> What regulations exactly make nuclear unaffordable? Suppose you tell a football player, your overriding priority is not getting hurt. If you get hurt or do anything that might get you hurt, you are out of football for…
Read your comment again: you are going straight to the political activism before even explaining the difference between 120V and 240V: > the first thing I have them do is find out the county building code engineers[1]…
Put the shoe on the other foot. Imagine I was running a non-profit that teaches middle and high school kids about the human body and the first thing I have them do is to look up their legislator and ask them to pass…
Asking kids to push your political goals under the guise of “education” feels pretty icky.
It did catch on, and then it was regulated beyond the point of profitability, and nuclear plants stopped being built. The points you make are only true because of the unique regulatory regime that nuclear plants exist…
The oil and gas industry loves solar and wind. You need baseload generation capacity in those outlier days where there is cloud cover and the wind doesn’t blow. That baseload capacity comes from natural gas power…
As I get older I am starting to think that there are some things people just aren’t ready to learn at a given moment in time. I kept all of my engineering textbooks and there have been concepts in them that never made…
This is wrong. Most public school systems spend north of $20,000 per student per year. That money comes from property taxes, which anyone who consumes housing contributes to. People regularly vote for bond issues and…
COVID ended a lot of good things.
Because you would be upset if a developer bought every house on your block and converted them to eight-plexes and rented them out to Section 8 tenants, and we should provide some level of protection against that from…
It adds up. And in a state with tens of thousands of high net worth individuals, that marginal tax increase might be the nudge that causes a few of them to relocate to a lower tax jurisdiction.
I’d rather have buffoons looking for fraud under every rock and not finding it than people like yourself insisting, without evidence, that it never happens while showing no interest in doing even the simplest things to…
Interesting to hear how another state does it, thanks for sharing.
On the margin they will.
Like what? A deep freeze? Genuinely curious. If this were commercial it would make more sense.
Yes, but a person who has visited hundreds of art museums will have a better understanding of art than a guy who only paints landscapes or carves wooden figurines. You can learn a lot by observing what is good work and…
It is absolutely a spending problem. The Department of Agriculture has 100k employees and a $500B dollar budget. That’s just one department of many. Throw a dart at the MTS [1] report and you’ll find dozens of other…
It’s not Social Security, it’s Health and Human Services. It’s been the top line item in the federal budget for several years, and it’s growing at the fastest rate and has the largest unfunded liabilities. Social…
People buy a house with an implicit expectation that zoning regulations and building code will be relatively stable. Even if those laws are unnecessarily restrictive or nonsensical, I don’t think the NIMBYs are crazy…
Which rights are being taken away, specifically?
In my state government issued ID is used to verify who you are. You are then issued a ballot if your name is also in the poll book. Your eligibility to vote and have your name entered into the poll book is determined by…
> It’s not that uncommon for an adult to not have an ID It’s extremely uncommon. You need an ID to buy beer, open a bank account, prove you are eligible for employment, pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, book a…
Anonymous speech separates ideas from the reputation of the person stating them. It forces the reader to consider the ideas themselves openly, without using the heuristic of “which party does this person belong to” or…
“Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” But since you asked, here you go: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-...
Dollars and people are not the same thing. I’m not sure how you can even make the claim that they could be or even should be.
> What regulations exactly make nuclear unaffordable? Suppose you tell a football player, your overriding priority is not getting hurt. If you get hurt or do anything that might get you hurt, you are out of football for…
Read your comment again: you are going straight to the political activism before even explaining the difference between 120V and 240V: > the first thing I have them do is find out the county building code engineers[1]…
Put the shoe on the other foot. Imagine I was running a non-profit that teaches middle and high school kids about the human body and the first thing I have them do is to look up their legislator and ask them to pass…
Asking kids to push your political goals under the guise of “education” feels pretty icky.
It did catch on, and then it was regulated beyond the point of profitability, and nuclear plants stopped being built. The points you make are only true because of the unique regulatory regime that nuclear plants exist…
The oil and gas industry loves solar and wind. You need baseload generation capacity in those outlier days where there is cloud cover and the wind doesn’t blow. That baseload capacity comes from natural gas power…
As I get older I am starting to think that there are some things people just aren’t ready to learn at a given moment in time. I kept all of my engineering textbooks and there have been concepts in them that never made…
This is wrong. Most public school systems spend north of $20,000 per student per year. That money comes from property taxes, which anyone who consumes housing contributes to. People regularly vote for bond issues and…
COVID ended a lot of good things.
Because you would be upset if a developer bought every house on your block and converted them to eight-plexes and rented them out to Section 8 tenants, and we should provide some level of protection against that from…
It adds up. And in a state with tens of thousands of high net worth individuals, that marginal tax increase might be the nudge that causes a few of them to relocate to a lower tax jurisdiction.
I’d rather have buffoons looking for fraud under every rock and not finding it than people like yourself insisting, without evidence, that it never happens while showing no interest in doing even the simplest things to…
Interesting to hear how another state does it, thanks for sharing.
On the margin they will.
Like what? A deep freeze? Genuinely curious. If this were commercial it would make more sense.
Yes, but a person who has visited hundreds of art museums will have a better understanding of art than a guy who only paints landscapes or carves wooden figurines. You can learn a lot by observing what is good work and…
It is absolutely a spending problem. The Department of Agriculture has 100k employees and a $500B dollar budget. That’s just one department of many. Throw a dart at the MTS [1] report and you’ll find dozens of other…
It’s not Social Security, it’s Health and Human Services. It’s been the top line item in the federal budget for several years, and it’s growing at the fastest rate and has the largest unfunded liabilities. Social…
People buy a house with an implicit expectation that zoning regulations and building code will be relatively stable. Even if those laws are unnecessarily restrictive or nonsensical, I don’t think the NIMBYs are crazy…
Which rights are being taken away, specifically?
In my state government issued ID is used to verify who you are. You are then issued a ballot if your name is also in the poll book. Your eligibility to vote and have your name entered into the poll book is determined by…
> It’s not that uncommon for an adult to not have an ID It’s extremely uncommon. You need an ID to buy beer, open a bank account, prove you are eligible for employment, pick up a prescription at the pharmacy, book a…
Anonymous speech separates ideas from the reputation of the person stating them. It forces the reader to consider the ideas themselves openly, without using the heuristic of “which party does this person belong to” or…
“Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” But since you asked, here you go: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-...
Dollars and people are not the same thing. I’m not sure how you can even make the claim that they could be or even should be.