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So the only misleading thing is "keep 99% of what you make", it's really "96.1% of what you make - 30 cents" or "keep 99% of what you make after payment processor fees". Still cool…

All else equal, being in an area susceptible to climate change related flooding lowers value about 7% on average according to some research: https://www.axios.com/sea-level-rise-co…

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I think this is seriously naive.

Does anyone else view this as good news? I had heard speculation that the large insect die offs were due to climate change, but this seems much more treatable.

The profit is all based on lumber sales too. If profits really were that high it seems like capital would flow in until there were so many of these trees that prices would go down …

Agreed. Though it's tough to square the fact that bad things happen sometimes with desire to do something. The Onion actually had a good video on this a few years ago: https://poli…

The problem with that is there are a lot of transaction costs to individuals selling their personal emissions. Like the comment one higher up mentioned, one way to get around that …

I don't think it's a straw man. Look at the two examples I cited. This is the first thing that comes up when you google 'green new deal': "A Green New Deal is a big, bold transform…

The government is already is regulating carbon. California has a cap and trade program, for example, and this court case in 2007 forced the EPA "to regulate carbon dioxide and othe…

Well, depends what you mean by "at fault". I agree it's better to believe in global warming than deny it exists, but I agree with Cochrane that many of the attempts at at fixing it…

We need a carbon tax stat IMO. Economist John Cochrane had a good blog post about this recently (I actually posted to HN a few days ago but it got buried): https://johnhcochrane.bl…

From the article: "To my climate-skeptic friends: Given that the government is going to regulate carbon, this is the way to do it with least damage. To my green-warrior friends, if…

Good comment, I agree with most of the spirit of it (though not sure it's realistic to expect people to have a coherent story on this just yet -- part of the reason it is alarming …

I meant non-tech like non-programming, start ups, Rust etc, the stuff you usually see on HN.

It's interesting to me how often this story shows up on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=insect&sort=byPopularity&prefi... Edit: a lot of down votes, I'm not saying it's bad that …

Pithy, but wrong.

Agree, it's minor but I find the headline annoying.

They used it in June for a statewide race and they're using it today for the federal congressional races.

Maine voted on using this system for some elections in 2016. It passed, but -- perhaps not surprisingly -- many current, established politicians weren't happy. Maine's governor cal…

Luckily, you can decorate your own house/apartment however you want.

I have some sympathy for people being kept up late at night be noise, although it seems like there are other, more direct ways to deal with that (i.e. cracking down on the people b…