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Comment Re:These bots are an inevitable pox on us (Score 1) 201

if someone can engage in arbitrage

This is not arbitrage. Arbitrage is buy in a location of plenty and selling in a location of scarcity. This is creating a global scarcity by corning the market then jacking up the price. This is creating a spike in demand by depleting the supply and then making a profit price gouging on the sale of the items.

Comment Re:transmission loss forces more local power then (Score 1) 287

No, I am not and you trying a strawman fallacy is just pathetic. I like how you provided the only to examples including one that is 548Km and costs $2.6 billion. That is only $4.7 million per kilometer. What a bargain. I'm sure that expense will be made up in no time flat.

Comment Re:transmission loss forces more local power then (Score 1) 287

You seem to be ignorant of the discussion so let me help you out.

This discussion is about using solar energy, not wind energy. The GP suggested we use our desert, which is mostly in the southwest. New York City is in the northeast. Between the two are 2 mountain ranges and a large river. We would have to run the lines over land for most of the distance and that would make them vulnerable to things like tornadoes and wild fires. The distance from Death Valley, a much more reasonable location rather than Las Vegas, is 4320 km resulting in a line loss of 14.7%. Also, you don't seem to know how to multiply 3.5% by 3500Km divided by 1000 which equals 12.25%. Meanwhile The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses equaled about 5% of the electricity transmitted and distributed in the United States in 2015 through 2019.

You seem to think people can't do basic math or look up information on the internet.

Comment Re:transmission loss forces more local power then (Score 1) 287

1000km? I have to assume you are European and have no clue about the shear size of the US. My state is nearly 1000km long. Your scheme might work for the part of the U.S. west of the Rockies but for the rest, it is iffy at best.

There may be a little less line loss but HDVC is less reliable, has lower availability, and the conversion stations are more expensive. And don't forget about the issues with arcing. In areas that are prone to, say, hurricanes(the entire southeast) or tornadoes(the entire central part of the country), that would be a serious issue when trying to repair lines.

Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 1) 368

You didn't "fix" it for me - you just reworded it to try and pretend that some jobs are not "below standards"

No, I removed your qualifier because it isn't just people who are in "below standards" jobs who are quitting.

The unemployment rate is saying "hey, the government gave me more money to stay home than to work."

The unemployment rate is 4.8% which is comparable to the unemployment rate in 2016 and is about 1% above the rate in 2019 so that shows you are wrong.

The "people are getting paid better" theory falls down when you look at actual people instead of imaginary workers. People are "leaving jobs for X reasons" is a fair theory - but those jobs you think they're getting? They're not happening.

Do you have any evidence for that claim because everyone I know who is leaving their jobs are going to jobs that are better in one or more of those four ways and the unemployment rate would be much higher if they were just sitting at home.

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