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This is more than outliers. There are way more middle / high income people over-extended to call them outliers. Also, there are pretty much whole countries of people who we would consider to have "poor" incomes who manage their money prudently.

but the example in this article required more workers hired, so output per worker clearly wasn't maintained.

right, so the drug that was getting sales of 600k per year was probably not worth the hassle of maintaining a compliant manufacturing line. does that not suggest a price rise was valid?

no wind is not a requirement, but the variability wind adds is so strong this may never happen in practice without wind power.

if there was a general move to lower power use, the market would adjust to the lower level. it is the unpredictable variability that causes the negative prices.

And those guys learning to fly the planes without the landing, why can't that just be an interest! With terrorism, if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.

NB I totally agree it would be a douche move to charge this kid with some BS, but investigating unusual behavior is much more understandable.

That example makes sense, but if you want to impose a rule you have to worry about the cases where it doesn't make sense. What about a plumbing business which dispatches jobs within a 5 mile radius. If the employee moves 2 hours away, suddenly the company has to pay 4 hours a day of commuting.

The net result of this could easily be workers being required to travel to and from a central location as a workaround, when they could have better outcomes travelling straight from home - hurting the people you are supposedly want to help.

Japan's CO2 emissions are up 11% relative to 1990, when they are supposedly planning to go down 21% by 2030.

“They’re aware that Japan has fared perfectly well without nuclear power for almost two years.” is not really accurate CO2 into account.

"one country's overreaction of 9/11"

There is not any evidence that 9/11 has anything to do with this - this sounds more like a regular limitation of work rights issue. Hacker news regularly has stories about the difficulty of navigating the US work rights regime.

He is definitely not serious - the reason they sell the car at 32k is that is the best price to get the required sales. If people don't buy at that price, they'll have to go even lower, and lose more money.

Nissan leaf has 24 KWhr pack, so a 5 KW solar system getting 5 hours of sun could charge it.

However, the cost of having 2 full batteries (ie panel - powerwall - car battery) would be massive in today's world, where batteries are already a huge cost.

"almost all of them said they liked the work itself, but cited discriminatory environments as their main reason for leaving"

If the work environment is not to women' liking and has no bearing on outcome, where are all the successful companies formed by women who want a more friendly environment?

"This is a huge, unnecessary, and expensive loss of talent in a field facing a supposed talent shortage."

Again, if true, some enterprising person should have found a way to tap all the amazing talent.

The incessantly being asked if you are lost is the most unrealistic part of this story. My wife and I were looking for a room in Stanford last year - we really were lost. No-one gave a s..t.

Google doesn't hire for specific projects like this - they want people who can work all over the company.

but the rules don't work with people working for 10 years, and retiring for 60. of course this is not illegal, but such a life style choice would not be scalable.