paper. For everything else, it's very expensive or just impossible to recycle, and those costs are rising because
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Automotive industry is still using 90nm chips. It's not even the generation before the current one. They have long production runs and require stability, and they also prefer to use standardized parts across many production runs. Defen
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That's assuming you live alone or have no nearby friends/relatives who can watch your child. Most of the world somehow has kids without spending huge sums, because they have children when they are much younger and rely on nearby f
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> As a programmer and hobbyist math reader, I found category theory to be very unrewarding (and I gave up on it) because of the lack of interesting theorems and lemmas. My takeaway was that there's Yoneda lemma and really nothing in
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counterpoint: FTX only robbed people doing business with FTX. Enron robbed all of California. Tens of millions of households had to pay sky high electricity bills because of Enron manipulating the electricity market in California. The damag
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Prior to cardboard, stuff was shipped in wooden crates. So, a big improvement in terms of wood required to ship something. On the other hand, it was easier to re-use the crates. On the third hand, the empty wooden crates took up a lot of sp
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> But as a matter of policy effectiveness, it would be useful to have examples of true statements which were banned, to see how effective the policy was, and see the types of misclassifications. Show me the list of statements that twitte
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There are tons of non-native english speakers on this site, so as a PSA "tons" is an idiom that means "lots". It has other meanings than weight. Variants include "tonnage", "metric tons", and "fu
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You asked for the definition of "coastal media" type and got one. You need your own definition of "chorus" or whether it applies in a given context. I'm sorry you don't think the definition is "honest&quot
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I would say someone living in a specific media bubble. Politico has an article about this with some data: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bub... Pew has done a study recentl
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I agree that the pains of restrictive zoning are very real and punish newcomers. When I was in SF, I lived in a rent controlled unit in which there was a cranky old lady paying $800 for a 2 bedroom apartment while a young couple moved into
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This is basically the housing market. Homebuilders react to high prices by continuing to build more homes as long as they can do so at a profit. Not hard to understand. There is always overshooting. That's OK, it results in a lot of ho
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Apple don't move to China to save money, they moved to China in order to meet high demand. There was simply nowhere else that could produce the volume. And technically, Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, but that's not an important d
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It's very hard to pull manufacturing out of China. No other nation has the combination of infrastructure, production networks, human capital, affordable energy, investment financing. I've long been fascinated by productive eco-sys
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> You reversed cause and effect here. The former happened after the latter. Soviets invaded and then we supported the Islamic rebels to successfully win out against the Soviets. If we hadn't history would have taken a very different
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The article is in the journal - Responsible Statecraft -- published by the think tank - Quincy Institute. This stuff isn't hard. In terms of rational or irrational, it's irrational to fight wars that destabilize the world and that
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> When dealing with a large project, whether it is a new plane, a big infrastructure, anything large and unique, you should take any budget with a big pinch of salt, there is no way anyone can predict precisely how a complex project, tha
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Well, there are structural problems and personnel problems. Most big, intractable problems come down to a combination of these two -- and the personnel problems are from structural causes. The biggest issue is that we have no systematic tra
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The existence of a "criticism" section on wikipedia does not mean a journal isn't reputable. But if you want to censor your own information sources that way, go ahead. The Quincy Institute -- which publishes Responsible State
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Interesting! Brave search has Schwarznegger as the first cast member

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