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by sprafa 7y ago
There is no such thing as an automatic tariff that I’ve ever heard about. Tariffs have always been controlled by politicians.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Regarding your argument about electricity, isn’t that what the US does? It burns coal and oil and has afaik virtually no limits or carbon taxes because “it would hurt American industry”. Yeah sure if there were tariffs all around. But the U
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by sprafa 7y ago
I won’t disagree with you there. Even this recent election of the neofascist Bolsonaro was essentially a self destructive act, very much grounded in identify politics (particularly anti-homosexual).
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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s hilarious that you’re so centred in your own politics that you don’t see the hypocrisy in that statement btw. “Tariffs are easier to enable”. Sure, FOR YOU. By you are fucking over Brasil twice - once by enacting climate by your irresp
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by sprafa 7y ago
No, they’re not. Not necessarily. https://medium.com/@indica/climate-winners-and-losers-in-two... Essentially countries that are causing climate are the industrialised world (obv.). Countries that are vital to stopping
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by sprafa 7y ago
Sure. Countries that are vital to stopping climate change should be paid to by countries who are causing it. That’s how you mitigate the externality that’s going on.
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Most evil corporations in history? Really? I mean they have nothing on the British East Indian Company, which took over and ruled over India as a private enterprises.
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by sprafa 7y ago
Or you could pay Brasil to stop destroying it. That’s something the current president, as insidious as he might be, is correct about. Why does Brasil have to suffer alone for the world’s lungs? If the world benefits the world should pay.
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by sprafa 7y ago
It’s really not. Economics as it is in macro is really flawed. I know so many people who studied it and are now data scientists here in London it’s not even funny. All of them said a version of the same thing - “we studied a bunch of models
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by sprafa 7y ago
This is completely untrue and you are being facetious. Virtually nothing in the article includes anything related to what you even posted here. In fact it focuses more on the climate crisis and how mainstream economics might still fail at i
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by sprafa 7y ago
You don’t have that in the US???
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by sprafa 7y ago
I’d say you’re pretty bang on. I think it a changed in the 60s and 70s when bankers bought the place (again right after television gutted them). Curiously in David Mamet’s new play, Bitter Wheat, a Weinstein type figure is described as mon
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think we have to consider the idea that Tesla is run by a futuristic utopian maniac who doesn’t take “no” for an answer. I mean... possibly.
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Common people, laymen, don’t completely understand it the same way you might, full of nuance.
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Brasil and the rest of South America. But yeah Brasil can become China’s meat basket.
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by sprafa 7y ago
They’re low because of television. Hollywood is a cred game. The actual money since the 1950s has been on television. In fact Hollywood has never been as profitable, inflation adjusted, as it was before the commodification of television set
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by sprafa 7y ago
20-30% of the population in the developed world now produces all the food and housing for the rest of the population. With a 5% increase you could easily create an end to homelessness and malnutrition surely (particularly malnutrition since
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by sprafa 7y ago
so what actually happens in britain is you buy a plastic bag and reuse it to avoid the 5p/10p cost. It's quite smart imo. Same thing is happening with reusable coffee cups which i think is brilliant So yeah paper/cotton bags
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by sprafa 7y ago
Why does RÓI have to be negative? Do you think that if marketing has good ROI then whatever money they put in they get back, meaning it creates a positive circle? Am I getting this right?
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by sprafa 7y ago
I think it demonstrates pharma has excess cash. Also in countries where there’s a public system pharma usually has 0 advertising because people have no choice anyway.
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by sprafa 7y ago
What makes you think all that money goes to R&D? Last I checked pharma was making insane profits
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by sprafa 7y ago
I don’t get it, this stuff is already behind a paywall already. There’s no darkening of the internet of news if news is already paywalled. Looks like false controversy to me. All publishers have to do is demand a login and that’s it. Articl
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by sprafa 7y ago
In London Uber is unravelling already. Here Citymapper is the default transit app and Uber is just one of the options listed. The transfer cost for a customer changing app is 0. We keep saying we’re “not sure” whether Uber will have custome
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by sprafa 7y ago
Sure that makes some sense. Discipline and impartiality is more important than technological supremacy, considering the tech is a actually old and impartiality and discipline actually make reactors safer
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That’s super cool
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by sprafa 7y ago
Hmm sure but it’s still 3D printing? It’s hard to imagine a conventional CNC machine doing this. But then again I know nothing about CNC machines.
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by sprafa 7y ago
I live in the UK, but I’m not from here. I have no idea what’s do you mean exactly by cognitive bias (and yes I know what they are). Yes I did expect a Rich first world democratic country like Japan to be probably better at managing nuclear
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by sprafa 7y ago
Even being gung ho about the possibilities of nuclear, Fukushima and then recently watching the Chernobyl miniseries made me think twice about it and turned me against it. The problem is not that we don’t have the technology to do it safely
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by sprafa 7y ago
True. I didn’t realize the Soviets thought they could do it? My impression was their whole lunar program was a clusterfuck
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He loathed Kennedy tho. He might have cancelled it, or changed it. Who knows really.

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