Rury

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by Rury 6y ago
It's uncertain. Despite what people say, main problem with hydrogen (when compared to other energy storage/sources) is not efficiency or safety, but overall cost. What drives the energy market is $/watt for a given solution,
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by Rury 6y ago
They're very similar - they both represent social stratification of society into social ranks of wealth, income, race, education, and power. The only difference is that a person's 'caste' in India, is dictated by blood a
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by Rury 6y ago
>If the currency was "debased" it would show up everywhere Not necessarily. Prices are dictated by supply/demand - and different goods have different amounts of supply/demand. As so, it's theoretically possible
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by Rury 6y ago
More like it's an attempt to answer nonsensical questions like: "why are apples... apples ?" And anthropic arguments are like: "if they weren't apples, then they wouldn't be apples..."
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by Rury 6y ago
Idk, I still don't know why anyone would want to watch videos on their phone, and I have a 4G phone capable of showing videos... (watching videos on other devices is way better ). I mean, since the invention of semi trucks, you could
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by Rury 6y ago
This scenario is not just "buying OTM call options", just like wash trading is not just "buying stock". This is the problem with your argument. You oversimplify the issue. Wash trading is a way of buying/sellin
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by Rury 6y ago
Yes it would be inflation - and you would most likely see inflation happen in only those asset purchases... People incorrectly assume inflation means "the price of everything goes up". Why is this incorrect assumption to make? Wel
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by Rury 6y ago
Regardless of intent, or if manipulation is happening in this case, or whether or not it is currently legal, this type of activity potentially allows for someone to artificially manipulate prices to their advantage at the cost of other mark
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by Rury 6y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376243 Now please explain why this activity shouldn't be made illegal, when wash trading is deemed illegal. Was
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by Rury 6y ago
The inflation in asset values (e.g. equities / real estate / gold). People incorrectly assume inflation means "the price of everything goes up". The problem word here being everything . Why? Well because prices aren&#
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by Rury 6y ago
>Eventually the “manipulation” will push the price to a point where other actors sell, and then more people sell and the price corrects (see yesterday and today’s charts). Not sure how this statement helps your argument. The same happens
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by Rury 6y ago
Who cares if it is or isn't legal currently. Lots of things where once legal, which the majority of society came to deem as bad (slavery, child labor) - which we then came to make illegal. But the problem here isn't just simply bu
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by Rury 6y ago
Not necessarily. It's all supply/demand driven. Just because there's a sudden increase in money available, doesn't necessarily mean everything is going to inflate in valuations. Only things that are in demand will inflat
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by Rury 6y ago
Currency devaluation doesn't just happen against other currencies. It also happens against particular goods/assets (another currency is just another good/asset). If I have $10 and 10 goods, and suddenly have $1000 and still
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by Rury 6y ago
Good points, economics as a field certainly has its flaws. Many assumptions of history are also likely made in other fields as well. But even that said, I don't see why the alternatives put forth in "Debt: The first 5000 years&quo
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by Rury 6y ago
>> I think the sole question to be answered by such a measure is probability of the admitee graduating. >A society where the only criteria for access to higher education is that one graduates - and then perhaps goes on to do nothin
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by Rury 6y ago
It's important to understand that definitions are not assumptions . Definitions and assumptions are two different things. Now, we could also define them to be the same thing if we wanted, but typically definitions aren't about tr
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by Rury 6y ago
Nonsense. "evidence" and "truth" are very semantically related. By semantics, "evidence is a reliable guide to truth" is not nearly an assumption... as it is a logical definition. It's a bit like saying: &
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by Rury 6y ago
Everything starts with an assumption. However, in science, if the assumption's conclusion doesn't match the observed evidence, we reject our assumption as true, and we start with a new assumption. As so, science doesn't have
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by Rury 6y ago
>That a market reaches saturation usually means that the demand is met A limit is a limit, doesn't matter if that's a demand limit, or a production limit, or a resource limit. The effect is still the same. Being under limits, m
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by Rury 6y ago
There's still only so many trees that we can have on earth at once, as past a certain point, some trees would have to die in order to either have physical space or nutrients to grow new ones. Which would be zero sum... It's the sa
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by Rury 6y ago
>If a manager trusts their reports, they can manage those reports effectively, because they are getting accurate data about what their people are doing This statement is nonsense. How does simply trusting your reports guarantee anything,
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by Rury 6y ago
>This answers the "how", but not the "where Potential energy is a property of a system rather than an actual physical thing. It's not energy an object has , it's energy an object potentially has relatively spe
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by Rury 6y ago
>It seems that the energy is being stored somewhere, and that matter itself allows us to tap into that Like others have mentioned, you need to look at the two planets and the spaceship as a system together. The gravitational potential en
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by Rury 6y ago
We do in some aspects. An example might be Good Samaritan laws. Such laws are intended to reduce bystanders' hesitation to assist in CPR, for fear of being sued or prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death. The problem here
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by Rury 6y ago
Agreed. Actions speak louder than words. This (and many other company statements like this) are mostly empty nice feel good words, but merely that. Just like what a populist or demagogue would say/do to appear favorably in the eyes of
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by Rury 6y ago
When acceleration isn't happening (i.e travelling at a constant speed under constant load), it largely does correlate.
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by Rury 6y ago
For traditional ICE cars, the amount of gas you burn is largely correlated to the RPM's of the engine when acceleration isn't happening. Since ICE cars have gears, you'll have worse MPG efficiency while idling in 1st gear goi
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by Rury 6y ago
I don't see your point. Marx had many ideas, but I think you're dismissing them just because a revolution hasn't happened. In which case, I don't think you understand Marx. Much of his critiques on capitalism hold true t
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by Rury 6y ago
> Yet even that doesn't 100% jive with physics because quantum mechanics are not deterministic QM is a branch of physics, with some theories having multiple interpretations, some being deterministic and some non-deterministic. By th

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