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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> But there are smart people who get all this stuff "easily" (previous practice, exposure). Or, simply by virtue of being more intelligent. Life is not fair, and some people do have it easier than others, without having to pay
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, that’s how every politician sees things. If you think this is only done by conservatives, you have some fundamental blind spot about things done by liberals which are explicitly designed to hurt the other team. Until you learn to unders
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
18 cents per kWh is something like 5-6 times the wholesale price of kWh. This means that using EV for large scale storage is highly uneconomical.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Do you have actual argument here, or is contentless sneering the extent of your capabilities?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I understand what it means, which you could have seen by reading my comment carefully. My point is that this publication process is of little value these days.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Sure, but if the paper is never published in a journal, and just exist as a pdf on arxiv forever, you won’t treat it any different than if it was published. You’ll still ignore it if it looks crap, still read it if it looks promising, still
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you can download it from arxiv, it is published. Researchers don’t really care whether the paper went through formal peer review and publication process in some journal, because that process is of little value: they can figure out that
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You can ask locals about that.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It does not. The landlord can just invest the deposit, and then return the principal to the tenant when he leaves, keeping the interest.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Again, you can also help your kids pay off the college loans, which will be much easier for you 25 years from now, than it is to save money up front. Second thing is that you need to understand how cost of college works: basically, schools
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, sacrifice college fund, obviously. Why do you feel this is a requirement? Your kids can get a loan for college in their due time, and 20 years from now, you will be in a much better position to help them financially anyway. Saving your
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Just Google it, it’s not hard. Are you really surprised that rail also costs money to maintain?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It costs Amtrak over $300k a year to maintain a single mile of track on the Northeast corridor. For comparison, it costs around $30k to maintain a single mile of US interstate, i.e. only 10% of the cost to maintain rail track. In what sense
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Funnily enough, according to official government racial classification scheme, the white looking immigrant Brazilian of European ancestry from your example is a non-Hispanic white, whereas native Spaniard immigrant from actual Spain is Hisp
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The point is that car-dependency is quite astonishingly more expensive than public transit based systems. Bell peppers are also astonishingly more expensive than wheat, and oysters are more expensive still. Imagine the cost savings we
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I am not sure you understand how silly your position is. You were operating on figures which were utterly and entirely wrong, and you made strong pronouncements about economic viability of this and that. This showed that you have zero intui
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Your figures are completely, utterly off, in so many ways. > Operating costs for NYC metro are about 400 million a year. I don’t know where you got this figure from, but this is off by a factor 20x. $400M won’t even cover NYC MTA’s elect
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Do you react similarly to left wing propaganda, or is your “partisan sources do not provide honest perspectives” limited to right wing sources?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> That's sadly the result of turning news into a profit-making private enterprise rather than a public good. Let’s take a look what NPR thinks about gender pay gap: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/10867
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The “federal dependency” metric you linked is extremely misleading, so much so that I cannot seriously believe it is a honest mistake rather than a deliberate deception. Quoting my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Given that significant tax policy changes have occurred in the interim specifically intended to raise federal taxes on taxpayers from CA, NY, and similar states, Indeed, residents of these states were underpaying federal income taxes,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is an assumption that you made, not the author, in order to dismiss the concern about the book. It is in fact a pure straw man. Here is a more charitable way to interpret the author’s argument: if first 4% of the book contains substant
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Good thing then that Why We Sleep was hyped by always reliable and accurate New York Times, so we know we can trust it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/books/review/snooze-micha... I mean, this M
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ah, so when the retails workers strike to get 20% raise, we should just tell them “you guys are making peanuts anyways, what difference does extra 20% makes to you? You’ll still be making peanuts”. This will convince them that the 20% raise
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> because the natives take these land rights very very seriously. This is likely because if they stop enforcing them, they can lose it. If they allow people access as a matter of course, after some time in many places this will create a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Other companies picked up these contracts. The crucial thing though is to make sure that those other companies are in fact able to provide what Google and Microsoft won’t. For example, AWS is very happy to work with government, by offering
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is just an assumption of a mathematical model, not “the basis of the free market”. That’s like saying that the basis of the behavior of gases is the fact that the atoms are perfectly round and perfectly bouncy balls.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The basis of the free market is full information for all participants, It’s not, and in fact it is opposite of truth. The reason, for example, why free market economy works better than centrally planned one, is precisely that obtaining
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, you don’t understand, it’s completely normal and healthy for a society to shrink by close to half generation-to-generation. Sure, after 10 generations of this kind of decline, the population figure shrinks to only 0.1% of the former fi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That’s exactly how they work when you actually board the plane.

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