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But I agree, getting popular support has been very hard and will continue to be problematic.
Ars Technica writes that although this bill failed, it will help shape the debate to come.
Oh and Exxon Mobile spent $1mm to support the group lobbying for the Carbon Tax.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/bipartisan-carbo...
Even worse, Norway subsidizes electric cars, in part, by defunding public transit. This seems silly from an environmental perspective, but it's nice if you're a wealthy Norwegian and want to avoid paying tolls while owning a luxury car.
"[The environmental spokesman for the Labor party] estimates that Oslo loses about [$30mm USD equivalent] a year from electric cars avoiding toll payments. At the same time, about [$80mm USD equivalent] from toll booths goes towards paying for public transport each year."[1]
There are much more effective ways to decarbonize transportation than subsidizing cars, electric or otherwise. The most compelling policy tool we have is a Carbon Tax. There is near universal consensus among economists on this fact. [2]
[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/11/24/9792474/energy-tax-credits-in... [1] https://www.ft.com/content/84e54440-3bc4-11e7-821a-6027b8a20... [2] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/carbon-tax
Then, buy canned food. Stockpile water. Learn to shoot a gun. If you can afford a bunker, get a bunker.
Because one day, whoever keeps feeding us Scissor statements is going to release one of the bad ones."
[1] https://medium.com/yimby/why-a-healthy-housing-market-is-bad...
...but I thought I would at least give it 5 minutes of googling.
Here's the first randomized controlled trial I could find testing whether access to libraries had any impact on literacy. TLDR (for this one study): access to libraries does not improve literacy.
"We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations, based on the 95 and 90 percent confidence intervals. This finding is robust across individual competencies and subsets of the sample. The method of treatment, however, does seem to matter--physical libraries have no effect, while visiting librarians actually reduce test scores."
I will repeat the last line "visiting librarians actually reduce test scores." That seems counter intuitive. Maybe we should write articles w/ titles "LIBRARIES INCREASE ILLITERACY." That would be a dump article to write, but only slightly more dumb than the current article ;)
https://www.nber.org/papers/w18183
p.s. I like libraries.
When are tech CEO's going to realize it's bad to sound like a monopolist b/c anti-trust?
I tend to agree with Ben Thompson of Stratechery that one of the best ways to thwart emerging monopolies and preserve choice for consumers it to prevent companies from acquiring competitors. Although today Microsoft is the goliath and Slack is the david, in today's world David's grow up very very fast...
There are over 150,000 individuals w/ a 401k balance over $1.0 million; there is little social benefit in providing millionaires with even more in a tax advantaged savings.
https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/retirement/retireme...
edit: I've updated the article to add a little more detail to the policy recommendation.
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Whatever you do just make sure the neighborhood is zoned single family. Multi family just doesn't have enough roof space.
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Allow docess bikes? Nope let's mostly ban them but grant Uber subsidiary, Jump, a monopoly on operating a very small number.
Allow electric scooters? Nope let's ban them!
Have dynamic pricing for parking in the Richmond? Yes, but let's severly restrict how dynamic it can be and have a huge freakout.
Build more houses? Nope let's downzone and empower local obstructionism.
That said riding on sidewalks should be discouraged, and individual offenders ticketed. But we should also create more biking like infrastructure in which these scooters can operate.
Just like how in Mountain View some Googlers live in the parking lot. It's not cause they think parking lots are hip, space is expensive.
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He also admits to using "donated" labor from students. $0 is even less than $3.37 ;)
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modern and compliant background checks, focused on building a fairer future for applicants. growing and profitable, an unusual combination for the Bay Area :) great engineering centric culture. co-founded by engineers. 130+ ppl, 40+ eng.
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modern and compliant background checks, focused on building a fairer future for applicants. growing and profitable, an unusual combination for the Bay Area :) great engineering centric culture. co-founded by engineers. 100+ ppl, 30+ eng.
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