Why You Should Turn On Two Factor Authentication
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So keeping the marijuana ban in place for under 20s will magically reduce teenage cannabis use?! @nzdrug
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in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit
Younger people won’t recognize the names of these winner take all, enduring natural monopolies
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit
The Left vs Right in 2020
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The late Justice Peter Mahon, So Much Better
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For those still reaching to raise their bat for a half century the Erebus disaster is a relic of history that happened over forty years ago, like the Wahine Ferry sinking after hitting rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour another decade earlier also labelled a disaster both events had more rumour than fact about cause and blame. With potential costs to central government corporates spent considerable effort to obscure what happened. With Erebus it was simpler with both the Pilot and his Right seat companion both dead it was not long before Pilot Error gained currency as the Cause.
Because over two hundred and fifty perished on the slopes of Mt Erebus the Government was eventually in the position of reluctantly creating a Royal Commission to investigate. Of course that action is normally set up with terms of reference as to what the government wants as an outcome and…
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Mother cats protecting their cute kittens ❤️😽 Mom Cat Loves Kittens compilation 2020
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Top court forces Ireland to strengthen climate plans
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Irish wind farm [image credit: RTG @ Wikipedia]
Climate virtue signalling comes back to bite vote-chasing politicians, who expected they could dump many of the potentially unpopular decisions on taxes and spending arising from their 2015 law onto a later government. They now have to lay out plans for the next 30 years, long after their mandate to govern.
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Judges ruled the government’s national mitigation plan fell “well short” of what was needed to meet Ireland’s climate commitments, ordering a more ambitious strategy, as Climate Home News reports.
The Irish government has been ordered to take more aggressive action on climate change, following a ruling by the country’s top judges.
In a judgment published today [31/07/2020], the supreme court said Ireland’s existing emission cutting plans fell “well short” of what was required to meet its climate commitments and must be replaced with a more ambitious strategy.
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