RobertoG

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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   If you use energy to process aluminium at the end you have aluminium. If you use energy to move bits in a computer at the end you have heat and the result of a calculation. If that calculation was just to proof that you did the calculation,
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   There is a good chance that batteries for grid storage will be from different technologies than lithium. For instance: https://ambri.com/
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   If you demand a currency to pay taxes and fines, there is always going to be people that need to acquire it.
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   There is not realistic healthcare infrastructure that could compensate for exponential grow of patients.
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   The USA expenditure in healthcare per capita is, more or less, the double that the Netherlands (1) and doesn't cover all the population. Where the difference goes? Sorry if some of us, in our biased minds, suspect that some of that mon
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   From the moon, the 'traditional' idea is a mass driver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver First time I heard about it was in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Huma
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   The problem with over-build is that if you count the energy necessary for building the renewable systems (mining, transport, building..) and the losses in distribution, the return of energy could be not so great. This estimation is a depres
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   >>"The simplest energy storage solution is your hot water heater. Turning on everyone's hot water heater when there is surplus electricity," I already do this manually. I unplug it before taking a shower and plug it aga
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   by RobertoG 5y ago

   You get your chips in order to play in the casino. Without chips nobody can play. What is a 'real asset', when nothing exist outside the casino? At most, you could change your chips for another casino's chips.
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    I was reading the other day about these guys: https://www.nitricity.co/ "Renewable on-site nitrogen fertilizer production" Maybe some people here could find their process interesting.
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    And don't forget energy prices. Several fertilizer plants have temporarily close because with current energy prizes it's not good business. Energy is an input to everything, and directly to food through fertilizers and oil prizes
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    This is a supply problem. We have supply chains disorganized because COVID, bad crops and, specially, crazy energy prices (that affect everything). How could prices not go up?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=kissinger+cambodia&ia=web
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    I think Obama was awarded the prize, basically, because he was not Bush. It was the zeitgeist of that time. We (and by we, I mean most people in the planet) were really tired of the Bush administration exploits. Kissinger could help to esta
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    You should look more into the real causes of inflation in your country, because they are probably not what you think Even without knowing what country you are from, I would bet that inflation is because imports and exports imbalances and no
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    Different copies are the same at moment zero (after copying) and diverge after that, assuming different stimulus.
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    This is a complex issue. if you add apartments for the same number of citizens prizes should go down, but that's hardly the nature of the system we are working with here. If you have a busy highway and add more lanes will traffic jams
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    But we are the same on that, that's what "same" means. We are not the same person, because we are different in some other characteristics and in our circumstances. What's the reason you and your copy are not the same?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    but that copy of you would think too, so, what's the difference?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    you can not define what is that 'you' that is not there to enjoy, so, how do you know that it didn't transfer too? is a faith thing?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    if there is a exact working copy of you, then you don't "stop existing". What does that even mean? Do you die every night when you go to sleep?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    I don't see any problem. I have a file in my computer, I send it to your computer, I can delete it from my computer or not. The legal status of the file will have to be decided by society for solving practical problems.
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    Maybe the most important lesson of MMT is that public debt, deficits and all those things that so frequently are at the center of the public debate are irrelevant compared to what's really important: real resources. It doesn't mat
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    A government only accept its currency to pay taxes -> you have to pay taxes -> you need the currency even if you lose trust in it. It's the power of raising taxes what gives money its value. "Variations of the modern-money n
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    Do you have any historical example where people lose trust in it and it didn't recover?
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    I'm pro-MMT, not hiding. From the article, that you obviously didn't bother to read: "Drought and heat continued to hurt the wheat harvest in July in Canada, the world’s biggest supplier of durum wheat, months after a harsh w
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    ==Cyprus== Malloc ==Denmark== Gamerpay , Female Invest , Zoios ==Estonia== Membo ==France== Whaly , Carbonfact , Numary , Café , Hera , Crew , PaletteHQ ==Finland== Kapacity.io ==Germany== Snowboard Software , Moving Parts , QOA , HeyCharg
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    It seems to me that this article is saying exactly the opposite of what you say. The article is about how Europeans, that live in that "safe and secured society", are creating more startups than before. >>"On the top of
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    If you are interested in this kind of thing, you could like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1qiZ_L8wX4 with some context: https://www.openminds.tv/leaked-ufo-video-captured-by-homela... https:&#
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    by RobertoG 5y ago

    Sorry, I can't find the one I read, but there are several good "explanations" in the IMDB review section. Actually, the story is pretty straightforward. I suppose that if you are a Lynch scholar already, the effect is not so