> And if you are buying an instrument where you can lose more than you invested, the approach maybe wrong? :-) This is precisely why shorting can lose more than you "invest", because you're not buying an instrument,…
An interesting look at America's building history. Of course, today's housing issues are not technological in nature, but political. It's an almost entirely self-imposed constraint on building. Building a house isn't…
I think the GP's point was that the college is also bound, privately by accreditation bodies and publicly by a duty to society not to devalue the meaning of a degree, to not grant you a degree in XYZ if you fail to…
> The immigrants they are specifically looking to remove are middle eastern and african. they certainly dont have canadians in mind Well, of course. Canadians generally don't cause trouble in the countries to which they…
Cheaper energy unlocks all of those things. All human problems are energy problems, in the end.
Only theoretically. PG&E's dividend yield is worse than savings accounts currently, and its stock price hasn't gone anywhere in 40 years. In fact, if you invested before the 2017 fires, you could have lost 85% of your…
> But governments are basically the only party that can act in the best interest of citizens rather than shareholders The best interest of shareholders can at least be defined, because it's narrow in scope. What is in…
> We valued privacy and freedom over surveillance and “results.” The relative value of one over the other depends on the absolute value of either. In a Mad Max scenario, very few would value the principles of privacy…
These day's it's a common problem in all of the Anglosphere, but it does seem especially bad in the UK; they appear to have just given up the ability to build literally anything.
Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.
> You’re missing the point which is to create jobs I sure hope that the ultimate point of a government push to build nuclear powerplants is in fact getting nuclear powerplants on the other side, not just jobs along the…
Pre-Fukushima, the Koreans were able to pop out a gigawatt every 5 years or so. Things dramatically slowed down afterwards, so even they are not immune to whatever it is that makes constructing nuclear powerplants slow…
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Cutting Starlink and stripping drives from a NAS? This seems like a pretty sophisticated operation, much more so than the usual copper thieves and the like. Do you have reason to believe your shop was specifically…
> Your point is totally and completely wrong. Germany has public benefits that actually matter. Objectively wrong, because Germany does better in the things that subjectively matter to you? > Germany's average life…
> Why is the median considered "poor" Because most big-city coastal Americans think of the median Mississippian as that way. > If you neglect everything it takes to live a good life [...] We're speaking past each other…
There are, of course, many ways to measure this, some of which are slightly higher for Germany and some for Mississippi. Many are in the same ballpark, which is pretty crazy to think about. Many of these statistics take…
Yes! Almost every human problem boils down to an energy problem. I welcome the future in which we have so much nuclear power (and other power sources) that electricity is too cheap to meter.
"The rest" is still quite wealthy, even by today's developed economy standards. Median household disposable income is higher in Mississippi, a state widely panned for its poverty, than Germany, the richest major EU…
More people will suffer and die over the next 50-100 years from efforts to counteract climate change than from climate change itself.
> Alarming doesn’t begin to describe it. This is an existential crises for our industry. In my (admittedly vibes-based) opinion, this is just a result of there being a huge supply of CS grads in this country due to it…
> the Supreme Court case where they found standing > nobody had actually asked for one and the person didn't even make wedding web sites > There was no actual case 303 Creative v. Elenis started out because the web…
> conservatives eat up the dehumanization of it all One could argue that's really dehumanizing is the callous disregard the system displays for the victims of such repeat violent offenders.
> pressure the representatives In the GP's case, it sounds like they were on a road show, and they do not live in Illinois at all. Of course, that doesn't prevent them from contacting a IL state representative for…
Considering the IRS mileage rate is 72.5 cents per mile, sounds like there's no way any kind of vehicle is going to get operating costs that low!
> And if you are buying an instrument where you can lose more than you invested, the approach maybe wrong? :-) This is precisely why shorting can lose more than you "invest", because you're not buying an instrument,…
An interesting look at America's building history. Of course, today's housing issues are not technological in nature, but political. It's an almost entirely self-imposed constraint on building. Building a house isn't…
I think the GP's point was that the college is also bound, privately by accreditation bodies and publicly by a duty to society not to devalue the meaning of a degree, to not grant you a degree in XYZ if you fail to…
> The immigrants they are specifically looking to remove are middle eastern and african. they certainly dont have canadians in mind Well, of course. Canadians generally don't cause trouble in the countries to which they…
Cheaper energy unlocks all of those things. All human problems are energy problems, in the end.
Only theoretically. PG&E's dividend yield is worse than savings accounts currently, and its stock price hasn't gone anywhere in 40 years. In fact, if you invested before the 2017 fires, you could have lost 85% of your…
> But governments are basically the only party that can act in the best interest of citizens rather than shareholders The best interest of shareholders can at least be defined, because it's narrow in scope. What is in…
> We valued privacy and freedom over surveillance and “results.” The relative value of one over the other depends on the absolute value of either. In a Mad Max scenario, very few would value the principles of privacy…
These day's it's a common problem in all of the Anglosphere, but it does seem especially bad in the UK; they appear to have just given up the ability to build literally anything.
Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.
> You’re missing the point which is to create jobs I sure hope that the ultimate point of a government push to build nuclear powerplants is in fact getting nuclear powerplants on the other side, not just jobs along the…
Pre-Fukushima, the Koreans were able to pop out a gigawatt every 5 years or so. Things dramatically slowed down afterwards, so even they are not immune to whatever it is that makes constructing nuclear powerplants slow…
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Cutting Starlink and stripping drives from a NAS? This seems like a pretty sophisticated operation, much more so than the usual copper thieves and the like. Do you have reason to believe your shop was specifically…
> Your point is totally and completely wrong. Germany has public benefits that actually matter. Objectively wrong, because Germany does better in the things that subjectively matter to you? > Germany's average life…
> Why is the median considered "poor" Because most big-city coastal Americans think of the median Mississippian as that way. > If you neglect everything it takes to live a good life [...] We're speaking past each other…
There are, of course, many ways to measure this, some of which are slightly higher for Germany and some for Mississippi. Many are in the same ballpark, which is pretty crazy to think about. Many of these statistics take…
Yes! Almost every human problem boils down to an energy problem. I welcome the future in which we have so much nuclear power (and other power sources) that electricity is too cheap to meter.
"The rest" is still quite wealthy, even by today's developed economy standards. Median household disposable income is higher in Mississippi, a state widely panned for its poverty, than Germany, the richest major EU…
More people will suffer and die over the next 50-100 years from efforts to counteract climate change than from climate change itself.
> Alarming doesn’t begin to describe it. This is an existential crises for our industry. In my (admittedly vibes-based) opinion, this is just a result of there being a huge supply of CS grads in this country due to it…
> the Supreme Court case where they found standing > nobody had actually asked for one and the person didn't even make wedding web sites > There was no actual case 303 Creative v. Elenis started out because the web…
> conservatives eat up the dehumanization of it all One could argue that's really dehumanizing is the callous disregard the system displays for the victims of such repeat violent offenders.
> pressure the representatives In the GP's case, it sounds like they were on a road show, and they do not live in Illinois at all. Of course, that doesn't prevent them from contacting a IL state representative for…
Considering the IRS mileage rate is 72.5 cents per mile, sounds like there's no way any kind of vehicle is going to get operating costs that low!