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by tbihl 5y ago
I remember this being publicized some years back when a Super Bowl was being held in California, and someone calculated that one team would have to pay California more in taxes for their presence in the state than they would themselves be p
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by tbihl 5y ago
Graphene is the one that seems most functional to me. Just remember that you will take a loss on features, or else everyone would do it.
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by tbihl 5y ago
This could actually be the perfect answer, for large roads like interstates. And if you left municipalities and regions solely responsible for building and maintaining everything smaller, it would probably work perfectly.
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by tbihl 5y ago
I'll give you the non cynical answer: the funds wouldn't go to the right places because you'd have no idea where the driving happened. So your home state gets paid for you to drive all over the country on a cross country road
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by tbihl 5y ago
Just about every outcome of this would be good. It would reduce miles traveled, give the chance to charge people for the damage they do to the road, and encourage more compact development patterns. We know by the way people choose to use or
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by tbihl 5y ago
I certainly hope this doesn't happen. Tires are a huge part of cars being so much safer than they used to be, and we could take a major step back if tires started being optimized for taxes instead.
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by tbihl 5y ago
Why not count farmers as part of the workforce?
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by tbihl 5y ago
Why disable 5G? I was following everything until that point, but I'm not sure the reason for that choice.
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by tbihl 5y ago
That thread is fascinating. It's seemingly entirely occupied by people who are very well educated except for a glaring omission on the question of the most important things in their lives. It's well known that women very rarely da
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by tbihl 5y ago
It's a real distinction, but would perhaps be described by a dictionary as antiquated for reasons that could reasonably be considered nefarious. A relevant Strongtowns quip is a quote of the MUTCD entry for street: "see highway.&
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by tbihl 5y ago
The narrow streets with trees is essential. When I used to live in San Diego, the street next to my house, 1 lane in each direction plus parking, was at least 40 ft wide. It was treacherous to cross and obviously people flew down it. Now I
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by tbihl 5y ago
Total fertility for Japan as a whole is 1.4; in Tokyo it's 1.09. There is very limited immigration. That's not stable.
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by tbihl 5y ago
What in the US economy isn't inflated? The only thing I can think of in my life is utilities. Everyone knows housing has gone way up. As I go about trying to do work on my house, it's very clear that the price of getting work done
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by tbihl 5y ago
And that the delivery vans don't get raided while making deliveries.
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by tbihl 5y ago
This may be true, but that is distinct from closing before dark (which I haven't seen in any other place.)
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by tbihl 5y ago
Crime is much less common amongst people who legally own (i.e. buy) guns than in the general population.
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by tbihl 5y ago
If you can draw a causal link from 1/6 to this, then your local gun shop was a very well kept secret. Most places were rationing ammo since well before the national elections.
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by tbihl 5y ago
Not so much anticipation as the publicizing of actual widespread civil unrest for months on end. Plus, toilet paper had everyone in a hoarding mood.
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by tbihl 5y ago
Probably parent is writing in terms of the common line of thinking that Amazon exercises significant control over our lives by being so enormous and saying that it's not nearly so abusive a relationship as ones he's trapped in wit
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by tbihl 5y ago
The bad part isn't just energy density, but that lithium fires are self oxidizing, so you can't smother them. Your only method of attack is to get temperature down. Also, this type of smoke is awful. Anyone living in San Diego Eas
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by tbihl 5y ago
You are objecting to the very concept of the scientific method, whereby a hypothesis is subjected to a barrage of dismissals and either emerges strengthened or is rejected based on one of those dismissals.
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by tbihl 5y ago
These are the people for whom the $600/wk covid unemployment in the US has been disastrous. I visited my rural hometown last week, and the normally-occupied (though I wouldn't call it busy) downtown was empty. Of the 4 worthwhile
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by tbihl 5y ago
Of course, there is almost no discussion about methodology and data sets, which is just about all there is when it comes to these modeling studies. The closest they come is saying that the paper preceeded the pacnorwest heat wave. It seems
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by tbihl 5y ago
You need as many entrants in those fertile environments as possible because humans and societies are complex, leading to unpredictable outcomes as results of factors that anyone raising kids may have discounted, not known about, or been u
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by tbihl 5y ago
Two things: first, without having a recipe for very productive people, our best option is fostering fertile environments for development and then seeing who comes out, and that's very much a numbers game of getting as many entrants as
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by tbihl 5y ago
>Declining pops diminish the need for expansionism and internal unrest. Less fighting over limited resources. This is probably true, but the problem is that its logical conclusion is the literal death of everyone. Stop anywhere short of
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by tbihl 5y ago
We would be much better off as a species if we were able to handle the transition to a stable state. On the other hand, population growth is what allows us the enormous specialization that lets us achieve unbelievable technological feats wh
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by tbihl 5y ago
What you've described is the best-cast scenario of an aging population. Far worse is the modern reality in most places, which is systems that take growth and a certain demographic shape as base assumptions, and then make promises to pe
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by tbihl 5y ago
I would say not 'possible', but more probable than in 2016.
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by tbihl 5y ago
The dollars are relevant, but the widespread fraud is the more important aspect.

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