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by syops 5y ago
Bringing up owning a junk car is not relevant if there aren’t enough to make that feasible. I suspect there aren’t enough to make that a feasible options except for a small percent of the people at the margins given that junk cars are like
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by syops 5y ago
I specifically talk about people at the margins. It costs an average of $5,000 per year to own a car. There aren’t enough junk cars for everyone to own one. Roughly $0.50 per mile driven. https://www.caranddriver.com/rese
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by syops 5y ago
Too many people just don’t understand what car ownership costs. If we had decent public transportation a lot people currently at the margins would have their lives greatly improved. Far too many people are slaves to the debt servicing the
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by syops 5y ago
That’s an interesting point. Do you know I’d this is the case? That is, by putting this in the phone then Apple’s liability is lessened.
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by syops 5y ago
There are two competing goals. One is to help poor people get out of poverty. This leads to more consumption in the short term and this increase in consumption is partly offset by the fact that richer people tend to have fewer children.
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by syops 5y ago
That’s not the only feasible way to accomplish this. Taxing natural gas enough would accomplish this too. Banning it’s use will do the trick also. Making usage of alternatives cheaper is another way.
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by syops 5y ago
If a person has no income or capital gains from the U.S. and doesn’t live in the U.S. shouldn’t they be exempt from paying U.S. taxes? Also, shouldn’t foreign financial institutions be exempt from reporting to the U.S. about financial acti
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by syops 5y ago
Restrictions have been eased. There are indications that the virus has mutated into a more threatening form while keeping it’s high transmissibility. Louisiana appears to be running out of beds. https://thehill.com/homene
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by syops 5y ago
I’m guessing here but it seems to me the idea is that each atom can hold a finite amount of information and information storage requires energy. An economy requires information and storage of information (not necessarily permanently for ea
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by syops 5y ago
It’s a tax on capital and not on labor. Reagan famously believed the tax on capital ought to be higher than the tax on labor. That the capital gains tax is so low explains why the effective tax rate on Bill Gates is less than a person mak
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by syops 5y ago
Well, presumably because you could buy it at a price that made the investment feasible. That price could be $1. Maybe the land truly is worthless. In which case the auction is for nought. Then the community might decide to form a small
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by syops 5y ago
They don't. The property would be sold at auction just like tax foreclosed properties are now sold at auction.
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by syops 5y ago
I don't know the consequences of doing this but I think if no one wants to rent the space at any price then giving up the property seems feasible. The investment went bad. Unused land should go back to the community and be repurposed
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by syops 5y ago
Do you really think no one got insurance through their employer as a result of the mandate? Certainly there were large numbers of people who had their hours reduced as a result of the employer mandate. There were a lot of policy hacks use
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by syops 5y ago
You should do some research on the topic. Far more people are insured now than before the ACA.
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by syops 5y ago
It's a big stretch to say only government could make such a blunder. These rules were not blunders in the sense you make them out to be. They were the best option available given the reticence of roughly 50% of the population toward
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by syops 5y ago
One problem I give children aged 5 – 7 is the following. How old are you? (They answer X.) How many years did it take for you to become X years old? I've found that at 6 years old they start to relate their age with how many years it t
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by syops 5y ago
Do you know of any examples of a climate scientist or biologist predicting this and being labeled a climate denier for stating this prediction? I would be very much surprised if it wasn't common knowledge amongst climate scientists th
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by syops 5y ago
In the dark forest view it’s best to just kill off the opponent and not replace them with a potential new opponent.
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by syops 5y ago
I don’t see why that necessarily follows and I don’t see why one would want to send such a probe. It does nothing for me if I can send a probe to start humanity on another planet when I have no connection to said planet and won’t be able t
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by syops 5y ago
Your whole post is of the form: “Here’s the solution.” It’d have been much better if it was in the form: “Here’s what worked for me.”
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by syops 5y ago
The energy requirement to send a life destroying device to a far away planet might be much less than the energy requirement to send colonizers. That may be the big leap so to speak.
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by syops 5y ago
It’s great that you’ve found things that work for you but you should avoid believing that these are universal truths. Our minds are complicated and varied and it seems implausible to think that there are solutions that fit everyone.
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by syops 5y ago
I’m mistaken. The best I could find in support of my claim was this in Wikipedia: The Helms-Burton Act has been the target of criticism from Canadian and European governments in particular, who object to what they say is the extraterritor
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by syops 5y ago
The problem is that a country the U.S. embargoes isn't free to trade with all other countries since the U.S. prohibits any company that does business with the embargoed country from doing business in the U.S. The size of the U.S. econ
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by syops 5y ago
Yes, I know this. I was employing the same logic as the person I responded to. Namely, that since Cuba is a failure then it must be communism's fault. I just reversed things a bit. I was pointing out that simplistic reasoning is not
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by syops 5y ago
The trade embargo has much to do with this. Is there a prosperous country that the U.S. has embargoed for an extensive period of time. I suppose at one point Iran might have qualified but that would be because of oil. Nations that are lar
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by syops 5y ago
Let me clarify. Without actively and purposefully doing so we are killing off species on a grand scale. We do by how we acquire food, how we manufacture items for consumption, etc. Just by existing, in the sense of local optimization cre
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by syops 5y ago
Sure, but let’s add to the fact that as a species we have pretty much collectively decided that the other animals, plants, insects don’t matter. We’ve also collectively decided to defecate all over the environment and dump chemicals everyw
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by syops 5y ago
Sure. It's been done before by humans but now we aren't deliberately killing off these species. We are just existing and through the consequences of our behaviors we are killing them. We are all killing off species at a rate hu

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