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Utility scale, solar installs, and will be total solar by end of year. Texas accounts for 40% of new solar capacity installed per year at this point. It does lag behind an ineffici…

Is this a genuine question? I could try to explain more, but debt allows you to have your cake and eat it too. I could save for 40 years for a house, or buy one today with debt tod…

Texas leads the nation in solar installed and solar planned. How do you reconcile that with your theory?

The argument is that there is a difference between fundamental research and trying to ship finished products and satisfy commercial demand. The government was involved in basic int…

Sure, but it shouldn't be government operating on the frontier of new technology

There's a difference between a plan someone worked and paid into and one where you never have to work and get to free ride on someone who does But yes National pensions can have th…

Advertisers make money on clicks, and content creators get a cut. This is the backbone that the entire internet operates on. Fear is the best driver of attention and clicks. Someon…

Are they actually missing required permits? what does the government say? Why haven't they gone in with the police? I expect they have permission or dont need it. At the very least…

Another school of thought is that punishment should be proportional to the crime or harm. Something isn't really a big deal, it doesn't make sense to stick it to a company. This is…

Seems to be the only solution to removing bad actors

As long as we can also shoot tresspassers and thieves, you got a deal.

So you agree that real salaries and compensation are not down since 1970? That is my main point.

Humm, interesting idea to compare and contrast the two changes? I dont think AI cost much at all because politicians were largely supportive to begin with, and the legal changes we…

> Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A The original parent claim was: > The US Department of Labor m…

Like the sibling said, It is mostly legal and political gridlock, not engineering. They would have to put that 9 billion into a political takeover of the US government, a major rew…

It all depends on the counterfactual. Could the money solve the problem, if the issues with transportation arent funding? It seems like an institutionally made black hole that will…

Humm, it's not particularly confusing to me. I guess i just dont get it. When I rent an apartment or car, I still refer to it as mine without conflating the two. Is this an autisti…

And I'm saying it is massively up since the 1970s, and provided FRED links.

That house was probably less than 2/5th of a modern house You can get a 500sqft in podunk small town for quite cheap. They weren't living in modern glass skyscrapers.

Who pays when a leased car is destroyed? The point is the city is on the hook for damaged hardware.

Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall, even when adjusted for inflation. See my sibling post.

Can you provide datasets? Show me on one of these graphs: Income up after inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA6…

That doesn't sound like a public good. It sounds like a private good. I want a Ferrari. It would be good for me. Should taxes pay for it?

Solves one of the big problems with public transportation. If waymo is willing to ban people for shitting or smoking meth in their shared cars, that's purely an advantage over gove…

People don't car share in the US, and don't want to. Building arrangements that would rely on them are mostly illegal anyways. Allowing driverless cars to serve buildings without p…