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For context on cost, SpaceX only charged NASA $3.1 billion for developing the Dragon 2 manned capsule. Boeing charged NASA $6.7 billion for Starliner and has spend at least 1.6 bil…

Ive seen plenty of unpopular and corrupt oligarchs that were targeted by Putin but are there any well-known names of some ordinary people imprisoned for political speech in Russia?…

Because the cost is probably closer to $10,000/kWh. Makes sense for a $1,000,000 supercar. Fundamentally all the new battery chemistries have serious underreported problems that ma…

I guess people care more about government abuse in their own countries. Also, do you know what kinds of things people get in trouble for in Russia? I suspect most social media arre…

The UK laws mix language which bans calls to violence with bans on “offensive” speech. So its not about where to draw the line, its about banning criticism of immigration, which yo…

Liberals correctly understand that the uk government is putting conservatives in jail whereas putin’s law will be used to put liberals in jail. Im curious to know what those 400 pe…

The Russian law was also passed democratically, but liberals dont like it because its going to be used against liberals whereas the “hate speech” laws are being used against conser…

Imagine Tesla decided to charge you 20% of all annual income you earned by driving to work with your Tesla. Who owns your iPhone? Apple or you?

>different trade offs Different from who? What company in the 1980’s or 1990’s did what apple is doing now?

Right, but like diet and exercise, we protect the environment for our own benefit, including our ability to visit untouched ecosystems. We dont protect nature because it is more im…

> The premise is flawed, therefore the conclusion is moot. Yes but not in the way your dog analogy argues. The reality is that anything humans chose to do is be definition in our n…

The optimal balance between natural preservation and human expansion is the one that maximizes the sum of human economic benefit from the expansion and the human phycological benef…

The irony of misanthropic environmentalism is that the psychological desire to preserve nature is our most unnatural and uniquely human instinct.

Cheaper small-battery EVs aren’t exactly replacing petrol cars either. The real future is plug-in hybrids. All the fuel savings of a short range EV and none of the range anxiety or…

Lol because you’re citing it. A study is not a magic spell you cast to immediately win arguments. Every study makes assumptions and you have to be prepared to discuss and defend th…

What cost of storage do they use in their model in dollars per kilowatt hour?

> we found that the total annualised cost (including capital, operation, maintenance and fuel where relevant) of the least-cost renewable energy system is $7-10 billion per year hi…

As far as I can tell, anti-nuclear people either have a very shallow understanding of energy and can’t really have a conversation with you using well sourced numbers or they can bu…

“Storage” doesn’t exist. The choice is between nuclear, fossil fuels, and frequent blackouts.

>when housing is built first there is a lot of demand for transit infrastructure Not if it’s low density housing, which it will be if there is no transit.

>Increasing the density of jobs, hospitals, restaurants, homes, schools, and more is key … as density grows mass transit becomes essential This guy has it all backwards. No develop…

> the “ideological statement” they are making is fuck your feelings Everyone thinks his opponent’s ideology is just spite and hate while his own ideology isn’t an ideology at all a…

If they can’t be bothered to mention it in an article hyping up how much new evidence there is, I doubt it has any substance whatsoever.

I understand why Google would shut down an expensive gambit like Stadia, but cheap good-will projects like RSS and Podcasts? Why not just keep them running for PR alone? How expens…