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Comment Re:Do the economics work at all? (Score 1) 116

Then you should perhaps read more news sites that are battery related?

so you have to massively cut into your hauling capacity which completely screws up the logistics of the trucking industry.
Not every county is as big as yours.

And every country has a "trucking industry" ... or a cross border trucking industry where the two capitals are only one track haul away from each other.

You know, Gods own Country of Awesomeness, is so backyard, unbelievable. No worries. Rest assured, you are not alone. Germany is the same. Both countries run long distance trucks mostly on Diesel. Germany slowly switching to electric.

Thailand? Running on nat gas. Since ... 20 years? Feels like forever ...

New buses in Thailand are all electric. It is only a matter of a few years that all new trucks are electric, too.

Comment Hmmmm. (Score 2) 56

I don't criticise the concept, but the concern is whether it has long-term adverse neurological effects, and a "quick study" doesn't sound like it'll tell us that.

It's essential we have more ways of dealing with treatment-resistant depression. We just need to make sure that they're less harmful than the depression itself. You willl, of course, recall that each and every single bad decision by medical boards to approve a treatment has been because they wanted to rush through a "medical cure" that turned into a medical hell.

I'm not stupid enough to say that mushrooms would cause long-term damage, but equally I'm not stupid enough to say that we should only look to see if it has short-term benefits.

The correct approach would seem to be to make sure there aren't any immediate hazards and, if there aren't, then to continue the study to check for consequences of long-term use whilst authorising short-term prescription use, on the understanding that the prescription use permission will be extended outwards to whatever the data cansafely tolerate. In other words, don't deprive people of necessary treatment but equally don't claim greater confidence than the data supports.

This tightrope has only got to be walked because nobody has been seriously studying depression for a very long time and now we've got a hunge backlog of cases that are refusing to shut up, making it hard to ignore. This research should have been done years ago, but politicians were far too ignorant and far too swayed by religious money. But that doesn't mean we should rush.

I'm sure the scientists know how to keep a level head, but the CEOs and the politicians clearly can't and they're the ones who will be making the demands.

Comment Re:Ideologically fueled insanity. (Score 3, Insightful) 281

The "free market" is only allowed to work if (for example) small bakery shops run by grandma and grandpa compete with each other, until one files bankruptcy - so it can be bought up by the big chain who owns already 43% of the bakeries in town ... or by the other chain that owns 41% ... or best case: by the guy who owns 7 shops and now is lucky enough to buy shop number 8.

No worries: that little business will be soon out of business, too.

Comment Re:All for taxing the rich (Score 1) 345

Making it continuous avoids having strange behaviours near bracket limits (where a pay raise can result in an actual pay cut). This is something the rich fear as much as anyone, hence the anxiety around whether earning more will get you more. With an S-curve, you can provide that as a hard guarantee whilst also making the current notion of high-scoring (billion and trillion dollar pay packets) completely senseless economically -- without denying the rich the glory if that's the kink they're into.

It also means that you don't have an "upper bracket" where people well beyond it are essentially getting free cash. It's also more computer-friendly. It also becomes possible to make a much higher maximum tax.

But, yeah, you're correct in principle.

Comment Re:Doctor Evil 2.0 (Score 1) 281

In Germany, there is a side effect, as the Gas price influences the market.
But the over all price is different, and not based on gas. It mostly affects hour ahead of as ahead prices.
Households are not really affected.
Since the British exited the European market, they have their own price issues.

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