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by Nbox9 5y ago
This depends on the cause of the inflation. If an asset loses value because it becomes less scarce then no value is lost. Inflation can happen for other reasons to.
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Yes. Root comment states that government regulation protects wealth by giving examples of several situations in which a government regulation protects wealth. Root-1 comment gives an example of government regulation destroying wealth, by g
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Both buying a house and investing elsewhere are very sensible options.
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Inflation was under control in 2009. The reasons people are worried about today’s economy are very different than 2009.
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Government corruption in the US (compared to China) was discussed very recently on Freakonomics podcast [0]. It’s an interesting listen for anyone that is interested in the different types of corruption, the different names of corruption, a
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Gambling has a similar distribution to most markets. 20% of the gamblers generate 80% of the gambling revenue. Most people that gamble don’t ruin their life. Most people that drink don’t ruin their life/health. There’s some ethical
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by Nbox9 5y ago
Bella DePaulo Ph.D. has been writing about this for at least 14 years now [0]. This article is actually a good summary of her thesis and perspective which is simply society is biased against single people. Her book titles include Singleis
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by Nbox9 5y ago
PS3 clusters are limited in supercomputing tasks largely by RAM, each PS3 having 256MB which is anemic.
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by Nbox9 5y ago
I wonder to what extend plastic packaging and the ubiquity of low quality food often found inside is contributing to obesity related illness.
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I don’t know if it’s even possible to tease out this number. The US Army even purchases Skilcraft pens [0] in large part because they are manufactured by the visually impaired. Basically every dollar they spend has multiple purposes. [0]
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I’ll retire when I age out of coding. Maybe I’ll find something small to provide some income, but I’ve been saving a very large sum of money every year for my entire career and I am finically independent. I’m in my early 30s, and I’m seei
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It’s just another door into the profession, one that is honestly more accessible than many others. We cannot remove all barriers to being a software engineer, because people have to learn the skills somewhere.
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The benefit of open source is that anyone can contribute, thus someone that cannot afford a university degree or does not have the social network that comes with high status can still prove their skill as a software engineer and find a high
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by Nbox9 5y ago
It would be terrible against a full nuclear triad nation. It’s assumed that the US has nuclear weapons in silos, on airplanes, and in submarines at all times and under certain conditions each silo/plane/sub is capable of making t
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by Nbox9 5y ago
We abolished biological and chemical weapons because they are considered obsolete tools of war after nuclear was invented. Who enforces the abolishment of bio/chem? States with nuclear arsenals. There’s little appetite in nuclear po
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How is raising the information processing capabilities of humanity anything but a net good thing?
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> AZ Natural Disasters AZ suffers from heat waves, which are steadily getting worse over time. Last year in a heat wave Phoenix saw several days above 115F. A 115F heatwave is a natural disaster mitigated by air conditioning. Hopefull
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Maybe, if there are important reasons why this factory should be in a desert state. I think everyone agrees that chips are vitally important now, but chip shortages aren’t nearly as bad as a water shortage is.
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Most people I know that eat 0.8g protein per lb of body mass use protein supplements to achieve such a high protein intake.
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I’m confirming that I could not eat a beyond burger because the burger was too close to the taste of real meat and my tastes have drifted. Can I ask, what tastes better to you a beyond burger of a beef burger?
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If I die earlier due to my love of methamphetamines, well that’s a price I’m willing to pay. /s In all honesty people cannot perform a cost/benefit analysis without accurate cost data.
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Fellow vegan here. I’m torn on this topic. I personally would not be a customer of lab meat. However if someone is going to eat meat it’s much better for the environment if they eat lab grown meat. On the other hand, they are not experie
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by Nbox9 5y ago
Take this source with a grain of salt, but someone has calculated at over 2.5x[0]. [0] https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/animal-food-industry-ta...
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The other day I decided to try a beyond burger for a change. I had to throw it away because I could not eat it, because eating something even close to meat was unappetizing.
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There are plenty of vegan athletes, and even vegan power lifters [0]. It’s totally possible to eat a plant based diet and have a lot of muscle mass. [0[ https://www.greatveganathletes.com/category/vegan-powerlifte...
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Even if we had fusion most of the mass in the solar system exists in the sun, so that’s where most of the energy is. E=mc^2.
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In your favor “How can we go faster” has been a question people have been asking for thousands of years, and we’ve made pretty steady progress on it.
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I could imagine humans fighting over the limited energy harvested by Sol’s Dyson sphere in 10million years. It would give any group of human’s controlling it a massive advantage, similarly to the advantage having the only A-bomb gave US br
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I’m unsure the human rights aspect is going to be the limiting factor. Humans are constantly doing inhuman things. We have a history of forcibly migrating people, it’s not uncommon in our history at all. I think it’s just as likely that we
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Gift card balances do not have to be held by a bank. If it were held by a bank you’d need to provide ID for purchasing one and there would be more regulation around _gifting_ them. You can’t just _give_ someone a bank account. However, ba

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