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New comment by nikkinana in "Millionaires group calls for wealth tax at virtual Davos"

nikkinana — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:15:34 +0000

They don't need a tax, they can just give their money away. What's up with taxes?

New comment by nikkinana in "The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services"

nikkinana — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 14:10:22 +0000

Thanks Trump for passing that executive order, now we get to see their prices.

New comment by nikkinana in "Is catching Covid now better than more vaccine?"

nikkinana — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:00:55 +0000

It always was. Johns Hopkins did a study, and catching covid was 6x better protection than any of the vaccines. Furthermore, your body learns how to protect itself differently from catching it.

Unfortunately if you google search, it's buried about 20 pages down. There's no profit in that.

New comment by nikkinana in "Let's write a compiler, part 3: A parser"

nikkinana — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:53:55 +0000

yacc is key

New comment by nikkinana in "The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”"

nikkinana — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 16:59:02 +0000

I love government sponsored content for free, that's where I get all of my news and stuff.

Except, wait, what, PBS isn't free? Don't we already pay taxes?

New comment by nikkinana in "My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry"

nikkinana — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:21:17 +0000

I wonder who owns that code?

New comment by nikkinana in "Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?"

nikkinana — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 13:34:45 +0000

You can work for yourself. Why work for someone else? They just take a cut and give you scraps, look at china for example. I can't wait to move out of here.

New comment by nikkinana in "Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”"

nikkinana — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:18:02 +0000

Cancel facebook

New comment by nikkinana in "Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud"

nikkinana — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:46:53 +0000

Where's Al Gore? This is the one big company that can stop, if not reverse, global climate change.

New comment by nikkinana in "World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021"

nikkinana — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:08:40 +0000

Everybody needs an electric car.

New comment by nikkinana in "Mercedes-Benz teases super-efficient EV with over 1,000km of range"

nikkinana — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:22:51 +0000

I always ignore this stuff, concept vehicles rarely, if ever make it to production. It's pretty easy to build 1 prototype, but really hard to scale that up.

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:18:29 +0000

Actually not. There are a ton of ways to do it, and I'll bet if you put some smart people on it and make it a national focus it'd get done. Lots of nanotech research, it'd be trivial with that technology.

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:17:18 +0000

Pipes are cheap apparently https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/07/25/1859220/two-us-comp...

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:16:37 +0000

Not when it's sunny like in the desert or in southern california. Run some pipes to the desert and it's mostly passive.

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 20:15:52 +0000

Absolutely. So much water on the east coast and especially the southeast. Even if you dig down into the earth you find an almost endless supply of fresh water.

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:33:09 +0000

Actually it's not. Set up some nuclear, use the waste heat to desalinize the water.

Electricity problem in California = solved Water problem = lessened

I'm only 19 and I figured it out. Career politicians can't because they don't want to.

New comment by nikkinana in "Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California Are Exhausting Aquifers"

nikkinana — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:56:19 +0000

With all the smart people in California I wonder why they can't convert ocean water into fresh water? Seems a good desalinization plant instead of all those big houses next to the ocean would do wonders.

Back in the day, government would solve problems, like building the Hoover Dam or the Erie Canal.

Now they just find ways to scare us and create shortages, while they all get rich.

It's the new carbon tax scheme all over again, this time for fresh water.