gottorf

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by gottorf 6d ago
> government regulations to put a cap on utility profits I don't know about Finland specifically, but isn't this already the case practically everywhere?
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by gottorf 7d ago
In fairness, I don't think stealing $20 makes the local news these days, unless you live in a town of 300 people. There's a lot of antisocial behavior that goes unreported. But moreover: I guess there's a presumption, whether
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by gottorf 7d ago
This happens in insurance all the time. Healthy people who eat right and exercise subsidize people with poor habits. It appears to some degree that we as a society do not want risk priced optimally to each individual.
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by gottorf 23d ago
> we incarcerate people at a higher rate than any other advanced nation, BY FAR Crime is committed at a higher rate than in any other advanced nation, though some of the others are catching up. > The idea that we are soft on crime is
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by gottorf 24d ago
Eternal September comes for us all.
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by gottorf 25d ago
The UDHR is full of statements that wouldn't even be agreed upon in a room full of people in the US, let alone around the whole world: > The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection b
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by gottorf 25d ago
> the UN as an entity, and to what it stands for What do you imagine the UN stands for? Let's not make the mistake of judging a program by its name or intention and not by its output. Mind you, this is the same UN on whose Human Rig
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by gottorf 25d ago
> US isn't governed by anything at this point, except some rich people > Sometimes, it's better just to say nothing :) Right.
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by gottorf 25d ago
> the highest court can't be trusted (life terms, appointed by the sitting president) Do you really think that judges that have to run for reelection every few years can be more trusted to rule on cases fairly, according to the law,
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by gottorf 25d ago
Rule of law is when laws as written by legislators are executed by the government as written and, when appropriate, judged by the judiciary as written, and at each step the words as written supersede the whims and feelings of the people inv
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by gottorf 1mo ago
> Most people agree on basic values This isn't even true at a local level, let alone at the global scale.
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by gottorf 1mo ago
> People dying from extreme heatwaves, weather, and famines due to climate change has been predicted for decades at this point; and this is exactly the sort of climatic setup that will enable this to happen. The rhetoric is all well and
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by gottorf 1mo ago
Another linguistic innovation[0] -- the idea that things that have been around for a long time are more likely to persist for another long time. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by gottorf 2mo ago
I'm not familiar with turbos, but to me it sounds like a CFD? How does a short position on a turbo prevent you from losing more than what you "put in"[0]? If you're shorting underlying X at price Y with a turbo, and pric
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by gottorf 2mo ago
> 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, you&#x
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by gottorf 2mo ago
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 ver
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by gottorf 2mo ago
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 learn.
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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 immigrate an
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by gottorf 3mo ago
Cheaper energy unlocks all of those things. All human problems are energy problems, in the end.
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by gottorf 3mo ago
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 money an
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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 the best inter
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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 and freedom over the
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by gottorf 3mo ago
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.
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by gottorf 3mo ago
Quebec's geography is so favorable for hydropower that they don't need nuclear, or any other source of electricity.
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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 way. The latter se
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by gottorf 3mo ago
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 as all hell around th
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by gottorf 3mo ago
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 targeted?
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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 expectancy is
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by gottorf 3mo ago
> 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
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by gottorf 3mo ago
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 into account the tax

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