TheCoelacanth

Look at the trend lines. Solar and batteries are getting cheaper on an exponential curve; nuclear and fossil fuels aren't. Those trends won't continue forever, but they're pretty much locked in for the next few years because the engineering work is already done and often contracts are already in place.

Short-term we're waiting for mass production and distribution of the new designs (relatively easy to predict), not R&D which is less predictable.

That's not new rules. It's just a basic application of existing rules.

We already have definitions of what realized and unrealized capital gains are and we already have the rule about how much capital gains on a primary residence are exempt from taxation.

Every non-trivial organization everywhere has some level of law breaking. We should try to avoid it, but we will never get to zero.

Secret courts on the other hand undermine the entire concept of rule of law and we should have absolutely zero tolerance for them.

Nonsense. It's going to be the cheapest no matter what.

If you are borrowing against unrealized appreciation of more than the $250k that is exempt for a primary residence, you should be.

If you are borrowing to buy the house in the first place, then all of the capital gains have already been taxed, so it's not analogous to this scenario.

Anthropic has ample resources to fight this law if it is unjust. They should get vigorous, to-the-letter enforcement of the law to stress-test it for people who don't have the same level of resources.

Selective application of the law in favor of the rich and powerful is a perversion of justice, even if it does sometimes result in more just outcomes in individual cases.

And the current US administration is on the wrong side of almost all of them.

Seasonal will be handled with wind-power (tends to produce more power when solar is producing less), building extra (power being too cheap in the summer is a great problem to have) and long-distance power transmission (plenty of sun in the southern US or southern Spain even in the winter).

Secret courts are anathema to democracy and need to be abolished.

With the way prices are trending, soon solar power is going to be the cheapest power source even in the winter. No one is going to complain that electricity is too cheap during the summer.

There's still sun during the winter; you just need more solar panels for the same amount of energy. Also, there tends to be more wind during the winter, so wind power makes a good complement to solar.

Good riddance. If they would rather lose access to one of the most lucrative markets ever to have existed than pay a small share of their dragon's horde, then we won't miss them.

Efficiency is often directly opposed to resiliency. Governments and militaries should prioritize resiliency over efficiency.

Dual class share structures like this need to be abolished from public companies. If you want the benefits of being a public company, then you shouldn't be able to keep absolute control of the company.

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