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by tfourb 4y ago
Partly for heating as well – industrial buildings need to be heated but are generally not very well insulated so turning down the temperature by a few degrees results in nice savings at the cost of people having to wear a warm sweater. But
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At least in Germany households use about 10% less energy compared to prior winters at similar temperatures. Industry and commerce saved similar amounts.
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sorry, wrong thread.
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So what is the positive externality of emitting CO2?
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by tfourb 4y ago
So what is the positive externality of emitting CO2?
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That statement makes no sense at all. "Positive externalities" is the benefit someone derives from consuming a product/service so this is usually quite well reflected in the actual price you pay for it. I.e. the "positiv
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by tfourb 4y ago
No, if you had read the source I linked you'd find out that there are decent models that put firm prices on CO2 based on assumptions of how quickly you want to decarbonize the economy. The assumed externality is the need to decarbonize
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by tfourb 4y ago
There are thousands of quite intelligent people studying this and they are writing studies and reports which can be googled. CO2 for example should probably cost in the high double/low three figures, depending on your assumptions on ec
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Of course you can proof the safety of a chemical compound for human consumption (at least to the best of current technical abilities and within an acceptable margin of error). This is done for i.e. drugs thousands of times each year. Yes it
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by tfourb 4y ago
Spending 5% of the government budget for ten years on measures that reduce energy consumption by 20-30% for a third of the housing stock forever is a bargain. The 20-30k figure was based on my experience with German houses, I have no idea
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by tfourb 4y ago
As I wrote above, the proposed (!) regulation would be based on the national housing stock. So if you are in Finnland, the energy efficiency of your house would be compared to other finish houses, not a house in Germany. Which is the defi
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Just to underline how property law works in many EU countries: I have a tenant who is actively destroying the apartment he lives in . It is still practically impossible to dissolve my rent agreement with him, because the courts see it as l
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by tfourb 4y ago
Let me get this straight: - You own an asset worth 200,000-300,000 Euros - The required investment, which can be spread over up to ten years, is 20,000-30,000 Euros - You would have to make parts of this investment anyway, because your wind
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by tfourb 4y ago
This is a negotiating position (!) by the EU Parliament, not a finished regulation or decree. Regarding the actual content: If adopted as proposed (which is unlikely), it would force owners of the 30% of least energy efficient houses (compa
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by tfourb 4y ago
Not sure how "less ChatGPT" is making anyone's live worse but I guess that is a matter of opinion.
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by tfourb 4y ago
There are standardized ways to check age based on national IDs and a company worth billions in venture capital like OpenAI can certainly afford to implement them. Alternatively they could just not publish a batshit crazy language model just
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by tfourb 4y ago
A TV can usually be controlled quite effectively by a parent (if they choose to do so). Access to the internet can not be controlled in the same way. Taking it away completely is often not desirable, fine tuning access is not feasible even
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by tfourb 4y ago
The mail carrier does not advertise the fraudulent product and does not handle the financial transaction. There is a pretty obvious difference between a mail carrier and Amazon. Craigslist actually is responsible for stuff that is offered o
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It is not only the customer who suffers damage, but also the seller of legitimate merchandise who is not compensated by Amazon for fraudulent sales. Also, Amazon 100% has a spreadsheet somewhere calculating the share of customers who don&#x
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"It's hard" should not be an excuse for not preventing fraud. Most arguments from tech companies boil down to "but we would have to spend some of our billions of dollars of annual profits or venture capital to prevent th
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by tfourb 4y ago
This "study" (not peer reviewed) is questionable in various ways and published by a "think tank" that has a strong libertarian agenda and an obvious axe to grind. First of all, it compares figures from two different data
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A poor person in the U.S. more likely as not does not have proper health insurance, no unemployment benefits to speak of, is highly unlikely to receive disability benefits even when diagnosed with a disability, is subject to a highly prejud
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by tfourb 4y ago
Yeah sure, but my point was that the current capitalist-maximalist ideology is that rich people have "earned" their wealth by "hard work" and thus should not be required to share with the rest of society. And that is jus
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If I recall correctly, the general consensus is that while there are people who do very well in predicting future events and developments (google "super forecasters"), nobody can do so reliably beyond a time horizon of five years
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Actually the U.S. in 3rd place behind Switzerland and Luxembourg in terms of mean wealth per adult and Hong Kong is not far behind. But you are right that the other countries on the upper ranks are mostly smaller nations with large banking
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You said it is "mostly not luck". I said and believe I did at least prove to a first approximation that it is indeed mostly luck. Yes, hard work matters at the margin. Among the people I studied with, those with a good work ethic
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In terms of median income (which might arguably be better suited for this particular question than average income), the U.S. is on fourth position with Luxembourg, Switzerland and Norway occupying higher ranks. Germany is only about 3,000 U
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Essentially all of these insurances are subsidized by the government and would not function without taxpayer money. Also because the insurance part is in many cases compulsory, not having these programs run on the government budget is mostl
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According to wikipedia, 9 of the 10 richest persons are white men from an upper-middle-class or upper class social background. Even people like Sergey Brin, Mukesh Ambani and Carlos Slim, while not born in the U.S. or Western Europe, have p
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by tfourb 4y ago
Yes, it justifies it because public services and insurance do, well, insure you against a lot of negative events that you would have to compensate for with much higher disposable income otherwise. I.e. my child is severely disabled (not an

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