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by xyzzyz 4y ago
After being forced to pay for SS and Medicare for your entire working life, it is unreasonable to expect people to not use them, even if they believe that SS and Medicare should not exist. This is akin to wealthy professionals, who vote Dem
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They browsers could ban domains just as social media apps can ban people. They could literally add a “report” button to browser UI, hire a bunch of moderators, ban certain pages and do the exact same kind of moderation of the web as Faceboo
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There is always a new reason why the most recent incarnation of socialism just didn’t happen to work out as expected this time around.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You mean, cast iron is pretty brittle. Pure iron is not brittle.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is an enormous subsidy to residential PV. Electricity wholesalers would love to be able to sell it to the grid at retail prices, like you are. Instead, they sell it for something like a quarter of retail price. This huge subsidy is
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I wonder if it makes sense to build some simple resisting heating elements into the panels, to allow the snow to slide off. Shouldn’t use all that much energy to run it occasionally.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yeah, these can make ASHP a good idea anyway, but the grandparent was nevertheless correct saying that they don’t beat gas for heat in terms of cost in normal (I.e. not current) circumstances.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Moving 500,000 kg (over 1 million pounds) 7.5 meters (~25 feet aka the height of a house) will give you about 10 kWh of energy. In dollar terms, 10kWh is worth around $1. 1 million pounds is the weight of 2-5 residential homes, dependi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
None of the makeshift military hospitals were actually used in NYC. They were only set up in the interest of preparedness, but they did not end up being necessary.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Given how overwhelming majority of Covid deaths are elderly and sickly people, it is virtually guaranteed that on net, Covid deaths themselves are positive for the economy. The elderly overwhelmingly have their productive years behind them,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I don’t thing the current Supreme Court is going to rollback federal regulatory capability of streams and rivers (which is where the fish actually are). The current case in questions, and the legal issue involved revolves around the questio
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yeah, unemployment benefits are here typically capped at 6 months, and you won’t be getting full salary (not even close if you are a professional). Higher education is indeed not free, and if you’re a professional, your kids will probably
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Can you give an example of successful recent (say, from last 30 years) passenger rail project that, unlike your Chicago one, actually exists ? I mean, it is easy to set out space for project in advance, it’s actually building it that is th
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
FWIW, typical US professional job, and especially Software Engineering jobs, also include the perks you listed. The “free education” doesn’t include higher educations, but all the other benefits you listed do very much exist and are commonp
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I worked at some very high paying tech companies, most of my coworkers could and did easily afford housing and family, and yet the work ethic was simply not there.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I thought that prior infection had no relevance for subsequent immunity, otherwise why would they institute mandatory vaccination last year without any kind of exception for people who were already previously infected? This kind of obvious
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yeah, people are running away from Florida in droves.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
How so?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Traditional pressurized water reactors have their water under a pressure of 150 atm. A stovetop pressure cooker has a pressure of 2 atm. Sometimes pressure cookers explode, and it's not pretty. Now take that, multiply by 75, and m
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It’s not that they choose the treatment, you can get whatever treatment you want. They just say that they won’t pay for treatment other than X. This is unavoidable, really: if you look at countries with public healthcare system, like eg.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you follow other economists, you’ll find that their opinion on Paul Krugman is rather low. This is mostly due to his extremely partisan career as NYT opinion pundit. A typical sentiment you’ll hear is something along the lines “I respect
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I totally agree. Healthcare in US has a lot of problems, but the standards of care is not one of them. This means that comparing US healthcare based on outcomes does not always make sense. For example, mothers in postpartum overdosing on re
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I will only say that I come from one of those Eastern European countries with low per capita medical spend and pretty good health outcomes, and comparing the actual quality of received healthcare, and ignoring the cost differential, I’d pic
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I imagine life expectancy in Croatia would be much worse than in US if Croatians were as overweight as Americans are, and used hard drugs or lived on the streets as often. Fortunately, Croatians tend to live much healthier lifestyles than A
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, Drax alleged that the logs turned into pellets were waste. What the journalists could have done is to not follow the truck that was certain to take logs to process them into pellets, but instead follow random trucks taking logs from th
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Perfectly good according to whom, exactly? Expert journalists? I can scarcely believe that pellet plants are paying nearly as much for good logs as sawmills.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Wood pellet is around 4 times cheaper than construction lumber per pound. That means that these 11% of the logs capture less than 5% of the revenue of the entire operation.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Reporters showed it's whole forests. They did not. Again, the article doesn’t say that, though, as I said, it’s written in (likely deliberately) confusing way, so it’s not very surprising that you came out believing that after rea
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I don’t even know what Drax said, exactly, because the journalists won’t bother to quote it, so I’m not going to opine on whether they lied.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you scroll down, way past when most people give up reading, you’ll find that apparently 11% of the logs from that area is unusable for production lumber, ie. are a waste.

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