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Haha, your analogy reminds me of one I often make to highlight just how much we undervalue fossil fuels. Imagine filling your car with $1 worth of fuel and then driving it on flat …

Incentives don't disappear at some arbitrary level of taxation. I think you can have both sufficient incentives and more equitable distribution. The frankly obscene levels of wealt…

> Flying is an absolutely unscalable form of transport in a world of 8 billion people. So is the private (ICE) motorcar. ~4000kg of CO2/y for typical US use.

Convenience is often more important than the traditional price vs quality tradeoff. Water is free. The convenience of bottled water is worth a lot. Apple's "it just works" was mark…

> But the more serious risk, Mr Lipsky notes, is that countries’ pursuit of payments sovereignty may one day mean various regional systems become incompatible. That would increase …

An interesting take on the relative differences of manufacturing (and purchasing) an ambulance in the US and China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JcCISp5S64

> I keep thinking about that (so far anonymous) company that blew 500 million dollars worth of tokens in a month First I've heard of this. Do you know any more or could you maybe p…

I wouldn't be surprised. There are people who think it's a good idea to aircondition service station forecourts. I find the irony of the situation tragically absurd. There's a litt…

Not a non sequitur. I was responding to this specifically: > In the longer one, you need building and renting out shelter to be reasonably profitable, so that people do it.

We don't always have to consider the apparently very fragile and fickle motivations of investors. Social housing can and has worked very well in many cases.

> I would continue to bet on it going up in most markets since the conditions which made prices increase have not changed. I think they have. As mentioned above, the past 40 year t…

Darwin was said to have a circular path in his garden that resembled a trench it was so well-worn.

The 96 million members of the CCP and the entrepreneurs incentivised to make decisions based on the policies they introduce? Who are the decision makers in western democracies? I'm…

And good for the people of China presumably.

If I remember correctly, US per capita CO2 footprint is around 14 tonnes (this includes industrial activity). Average US driver of an ICE vehicle produces around 4 tonnes of CO2 pe…

> If you care about the environment, BY FAR the most important thing you can do is reducing your carbon footprint. And by FAR the most effective way to do that for the average pers…

Ha! You would be right. My mistake.

Exactly. Which, when you think about it, shows that the 'Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb' argument for this war is not exactly the true motivation (not to say that the US and Israe…

It's worth remembering that the Iranians have as yet never claimed that the strait is mined. They have said that it may be. A lot of reporting misses this and assumes (perhaps deli…

Just to be clear, Iran has been accused of the attack.

No. But I would tell anyone involved in a genocide to. In my opinion that now includes the US and UK. Others will have different opinions, obviously, but this is mine.

Makes you wonder if less public debt and less focus on growing cash crops to service that debt might actually make for a more comfortable 'simple agrarian life' overall. Even if th…

We don't know all the reasons, but I can guess one. Debt. And yes, debt can be 'good'. But just as for people, if you are poverty stricken, debt will almost invariably not be. Who …

Plenty in NZ. The police use the wagon. They used to use GM/Holden vehicles but at some point they became the worse choice (reduced headroom in the rear seats amongst other reasons…

What is the equivalent of the ATTO 1 in the US? Does that choice even exist?