Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. Hopefully they will vote the ANC out. It seems that that's at least possible whereas in Zimbabwe they probably can't vote out the ZANU-PF.
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  2.  @QuestionsIAskMyself  What's so weird about it?
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  3. It doesn't rain much in London, it just rains often.
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  4. "no speed limits where practical" I'd think it would make sense to have some kind of speed limit, if possibly a high one, so that most vehicles would travel at roughly the same speed.
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  5.  @eldsprutandedrake  "just because the oil that is pumped in Norways isn't burned in Norway it should still be counted as an emission from their country" I personally think that ideally the country where the final consumption happens is where the emissions should count. Barring that, where the oil is burned is a better metric than where it's pumped. If consumers of oil cut down their usage enough that will affect how much it's profitable to pump in Norway and elsewhere.
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  6. "What exactly is the bank going to do with the loyalty program to turn it into $20 billion?" I suppose they can still be paid of any outstanding points that are spent (even if no one could earn any more points)?
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  7. According to CIA World Factbook, Argentina has a real GDP per capita of $21,500 and South Africa $13,300 (both for the year 2021). Thus, Argentina still seems to be about 60% richer than South Africa, at least by that metric.
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  8. "I now find the experience dehumanizing and demeaning" However, being less luxurious allows flying to be cheaper. A lot of people prefer to better afford flying over receiving a better experience at a higher price.
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  9. 1:25 In case anyone's wondering, 180 different currencies means 16,110 different currency pairs.
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  10.  @Potato_Smuggler  It probably won't vanish completely (unless major infighting erupts) but it might at least be unseated from government or have to form a coalition with other parties. This still poses at least 2 risks as a) the other parties might not have the experience of running the executive branch and b) one of the major opposition parties is Marxist-Leninist and therefore could be even worse. But one can always hope.
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  11.  @sinewave999  "why did this need a 20 minute video?" Because of the interesting technical details of airport requirements and FAA funding?
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  12.  @oovdash  "Japan has an infamously terrible court system. They coerce you into a guilty sentence." That's quite unfair. The conviction rate is quite high but that's at least partially because prosecutors are reluctant to prosecute cases that aren't airtight. I've not looked but I've not heard of similar issues for civil cases in Japan (though I have heard or a dearth of corporate lawyers there).
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  13.  @Potato_Smuggler  From what I've understood, at least so far they have won elections by actually getting people to vote for them and not e.g. by ballot stuffing.
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  14. People change.
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  15.  @savagecabbage553  One would think that a large volume of traffic would warrant a train or a subway line and it'd be easier if e.g. checking passports could be done at a train station or on the train.
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  16. "It is already one of the most expensive areas to drive." But it's still not expensive enough because the negative externality of driving there is so great.
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  17.  @chancerobinson5112  We can observe that a lot of people choose to travel in economy class even though business class and first class are available. Clearly, the extra comfort isn't worth the extra cost for many (though for some it is).
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  18. "airlines have a lot of debt" This is a fair point but the market cap figures still imply that the markets value all the assets of the airlines other than the loyalty programs billions of dollars below their liabilities. I still find that surprising.
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  19. And when large the ship isn't hampered by being partly on land.
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  20. If there were a yellow submarine, we would all have to live in it and that would make it a bit cramped.
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  21.  @KuraIthys : "1/4th the lifting power so balloon needs to be much bigger for a given payload" But that's not correct. Hydrogen has about 8% more lift for a given volume. Not a huge difference though big enough to have some importance, but still pretty far from the incorrect 2x difference that's sometimes posited (let alone 4x).
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  22. "SK is sort of a capitalist oligarchy" At first I was wondering why you describe that company specifically that way before I realized that you were talking about South Korea and not the SK Group.
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  23. Streetcar 2: Electric Boogaloo
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  24.  @mnichols1979  Electrical power is a net gain. The political power in question in this instance is the power to cause damage to another country. Actually doing that or threatening it to get what you want would be a bad thing. (I'm not making any claims on whether Ethiopia would be likely to actually stoop to such extortion.)
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  25.  @busetgadapet  "it is not like chinese cant invest abroad" To a large extent, they can't. There's an annual limit on how much currency they can convert. Thus they can't easily access foreign stock markets or even the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The only stock exchange easily available to them is the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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  26. Also, their population is 8.6 million which, while not large, is hardly tiny.
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  27. "Luanda looks like a first class city." I think it's only a part of the city. There are probably also much more humble parts and also downright shacks.
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  28.  @mortifera123  "The long wait time is intended as a deterrent." So they intentionally provide a poor service and waste people's time? What a shame.
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  29. Somehow, it has worked better in Singapore and Japan.
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  30. Next: How to Illegally Not Pay Taxes
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  31. Wouldn't it be easier to have a computer system where information (like the current residence) of citizens and residents would be stored?
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  32. The constitution is unconstitutional, duh!
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  33. That would probably be good but I still think in the case of kidneys, live donors should be paid. They could also be paid from the public purse instead of the recipient having to pay. The state would often still save money by reducing the need for dialysis.
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  34.  @Cembadyx  It's not quite all. In 2019 the share of hydro was 93.4%
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  35.  @xenomorphbiologist-xx1214  "but the population density is far more extreme than Europe" I'm from Finland, which was mentioned earlier in this thread. The population density of Finland is about half of that of the US, yet there are still trains. Of course, some parts of the US (and Finland) are too sparsely populated for trains to make sense but there should still be plenty of areas where they do make sense. Note that I'm talking about regular trains, not high-speed trains.
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  36.  @Dave_Sisson  That doesn't really change the number. It just means that certain exchange rates change very little.
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  37. "They need to be dug out of the ground at immense energy and pollution output." Probably less so than kerosene.
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  38. "just use commuter blimps" I remember from some documentary that some of the early pioneers of air travel used to make his commute by a blimp that he had constructed. Unfortunately, I don't remember who it was. I think it was some French guy (Henri Giffard?).
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  39.  @AL-lh2ht  "living on a island is expensive, no getting around that." A part of that expense is artificially created by legislation. Repealing the Jones Act wouldn't do away with all of the extra expense but it would eliminate a portion of it.
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  40. "please don’t cross borders illegally" The fact that a lot of people try despite all the negatives suggests that staying put is even worse (and trying the nigh impossible legal route essentially amounts to staying put).
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  41. "Once you get there, you could used them for short haul flights as well." Not necessarily. Batteries have a much better round-trip efficiency.
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  42.  @michaelsommers2356  "Anyone who says there are no disincentives to driving in Manhattan has never driven in Manhattan." Clearly there not enough disincentives currently. Also, consider that the current disincentives simply destroy value; the time lost to sitting in slow traffic isn't gained by anyone else. Congestion charges would at least only move value from one pocket to another instead of destroying it.
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  43.  @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish  "it's all predicated on people choosing to use public transportation instead of just paying the fee" If the fee is high enough, people will certainly avoid driving one way or another.
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  44.  @BChandl13  "No it doesn't make sense. You are taxing the recipient of the goods when they aren't receiving cash" It does make sense. There is no rule that only cash and not other benefits should be taxed. "Company cars used for business purposes are not taxed in the states." But if the employee or their family can use it for other purposes too then it is a taxable fringe benefit.
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  45.  @mzaite  A lot of people go on holidays with a plane (well, maybe not during a pandemic, but you know what I mean) so clearly they want to travel. Also, a lot of them don't want to pay for business or first class so clearly the extra comfort isn't worth the cost for them.
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  46. I don't think "highly profitable" necessarily refers to profit margins.
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  47.  @nerobernardino88 : "There's a free Risk game on Steam." But is there a risk-free game on Steam?
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  48. "Dam Wendover!" How can you dam him? Usually, only rivers are dammed.
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  49.  @jypsridic  "Yea, and the people who can fix it keep running here instead." You think a bunch of poor people can somehow solve difficult problems in the government?
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  50. No, they're not. It's quite possible for one to be true with the other not being true.
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  51. Lol, the sponsor pitch here is basically "I'm not advocating for anyone to buy carbon offsets...but if you do it anyway choose Wren!".
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  52. Still more logical than place names in England.
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  53. "being an HVAC tech is a great job" By "HVAC" do you mean "Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning" or "High Voltage Alternating Current"? Both would fit to the theme of this video.
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  54. "You have, at least, failed to take soccer into account." I suspect it's because he focused on the American sports leagues spreading into China. Soccer isn't as big as the sports discussed in this video in the US and the biggest soccer leagues aren't American.
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  55. Is there a train line across?
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  56. However, an inanimate object isn't a good analogy for a state or society. A living organism would be a closer analogy. Wounds can heal over time.
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  57.  LenNay : "Hockey - net , puck and a hockey stick" And ice. That's the difficult part. Except if you live in a cold climate but even then it's probably only during the winter. In warmer climates and in summer you need a special facility that can facilitate the ice and that isn't so cheap.
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  58. "There is no border between Australian and Indonesian waters. There is only a border of EEZs, which is limited to jurisdiction over fishing and other economic activities." I think you can say that Sam made no mistake here. The terms "Australian waters" and "Indonesian waters" aren't official technical terms so they can easily refer to territorial waters, contiguous zones, or exclusive economic zones depending on context. Also, the jurisdiction over fishing is what matters here.
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  59.  @jypsridic  "You don't have to be rich to pick up a gun and shoot at the cartels." Who can realistically think "if I start shooting at the cartels, the problems in Mexico will be solved"?
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  60.  @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish  "Paying the once a day congestion charge is still cheaper than the public transportation cost for most people." Some people use public transport even though there is no congestion charge yet. If the get gets narrower, more people can be expected to choose that option. And if the charge isn't enough to make anyone to not drive, it can always be increased until it does. And even if there's still no effect, it's a better way to collect revenue than taxes which can have distortionary effects on incentives and lead to deadweight loss.
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  61.  @athenaP24  Though technically speaking even Armenia hasn't officially recognized Artsakh.
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  62.  @mjc0961  "I've been stuck behind too many cars going 10mph or more under a speed limit to know that it never works." Would such people exceed 130 km/h if there were no speed limit?
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  63.  @blotzkrog  I don't know any English dialect that would spell "epples" but I think both [ɪ'ɹɑn] and ['aɪɹæn] are used in different dialects of English.
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  64.  @x--. : Surely the constitution doesn't prohibit a population information system? And surely it wouldn't prohibit using such a system to carry a portion of the census every 10 years?
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  65. It's a minimum for the (maximum) speed limit.
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  66. "I always thought AC power is best for long range power transfer and that's why it won over DC." AC won over Edison's DC idea which was to not step up or down the voltage at all but rather use low voltage all the way from power plant to the final consumer. It's this low voltage which would have entailed high transmission losses.
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  67. Pun intended?
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  68. "Why would you convert electricity to AC after reaching destination (city), when most electronics use DC?" Because you need to step down the voltage using transformers.
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  69.  @nicholaspalmer5957  I wasn't talking about enterprise value because I was talking about assets minus liabilities.
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  70.  @lugovoiarena  "I think you are comparing Enterprise Value of the Mile+ Programme..." If that $21.9 billion is the enterprise value, then yes, sort of. "You would need to apply leverage ratio pro-rata to figure out equity value of the Mile+ Programme." But I wasn't interested in that figure here. I just stated that to me it's striking that United's all other assets are worth over $10 billion less than all their liabilities. Yes, here I'm including any debt by Mileage Plus Holdings in United's liabilities but the figure is still quite surprising IMHO.
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  71. What's the problem? whence /wɛns/ adverb from what place or source. "whence does Parliament derive this power?" adverb from which; from where. "the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"
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  72.  @robertlomax543  "Having said that I would love to see the actual design for the step down converter. That's a hell of a shift in DC voltage. I wonder if they are using vacuum tubes or solid state and what switching frequency is used?" I'm not an expert but here's what I've seen on the subject. HVDC lines have converter stations at both ends. The DC voltage itself isn't stepped up or down but the converter stations that convert AC to DC and DC to AC also have transformers that step up the voltage before conversion to DC and down before conversion to AC. Nowadays the conversion is done with thyristor banks. In the AC to DC conversion they work similarly to diodes and then any ripple is filtered out with big capacitors and inductors. In the DC to AC conversion the thyristors are switched based on signal from the receiving grid making sure the phases are in sync. This kind of switching produces square waves. Then harmonics are filtered out using capacitors and inductors turning it into sine wave.
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  73.  @SpencerHHO  "The input takes the standard high voltage 3 phase, runs it through a transformer that phase shifts it to make it 6 phases" This is slightly off. You can already get 6 phases from 3 phase power by using both phases (opposite) phases from each line. However, you can further increase this to 12 phases by using two transformers. One transformer should use a delta configuration on one side and wye on the other. This causes the phases to be rotated by 30° relative to ones from a transformer with the same configuration on both sides. In the case of 12 phases the phases next to each other are 30° apart so this way you can get 12 phases.
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  74.  @akolyt  "in case you didn't notice Portugal is not socialist" I think it is nominally though not in actuality.
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  75. Even if all of that money was embezzled, the congestion charges would still be a net benefit.
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  76.  @granand  Just selling oil does not make them not green. For that what matters is how much greenhouse gasses they themselves emit.
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  77.  @johnniesalomon1942  It was PolyMatter though others have made videos about it too (but not Sam).
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  78. The EU/EEA still has external borders. There are similarly e.g. migrants crossing the Mediterranian and sometimes drowning.
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  79.  @Skullair313  "nuclear plants are just bad for environment" No, they aren't. They're way less harmful than coal.
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  80.  @RickJaeger  OK, got it. I think he meant to claim that 99% (or something) calls it "tram" when speaking English. I don't know if it's true or not, but that 99% would have to be of the world population that has some English proficiency as more than 1% of the total world population probably has none.
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  81. 0:20 The slope doesn't counteract the centripetal force, it's what provides the centripetal force.
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  82. "13 years to fully buy a house in NYC? That sounds a little low…" Note, this is if you used 100% of your income on the house and didn't have to pay interest (nor utilities, etc.).
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  83.  @Nwtrino  Even if you can control the output of a nuclear plant it usually doesn't make economic sense. Nuclear is cheap to run. It's usually more economical to first reduce the output of an energy source with a more expensive fuel. Therefore nuclear plants are usually kept as close to maximum capacity as possible. France is an exception and uses load following nuclear plants because the share of nuclear there is so high that using other forms of energy for load following wouldn't suffice.
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  84. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  85. No, I think those happened over a longer period of time than in China.
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  86. No snow in Helsinki, Finland either. :(
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  87. "Zip (or postal) code does determine your economic mobility growing up in the US. Mine was 10454." 10454? That sounds like a lot of mobility.
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  88. A fee per car should already incentivize that. A car with more people doesn't take any less space.
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  89. I've read that the US freight lines moved to "precision scheduled railroading" in the '90s but based on this video it seems that they're now less scheduled and less precise.
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  90.  @Wileybot2004 : "Half as wendover" Why not "Interesting Productions"?
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  91. Is there data on whether correlation with race was stronger than correlation with income.
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  92. I think that figure wasn't supposed to represent a record but a more typical travel time.
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  93.  @SecularSynthesis  He's probably referring to the phenomenon called "TV pickup" causing surges in demand. That phenomenon is real even if he's exaggerating how much it requires preparing for.
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  94.  @whuzzzup  In recent years all biggest the TV pickup demands listed by Wikipedia have been during football games. Those are still something that people watch at the same time.
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  95.  @artilleryisbetter  That's extremely cheap.
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  96. Except the people in the reservations are also US citizens and have all the rights that come with it including the right to live in most other places in the US.
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  97.  @xenomorphbiologist-xx1214  "trains are better for small countries like the European ones and planes are better for large countries like Canada, Australia and the US" I don't think that's a good argument. Many US states are of a similar size to European countries so trains should be equally viable in both.
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  98. "What do you think flys all over Alaska, south America, the Caribbean?" Companies that only employ a single family worth of people (who also own the company)? Somehow, I doubt it.
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  99.  @esweet100  OK, I looked it up and it seems to have 47 employees. That's quite a bit more than just "mom and pop". It still counts as a small business but only barely.
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  100. +AnythingFixer Actually both 'learned' and 'learnt' are correct with former being the American and the latter being the British spelling.
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  101. "the congestion pricing toll would not be per trip, but per day" Ideally, it should be per hour with different hours having different prices, but maybe that's too complicated to implement.
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  102. "which will help lower demand for organ transplants" Will it? By a meaningful amount? How much of the need is due to lack of healthcare rather than e.g. unavoidable genetic conditions?
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  103.  @elinoamrichter162  I don't see how the "problem number 1" is a problem at all. There are too many vehicles in Manhattan. How do you decide whether to reduce cars or delivery vehicles? Simple. Once the price increases, the ones that are less valuable will start to not drive into Manhattan first.
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  104. Landplanes.
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  105. They have some HVDC connections but their capacity is not that large.
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  106. @JedStrogan I don't see how it would cause congestion or grouping of vehicles. Rather it should reduce accidents due to there being less of passing other vehicles.
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  107.  @Finkelfunk  "First off no one goes the same speed on an Autobahn" I didn't claim they were doing it now. "Generally, it is recommended you stay around 120-130km/h, but that is not a definite" If the limit were 130 km/h (or maybe slightly higher) there should be less passing other vehicles and emissions per km travelled should be lower. "look at these experiments where a bunch of people are told to drive in a circle behind each other at 30km/h" Based on that description that doesn't sound anything like putting a speed limit on the autobahns that currently don't have have one (though I can't say for certain without knowing more details of those experiments).
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  108.  @dannypipewrench533  75 mph is fine in a good weather but what about if it's raining or snowing? It would seem a bit bad to require such high speed in bad weather from those who might not feel comfortable with it.
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  109. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  110. I think both are used in different dialects of English.
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  111.  @x--. : Fair enough, but wouldn't it still make the census easier if a continuous count of most of the people existed all the time and then in the actual census you'd only need to count people who are for some reason missed in that count?
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  112.  @x--. : What I was thinking is that idea would still be to actually count all the people, just so that the majority could be counted by simply querying a computer system and only the remainder would have to be counted more expensively "by hand" like described in this video. I didn't mean to suggest that the harder to count people should be skipped. I'm not sure how viable that would actually be but it sounds like an obvious idea.
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  113. It's not a bad example but one can counter that we can sometimes see bans as not being very well working. A bit over a century ago some countries banned alcohol but that tended to cause various problems like organized crime and corruption.
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  114.  @kevinwpan  "the legal ownership of a gun can potentially save not only your life, but also the lives of people around you" I think that's probably a rarer case than misuse of guns. "It also dissuades a tyrannical govt from stripping you from your rights." I don't think that works in practise.
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  115.  @kevinwpan  "The Ulvade shooter [...] A gunman who shot up a church in Texas" This is two examples. Gun homicides in the US exceed 10k per year. Of course, I don't expect you to provide an exhaustive list of cases where a gun saved someone. However, it sounds unlikely that those could number in the thousands per year. "China, for example..." But China is not an example of it (i.e. guns being legal preventing government from taking away rights). I think even if legal gun ownership was easy and prevalent in China the same thing would still happen. The population can't realistically stand up to state power in any case. "This could never happen in America" I don't think it would happen in America even if guns were absent (assuming America was otherwise the same).
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  116.  @kevinwpan  "it is an example of what could happen in a nation where there is no gun ownership amongst its citizens" Well, my point was that I don't think gun ownership would prevent it so the example of China doesn't really have a bearing on that claim.
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  117.  @kevinwpan  There might not be a lot of direct evidence one way or another but I think I can point to at least one instance where having guns (though not strictly speaking owning them) did not allow the population to successfully stand up to an authoritarian government. I'm talking about the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 in South Korea. Koreans might not have owned guns but in this incident they raided local armories thus getting their hands on military-grade weapons (rather than mere hunting rifles etc.). They had assault rifles, machine guns, bazookas, and even a couple of armored cars. They also knew how to use them because Korea had (and has) a conscription. However, the government just sent paratroopers to besiege the city and later to seize it and the citizen militia wasn't able to stand up to them. If the population had used e.g. pistols or hunting rifles they could have hypothetically owned with laxer gun laws they would have had even less of a chance they had with assault rifles.
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  118. For some people, a private jet can be a sign of status.
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  119. Do you have a source for this? I tried googling the efficiency of hydroelectric plants and found numbers around 90%.
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  120.  @newrenewableenergycontrol5724  Do you have a source for that? I have a hard time believing it.
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  121.  @newrenewableenergycontrol5724  You should still give a source or else the claim remains unsubstantiated. I can't go measure those water velocities myself.
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  122. Was it stressful?
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  123.  @MJer09128  It's comparatively little compared to the alternative of using fossil fuels to power vehicles.
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  124. It's the old flag. It was used until 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  125. Both doors are safe.
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  126.  @jamesmnguyen  I don't think that could be practical even if you had to start from a clean slate anyway. I don't think there's a practical way to step up the voltage of DC other than to first convert it to AC so you can run it through a transformer and convert it back to DC. Basically every transformer would need to be replaced with a full converter station. I don't think that would make economic sense.
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  127. Air conditioners are heat pumps.
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  128. "which would cause a fall in RPM - if the load were large enough in turn causing a vane to open to allow more water through the turbine" Additional load can also cause additional turbines to be spun up.
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  129. Not anymore.
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  130.  @lugovoiarena  ""Accounting" total assets figure would not capture the multi-billion valuation of the Mile+ programme." I don't understand what you're saying here. Is this a response to something I said or something else? "we had a company which had zero debt, and the market equity value (based on London market quotations) was significantly less than the available cash balance" I don't think the same is true for the airlines. Their management is likely better than this example (and in any case it would still be a striking result).
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  131. "One issue with offshore wind is the extreme variability." I would think that offshore wind is less variable than onshore wind.
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  132. Why not?
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  133. When will we get a video on bikes?
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  134. Even in San Diego / Tijuana?
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  135. Almost eliminated. Jet fuel is something like 25 times more expensive per kWh of energy content compared to electricity.
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  136.  @bjs301  "And you believe that?" You can very easily google jet fuel price and energy density and compare that to the price of electricity. The result is in the ballpark of a factor of 25.
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  137.  @bjs301  Even if the price of electricity were to double it would still be an order of magnitude cheaper than jet fuel per joule.
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  138.  @bjs301  You're just speculating.
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  139. It still makes sense to connect large areas into a single grid because that brings stability to the system.
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  140. "work for peanuts" Which is still an improvement for many.
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  141.  @semicolontransistor  Are those camps in Xinjiang BS? Why do they show up in satellite images?
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  142. But this is "the news you missed". More people might have heard about that.
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  143. "If the feds tax them, they should have congressional representation else be “taxation without representation”" They can vote in federal elections just like (most) other US citizens.
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  144. @SwitchedDreams It's not a contradiction. Currently the drivers are paying in time by sitting in slow traffic. But the time they lose isn't gained by anyone else. It's just destroyed value. Paying a congestion charge, however, at least just moves value (money) from one pocket to another instead of just destroying/wasting it.
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  145.  @graysmith9218  With a high enough charge, the amount of cars will be less. The drivers are hardly ready to pay unlimited amount of money for the privilege of driving. Also, even if there was no effect, it would still be a good way to raise revenue. Governments typically raise revenue by taxes which can affect people's behaviour in unwanted ways and lead to so called "deadweight loss". Congestion charges either change people's behaviour in a desirable way or don't change it meaning no deadweight loss.
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  146. "Which means that it ultimately isn't profitable for airlines to adopt electric anyway?" But it would still be for individual airlines compared to the alternative of being bidded out by a competitor. Also, profit margins can increase temporarily if you're the first one to adopt a cost-cutting technology.
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  147. According to Wikipedia, one of the names for the New Guinea Highlands is "Central Cordillera".
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  148. Also, countries with "Democratic" in their official names tend to be less democratic.
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  149. If I understood correctly, it's not the fluctuation that caused them to not survive at all. The companies had problems with their long-term viability. The fluctuation only affected the timing of the ceasing of operations. If a company is going to go bankrupt at some point, it's not a surprise that that bankruptcy will happen in the season where the short term liquidity is tightest. TL;DR Planning for the fluctuation won't help if the problem is long term viability.
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  150.  @kuhluhOG : My interpretation was different but it's of course difficult to know for sure what he intended to say.
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  151. "The premise is misleading." How is it misleading? Your comment doesn't explain.
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  152.  @granand  "The USA now selling its oil reserve to China, use China as a manufacturing hub, and cannot claim china is polluting when orders for manufacturing come from the USA." I agree that it would be better to include indirect emissions for each country coming from domestic consumption made possible by foreign production with emissions, though it's also harder to find info on this. However, this principle only reinforces that Norway is not to blame for the emissions from the oil it sells but rather it should be counted for the countries that either actually emit the greenhouse gasses or better yet those that consume the results if it's a different country.
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  153.  @ASMRJey  I would compare that to crossing state borders inside the US. The external borders for both the US and EU have some of the same issues (at least during the recent migrant crisis).
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  154. If the runway 02 or 20 is oriented in the north-south direction why does the graphic show it as being oriented in the east-west direction?
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  155.  @RickJaeger  ""99%" of the world does not speak English" 4.6% of the world population speaks English as their first language.
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  156. Too long.
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  157. I'd say "further" is correct here because it's referring to a direction rather than a static location.
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  158. One possibility is that the person has acquired US citizenship after the children were born.
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  159. No.
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  160. Another fun fact: In Icelandic Iceland is "Ísland" which comes from "ís"="ice" and "land"="land".
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  161. I think they also can vote in whatever committees they might be in and also on the floor in purely procedural matters.
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  162. It's minimum for (maximum) speed limit.
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  163. But batteries have much better efficiency.
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  164. Björk
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  165. Very little trolling, in fact.
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  166.  @dingahaban2288  "We would rather die than sell out to some western/white puppets" Aren't the opposition blacks too? Surely there are next to no whites left in Zimbabwe?
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  167.  @yvettepugin4035  Which one of my comments are you referring to?
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  168.  @blackmaster999  Based on economic statistics it doesn't seem like that. Also, are there more people trying to get from Zimbabwe to SA or vice versa?
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  169.  @richdobbs6595  They can at least be made controllable. France uses load following nuclear plants.
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  170.  @richdobbs6595  Highly controllable might be an exaggeration.
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  171. Is this the fabled "missing middle"?
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  172. Solar output is greatest when there is greatest need for air conditioning. Thus, those two should go well together.
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  173.  @creamofbotulismsoup9900  "Not really, pretty much any building with A/C will be insulated to prevent the heat from immediately transferring in." A delay of 3 h or something doesn't ruin it. Houses also have thermal inertia so you have some leeway to run AC when electricity is the cheapest. Doing it during the day if solar PV is very plentiful is still easier than doing it during the night (which is also still feasible if the house has enough mass not heat up too much in one day).
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  174.  @micaledayurst7462  That does not comport with figures I find with short googling. Based on what I found AC would use about 3 kW on average whereas a fridge would be closer to 250 W on average meaning AC uses more than 10x more. Also, AC usage tends to be higher in regions where solar power is more viable.
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  175. I wonder if European bankruptcy laws should be amended. It just seems inefficient that the planes that are about to take off suddenly can't because it isn't clear that who would pay for them. Someone is going to pay for the travel back home at some point regardless.
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  176. It's not meaningless. The F1 race is also an annual event. Thus, if the stadium e.g. has 2 events per year, you can divide the cost of the stadium by 2 when making a comparison to the cost of the F1 track. Note that he didn't say "cost per event" but rather "cost per annual event" [emphasis mine].
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  177. ​@nightstorm16 It would make zero sense to ignore the initial capex because it's so large. I think if you converted it into an annual cost with, say, 5% interest rate it would still be larger than the running costs you mention. In any case, it doesn't really matter whether you convert it to an annual cost or not because what Wendover did was look at the ratio of the costs of the F1 track/paddock etc. and the Stadium. The result is in any case going to be the same unless the running costs large enough relative to the capex that they can noticeably affect the ratio.
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  178. "Making goods and services for consumption is hard, time-consuming, and subject to fluctuating demand. Trading papers is far easier." The airlines still do produce the service and their banking business wouldn't work if they didn't.
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  179. Even if it's badly run, that doesn't obviously mean that more money wouldn't translate to benefits. That would mean that less money hurt because the agency is badly run (because A<B is the same as B>A) and that would sound rather counterintuitive.
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  180. The result is still mostly the same. Usually it's more economical to first reduce output from sources with more expensive fuel than nuclear so in practice nuclear output stays flat. France is a special case because the share of nuclear there is so high that nuclear plants also need to participate in load following.
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  181. Maybe it's actually 400 Mm long.
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  182. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  183. Which country's citizenship should the Palestinians have then?
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  184.  @jonahs92  "Well, they live on Israeli land, so they're Israeli." That might be a reasonable solution if Israel actually accepted that. At any rate, they should get a country whether that's Israel or some other country (without having to move if they don't want to move).
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  185.  @jonahs92  "Except Israel does accept that. Because they are Israeli." No, they mostly don't have Israeli citizenship and can't get one. Israel doesn't want to allow that because if all of them got Israeli citizenship then the Arabs would outnumber the Jews in the country. (I think the people in East Jerusalem can, or at least could in the past, apply for Israeli citizenship but that's a small exception.) Their current statelessness isn't an acceptable status quo. They should get the citizenship of some sovereign country at some point (without moving if they don't want to move).
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  186.  @jonahs92  Arabs living in Gaza and West Bank are not automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship and in 2003 Israel even passed a law that barred them from getting citizenship through marriage as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Israel_Law Note that Israel doesn't even claim Gaza or the West Bank as Israeli territory (though the exact border may be a bit unclear).
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  187. Boing might need to jump through numerous hoops with the regulators of other countries as well since now they might be less likely to just follow FAA.
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  188.  @otm646  "Cards are a convenience, they should be charged at a premium because of that." I'm not sure I agree. You can turn this around and say that they're a convenience for the vendor and therefore should be charged at a discount.
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  189. 4:10 "under $1,400" But the graphic shows above $1,400.
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  190.  @ultrab2777 : I did see it. The point was that is should have been <, not >.
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  191. For DC the cables are cheaper for a given amount of capacity. "increasing frequency" No.
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  192. Not necessarily only general aviation. Short-haul flights could be viable as well.
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  193. "I believe going fully free-market mode is the way to go." I believe (live) kidney donors should be paid from the public purse.
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  194. "The millions of TONS of concrete poured would make me think otherwise." I would think the emissions coming from this are not high per kWh produced.
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  195. Can someone explain why it's spelled like that?
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  196. "jet fuel is 50 times more energy dense than batteries. Until batteries make a quantum leap in technology there’s no overcoming that." I'm not convinced of that. Electricity is cheaper and for short-haul flights the weight of the batteries matters less, so on sufficiently short distances, they're probably viable.
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  197. He said "mainland Africa".
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  198. But to be fair, that was a lot shorter wall and thus could be guarded more effectively.
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  199.  @banksrail  My point wasn't so much about whether it's good or bad, there are always pros and cons, but rather that the term seems to not be very descriptive.
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  200. Time to repeal the Jones Act.
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  201. "Because of interstates, urban sprawl spread farther resulting in less dense cities" Isn't that because of zoning policies?
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  202. He meant the speed limit (setting the maximum speed for vehicles) has to be at least that high.
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  203. "So basically they get all the benefits of being American but don't pay for anything and just complain all the time." They still pay federal taxes. They might not pay state taxes but presumably they also don't receive as much state services.
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  204.  @RS-ls7mm  To my knowledge, they are subject to federal income taxes, though if you make less than about $12,000 the tax rate will be zero. If they do business outside the reservation then they're also subject to state taxes.
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  205. "Airplanes, trains, ships, cars were just improved." That's a rather broad definition for "no change". By that definition, same is true almost everywhere. Flying cars and Hyperloop (and vactrains in general) are ill-conceived ideas.
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  206. "I still think hydrogen is a way better option for airplanes, since the range can also be way longer and hydrogen is very energy-dense." But batteries have higher efficiency.
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  207.  @MickenCZProfi  Efficiency matters for the cost. Obviously, battery-powered airplanes are only for short-haul flights but for that purpose, they seem more viable than hydrogen planes.
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  208.  @MickenCZProfi  When you said: "I still think hydrogen is a way better option for airplanes", I thought you meant they would be better for short-haul flights as well (which I wouldn't agree with) since you didn't specify.
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  209. Well, this is "the news you missed" so presumably he's deliberately choosing smaller stories. E.g. for the UK he could have picked the Brexit deal instead of some wind farm etc.
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  210. Yes (barring some nitpicking which I don't remember).
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  211.  @timotheatae  I suspect the EU didn't provide 100% of the funding.
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  212.  @haiwang2857  "wealthy Chinese can invest in the financial market and buy stocks" Yes, but they can (for the most part) only do it in China, so basically the Shanghai Stock Exchange. They can't (for the most part) buy stock listed on foreign stock exchanges nor even ones on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The problem with China's domestic stock market and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is that returns aren't great, maybe due to issues of government policy and/or things like insider trading. Thus for many Chinese real estate would seem like the only kind of investment that made sense.
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  213. I bet Sam wishes he would get sponsorship from Airbus.
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  214. So the UK news was a wind farm and not some Brexit stuff. Is that because a lot of people have heard about Brexit too?
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  215. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(tool)
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  216. Here in Finland, there was a helicopter airline named Copterline that flew passenger flights between Helsinki and Tallinn in 2000-2005 with two Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. It was a much faster way to travel than by a ferry though also more expensive, I imagine. However, in 2005 one of the Sikorskys suffered a malfunction soon after taking off and fell into the sea killing both pilots and all the passengers and the company sold the remaining one next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copterline
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  217. What about if someone starts misbehaving inside an embassy (or I guess I should say a chancery)? The police are normally not there to respond. I guess they can have some security staff but do those have the same authority to use force as the police do?
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  218.  @varana  It seemed to me that that wasn't what he meant since he specifically used the wording "rather than the reality".
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  219. "Flying at 10.000 feet assuming standard conditions is 20C Lower than sea level." I'm pretty sure keeping the batteries warm isn't more difficult than keeping the passengers warm.
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  220. Synthetic fuels have a lower efficiency.
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  221.  @sathvikpasumarthy  I think the point was that airlines need fewer workers per passenger-km.
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  222. Things often have more than one cause.
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  223. Even non-citizens can own land.
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  224. Have you any idea how hard Sam and others worked to make this video?
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  225.  @thefoolonthehill8394  I wasn't being entirely serious but I think the effort required isn't insignificant.
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  226. If you recognize the Republic of China, then the People's Republic of China will cut diplomatic relations.
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  227.  @rickrank321  "the airline claws back all the points the person previously accrued" But if a person has accrued points from using the services of partnered companies then the airline gets paid for those points. In that case the airline, or a bank that has seized the loyalty program to cover a loan, doesn't have an incentive to claw back the points.
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  228.  @wendlewhiting  Are you sure? It would seem that a moved runway would allow for larger planes but not a higher number of planes.
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  229. According to Wikipedia, one of the names for the New Guinea Highlands is "Central Cordillera".
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  230. In that particular case what was salient was that any crimes between Natives have to be judged in state, not federal, courts.
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  231. "battery capacity is not measured in MW, but MWh" Maybe the figure is for the maximum charge/discharge rate?
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  232. To death? US gas tax is very low.
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  233. Surely this isn't the first such video?
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  234.  @Quadratic4mula  "It's not that hard." How do you know?
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  235.  @jypsridic  The would-be-illegal-immigrants can't solve the problem of cartels.
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  236.  @jypsridic  Not a credible assertion. What could a bunch of poor people do?
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  237. France has load following nuclear plants.
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  238.  @gremate  "thats not my fault that there isnt infrastructure there for me" That's like someone complaining that they have to obey the speed limits even though the live farther away than other people. What you said doesn't change the fact that every car (yours and those of others) slow every other car down and a congestion charge would be a big benefit to the society.
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  239.  @gremate  People can really only "evade" the fares by not taking space on the streets which is exactly the goal (or one of the goals) of the congestion charges. As to the speed limit, I used it as an analogy to explain why I don't think your claim of unfairness is a good argument against congestion charges. It's not specifically about speed limits in NYC. I think it works quite well as an analogy. As another analogy, people who drive more and thus consume more fuel still have to pay the same fuel tax per gallon (as they should). Also note that if you still continue driving after a congestion charge is implemented, it'll make traffic smoother which also benefits you, so you're getting value for your money.
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  240.  @gremate  You take space on the street while you're driving on them. That's why too many cars on the streets cause congestion. As for taxis and Ubers, presumably they'd have to pay too.
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  241. Lah!
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  242. And Rwandans need to start eating durians.
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  243. The Dominican Republic was highlighted earlier. He then highlighted Burkina Faso because it was the next country in the list. However, the timing between the audio and highlighting was bad.
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  244. 18:15 No country? What about Japan. Japan Railways was privatized in 1987 and it seems to work well.
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  245.  @sketchleaf7698  I'm not convinced. Firstly, countries with free healthcare still have waiting lists for organs so it doesn't seem to have a huge effect. Secondly, I could just as well speculate that better availability of healthcare could just as well increase the demand for transplants if people with issues survive to be placed on the waiting list instead of just dying before that and it could also reduce the supply of donated organs if more potential donors survive strokes, etc. This is, of course, speculation but it's not any less speculative than the notion you presented.
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  246. Because it's the one being highlighted.
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  247. On the other hand, planes might be, to some extent, charge when electricity is cheapest.
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  248. It's the old flag from 1974-2010 which resembled the Taiwanese flag.
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  249. Part of that gas was used for direct heating of homes (as well as cooking with gas stoves). That's definitely something we should get rid of.
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  250. The USA officially recognizes China, not Taiwan (since 1979).
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  251. Oregano transplants.
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  252. I knew where St. Helena was but not because of Napoléon but rather because of an old (and really bad) board game.
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  253. Moreover, the person getting injured or killed could be you!
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  254.  @Tsukiko.97 : Maybe he could make a video on the economics or logistics of Area 51.
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  255. It's Artsakh.
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  256. It's still 120V because that's the voltage of a live wire relative to neutral. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  257.  @tomewyrmdraconus837 : "From a modern perspective, the language used when we were hunter-gatherers would almost certainly not qualify as a language." I find that very hard to believe (at least without a source). There are still some basically paleolithic or neolithic cultures and they still have what are most definitely languages. The languages might lack some concepts (like numbers) that would not be that important for hunter-gatherers, but are still quite sufficient for conversing about everyday life, telling stories, telling jokes etc.
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  258. Lol!
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  259. Well, you should've told him to release this at some other time!
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  260. Isn't Bukele the one who made Bitcoin legal tender and caused the government to lose a lot of money on it? Still, reducing the crime rate is probably a bigger plus than the fiscal loss is a minus.
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  261. If it's Boeing (737 MAX), it's going...away.
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  262.  @jshepard152 : At least temporarily from service. :) But it was just joke anyway. Don't ruin it with "facts".
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  263.  @Xylos144  "Yeah, his representation here was pretty disingenuous." While his explanation was flawed the result is still mostly the same. The cost of nuclear is mostly capital cost and it's cheap to run. Therefore you usually want to keep it running as much as possible and rather reduce the output of some more expensive to run energy source such as some fossil sources. Thus the result is still mostly as his graph showed, i.e. nuclear output is constant. France is a special case because the share of nuclear is so large that it needs some of its nuclear plants to do a part of the load following.
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  264. That's still very few countries. Also, e.g. Eritrea has received UN condemnation for taxing non-resident citizens.
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  265. It is stepped down to 120V because that's the voltage of a live wire relative to neutral. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  266.  @bowez9  But the voltage number (if only one number is given) refers to the phase-to-neutral voltage. That's why it's called 120V.
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  267.  @elinoamrichter162  I don't think those problems can in any way mean that congestion pricing wouldn't still be a net benefit.
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  268.  @elinoamrichter162  Currently, the streets in Manhattan are inefficiently used. Too many cars and trucks just make the throughput lower than it could be; traffic is slower than it needs to be; it takes longer than needed for trucks and cars to reach their destination. With congestion charges it wouldn't be free for trucks to use the streets but it's also not free for all that capital (trucks) to sit idle needlessly in slow traffic. Both are costs that those businesses and consumers pay. The difference is that the former is just transferring value (money) to someone else but the latter just straight-up destroys value without it being gained by anyone else. Congestion charges lead to more efficient use of resources. To the degree that trucks are more essential street users than cars, presumably there is willingness to pay more for the service they provide than for transporting people in cars. Or maybe not, markets can decide which is more important by measuring the willingness to pay.
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  269. I think that $500,000 savings is supposed to be after the cost of the battery is paid off.
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  270. It's 120V relative to neutral for a live wire. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  271. 18:55 Here you say that the decline isn't inevitable but the title of the video says the exact opposite.
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  272. Not necessarily. They can also burn the hydrogen in turbines.
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  273. First, you'll have to illegally immigrate to Mexico.
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  274.  @brunovilela3619  If a forested area is going to get submerged wouldn't it make sense to log all the wood there and use it?
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  275. 1974-2010
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  276. Sea levels have risen at least 16 cm since 1900.
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  277. "Do its flaws excuse illegal immigration? Absolutely not." How come? If there's no practical legal way and the alternative is to stay in destitution, I don't think I could honestly say I wouldn't do try illegal immigration.
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  278. The cost of the program might be comparatively small, but the greenhouse emissions of those flights should also be factored into the cost.
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  279.  @seigeengine : What a strange reaction.
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