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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
Add to that the need to expand the supply of equivalent-value-BTC IOUs if private BTC-denominated debts collapse in value for whatever reason (eg '08 financial crash). When AAA-rated securities evaporate, the repo operations that rely
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
Very true. The importance of dollars has if anything been highlighted in 2020 exactly because its supply can be expanded by the fed when the world demands it. Adam Tooze has a wonderful piece on this topic https://foreignpolicy.c
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
People dont use dollars because they choose to. They use dollars because they have to. The US government doesnt need to earn dollars to spend them. It simply has to require for us to earn dollars to pay it taxes to enforce the use of its
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
Genuinely nice. If you do need to mix and match languages in a single document knitr/Rmarkdown has support for the most popular languages including Julia https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/language-engines
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
A family friend is a bit of an audiophile and has been using his Stax SR electrostatic headphones since 1985. His sony amp is also from around the same time. My gran is still using household appliances from 30+ years ago, so it could be a g
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
But California does not have a 50gw generating capacity. It imports electricity during the summer months to make up the load factor difference. So again I’m not sure how you’re planning on recharging millions of vehicles without increasing
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
That was only in July and only due to the high AC required. Are you planning on recharging only 1 month of the year? How good are your batteries and where can i get them?
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
- California used as example due to high EV adoption - Here is a link containing the UK's daily load factor https://gridwatch.co.uk/ Its quite flat.
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
> A lot of hyperbolic reporting but there’s a ton of off-peak excess overnight electricity capacity. Looking at California's demand-profile it appears almost flat throughout the day (page 3 http://web.stanford.edu/gr
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
"the government did this". This is a perfect example of how brainwashed Americans are about 'government is the problem' they will gloss over unethical medical malpractice by professionals and blame 'the government&#
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by aseerdbnarng 6y ago
It just sounds like there is a small group of people who are very happy to pay eye-watering amounts of money for (what sounds like at least) really well-crafted productivity software. Good on them for showing there is a market for it