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by aeternum 4y ago
Assets designated as 'held to maturity' should simply be illegal for banks unless depositors also agree to never withdraw until maturity. Banks are subject to daily reserve requirements, so everything they invest in should also be
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by aeternum 4y ago
The proper call should be to increase FDIC insurance to 10mil or something then. It is incredibly unfair to be saying that depositors here deserve to be made whole because they are startup companies that somehow matter more to the economy.
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by aeternum 4y ago
You simply make sure you leave all the TVs throughout the house on different channels so you can watch what you want while not violating the rule upon some technicality.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Global warming has been blown way out of proportion. The steep decline in cost of solar panels and wind turbines over the last 10 years is already enough to solve the problem. Oil will simply be more expensive and that's what will tri
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by aeternum 4y ago
Economic growth, increase population, and technological advancement such that we can get off this planet are the only ways the Eden survives. Otherwise you have maximally until the sun goes red dwarf, and likely Earth will lose its magneti
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by aeternum 4y ago
Why has massive biodiversity losses at multiple previous points in earth's history always resulted in an even larger subsequent explosion of biodiversity?
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by aeternum 4y ago
It's the pesticides. Consider the world from the POV of an insect. Even if you're a bee, your metabolism is similar to other insect pests. There are huge fields of dense crops with plenty of pollen but if you partake, you die.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Right, a better solution would be to package demand-stimulating legislation like FHA with supply-stimulating legislation like reductions in zoning restrictions. The results of stimulating demand (FHA and similar) without changing supply is
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by aeternum 4y ago
Looking at the flip statistic, 36% of households rent so the numbers do seem to add up. For many households, some of the residents may not technically share ownership of the house (not on the deed) such as kids or extended family living tog
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by aeternum 4y ago
We used to make more land in desirable places, much of SF's population lives on on man-made land. Scarcity mindset sounds right, but most of that status refute it. Known reserves of pretty much every resource has only increased over
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by aeternum 4y ago
Not sure if it counts as privatized when the vast majority of Americans are homeowners. The gov had a ton of programs to increase the home ownership rate over the last 50 years, they were somewhat successful. Now you have a situation where
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by aeternum 4y ago
It is strange that it is easier than ever to move and stay connected yet most people don't.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Articles like this greatly underestimate the amount of misinformation out there throughout all of human history. Convincing people that make-believe is objective reality has been a cornerstone of human civilization. The pyramids would neve
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by aeternum 4y ago
Just vs. unjust is what captures the social construct part. How do you decide what is just vs. unjust? You either poll society as whole, the elites of the society, or the monarchy, depending on the type of government.
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by aeternum 4y ago
They're available. The male-to-female ratio drops precipitously as you increase the age band: https://public.tableau.com/views/PNWMatch_com/Match-PNW-Dash...
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by aeternum 4y ago
Thinking about it in terms of graph theory helps. Society is generally much more connected due to social media and dating apps. Even if there are proportionally the same percentage of highly desirable guys, those guys are now much more ac
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by aeternum 4y ago
Deciding who to have sex with is definitely a form of discrimination. For many, it can even be racial, religious, etc. We as a society have determined that it is okay to discriminate based on personal tastes when it comes to sex. That&#x2
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by aeternum 4y ago
Many states now require normal irrigation runoff to be collected in a reservoir and reused. It's something like the first 2" of water, which covers normal irrigation and most rainfall.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Yes, but this also makes it seem like nuclear waste is a major problem which it isn't. Existing solutions work well, highly radioactive material is kept in carefully monitored cooling pools. Once it decays sufficiently, it can be put
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by aeternum 4y ago
Why isn't this caring more? It is a much better outcome than grinding up the shoes and trying to use them as playground fill or something.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Except there are mods like KSPIE and PersistentThrust that allow acceleration during time warp in KSP1.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Car companies have improved safety significantly even beyond regulated requirements. None in history have assumed legal liability for crashes. Therefore no car company that currently exists believes in safety?
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by aeternum 4y ago
What's the accuracy of the skin-prick patches that remain applied? One potential solve is watch-only for non-diabetics and a more invasive watch + patch solution for those that need high accuracy.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Do car accidents (other than Tesla :D) drive headlines though? Seems like we are extremely sensitive to certain classes of sudden death (terrorism), much less sensitive to others (car accidents), and completely dismissive of slow death eve
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by aeternum 4y ago
This is a powerful way of looking at things. It explains a lot, even airport security. For example: the optimal number of evildoers to let through airport security is not zero, yet we've gone to extreme lengths to try to make it so.
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by aeternum 4y ago
Interestingly, the Nordic countries (often used as examples of ideal socialism), have a high percentage of private roads. Might actually work better than the national infrastructure approach: https://devoelmoorecenter.com/
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by aeternum 4y ago
There is no longer any discipline around filesize and data. People regularly attach huge files and have terabytes of useless data in databases. This makes daily backups prohibitively expensive for most orgs.
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by aeternum 4y ago
It's like telling your friend 'do an Eminem impression' then when they do it, 'OMG guys I just met Eminem!'
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by aeternum 4y ago
Red light therapy (or real sunlight exposure) has been considered hoax science until very recently. Even now most people are not aware of the new papers coming out that show a significant effect. My prediction is that you will soon see a l
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by aeternum 4y ago
The key claim of the article is: "the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away" (thus the borrow/debt analogy) This is false, it does go away. Adenosine is metabolized back into AMP, then ADP, then ATP (the fuel for cells).

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