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ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Why a land-value tax is inevitable

I detest property taxes. What ends up happening is that people who are on the brink of poverty keep losing their (inherited) land because the government deems it an income generating asset, even though it is not (it's either their home or some dilapidated piece of land without much actual income generation prospects). Often they also get screwed on the selling because they are under pressure and because they are not experienced in selling property, and end up losing money in the process. So it's like crabs on the brim of the bucket being kicked back to the bottom.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Germany cut fossil fuels as much as did the U.S., but at far greater expense

Germany was supposed to be running on natural gas imported from Russia, but then the Ukraine conveniently happened while the US was trying very hard to convince Germany to buy natural gas from them instead. Germany is still going to import natural gas from Russia though.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

That would be cruel and unethical because it would be very regressive.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum 2.0 launches

Yes I noticed that too. Have you also noticed that BTC itself also sort of tracks general market sentiment (irl I mean). Lots of dumb money around.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum 2.0 launches

Yes but Hawala it is the anti-thesis of crypto. Crypto is born out of the dream of cyberpunks to have a trustless society.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum 2.0 launches

Ah cool. Makes sense.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Ethereum 2.0 launches

Why did ETH drop then?

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Yes thank you for elaborating. I agree with you on both counts.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Far from an expert on complexity theory, but NP-hard problems can be approximated in polynomial time. With Deep Learning you are doing approximation. So this is nothing ground breaking in that respect.

ichbinwiederda | 5 years ago | on: Aston Martin use sock-puppet PR company to “debunk” EVs

OK I find this surprising because I always assumed (well I was told by others) that manufacturing CO2 was negligible. So very likely, I am already greener than a guy with a Nissan Leaf or Model 3. I drive used cars and only drive small cars with small engines (1L cars). My car has tailpipe emissions of 136g/km CO2, and is 11 years old, bought used a year ago. Add to that an additional 47g/km from fuel cycle and I have 183g/km.

Meanwhile the manufacturing of the average EV releases around 10tons of C02. I am omitting the other emissions from using the car (see the study below for details, it's from the author of the tweet). That means I have to drive 55000km until I even reach that. That's 15 years of driving for me, going by my commute of 5km each way everyday. Neither car would last that long.

I used data from here: https://www.oliver-krischer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/En... https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-electric-vehicles-...