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by tfourb 2y ago
He actually provides the solution quite explicitly in several of his videos: Tax non-moveable assets of the ultra-rich, i.e. real estate. His theory (which sounds plausible to me) is that a lot of the wealth of the ultra rich is actually bo
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by tfourb 2y ago
Income does not equal wealth and wealth is what this article is referring to. Wealth is a much better measurement for this kind of stuff, anyway. I'm living in Germany as well and I'm probably in the top 10% in terms of household
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by tfourb 2y ago
The most in-depth historical and empirical analysis of wealth inequality that I know of was done by Picketty et al. He is quite famous, so you can easily google his main research findings. The upshot is that wealth inequality is above or cl
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by tfourb 2y ago
Not the case in Germany. Photovoltaic installations on agricultural plots are routine, in certain cases (I.e. the plot is next to a motorway) you don’t even need a planning/building permit, as long as the installation conforms to estab
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by tfourb 2y ago
There are some niche applications where innovative greenhouse technology, AI and similar tech can contribute to better agriculture. But this "tech think" completely misses the point, when it comes to Agriculture. We already have a
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by tfourb 2y ago
Nowhere did I say that we should just transplant African smallholder farms and their underlying (and often deficient) systems worldwide. That would obviously be stupid. Just as stupid as arguing that there is nothing to learn from people wh
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by tfourb 2y ago
This is ignorance at its worst. Smallholder farms across Africa are quite productive if you measure inputs (labor, energy, capital, fertilizer, water, land use) against outputs (calories, nutrition). They are certainly comparable with indus
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by tfourb 2y ago
You may laugh, but running an optimized diesel generator to charge battery-powered heavy vehicles can be much more energy efficient than running the vehicles directly on diesel engines. Check out Edison Motors, who are in the process of dev
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by tfourb 2y ago
This is a very crude and on every level incorrect understanding on how laws work, both in a formalistic, as well as a societal way. When the Nazis captured power, they did so by excluding the legitimate (and lawful) parliamentary opposition
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by tfourb 2y ago
> Actually they didn't. Everything the Nazis did they had a law for. The mass murder was all lawful according to the 3rd Reich's laws. This is false. Even if you take the Nazi propaganda that their laws were themselves lawful (
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by tfourb 2y ago
> The Nazi state had to follow its own laws. They just had such laws that enabled the total lunacy that the 3rd Reich was. This is false. Even if you take the Nazi propaganda that their laws were themselves lawful (which they were not, b
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by tfourb 2y ago
Search for „rewilding“. It’s a popular approach in the UK but you’ll find projects in other countries, too.
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by tfourb 2y ago
The lengths some people will go to to avoid dealing with nature … It is pretty preposterous to claim something is “sustainable” that will use man made energy when the alternative is a natural process powered by the sun, for free. There are
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by tfourb 2y ago
This is almost completely solved by e-bikes. You can convert practically any bike to an e-bike and while it does cost money, it is cheaper than the costs associated with driving a car or the bus by orders of magnitude over the life time of
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by tfourb 2y ago
That would be a choice, not a necessity. Musk could choose to furnish the Brazil office of Twitter/X with the necessary resources to do content moderation to conform with local law. He chooses not to, with predictable consequences
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by tfourb 2y ago
Places outside the U.S. exist, you know? PV would be cost effective here in Germany for residential buildings even without incentives, though most owners would probably build smaller installations. And there are plenty of countries without
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by tfourb 2y ago
That might be the case but the fact is that these incentives exist and eligible home owners that don’t use them are in effect throwing money away. Also, it can be politically and technically expedient to provide incentives, even if it is no
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by tfourb 2y ago
This is news to my solar installation, which is not fixed to my roof structure at all. My roof is not that steep, so the panels are simply put of frames which are weighed down with concrete pavers. And this is not DIY job, but professionall
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by tfourb 2y ago
As someone with plenty of solar on my roof, it is anything but idiotic. With government incentives it pays for itself in ten years and has a realistic life span of 25. It might comparatively more efficient/cheaper per watt to build sol
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by tfourb 2y ago
Writing from Germany, we have non-penetrative fasteners for basically all roof types common here. Maybe talk to some solar experts in your area, they might have an off the shelf solution that won't void warranties.
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by tfourb 2y ago
Basically no one ever has recommended throwing out a well-working existing heating system. But heating systems, including radiators, tanks and furnaces, have limited life spans. Usually 20-30 years. At some point it is not economical to rep
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by tfourb 2y ago
This doesn't make any sense at all. Standard heat pump installations include a buffer tank (usually at least a couple 100 liters but possibly much more depending on the details of the installation). The heat pump does not heat the hous
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by tfourb 3y ago
Bikes, especially e-bikes, go routinely around 40mph and share the road with huge chunks of metal (cars) that go even quicker. You head will cave in if you hit the ground or get hit by a car at these speeds. You really don’t see the need fo
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by tfourb 3y ago
To avoid death or serious injury in case of an accident.
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by tfourb 3y ago
The EU regulation was the central obstacle. It does not allow for commercial legalization of Cannabis beyond small trial projects. Originally, commercial legalization was the core of the German proposal, but it had to be revamped to only
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by tfourb 3y ago
All the proper "whole system" studies I know account for capacity factor and renewables come out ahead anyway.
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by tfourb 3y ago
Because my life doesn't depend on if I can buy the next iPhone, but it very well might depend on if I can afford a certain drug. Apart from that I personally think that excessive profit is reprehensible for any type of business, as som
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by tfourb 3y ago
The problem as you say likely being that the drone shares properties with predatory birds that make hamsters scurry away ;-). Many endangered plants won't be visible from above due to other, larger plants and you'd need millimeter
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by tfourb 3y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by tfourb 3y ago
Let's do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: Say the development of a drug costs $1 Billion on average and that only every tenth drug gets approval. So you are looking at a $10 Billion cost for every successful drug development. But yo

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