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Not here for Internet points. Just like to comment and discuss.
Yes, pollution is bad. Diesel trucks are a highly visible form. However, there are too many unknowns for these sweeping statements about 'true' costs to be taken seriously. It is another example of the economic calculation problem.
Try as they might, researchers can't sit in a bureau and come up with figures to plan an economy with.
When the new fuel is cheaper and suitable for consumer's needs, there will be no need to "drag" them along or prohibit choices. I believe this is what the comment was referencing.
You have a debt obligation like a utility bill. You want to pay it with your credit card, but you can't because you are over the limit. The end result is you don't spend that money. Your spending is limited, by the debt limit.
To repeat: You read that, I didn't write that.
Is there anyone who has not been characterized as "far right" who wants to shrink the overall size of the Federal budget?
https://rollcall.com/2019/06/03/sen-rand-pauls-austere-budge...
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/17/rand-paul-oppose-s...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ma...
There may be others, but these are two politicians who come to the top of my mind. However, generally speaking there are many GOP members who are content to approve spending on their own partisan budgets. This is a well known issue.
As for the accusation, "that's why they're being called far right"
I had hoped to avoid this by stating, "I do not dispute the characterization..."
The reasons why some are described as "far right" are beyond the scope of this discussion. I do not attribute motive. It is simply an observation of the status quo. They are described as far right here and elsewhere. They seek to limit the government's budget regardless of which way the pendulum is currently swinging. They maybe described as "far right" for any number of reasons. It is an entirely separate topic which could be debated at length.
Perhaps you are projecting your own elaborate ideas, partisan biases and expectations into what was a simple and concise statement? Furthermore, you assume we should all implicitly understand your accusations and their frame of reference. Only by elaborating on why you feel it is a straw-man are we able to discuss this. Without elaboration we can only assume your intent, which more often that not leads to even more projection and partisan caricatures.
Another interesting ambiguity is "semi-sophisticated". It could have meant that HN was too sophisticated for the stawman you alleged. Perhaps it meant that HN isn't sophisticated enough to read the sentence without inflammatory nonsense. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Consider building sites, apps or other forms of recurring revenue. If you have the tech basics, your next step might be exploring sales.
Instead of balancing a checkbook, they could simply buy groceries with IOUs. Of course, in an emergency scenario those IOUs would be heavily discounted by creditors seeking to make good on the debt. In this scenario, the price of gold as denominated in discounted IOUs would be much higher.
The entire exercise and the term emergency illustrates that there are indeed limits. This is the reason why they claim to hold gold.
https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...
>THE STING How the FBI Created a Terrorist
>Osmakac was the target of an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting that involved a paid informant, as well as FBI agents and support staff working on the setup for more than three months. The FBI provided all of the weapons seen in Osmakac’s martyrdom video. The bureau also gave Osmakac the car bomb he allegedly planned to detonate, and even money for a taxi so he could get to where the FBI needed him to go. Osmakac was a deeply disturbed young man, according to several of the psychiatrists and psychologists who examined him before trial. He became a “terrorist” only after the FBI provided the means, opportunity and final prodding necessary to make him one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-...
>But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/14/911-al-qaeda-fbi-liberty...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/12/newburgh-four-...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment...
>Some experts agree. "The target, the motive, the ideology and the plot were all led by the FBI," said Karen Greenberg, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, who specialises in studying the new FBI tactics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Deposito....
>As of 2021, the U.S. gold reserves total 8,134 metric tons. The next highest holdings were Germany's, whose gold reserves were 3,364 metric tons.[43] As of 31 July 2020, Fort Knox holds 147.34 million troy ounces (4,583 metric tons) of gold reserves with a market value of US $290.9 billion, representing 56.35% of the gold reserves of the United States.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8315858/
>These analyses included several types of prescribing decisions, finding that physicians who received industry payments were more likely to prescribe drugs made by the companies that had paid them over alternatives, had higher prescribing costs, and prescribed relatively more brand-name products over generic alternatives. The positive results of these studies spanned a broad range of physician specialties and drug classes.
In the US you'd need an appointment, insurance paperwork or no insurance and then the actual meds might be $50-$80, if your doctor insists on prescribing the latest pharmaceuticals.
"I think this is infected"
"Looks like it. Here you go!"
"No Wires, No Batteries - Spying Changed FOREVER because of this invention!"
Apologies for changing the title. The clickbait style felt inappropriate for the content. Decent story telling and an in-depth explanation of his work to recreate the bug.
I'd wage that the civil liability would be extremely high for all involved, even if it were legal.
We've heard this line of reasoning before during the crack epidemic. Policy makers are addicted to authoritarianism. The prison industrial complex profits. Black-marketeers profit. Intelligence agencies profit. Law enforcement agencies are given bigger budgets. Those wishing to use cartels to geopolitical ends profit in the political economy.
Just like with the drug addict, strong malign incentives exist for the continued addiction to authoritarian policy.
Of course, there's no need to go that deep. Simply invoke something scary sounding like, "think of the children", "this new drug is horrifying!" or any of the other stock tropes used to rationalize further expansion of state power. The same faulty lines of reasoning are used in attempts to prohibit encryption.
As long as people are sufficiently scared, there's no need to have a rational debate. Fear is a powerful emotion. Empathy for drug users, not so much. How effective has the last century of prohibition been? No, I don't agree that this is the best solution. Cheaper and more optimal policies exist, but we are stuck with this due to entrenched interests.
Was disappointed to see this fact checked on Twitter and Snopes.
You cannot divorce the existing financial system from cryptocurrency. Rampant speculation and bubble mania isn't happening in a vacuum. Rather, it is a symptom of easy money and cheap credit. When regulators remove barriers to a natural rate of credit by no longer centrally planning interest rates, speculative mania will be naturally disincentivized.