Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 5y ago
No, it's not walkability that makes apartments in central Stockholm expensive. There's just not much more space there for more houses. For decades car traffic was what was prioritised. Just look at old Slussen which was just a cou
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Like in 2008?
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Facts, like that IKEA used certified lumber so they had very good reasons to believe that they used sustainable resources? Or that this scandal doesn't have anything to do with IKEA, but it seems like everyone that bought wood from tha
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
You could always order it for free from their website.
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So IKEA bought lumber certified by FSC, which at least until recently was a well renowned organisation. Apparently FSC shouldn't have certified this particular lumber. "FSC denies wrongdoing, but shortly after being alerted to our
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For us in Europe that works with personal data, things tend to become complicated as soon we leave the EU, since it is often the case that the data must not leave the union.
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by Ma8ee 5y ago
You mean printing money is bad? But that is not in general what causes inflation. Inflation in itself can not be considered a tax.
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How does inflation increase government revenue?
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So a rich person whose wealth consists of crypto currencies make a prediction that could motivate people to invest in crypto currencies and make the rich person even richer. Why exactly should we believe him again?
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The right plants catches nitrogen from the air. Fungus and microorganisms make minerals, like potassium, available from sand and rocks. This works great until someone destroys the soil by killing all microorganisms with pesticides or fertil
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But in the current situation the buyer will be a criminal whether the sex worker is there voluntary or as a victim of trafficking, or even underage. So it's very unlikely a buyer would ever report to the police if they suspect that the
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I don't think that the economy of wood is worse in the long run. It is quite much faster and cheaper to build with, and as long as it isn't allowed to be wet for long periods of time it also lasts indefinitely (there are wooden te
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Or build houses and bridges and stuff with them instead of concrete.
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Yes, but you very soon reach the point of diminishing returns when you try to research any purchase. After a maximum a few hours it is hard to find any more useful information about most consumer goods. You have read all the specifications,
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I think that situation is somewhat absurd. People in general don’t think sex between consenting adults is wrong, so why is it suddenly when money is exchanged? And, at least, Sweden still has the law that any form of procurement of prostitu
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Yes, but technology makes the dictatorial regimes more efficient, and increases their reach. Now just imagine a slightly different timeline than our own, in which the coup in January succeeded. Now President for Life Trump takes all Alexa f
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Or you could see a poem as a program that is run on meat hardware to invoke some emotional reaction. There’s no standardisation and hardly any documentation, so only the absolute best manages to make any program function on more than of a h
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According to Wikipedia, the 17 year old boy that shortly before the event bought the car for $300 sold it for $25000. I don't think he cried himself to sleep.
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I don’t know where to start. If you in the long run make more money by shutting down your business and put the money in a bank account, then of course, you should do that because it wasn’t a great business to start with. But no one expect
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They have been printing money for more than a decade. And of course all the inflation truthers feel vindicated now. But as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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It's not so much hoarding as setting prices from future expected prices. If I'm writing a contract where I promise to deliver a product during the next year, and I expect the prices of both components and labour to be 10% higher b
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Decades old might definitely mean duct taped and unstable. In about 1995 I witnessed the beginning of the end of at the time very successful company that just had tripled their whole organisation. But the code base was 5 million lines of a
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I don’t think the correlation between brain size and general intelligence is that strong. Maybe the hunter gatherer used a bigger part of his brain to quickly and accurately interpret impressions, to find the food and not become food himsel
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Why do you think that the people that rent at market rate subsidise the people that rent below market rate?
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No, I don’t read the old, long papers after a short glance seeing that their initial assumptions are wrong or the subject doesn’t seem to relevant. If you have a point to make, make it. Then you can cite papers if say your numbers need some
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About your first link from 2014: renewable energy is already cheaper. About your second link: no one has claimed that we all damage already done is reversible. Apparently I have to teach you that power is energy per unit of time, that is we
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As other already pointed out, Earth isn't a closed system! That fundamental misunderstanding of you invalidates your whole reasoning. About 173,000 TW of energy strikes earth continuously. We have all the technology and we have all the
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Monte Carlo simulations are often just a relatively easy way of doing numerical integrations. But it sounds fancy.
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He’ll be the last string theorist when everyone else finally understood it was a dead end, thereby proving my point.
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I think we disagree about the "substantive" part.

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