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Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]

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Post by a2m »

burkaman wrote: post #134
dragthor wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Cancel UN climate payments, use money instead on America water and environmental issues. Sounds good to me. Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes. - Yes. Too many regulations by unelected bureaucrats. Sounds good to me. I'd rather have one clear and meaningful regulation than two "up for random interpretation." - Yes. Tax cuts for all working people. Let people decide what to do…

> Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes. But China and India are on the same planet as us.

WRONG.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

knowaveragejoe wrote: post #43

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…

> Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.

Term limits for State congressional representatives seems not to have accomplished that though: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2015/01/16/states-sho...

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Post by supergarfield »

leephillips wrote: post #224
stcredzero wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that the term "clean coal" can be bandied about with a straight face says something about the state of science education of the general public. (Pretty much the same knowledge needed to instantly realize that various wind/solar operated water-from-air devices and Solar Freakin Roadways aren't viable from back of the envelope calcs.)

“Sunlight is abundant beyond the energy needs of the entire human race”. (Los Alamos National Laboratory [ http://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/1663/2015-may/pero... ].) This is their back of the envelope calculation.

I don't think this is a reflection on the amount of usable sunlight on that hits the surface of the earth. It sounds more like a vague, general statement and isn't backed by calculations in the article.

The late Professor McKay (whose book on information theory and ML is neat by the way) published a great book full of climate back of the envelope calculations, Whithout the Hot Air, which is available online[1]. He clearly disagrees with this statement, as seen in the recap figure on page 103[2].

[1] http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html

[2] http://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml

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Post by finid »

propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.

Not a bad idea.

begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back.

Only the criminal ones. OK

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Post by pvelagal »

Nadya wrote: post #280
deadringerr wrote: post #135

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He had an entire TV show about firing people. He appears to prefer to destroy rather than create.

Absolutely terrible example. The TV show created many jobs (producers, editors, filmers, the 'assistant' (spokesperson...) position being fought for) and those who were "fired" (never really hired to begin with, were they?) failed to meet the job requirement. Which was to be the best business-person. A meritocracy, as things should be, rather than being based on race/gender/filling some sort of diversity quota. In re…

"A meritocracy, as things should be, rather than being based on race/gender/filling some sort of diversity quota".. wonder when AI beats humans at chess and go, where does meritocracy stand ? Are Japanese/european cars better than US' ? Is protectionism, which rust belt states voted for, bad ? Looks like at the end of the day, people matter and there should be a place for educated and un/undereducated.

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Post by leurfete »

maxerickson wrote: post #305
pfraze wrote: post #229

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Coal mining and related production is a large employer. It's about propping up small coal-towns.

Brief research suggests there might be a few tens of thousands of new jobs if the industry massively expands using the average level of automation of existing plant (of course the expansion will use higher levels of automation). I guess from many perspectives that is a lot of jobs, but it isn't that many jobs.

It's enough to help tens of thousands of families and revitalize their communities (they'll be spending most of their earnings somewhere). In Appalachia that could make a huge impact on quality of life.

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Post by tn13 »

jdc0589 wrote: post #122

> FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal This is what I have the biggest problem with. The ONLY WAY we are going to continue making progress towards widespread clean renewable energy is if it is financially beneficial for corporations to continue investing in R&D. Sure, there are s…

I am not sure that makes sense. We dont have to hurt the oil industry to help innovation. We dont have to hurt ordinary cars to help self driving cars popular.

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Post by Graphon1 »

semiel wrote: post #101
knowaveragejoe wrote: post #43

Some of this sounds great - term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying. Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. The scariest things for me are the backing out of cli…

> Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it. Canada has a variation on this law. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/R-4.5/page-1.html#h-...

I had a variation of that for my household, except it applied 1:1 ratio, and only for shoes. For every new pair of shoes purchased, one old pair had to go out the door.

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Post by uremog »

douche wrote: post #242
Houshalter wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not as crazy as it sounds. Studies show that Government has a "liberal bias". That even during Republican administrations, more liberal policies are passed than conservative ones: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/19/6532489/chart-policymaking-has-... The reason is because it's much much harder to repeal laws than to add new ones, so they tend to increase over time. Regulation bloats.

Like technical debt. We are long overdue for a good refactoring push.

And for all the jokes about testing in production, that's literally all we can do.
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