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Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by xiphias2 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:55AM (#25444828)
US leadership was actively pushing for rolling back energy standards (that California was fighting for quite strongly).

US has achieved a lot (especially Tesla) _despite_ the leadership working against it for a long time.

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Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by j0ba on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:04PM (#25444961)
True. Unfortunately many still think a centrally planned system of picking winners and losers is superior to the free market, but luckily the past 4 years was enough to send capable entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk into the stratosphere (and beyond).
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Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by leogiertz on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:55PM (#25445793)
I don’t know, we all owe Germany quite a bit for their solar subsidies.
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