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Even if they hadn't shut down nuclear, they still would be reliant on LNG imports, and being the most expensive power, LNG would be the price-setter in Germany. LNG is NOT cheap. p…

Population is not the primary problem. Some people have a massive ecological footprint. For instance, somebody who uses a private jet ~daily. Other people have a negative ecologica…

That's changing, surveys show American conservative opinions of Canada has been dropping rapidly.

It's been a common saying for a long time that a benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government and a tyrannical dictatorship the worst. Democracy exists primarily to avoid…

That looking at monthly numbers is stupid? The US has had significantly more job growth in 2026 than Canada has. The July numbers are convergence to a roughly common mean.

Germany's high electricity prices are set by the cost of imported LNG.

Offshore wind is far more reliable than onshore wind. Geography ensures that some ocean locations pretty much always have wind blowing. North Sea wind turbines have a capacity fact…

How about pumpjacks? Do you think they look cool? Texas is also covered in those, though much less than it used to be.

California has the lowest wholesale electricity rate in the country. It's retail electricity rate is the second-highest but that's a problem independent of electricity source.

Night can be handled by whatever currently handles day time generation, be it nuclear, natural gas, hydro, whatever.

simple and easy aren't synonyms. It's a simple rule, but very difficult to implement.

And better studies later have shown that the threshold is just the knee in a log curve. Happiness improves with wealth on a logarithmic scale.

The even more accurate version is "happiness is correlated to the log power of wealth". You need increasingly more wealth to increase happiness. An even distribution maximizes happ…

I assume the posts come from Canada, so are heavily tariffed. And the barbed wire might be produced in the US, but steel producers have raised their prices to match the level of ta…

Which was also true before COVID. So what has changed?

> A gift certificate is a business liability under GAAP. And you’re not required to hold that liability forever. And an expectation that the liabilities will never be called is an …

Headache is just an excuse. Accounting for uncollectible receivables and their inverse has a standard accounting practice.

Me too. I hope the $4 they gained was worth more than the hundreds or thousands I could have potentially spent in the future if they hadn't deliberately alienated me.

Even bigger could be sandboxes. It's certainly possible to sandbox your agents and still use a GUI, but SSH is the easiest way. And not sandboxing your agents seems insane.

If you bought 100 of those "overvalued" companies right before the bubble and 99 of those went to zero and the 100th was Amazon, you would have made bank.

Apple has 70% of sales share and 80% of usage share in the US. Your comment is true world-wide, but this thread is about the US.

- They're making a lot of money selling Tensor to Anthropic. If Nvidia's $4T market cap is justifiable, Google's position as one of the other top AI chip seller is worth a lot. - I…

I'm not sure about the 99%, but I think we've established in the last few years that the economy can keep humming along quite nicely in the short term with only 10% of the populati…

A quick Google finds several people that have been successfully prosecuted for security negligence, like Joe Sullivan of Uber. Most haven't seen criminal prosecution, but many do s…

I have a bunch of single-author projects that I wrote myself that I no longer have a deep understanding of. None are near as large as your references. Fabrice Bellard is obviously …