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Privatization doesn't make costs plummet, competition does. In most cases, our healthcare system is not competitive even when it is private. e.g. emergency rooms. You will just go to the closest one. If you look at areas where healthcare actually is a competitive market, e.g. Lasik surgery, the situation is very different.

Nothing worse than journalists who bitch about people who actually do productive things.

> The Black Lives Matter protests only get to be called insurrections if their goal was to supplant those authorities or forcefully override their will.

So, you mean like hypothetically taking over 6 blocks of downtown Seattle and declaring it an autonomous zone?

Should be 1 - 1/R0, right?

Self driving is an unsolved problem, so I don't see how Waymo's CEO is qualified to say whether or not Tesla's plan is "how it works."

So economically viable if the government subsidizes the construction. I would be happy for my tax money to go to a project that gets 70% of electricity generation off of carbon.

If the economics are impossible, how is it that France currently runs 70% of its grid on nuclear and has electricity costs substantially lower than the EU average?

True, but solar doesn't have demand responsiveness either, it has sunlight responsiveness, which is not the same thing.

> The rise of variable renewable sources means that there is an increasing need for electricity grid flexibility, the IEA notes. “Robust electricity networks, dispatchable power plants, storage technologies and demand response measures all play vital roles in meeting this,” it says.

Which is why it's not really the cheapest. Fossil fuel and nuclear power don't have these associated costs.

I would agree that such a situation would be a problem, but I don't agree that it applies. Trump violated Twitter's TOS plenty before he was president, and Twitter didn't ban him then, so I don't think they were doing this in fear of retribution.

It was a few days after

The same type of right wing nonsense they are going after now. This type of stuff was all over Reddit/FB/Twitter back then. (Remember all the nutty Obama conspiracy theories?) Surely advertisers back then didn't want to appear next to that content anymore than they want to now.