RobertoG

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by RobertoG 6y ago
I remember a feeling of being dreaming while reading the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The plot have the same logic than dreams. It's certainly not science fiction but I loved it.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>" I wonder if say 1-2kg nuke would be enough to throw all the debris out of orbit..." I don't get it. Can you blow something only in one direction?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I don't think banks are borrowing any money (reserves). Banks borrow reserves from other banks or the central bank when they are lending and they have not enough reserves. In the current situation the central banks has been buying asse
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I aimed to sound funny not condescending and, obviously, I failed. Groups wiped just because, would be the jews, the armenians and a long list actually (1). You could argue that some of them is because territorial fights, but is it not that
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"[..] it was always because there was "something for us" and there was never a complete wipe out of other groups just because." It seems we read different history books.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Actually I have to correct that because the USA is not the worst per capita (my apologies), but it's up there with the top worst (Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of smaller countries) and, of course, more important because
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I think there are two factors to this "fad": one is that USA for being the world superpower and through their media monopoly is always in the spotlight. The second is that USA spend too much time saying how wonderful they are (tha
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by RobertoG 6y ago
What massive negative repercussions?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
That made me smile because it's a little the opposite of what happen in many places in Europe. When somebody try to build something new, they have to contend with the archaeologists, who frequently insist that the construction is halte
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by RobertoG 6y ago
From the article: >>"Afinogenov’s study also offers a striking contrast to the simplistic “guns, germs and steel” narratives of pop history, which all too often assume the inevitability of European imperial power in the early mod
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I suppose that "hypothetical sci-fi" could be sci-fi that could be written but has never been
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by RobertoG 6y ago
A king is normally the head of state (1), so it would be the equivalent to the president of a country denouncing the the strategy of the government (and with it criticizing the head of government). The main difference between a king and a p
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by RobertoG 6y ago
What I would like is to be able to use Firefox as a UI for my local projects. Now if I want to do it, I have to run a server and duplicate code. The ability to create extensions for my personal use that can interact in local with my compute
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"And no, GDP will not drop. Current productive [..]" I don't understand what you are saying there. GDP is a function of spending in the economy. If there is a fall in investment there is a fall in spending. If it's not c
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by RobertoG 6y ago
That paper is funny. In economics, it's possible to create a mathematical model that demonstrate anything you want. How was what John Von Newman said? "Give me four parameters and I will fit an elephant" or something like tha
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Regulations and laws define what game are we playing. Of course, players are going to try to change the game to their convenience. It's our work, as a society, to be watchful and try that the game is one that everybody have a chance to
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Something I find interesting is how we get bombarded all the time about the bad conditions in Venezuela, but we heard very little about, for instance, Honduras and El Salvador.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
China buy bonds because they have a lot dollars and they have a lot of dollars because the trade deficit. What would you do with that money, buy a bond with interest or keep the cash under the mattress? You can spend them, I suppose. The ar
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by RobertoG 6y ago
The article is wrong about that but not about other things. Overall is an interesting reading. It's also interesting to see how step by step some myths are disappearing. For instance, the article recognize the importance of taxes as a
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by RobertoG 6y ago
This is from the article: "As of this year, the US Federal Reserve (blue line) now owns more Treasuries than all foreign central banks combined [..]" So, if your debt is to the Federal Reserve, how much debt can you accumulate bef
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"In 2020, people seem to forget that the Cold War happened and that the KGB, GRU, etc. existed. Most of these outrageous CIA actions were done in the context of combating the Soviet" If this article have a message is that
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Yeah, but we are not talking about people in general, we are talking about board rooms in think tanks and cameras of commerce. What is the motive there?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Are you saying that there are not smokey rooms in all countries where they are plotting how to cut public services?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>"There are "significantly higher mortality rate among people who regularly sit for prolonged periods" and "long term complications of prolonged standing" [3]. What's left for us? Floating? :-)" Walking
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Your comment makes interesting points but I don't think I agree with the main point. If engineering is "the application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends", the search for practical uses of genetics,
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>" it helps to support the nuclear non-proliferation cause [..]" The non-proliferation cause it's another way of saying "we are the only one that should have nuclear capability". It doesn't look like to
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"chosen not to honour their spending and capability obligations [..]" This is a list of military spending by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... If you count only
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I don't know about anxiety, but it totally affects (for the worse) my sleep. What, I suppose, would make more anxious too.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"Germany went from a country with serious inflation, to seeing high returns on investment[2]." The problem before the Nazis arrived to power was deflation (1) not inflation. (1) - https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/su
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"(of course they could still prosecute businesses for illegal action, but they could not solidify a business' power through subsidies or regulation)" What it's an illegal or legal action comes from the power of g

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