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I was saying that instead of paying $388 per day in NYC, let's pay $100 in MX. Or less, of course, we would save even more. Prices of homes what - tripled? Fed reserve would not allow tripled wages. It would start ridiculous inflation. But yes, would be nice to get the gap smaller. I just...

For $100 per day, they could live comfortably in Mexico, saving us taxes. interesting debate about 'luxury beliefs' - How Elites Hurt the Poor With Terrible Ideas - Rob Henderson, by Konstantin Kisin : about ideas which make elites feel good, but hurt average people. Like that there should...

... and the sad part is, that it is impossible to change the situation, because it would require to decrease the cost of homes, and current home owners would vote out of office any politician trying to do that. In behavioral economics, they found that prices much easier to go up than down, and...

IMHO it makes no sense to charge at gas station - what I am going to do while charging? But what I see are chargers in grocery store parking lot. Makes sense, while I get food, I can "feed" my e-car.

Actually, cost of transportation does not include the cost of carbon (and cost of measures necessary to deal with the consequences climate change), and THAT is a problem. Actually, after 40 years of single-child policy, population of China is collapsing. Birth rate per woman is around 1...

As Jefferson said, one of the requirements of democracy is informed electorate. I think it would be beneficial to pay some people NOT to vote. :-) Old wisdom was, we inherited the country from our ancestors. New wisdom is, we borrowed it from our grandchildren. Catch is, grandchildren do not...

Yes, but we don't need new science, scientific breakthroughs. Example: I am not sure what is your position on COVID vaccines. But after investing $10B, in about a year the work was done which was expected to take 10 years, previous minimum was 4 years to develop a vaccine against something. And...

I agree that it is a problem if USA hauls stuff to China and India to get it processed using the electricity from coal, and then hauls products back to USA. Here, "you" is generic person, not anyone in particular. I read about interesting mental game: decide what the rules between countries...

... and then the only useful activity plebs can do for oligarchs is to grow organs for transplantations. And oligarchs can employ also a few security officers controlling swarms of security robots protecting the oligarchs. In Florida, they are working on a robot which looks at strawberry...

Social media made it easier to find far away rare people who think like you ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail ). But because we can maintain stable social relationships with only about 150 people (and introverts even less, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number ) as a result...

Runaway AI is the scary part. Humanity has several ways to get extinct. Runaway AI will not be upheaval, it could be "game over" and if we are lucky they will keep humans as pets :) As I mentioned before, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox suggest that civilizations like ours (which...

... if you don't count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth 650mya. But back then, all the animal life was in the oceans. So yes, lots of climate variety is possible - question is,: what is range of temperatures in which our civilization as we know it can exist? That's exactly what...

... and if we decide we do want to fix it, how we can even afford it?

Long reddit about living in a van on own land, and land regulations

see excellent visualization of the changes of average global temperature for the last 22ky, starts 10ky before end of last ice age. What is interesting is the narrow range of the temperatures for the last 11ky (since end of ice age), and then rapid change in last 200 years...

All true, cycles exists, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles " non-orbital effects can be important (for example, the human impact on the environment principally increases greenhouse gases resulting in a warmer climate" and from the same source, NASA...

climate change is still going on. Slowly. Started slowly last century, and it is increasing, With bigger temperature extremes, and more often, as predicted.

One of the reasons is that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream becomes with bigger "eddies" going way south of usual. So, artic air goes way south. Like TX few years ago. While it was above freezing in Anchorage. Same jet stream

that's why it will be packaged with voting on other divisive issues. So people will vote against their economic interests for ideological reasons

and IIRC these requirements was a result of a similar disaster a decade before. But such preparations increase price and looks like regulations, which is not popular in TX. Relying on federal help is apparently cheaper.