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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Because the actual harm done from emitting via gasoline usage is not dealt with under the current tax regime. I’d argue that any tax that exists does not encapsulate the cost of removing those emissions from the atmosphere. Considering it c
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
New York City has been losing residents for some time. This is not a supply and demand thing as much as easy money policy chasing hard assets. I’ll have to dig it up the numbers, but Manhattan many condos are vacant, and have been bought by
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
You think that because there isn’t a ticker to tell you your home price every moment from 930-4pm on business days.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Because most places don’t have a carbon tax on gasoline emissions.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Not in the us it doesn’t. The two cap and trade programs in the us do little to stop someone at the individual level from needlessly emitting - there is no economic signal to stop. Even some large emitters aren’t subject to any economic sig
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
The question is why isn’t illegal to externalize on my and my kids life by burning gas as if it had no consequence beside being an asinine financial move.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Exactly. It’s a about a capacity for risk. Rich kids have plenty of capacity since they’re essentially backstopped. A poor kid has one shot, and if it doesn’t start paying out quick, that kid starves.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I find this type of logic to be inconsistent with the innovative culture of tech, and a fair bit hypocritical. On one hand, we have a new, fairly unprecedented technology (at least unprecedented on the scale on which it’s used) yet we are r
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
How about if someone else puts you out there against your wishes? What then?
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I’m not sure there is enough play in demand elasticity to affect significant change relative to the amount of load difference you see. Furthermore the peaks are highly weather sensitive. Would love to be proven wrong though.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
You would need utility scale storage to flatten the load curve. The peaks and super peaks are not going away until there is a viable storage mechanism with enough capacity. We are talking significant changes in demand between even the early
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I’m guessing here, but I think the number seems high because shale wells have short lifespans. The declines are much higher than conventional wells, and so there are a great many of them to maintain production as the wells decline. There ar
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
This is probably true but not an excuse for the perverted behavior and incentives that result. If 90% of the students at Harvard aren’t in the top 10% but feel entitled to be and thus cheating becomes a more attractive solution than taking
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
A margin call is not the same as a foreclosure. It’s quite different. You have a fixed payment with a mortgage. If the value of your house declined precipitously, that fixed payment stays the same. You enter foreclosure proceedings only if
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I think this is wrong in terms of new build cost. Especially if you take away subsidies. As far as I know, local factors aside, wind gen costs around 1500/kw without storage. Solar is similar, and gas is around 1000-1200 for a combined
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I hope you are right. I think nuclear power is probably the best thing that can be adopted. The new build costs are astronomical compared to natgas though and I’m not entirely sure why. We’re talking almost an order of magnitude the last ti
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
People might be singing a different tune in a few decades when the ground flood of their buildings are taking on water from rising sea levels and economic activity is ceasing due to environmental effects. It’s a very idiosyncratic risk you’
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
You don’t get margin calls with a house. You just have to make the mortgage payments.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I wonder if the fixed cost of reverse engineering would ever overcome the sheer number of devices you’d have to do this with through scaling geographically.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
It’s this type of garbage that has turned me into a luddite when it comes to smart home type technology. Lack of interoperability, inability to understand easily whats actually going on and massive privacy invasion causes me to look for dum
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Natgas can’t and won’t die in the short term. It is necessary to balance the intermittency of renewables in electrical generation, at least until there is viable utility scale battery storage. I’m not sure there is another good alternative
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
I’ll speculate as well. The op is saying that the banks want quant skills but don’t have them. Therefore you need to acquire them somewhere else since the banks are lacking these skills.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
They flare it where there is no infrastructure or insufficient infrastructure to get the gas to market. There are limits on what can be flared and this is what drives some of the decision making. However, if sufficient infrastructure exists
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Many times it’s hard to distinguish the difference between regulation and corruption. Sometimes they’re one disguised as the other. Not sure what method you have for distinguishing between the two, so please share!
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
It’s easier and more fool proof to just not use it. That’s the point - their service isn’t working and it’s better for many parents to just tune it out. That’s parenting - avoid the shitty services that can’t put out a good product so you c
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
As long as it gets used the way they want it used.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
This argument is downright silly. 20bln can do a lot of stuff. You’re conflating reckless spending and the amount of utility 20bln has.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
Rules for thee but not for me.
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by throwaway100773 7y ago
The point I was trying to make was that the trades don’t scale like tech or banking do. It’s clear that this guy, who did manage to scale a trade, has a net worth of about 100mm after almost 40 years of scaling, whereas the most successful

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