In line with theoretical expectations, we have identified pricing as a particularly effective policy in those sectors dominated by profit-maximizing firms

It amazing how hard these companies fight against the things are the most effective (taxes).

Cool beans!

See you on Monday!

How often do you repost this question. Seems like the intent is weekly but it’s been 18 days.

I hope no matter your situation that you find a way to avoid heroin or any other addiction to cope with your troubles.

Residential home construction and renovation has always been a magnet for fraud. Take at least the the same level of precaution for solar installations.

Imagine a system more concerned about healthcare and not itemization of billable services.

Republican voters are never going to change their preference to a democratic candidate based on who the Democratic candidate is. The people who have potential to vote for Democrats aren’t undecided in who they prefer, they’re undecided if they even care enough to vote at all. Getting more people motivated to vote who didn’t vote in the prior election is the only way to gain votes. That’s true for any Democratic or Republican candidate for president. Presidential candidates need to make sure that people who voted in the last election for their party’s candidate don’t become disinterested in voting in the current election.

The tough on crime reputation Harris has may demotivate otherwise likely voters for a Democratic candidate.

I hope she motivates people to vote for her.

Let’s not forget that Bernie was a wealthy, criminal businessman from Manhattan in that movie.

This argument from authority really falls flat when looking at the proposals put forth. Perhaps these are not the best minds despite the efforts of the admissions department.

I’m skeptical of the idea that student protesters typically identify the optimal solution to the problems they identify.

They may be correct in identifying and calling attention to issues, but many of the solutions I’ve seen proposed by protesters at colleges seem at best tangential to addressing the issues.

The report itself is written in very approachable language and is worth reading beyond the summary. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmenvaud/1952/full-report.html

It seems that the most significant part of this news is the enhancement in detecting atmospheric CO2 concentration in a large urban area. Being able to measure more accurately and precisely will allow better evaluation of mitigation strategies.

Firefox:

• uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
• Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It’s nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
• Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn’t perfect. {MIT}
• NoScript - I don’t like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let’s me choose. {GPLv3}
• Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
• Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
• Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don’t know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}