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Comment Re:For context (Score 3, Insightful) 123

Swiss are not German are not French are not Dutch.

Correct. They are also not Italian and not Romani. But they do speak Swiss German, Swiss Italian, Swiss French, and Romansh. What they are not (apparently unlike you) are racist-nationalist ideologues. Their Confederation has a longstanding tradition of diversity, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. In that, they are very unlike you, who seem to want to tell them to run their country like a racist ethno-state.

How would I know about their country unless I actively went to study about it.

You also don't seem to want to fucking educate yourself before you tell others how to live their lives.

Comment Re:For context (Score 2) 123

Which means the Swiss run the risk of losing their national identity over the coming decades. With fewer and fewer native Swiss births, the increase will be from people that look different, speak different and have a different culture. I'm not Swiss, so my opinion on this doesn't really matter but if Swiss-ness matters to the natives, they should support this.

Pray tell, what do Swiss people look like? What does "Swiss culture" look like? What language do they speak? What are their traditions? Do enlighten us.

Comment Re:since a nonprofit doesnâ(TM)t have a valua (Score 1) 50

I feel like you might be confusing value and valuation. A valuation is what you believe a company would hypothetically sell for.

Ah, but you do need to "sell" a nonprofit ... to donors. When making decisions about where to spend their money, high-value donors want to know about the organization they're giving money to. For this reason, nonprofits have valuations, although they aren't calculated the same way as those of for-profit companies.

So I would say thinking of the valuation for a non-profit is weird as hell.

It can get pretty weird, yeah ... especially when you're trying to assess intangibles, such as "goodwill."

Comment Re:Do the economics work at all? (Score 1) 113

The reason we haven't seen their semis is because batteries still can't match the fuel density of diesel fuel so you have to massively cut into your hauling capacity

It's not just the capacity, it's also the weight of the battery, which is significant. U.S. roads have maximum weight limits, and those are cumulative for the whole vehicle, battery and all. Heavier battery means lighter cargo.

Comment Re:Roads cost $18.5 billion a year (Score 1) 193

Everyone wants roads near their house. If you don't have a road going to your house then your house is worthless. Once the government has a right of way for a road, expanding the road might be expensive, but it doesn't get the whole community involved in a series of lawsuits.

The only people that want to live near the train tracks, on the other hand, are the people out in the middle of the California desert that would love to have a way to easily get to the parts of California that aren't a wasteland. In the nice parts of California, every home owner within visual distance of the proposed route has hired a lawyer and vowed to fight the tracks to the death.

This means that California has built a tiny bit of tracks out in the middle of nowhere (near Bakersfield but not in Bakersfield). It also means that every single foot from this point on is likely to get even more astronomically expensive. The homeowners involved know that houses that are far enough away from the tracks so that their home value doesn't plummet are going to get a windfall as their prime real estate will become even more valuable with decent public transit. The rail system is going to be a serious amenity eventually. The homeowners near the tracks, on the other hand, are going to see a serious drop to their net worth. Everyone in California wants more light rail, but only if it doesn't go through their neighborhood.

It could easily be that California real estate is simply too expensive in this day and age for something like this to be built.

Comment Re:UAE leaves OPEC (Score 1) 121

Fair enough, since they are no longer in the business of exporting oil.

How do you figure that one? Oil and gas are about 30% of the UAE's GDP. They're something like the fourth-largest exporter worldwide. And leaving OPEC will allow them to increase production however they see fit, unrestrained by OPEC rules.

Comment Re:Trump Iran Crisis (Score 2) 121

That's not necessarily a political statement, it's journalistic standards. War hasn't been declared.

OK, so if the press dropped the word "war" altogether and instead used the phrase, "the United States and Israel's unprovoked attacks on Iran," would you be satisfied with that?

Comment Re:Disallow stock trading / betting for certain le (Score 1) 71

Trading on inside information should be illegal.

Correction: It is illegal.

Unfortunately, most members of Congress have large stock portfolios before they enter office. What's your plan? Make them turn it all over to a financial advisor?

Well, that seems advisable. Unless you think they're sitting up late at night, making online trades themselves.

A Congressman can still see something in the works that could in general drop the stock market or cause it to rise. For the former, they can just suddenly need some money for personal needs and ask the advisor to sell some stock to raise X. Pretty tough to track. Having a "windfall" and turning money back over to the financial advisor before a rise - also hard to track.

Unfortunately, this is all pretty plausible.

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