Factorium

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by Factorium 5y ago
Pfizer up 25% MoM: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PFE:NYSE?window=1M Moderna up 24% in the last 5 days: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MRNA:NASDAQ?window=5D New variants are
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by Factorium 5y ago
Endless variants, endless boosters, endless profits. No wonder natural immunity is being suppressed. Having broad and long-lasting antibody and T-cell immunity is bad for profits and continuing this state of affairs.
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by Factorium 5y ago
It didn't work because they were strangled by regulation, by City Bureaucrats fearful that the private market would outcompete public transport.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Content Creators need to just lobby Governments to regulate ISPs to block illegal stream and torrent sites. Much more effective than chasing DRM.
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by Factorium 5y ago
We could ban all gas-powered cars now: just start with vehicles priced over $100,000, and decrease the threshold by $10,000 annually.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Public transport doesn't work if you have to wear a mask to ride it. People on the margins between wanting to drive or get transport will switch to driving because of the inherent discomfort and dehumanization of being forced to wear a
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by Factorium 5y ago
Nurses have to wear burdensome levels of PPE, and are forced to get vaccinated (despite many of them already getting COVID during the initial outbreak, and their natural immunity providing broader and longer-lasting protection than vaccines
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by Factorium 5y ago
Post-2015 Europe is just not the same. Walkable neighborhoods, open public services, just do not work properly when you introduce millions of dangerous men from culturally incompatible regions. It should be clear from these border events th
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by Factorium 5y ago
As soon as you add that requirement to coal power plants, they become immediately uneconomic to build or operate. They are already borderline due to the fall in cost of renewables. With a meagre Carbon Tax of $15/tonne, coal costs do
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by Factorium 5y ago
It could also be used in home ventilation systems. Its much easier to remove CO2 from the inside air than to rotate out the entire air envelope, for a chemical that makes up a few hundred parts per million.
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MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air(news.mit.edu)
3 points by Factorium 5y ago|2 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
The Fed hired Blackrock to manage the QE program. They are basically in charge of printing US dollars and buying their own assets. And we think crypto is bad... We should just end the Fed and replace it with a giant algorithm, with crowdsou
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by Factorium 5y ago
Tesla batteries are only losing 10% of capacity after 200,000 miles: https://electrek.co/2021/08/12/tesla-claims-battery-packs-lo...
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by Factorium 5y ago
Maybe British police should get off the internet and start policing real crimes? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068001
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by Factorium 5y ago
Last-generation automakers sold expensive, complex ICE vehicles and made money back on parts and servicing. EVs are much cheaper and simpler to manufacture and last basically forever.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Europeans, Indians, several other countries were banned from entering the USA since 2020.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Misplaced paternalism. Why not have children instead?
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by Factorium 5y ago
Three generations go into one house, if you're wealthy. If you're poor, in Australia its not uncommon to have a 3-bedroom house with 20 migrant men, who hotbunk and rotate every 12 hours. This is the dismal reality of mass immigra
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by Factorium 5y ago
Immigration of 400,000 people annually. The Government has announced it will increase immigration levels: https://www.cicnews.com/2020/10/canada-to-release-2021-2023-... Drives down wages, drives up asset values.
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US Fed hired BlackRock to run a portion of their quantitative easing program(forbes.com)
8 points by Factorium 5y ago|2 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
At a mere $15/tonne, coal becomes 100% more expensive (ie. dead): https://www.resources.org/common-resources/calculating-vario... The low-hanging fruit is to just stop burning coal for electricity, and to enact th
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by Factorium 5y ago
COVID-era restrictions to Europe and India are dropping on November 8th. Be prepared for a reflux of desperate migrants who will happily take those jobs. (Disclaimer: I'm one of them).
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by Factorium 5y ago
Villages will band together to finance people smugglers to take a few of their young men to Europe. The expectation is that from welfare and cash jobs, they will send money back and repay the loan. That's why the boats you see full of
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by Factorium 5y ago
I looked at doing this in Ukraine. Here you can buy 650m2 block of land on the outskirts (20-30minutes drive) of a 2nd tier city for about $10,000. However, I decided its better to just buy land in the USA instead for the following reasons:
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by Factorium 5y ago
This is not the Roman Empire. Those same healthy young men failed at much beyond subsistence agriculture in their home countries. IQ - a factor of genetics and upbringing - is far more important. Predilection away from violence and crime is
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by Factorium 5y ago
That would make sense only if the UBI functions exclusively as a tax credit against income taxes or land taxes. It could pair with a UBI for children, giving families a competitive advantage against investors for housing. The USA essentiall
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by Factorium 5y ago
You can get Tacos and Sushi: https://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/things-to-do/restaura... Not everything there is burgers and hot dogs.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Is it worth lying about your race for job applications too?
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Man spent $150 eating every meal at Six Flags since 2014 to pay off student debt(nypost.com)
57 points by Factorium 5y ago|31 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
Could we see a portable Epic Games console, pugged directly into their store? Like the Steam Deck, but better, since developers will get 88% of revenue instead of 65% on Steam.

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