RobertoG

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by RobertoG 4y ago
I suspect China was left out because it already had an important role in his previous novel "Red Moon".
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by RobertoG 4y ago
I have read your long comment and I'm less than convinced by any of your arguments. Specifically, I would say that number three is mostly false. The companies that receive those contracts are not, at least in my experience, small local
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by RobertoG 4y ago
That's not how it works. Banks lend and then try to find reserves, after the fact, because they have legal requirements. No bank loss a good lending business because they have not reserves enough. When a bank make a loan, there are two
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by RobertoG 5y ago
I read it again recently and I found it still pretty interesting. From a SF aficionado point of view, Neuromancer world has: -An economy that rely on ubiquitous computer networks. -Colonization of low orbit. -An AI rebelling and doing its o
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by RobertoG 5y ago
I think being a patriot is caring about the people of your country, all of them, even the ones you don't like, not the country or the state. If you do that, war is the last thing you want.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Is that liberal democracy thing some time in the past when this kind of things didn't happen? what period would be that?
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by RobertoG 5y ago
It seems to me, that nobody is denying the existence of barter. For instance, barter exist in our current modern societies. The question is if there are any evidence that the history of money is fundamentally the history of barter. So, you
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by RobertoG 5y ago
The fact that public debt in its totality will never will be zero, doesn't mean that the tenants of that debt will not receive what they were promised. In fact, you probably don't want the public debt to be payed. If debt is a lia
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by RobertoG 5y ago
>>"The issue with Graeber and others is they are looking for a historical account of barter pre-dating a historical record of debt, but they will never find it, because the record-keeping begin for the purpose of recording debt.&
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by RobertoG 5y ago
If they do it would be because the Fed has decided so and could decide the opposite at any point in time.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
It would be a good thing coming from a bad thing if space get more funding in the EU. Now, without the Soyuz, maybe there is a chance of a manned spaceflight program. Starting from the Space Rider (1) all the components are there, I think.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
I didn't say anything about the USA, and, maybe I'm wrong, but somehow I doubt there was not people becoming homeless, after a disease, in the USA, 30 years ago. Anyway, if you are not going to use the official indicators of infla
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by RobertoG 5y ago
So, you have some guys that predict inflation for 30 years and are always wrong, after a global pandemic and an energetic crisis, inflation happen and they feel vindicate. It has to be great to have a model that's never wrong because y
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by RobertoG 5y ago
You forget to mention that if you diminish the number of available burgers you'll need, also, more dollars to the get the same amount of cheeseburgers. And if you diminish the quantity of some essential product used for everything, as,
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by RobertoG 5y ago
"[..] entire countries register days where all their energy needs come from renewables and even overproduce energy [..]" I think you mean electric needs. That it's around 30% of the needs of the average country. It's imp
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by RobertoG 5y ago
As everyone I have my own perspective, informed by my readings and experiences. However, it was not my intention to upset you and I'm very sorry innocent people get caught in the middle of this.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
These look almost there (I know, I know, "almost"): https://ambri.com/ (liquid metal battery) https://www.hydrostor.ca/ (compressed air)
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by RobertoG 5y ago
By the way, I don't mean that American citizens are special in this. We are all brainwashed in supporting what was already decided.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
That's all very nice, but, unfortunately is not how the world works. What about the Donbas region, do they have the right to decide in an internal debate? Instead of trying to be pro-Russian or pro-West, Ukraine have lost a chance of b
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by RobertoG 5y ago
You seems to see Russia as expanding, they perception, I think, it's exactly the opposite. Putin is not thinking in expanding is thinking in making an stand.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Some question that nobody is asking is, "what's the role of NATO?" The historical original reason for its existence have disappeared, so what is it for now?
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Sure, because American citizens don't accept USA invading other countries. Two week of 24 hours news with the proper perspective and the people would be asking in the streets for the invasion of Canada.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Ukraine is in the middle of two "powers" and the proper role would be one of buffer. They could even benefit from that. Unfortunately, the Russian and the USA have both tried to take that part of the board for them and the Ukraini
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by RobertoG 5y ago
But what if it's the other way around? What if, because sanctions or war or whatever causes inflation, governments, in order to avoid the worse outcome of what would happen if they stop working totally, have to create more money. Then,
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Well, following this view, I suppose that there is not point in sanctioning Russia as they are threatening them, as sanctions can't cause inflation.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
from: https://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/8674 "The Sana’a-based branch continued to operate under Houthi control, having kept the vast majority of the central bank’s staff, informational archives a
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by RobertoG 5y ago
You literally said that Andalusian and others "are dialects because they have not been politicized like Catalan or Basque", suggesting that what makes a language a language instead of a dialect it's its political weight. Cert
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Catalan is derived from Latin not Spanish, and Basque roots are not even Latin. So, it seems to me, that to say they are not dialects because they have been politicized is a politic statement in itself.
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by RobertoG 5y ago
Maybe, but how do you distinguish it from the natural emergence of a government and legal system?
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by RobertoG 5y ago
I would appreciate recommendations for learning about SMT solvers. A good book, for instance?

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