Inthenameofmine

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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
At highway speeds aerodynamic drag creates more noise than the motor itself (externally). So an electric car makes little difference there. Reducing speed reduces noise non-linearly. Therefore electric cars make a big difference for noise p
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power of women in society e
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
I can already see this in the Balkans. Countries which have stronger ties with the US (eg Romania, Kosovo) can easily see developer salaries be 5-20x local average salary. This has contributed to real estate prices getting out of whack for
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
Hardware is tricky. Anything hands on really. For anything abstract I would argue that the people who are able to onboard and form teams and ideas remotely are inherently the best for the job and likely produce a disproportionate percentage
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
That's the supply chain reality of most non-port cities/countries in the world. It's also normal to pay 1.5-3x the original ticker price for what you ship in based on tariffs, fees, shipping, etc. The trick is to pick your lo
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
The geothermal plant in Basel, Switzerland was AFAIK among the very first production ready plants using fracking. I remember the news of them turning it on and then a series of 2-3.5 Richter earthquakes happening. The city was leveled by ea
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
> For me as a technology manager, I'm more exhausted than ever. Video meetings are a pain. Because of this, people switch to asynchronous communication methods, which is definively more effective, but lacks even more personality. Te
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
If you include all known positive and negative feedback loops we're talking about human extinction within a couple decades. Furthermore, most of what the public thinks is the key leverage points of climate change generally turn out to
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
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by Inthenameofmine 6y ago
I fund it fascinating that in "developed" or "fully western" countries it is the youth that is disregarding the lockdown measures. In Kosovo/Albania it is the precise opposite. An acquaintance of mine in China told
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
That's a very good question. Community cooperatives and municipal banks seem to be doing this, but not the commercial banks. I wonder why.
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
My opinion isn't really scientific, but I think this has primarily to do with the demographic pyramid in Italy and most of Southern Europe, not much with economic development. Kosovo is a clear example that economic development isn&#x2
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
TBH, that works as long as your demographic pyramid is healthy. For most of Europe that is not the case. On top of that, return on additional debt has been stagnant since the 90s in OECD countries. There's simply almost no place to put
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
What’s the support behind this atm? I’ve read about this for some time, and it’s pretty much a no-brainer, but I haven’t seen any politician speak about it yet.
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
This map seems to be more than lacking. For one it doesn’t seem to take into consideration wet bulb temperatures on the rise, as we have seen now in central and western Europe. It also doesn’t seem to take into account that what really crea
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
I think the soy idea has been debunked for some time now. The main external estrogen source is milk and to some extend meat products.
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
> but the opportunity cost of figuring out the exact right problem to solve is inaction, and inaction is often worse than making a poorly-informed judgement. That reminds me a lot of the days when managers did not want to do proper code
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the clogging to the he
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by Inthenameofmine 7y ago
> Someone has since pointed out to me that HFT is currently done by bouncing microwaves off the atmosphere. I would love to read up on this. Is this similar to HARP?
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by Inthenameofmine 8y ago
Inoreader is a very good alternative now imo. It lacks the way to share and subscribe to other people's shared articles, but i'd still give it a 9/10. On that note, it boggles my mind that no startup has simply coppied google
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by Inthenameofmine 8y ago
Or the government automates jobs. In Prishtina, Kosovo about 50 clerk jobs were replaced by a single automated machine which would give you all kinds of documents, certicicates, etc. It cut down waiting time from hours to minutes. Not to me
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by Inthenameofmine 8y ago
That’s more of an economic problem though. If you are further than 20min each way from your work place, monopolists are screwing you on income, cost of living, time, etc. Furthermore, you can work remotely.
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by Inthenameofmine 9y ago
Definitely in Southern Europe. I met some of my best friends in random encounters.
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by Inthenameofmine 9y ago
Do you have any links or books on the topic or this specific calculation? Sounds very interesting.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Well demand is a good thing in this case. It implies good economic development. My point was more that market mechanisms don't make sense for public good infrastructure/monopolies. Building as much (and sustainably) as possible +
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That's actually a really good point for housing as public infrastructure. The parallels to roads are very interesting.
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
Not from the US, but I lived there shortly and was asked to move there and had to decline. To me it's pretty clear that your single biggest problem is your suburbs and car culture. Everything from anti-social behavior, social anxiety s
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t make sense,
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by Inthenameofmine 10y ago
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.

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