RobertoG

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by RobertoG 6y ago
"Banks lend deposits" it's just another way to say that the causality is: "banks have reserves" -> "banks lend the reserves that they have" instead of: "banks lend when make business sense" -&
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I'm in awe that you managed to make your case, about this complex subject, without mentioning business profit anywhere.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
No, they don't. Banks lend when it makes business sense, then, because of legal requirements, they search for reserves in the inter-bank system. If the inter-bank system doesn't have spare reserves, the interest rate goes up. If t
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by RobertoG 6y ago
If they don't have a target interest rate, how do they decide the quantity of reserves?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"Kirill is a character in Vadim Panov's Enclaves." Thanks, I will check that. If you like Vinge, there is a little gem that it's, I think, not very known: "Marooned in Realtime" (1). It's the secon
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I don't get the reference to your username, who is it? Because I have read the other of your recommendations (you and the gp), and I agree with them, I want to add my two cents (in not special order): "Recursion" by Tony Ball
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Treated in Germany, I think.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
It's not exactly the same, a soldier, under the fog of war, is scare of the consequences of acting. A guy in his living room using Zoom is less so.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Thanks! I'm going to read it.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I mean, for buying stuff. And by stuff, I don't mean other cryptocurrencies.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
is people using bitcoin for legal purchases in any significant way?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
A probe of the sophistication of a Von Newman machine, that can reproduce, would be the alien in itself. A network of such probes would be a civilization.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
How E ink innovations come to happen? I think it was developed by MIT and not by E INK, is that right?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I remember another anecdote about Bush: "[..]Professor Thomas Römer, an Old Testament expert at the university of Lausanne, was rung up by the Protestant Federation of France. They asked him to supply them with a summary of the legends
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I think that one advantage is that the procedure it's not only for screening but preventive. They use it for, at the same time they are checking for problems, remove polyps, that can be precursors of cancer.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"I'd love to see a study where researchers take things that are seen as good/important/essential to modern life and measure the amount of public/government sponsorship that helped bring it about. " You
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"[..] cared deeply about the content quality and also resisted to run ads [..]" Do I remember wrong? because I remember they (the Wikipedia organization) were going to run ads at some point but it was strongly rejected by
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I think that they are using "gradient descend" when they should be using "space of the problem". Otherwise is a good comment.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I think that this could be thought as part of a more general revolution: the know-how to program the immune system. This would include things like T-Cells therapy for cancer (1) (1) - https://science.sciencemag.org/content&#
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"I have heard the claim that Britain destroyed the local Indian textile industry, [..]" If I remember correctly, not only Indian, but also, for instance, Egyptian. I have not sources at hand unfortunately.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
For people interested in the subject, I recommend "Empire of cotton" by Sven Beckert. One thing that I learnt was how actively the British undermine the local industries on their colonies. They wanted the colonies to be only raw m
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"It's very unlikely that you'd get a one step transfer from a bat that yielded a spike protein with the level of affinity it has for human ACE2. If you look at that protein alone, the most-likely proximal hosts are pr
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"The virologists working in Wuhan did travel all the way to Southern China to collect bat coronavirus samples and they did perform gain-of-function experiments. Viruses - even highly pathogenic ones - have escaped labs on numer
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I wonder if this could be use for better videoconferencing.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I have observed that speed of change in supporting facts is very important in Internet conspiracy theories (CT) vs. the old conspiracy theories. It goes like this: you find a surprising fact that, if true, will support the CT. You go to inv
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by RobertoG 6y ago
No need to go to another star. There is plenty of space around our star (1). (1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Ring_(habitat)
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"Retirement funds don’t strictly requiring that, they just require that there are more workers than pensioners [..]" That's not necessary. They require that the active workers (plus capital) are productive enough to k
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by RobertoG 6y ago
That's kind of funny because communist revolutions start more or less from the same feeling: we work long hours and have nothing and there is not hope for my children.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Then, can I suggest to put the email question at the beginning and make it optional? That would give the privacy conscious people the right vibe about your site without need of you explaining anything. Great site, by the way!
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I wanted to suggest an entry, there is a form for it. They ask six question for describing the new hike, and the last one is your email. You can only see it when you have filled all the other information. I think that is a 'dark patter

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