kavabean

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by kavabean 8y ago
This is a political disaster. Fracked crude is only profitable because the externalised costs of the catastrophic environmental damage are born by others. This is another direct wealth transfer from the general population i.e. 99% to the 1%
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by kavabean 9y ago
They do absolutely apply. And they work. Look at two incredible examples. Russia, post 1917, went from a third world feudal economy (albeit with incredible land resources and considerable intellectual institutions) to the second largest ind
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by kavabean 9y ago
Top down state organisation is prone to corruption. It takes effort to keep that at bay. The public oversight required is an overhead that should only be used in select tasks. The state is not suited for all tasks, especially those with rap
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by kavabean 9y ago
The housing and urban development department puts out price indices for construction of various types per sqft. https://www.amazon.com/Construction-Cost-Indices-Supportive-... You will find these are not far off industry a
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by kavabean 9y ago
citation? Also it's natural that public housing is at least somewhat more expensive. They have to follow code and not take shortcuts. Also there isn't the predatory, crushing, pressure to exploit the workers on the job in the sam
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by kavabean 9y ago
The general story, told by who exactly? Oh right, the corporate press. I live in the UK. For every careless ugly tower (there are some) there are solidly build, even solidly designed housing units that hold up over time. Many built in the 6
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by kavabean 9y ago
The market can never provide housing as cheaply as a properly functioning local/state government. * The state can borrow money far cheaper than private developers. * The state has far fewer regulatory risks (getting permits, etc). * Th
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by kavabean 10y ago
Don't hate the player hate the game :) The human genome is what's screwed up. Things well covered in recent years: Power increases hypocrisy and cognitive bias over-values our own contribution to our success (it is my capital and
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Comparison of Molten Salt Thorium Reactors to Other Gen IV Reactors(euanmearns.com)
3 points by kavabean 10y ago|0 comments
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by kavabean 10y ago
I would rather look at 500 people for one year than 50 people for 10 years. It is really important to understand how people's lives are affected and whether the positive outcomes that have been seen in the third world are replicated in
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by kavabean 11y ago
I wonder if the following could be relevant. 1. In my experience, Europeans are less dominated by the "newer is better" desire to constantly get the latest gadget/technology. I wonder if others agree. 2. European money appear
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by kavabean 11y ago
Note there is a typo in the def of the predecessor function "The following function generates from the pair (n, n − 1) (which is the argument p in the function) the pair (n + 1, n − 1):" which should be "The following functio
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by kavabean 12y ago
OK. Yes the framers of the constitution did create protections from the government for themselves, and shared that with the rest of the population. As you imply it is hard to know if the general case was a side-effect or original intent. At
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by kavabean 12y ago
I agree with the main thrust of your comment but perpetuating the 'immaculate conception' myth of the US as a government of, for, and by the people is counterproductive. In particular the war on drugs absolutely goes against the i
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by kavabean 12y ago
Interesting. I like the idea, but I'm not fond of the chaotic layout. I'd prefer that the hype dimension be color or text size rather than x-dimension of text location. Also the word hyped has a negative connotation in my mind, in
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Understanding solves school discipline problems; suspensions not so much(boingboing.net)
2 points by kavabean 14y ago|0 comments
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Ahhh.. relief(blank.org)
1 points by kavabean 15y ago|0 comments
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Homebrew model airplane(newscientist.com)
3 points by kavabean 16y ago|0 comments