Those transmission losses don’t have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there’ll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P

I’ll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.

Pipelines are cheap because we already build a lot of them. We already use them to move multiple products. It’s a somewhat generic technology (which is very impressive, dont get me wrong).

I’d be interested to learn how the capex breaks down for the HVDC lines. Is it labor? Procurement? Those can both be optimized with scale. Expand the qualified workforce and incentivize competition among suppliers. If it’s raw material cost it might be a little harder. I imagine right of way costs are also quite a bit higher owing to the large footprint. But then once you acquire the RoW it stays there in perpetuity. Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.

fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping

Fair enough lmao

You would have to pay taxes, and that’s fine. But how do you report a sudden windfall of fifty million dollars in cash?

HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.

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Interesting how similar this is at first glance to Kerboscript. Neat!

Ah yeah I got that and then kinda lost scope reading the reply. Non sequitur for a non sequitur.

Y’all have a funny definition of guilty. Didn’t read the whole thread but I bet one of you silly sumbitches called a Caesar salad a guilty pleasure. Mine’s pizza. Any variety. I will eat the whole pie. Pizza is love, pizza is life.

They’re saying you’re being way too optimistic.

mistakes like selling the evolutionary upgrade of the previous generation as the revolutionary next generation? That kind of mistake?

Never forget that the original 4G spec promised gigabit.

If only we elected that guy who promised to build a wall smdh

Yeah no we got that

They say they’re gonna fix it with something called “AI”

Sure, but in the case of an accident that footage is ammunition. Maybe the other party was eating a four course dinner and cranking their hog, but unless they had an interior camera too you can’t prove a thing. These cameras seem like they would be a disadvantage in court no matter what.

Are you one of those people who wants to go 30 over everywhere you go, and fuck anyone with the gall to get in your way?

Not how it works at all

Yes. A key contradiction in capitalist economics is that the wealthy have a much lower marginal propensity to consume than the working class. Therefore the more wealth the rentiers capture, the lower the velocity of money. One way to recirculate that money would be to levy steep taxes against them. Another would be if they would just spend more money on labor.

Government revenues aside, for a functional capitalist economy the money has to flow vertically one way or another. It’s A or B, and they constantly bitch and moan about both. We cannot have a functional capitalist economy when these chucklefucks are dictating policy.

I’m sympathetic to communism myself, but that’s not hard to do when we’re living through the failure of late stage capitalism.

i wonder how many of these are run by an openclaw instance