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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
it has happened to me once or twice as well :(
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> And that is not analogy. technically analogy has a broad definition that applies anytime you compare two things.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Because China is doubling down on solutions and we really need the US to be doing the same. I hadn't heard this. can you give some examples, please?
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
yes that is more parsimonious however in non-technical language the term "radiator" is associated with heat exchangers. if you put heat exchangers on the sides of your spacecraft they would function as radiators so I suppose it do
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> It gives me hope that it could be passed knowing that opinion, not a cabal of interests, stands in the way. as I've become more open to other people's political worldviews, I've come to understand that any extant politic
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
take pre-calculus and do every assignment immediately as it is assigned. then review before the next class. pre-calculus is designed to give people like you the tools to move onto the maths you want to learn. after that, echoing another top
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Black bodies are theoretical, they do not exist. Apollo had radiators, they might have been black but they were not a black body. they were, as I said, "black body radiators" which are not theoretically ideal black bodies, bu
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
they will be IR visible, but what do you mean they don't exist? Apollo used them to bleed off excess heat.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> If it helps read here: that doesn't support your novel assertion. > Unfortunately this "nonsense" is the explanation that any economist would give you. lots of people running around hn espousing their own particular v
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I think you could use black body radiators on the other 5 sides to bleed the heat from the side facing the sun.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> "rich" people in vast amounts of debt aren't rich, they're broke. not necessarily. if you have a lot of debt, but you hold the title to capital goods that produce income, then you can be very wealthy. > Rich peop
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Inflation caused by bad monetary policy is indeed bad, but that's only one particular case of inflation. yes, the textbook case. > Indeed, maybe you should give it a try! indeed I have and thats how I know you're either ig
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
money doesn't have a yield, so it can't have an interest rate. also consider that the interest rate is denominated in a ratio of currency units. its nonsensical to reify currency as a special case of a loan of itself.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
money is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. a loan is an obligation. its a value with negative valence. > So what happened when the risk is the lowest possible? The interest rates goes to zero or even negative
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> nflation is good not because of inflation itself, but because of what it signals: a growth in demand outpacing the growth in supply. price inflation is a signal of monetary inflation. you appear to be confusing price inflation with an
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> That's a popular, but untrue, idea. There is a ton of research my microbiology professor said it is true. several major antibiotic companies have shut down their antibiotics research program because the economics of antibiotics ar
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
last year I read that they have two major innovations in this field: 1. they can use a t4 bacteriophage to deploy an arbitrary genetic payload and 2. they can alter the "hooks" on the t4 to make it attach to a large variety of cel
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> With "savers" being a close approximation of "the rich" and debtors being another word for "the poor". thats false. many rich hold vast amounts of debt, which makes them benefit from inflation. also releva
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
exactly.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
savings is for more than just retirement. there are transaction costs associated with breaking into retirement vehicles in order to meet emergency obligations. more importantly, inflation discourages savings, because you have to invest your
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
contrariwise, it is infact already cash.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
well when you can fund giant capital expenditures with debt, you can buy up enough resources to build a company with current dollars, and pay for them with future (inflated) dollars. from this perspective, inflation is basically a discount
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Inflation is good. inflation is good for net debtors and bad for savers. > Inflation comes from a imbalance in supply and demand price inflation is a necessary consequence of monetary inflation. > This increase in prices serve as
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
sprechen se habla?
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
so the sunk cost fallacy is a similar case. rationally, a budget is a state function, but people tend to think of it as a path function. thanks for explaining.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
So Taleb says the function that controls how you spend your money is a path function and you say that it is a state function. does anyone know how this could be tested? or does anyone have any good gedankenexperiments to illustrate the diff
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I took a quick glance, many of Hobbes' principle values do not seem to be widely held today.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> the sovereign can do whatever is necessary to keep the peace. In exchange, the individual agrees to go along with everything except the loss of their own life. wow, how widely is this belief held? is there a name for it?
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
can you explain why you don't consider medicare, food stamps, and section 8 housing to be social safety nets?

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