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Re:History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021) by CrazyStat on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:45AM (#31504422)
If only governments had some way of making it more expensive to continue using fossil fuels.
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Re:History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021) by chrlac on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:55AM (#31504556)
They could use further taxes but that would only negatively affect the poorer strata of population, as we are currently seeing with record high gas prices.

I have a hard time believing that big corporations can be pressured with this kind of policies, seeing that they can just pass on the extra costs down the line to the customers.

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Re:History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021) by gumby on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#31505994)
> They could use further taxes but that would only negatively affect the poorer strata of population, as we are currently seeing with record high gas prices.

Cut subsidies and give more money to the poor.

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Re:History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses (2021) by coryrc on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:13AM (#31504795)
When do we base policy decisions on what's best for the poor?

No, I say it's the middle class: they can only just afford those big social signals they drive every day and don't want to give them up.

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