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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Last time I checked the Swizz, Germans and Brits were major players in drug and medical R and D. Most of the important deep tech happens in university done by post grads, not by for-profit companies. Drug development in the US is expensive
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
If you are a billionare, sea level rise is going to effect your wealth the MOST. Most of the wealthist cities in the world are along the coast. Sea level rise is not going to have much negative effect in inner Mongolia or Midwest. So I am q
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I have grown a thick skin to climate change alarmist news from UK media. They seem so defeatist instead of trying to fix the actual issue.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Tin Foil Level = Expert China is preparing to allow massive amount of immigration from neighboring Muslim countries. I have been following local news in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia. The Chinese leadership is well aware of their demograp
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> there is nothing the US government can do to achieve better conditions for US companies. Are you sure about that ? The US already provides huge help to US companies at the determinant to other countries. No technology transfer would me
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> The failure is on the part of the US government in not protecting US companies from unreasonable technology transfer requirements etc. Maybe foreigners do not think it's unreasonable ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
The problem is that is too little too late. If I get sick, I cant just solve my problem with some ibuprofen. Solving climate change requires a major overhaul in culture, lifestyle, expectation, technology and politics. We did it before, mos
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> but reform is needed. Sanders is the last person to do any reform ( real reform would come most likely from somebody like Andrew Yang ). Education is first and foremost extremely political, almost everywhere and every country. Milton F
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Do you boot Raspbian from a SATA SSD ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
My Intel laptop uses 45W and it doesn't have dual 4K hdmi support. 15W is crazy low for what it is offering.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Depends on what you are doing.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
You could buy a ( usb -> ethernet ) cable for less than 5 dollars. I use ( usb -> ethernet ) for the rPi zero. You even get ( usb -> ( ethernet, usb, usb , usb ) ) accessory, which is really cool.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Definitely ! I do not use my laptop's keyboard, mouse or monitor. Everything is external for me. A much more powerful rPi means it might be possible to ditch the laptop form factor for good. The only missing piece of technology for me
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
India prior to the Brits, should be a case study in how to integrate places like the Rust Belt in US, Afghanistan into global trade. Each village was an autonomous unit of production that traded directly with nearby villages, silk road and
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
In other news ... "borrower are optimist, lenders are pessimists" If many of these students are left depressed due to unmet expectations it drags the whole economy down - as they cut back on spending. I feel like inflation would b
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Gold being transported in brown cardboard paper. Breaking Bad was not some manual.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Gold would be extremely deflationary. It is what made the great depression worse. If the Fed didn't "print money" as QE1, QE2, QE3 then you would have 25% unemployment in the US alone. Having half of society unemployed just s
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
It depends .. China still have a lot of poor people. Normally you want credit to flow from richer parts of the world to poorer parts of the world - where there is a lot more potential for growth. NNIT is meaningless metric for larger countr
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I am not an investment expert, you should consult with your financial advisor, my personal rule of thumb is : 1 - Invest in yourself. - Health - Education - Social circle 2 - Invest in your living space. - Buy an apartment
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
If a large amount of white collar workers are jobless, your SPY calls would also become worthless. It's a good idea to invest in index funds, but investing in index funds expecting a economic apocalypse is not good reasoning.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
So lets be as paranoid as North Korea ? national self-sufficiency ? every country that tried it went bankrupt.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
The problems facing the US in competing with China are structural. No Amount of mergers between giant monopolies is gong to fix structural problems. On a cynical level, it maybe that "China" is used as an excuse to push through a
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Which can be wiped out by printing money in QE4.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
What about David Cameron, Beckham ... Every rich person in the UK is incorporated in British overseas territory. Shouldn't they be the first to be taxed ?
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
I never said the introduction of 40-hour week was bad. Its just more economically efficient to have UBI.
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
The idea is good in principal but its going to be gamed to death. Some people derive satisfaction from their work ! Others don't. Also will the pay be the same ? Call me a cynic but knowing business owners they will never accept lower
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> Why doesn't the government stops with QE already ? Without QE many people's retirement saving would have been wiped out, along with jobs. You would have a period of large scale joblessness and homelessness. In early part of t
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
Here is a much better graph showing the same data: https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user330... You are right, since 2013 BoJ has bee busy with the printing press. > I don't kn
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
BoJ's money printing is dwarfed by Fed's and ECB's money printing. Japan has been doing it since 1989, Softbank cant be explained by Japan alone. > Zero or even negative interest rates will distort valuations and capital a
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by wrong_variable 7y ago
> They are likely well diversified. They are anything but dumb money. I never said SWF are dumb money, in fact my argument is exactly the opposite. They are watching the Fed reduce their purchasing power through money printing and are ri

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