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Comment Re:Icehouse Earth (Score 5, Insightful) 637

Just because this big rock we're on can survive doesn't mean we will. Climate Change will happen. We'll adapt or die. The rock will keep spinning. So... the "its happened before" argument is irrelevant... we know we've caused the recent one by increasing CO2 by 40% and measured its affects.

What's hard to predict - and trust - are other people's future projections. We don't trust politicians. Too many scientists have too many private grants (indirect bribes). TV doesn't have anything factual on it any more. The only thing we can really trust - and affect - is what's right in front of us.

Comment Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way (Score 1) 1032

You won't find a good job. You'll have to get in somewhere and work your way to a good job. Don't "put your time in", but work hard and work smart. Keep learning, keep taking on new responsibilities, stay sharp and dependable. We get "promoted" to what we've already taken on and are doing, not something that someone up above thinks we have potential to do.

Comment Re: We the taxayer get screwed. (Score 1) 356

1. Requiring all new buildings to pay for solar that costs 60 cents/kw is an indirect tax.
2. Agreed on SpaceX, but its because engineers are put in control rather than MBA.
3. Tesla is for the Lower Upper Class. That won't change. Future promises are marketing (lies, lies, and more lies).

The poor pay a lot to society - sales tax, lack of education and safety investment, etc.
The middle class is an endangered species.
The upper class is where more and more business focus is. The other is government.

Comment Re: We the taxayer get screwed. (Score -1) 356

None of the technology is progressing due to Musk's companies. He's implementing current technologies better than others.

Quite frankly, government subsidies for these are a waste until the fundamentals line up. We're still a decade or two away from that. Battery technology progresses at a compounded 5% rate. That hasn't changed much in the last century.

Government money typically only shows positive ROI in long term fundamental research. Metallurgy, chemical, CS, etc.

Comment Re:Tolls? (Score 1) 837

Most people don't make decisions like that. They just see "cheaper" gasoline and buy a bigger car. That's happening right now.

Taxing gasoline more leads to less gasoline use. Taxing roads leads to less road use. But the 2 don't affect each other much. Not to mention the atrocious assault on our privacy for tracking where we drive for a road tax.

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