RobertoG

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by RobertoG 6y ago
Not that I oppose to nuclear in principle, I only wanted to point that for heavy industry there are clean alternatives in development using mirrors. https://heliogen.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by RobertoG 6y ago
You can not reach a developed industrial capacity without protecting your industries. That's true for Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and the USA. The historical examples are clear (1). If you open your markets without restriction, before
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"I wouldn't want to be in a small boat or kayak near orcas. " What about swimming with them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIcQMwYC1o These are highly intelligent animals with complex behavior and
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Thanks for the links. So he didn't release any names like the grandparent comment said. I thought that sounded strange.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Can you just say something like that and don't even bother to point to a link? It hardly seems fair.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I initially misread the title as "optimized to be acquired [..]" Maybe my serendipitous reading explain your observations of what happened to the company.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"Permutation city" is like the sacred book of uploading, in my opinion.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"[..]What is the purpose of a mind without a body?[..]" What's the purpose of a mind with a body?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Do you have any affiliation or contact with https://www.brainpreservation.org/ ?
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Not saying this is the case, but it occurs to me... that would be a good way to sabotage the start of an union. Just send some aggressive people posing like members of the union.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I think it's not only you. I have the same problem with e-readers and books, I miss the ease of moving backward and forward in a paper book. Also, I have observed that I remember better what I read in physical books. Maybe it's be
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I like Vinge very much, but Egan is really in another level. I have read Diaspora three times and I can't decide if I like it more than my favorite other book by him: Permutation City.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
If a crisis create supply problems, for instance, disrupting supply chains, inflation could increase. Inflation is too much spending (not "printing") for too little capacity in the economy. You could get inflation for spending mor
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"[..] the person made a decision and took action" Is not that a very low information content theory? I mean, is not all this discussion about why somebody would choose not to take an action that it's beneficial for them if th
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by RobertoG 6y ago
About the Mankiw criticism, I direct you to the answer from people more knowledgeable that me [1] About the stagflation I recognize that I have not looking enough into it (yet) to be able to have a meaningful debate. About Japan, your comme
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"Those are the concerns I wanted Stephanie to at least pay lip service to, but she conveniently didn't even mention them. " She, and other MMT proponents, do it in other places. Obviously this was only an introduction
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"What is Spaced Repetition? Never heard of it." Maybe you did and forgot about it :-)
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I don't think they have to be necessarily, or, at least, totally, bullshit jobs. Also, it's not only, even not mainly, a social program, but an automatic stabilizer in the economy. It gives power to the workers too, because there
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by RobertoG 6y ago
The reasoning is that many studies show that people that have not worked for a while have a difficult time being hired again. There are different ideas, but, I suppose that you could see it like a training program too. Also, there are some
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I don't see the parallel, a job guarantee is supplying jobs to people that otherwise would be at home.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
There is the idea of job guarantee as an automatic stabilizer too. The government grants a job to anyone that wants to work at a minimum wage salary. When unemployment grow, the government automatically expend more in the economy because mo
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by RobertoG 6y ago
A good lecture by her (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-BKa3M
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by RobertoG 6y ago
>>"Second - [..]there is no fair situation where I accept a negative (or nil) expected rate of return for taking on real risk." Except that governments don't need any market to finance themselves. Even if you want to ke
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by RobertoG 6y ago
What a tortured logic this interview follow. It's funny that the period from the second world ward to the neoliberal revolution in the 80's is considered by this guy a bad thing. It was a period of grow shared by a big part of the
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"[..] that the disease did not kill 1%" This is new for me. My understanding is that the current total mortality estimation is a little below 1% but, as you say, very skewed to old people. That is: for old people is a lot more tha
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by RobertoG 6y ago
Only that monetary policy is the wrong tool, fiscal policy is the right tool but it's not used because ideological reasons.
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by RobertoG 6y ago
The seventies crisis was an oil crisis, a supply problem. If tomorrow the price of energy double you will get excessive inflation too because energy is related to everything. The way to control excessive inflation would be spending less in
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by RobertoG 6y ago
I suppose you mean hyperinflation, because inflation is not only not a problem, but a goal of current central banks. Maybe, we should make a law that whoever predict hyperinflation should tell us, at least, an approximate date for it. I hav
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"I think money is better spent on education and infrastructure, [..]" The problem that we are discussing here is, precisely, how to give education and infrastructure efficiently to people that live in some of the poorest places of
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by RobertoG 6y ago
"[..] countries with easy income from significant natural resource wealth actually experience worse development outcomes." They develop worse outcomes because all the profit goes to a few extractive elites in the country and in fo

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