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by bdcs 12y ago
Your point is correct, but the details are wrong: coal (and nuclear) provide so-called "baseload" power, while natgas and hydro provide "peak" power (this is why natgas plants are called peakers). Coal has a very long sp
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by bdcs 12y ago
I understand that products and services sold by US companies boost USD (vis-a-vis buying iPhones in your example), but why would, say, a Brit buying a Xiaomi phone using USD boost the USD? The USD holding time would be rather short, I would
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by bdcs 12y ago
> People generally have to buy energy (oil) in our currency, which adds a great deal of support (though we’ve already seen the very beginnings of the PetroYuan). Can someone explain why using USD as a medium of exchange supports the USD?
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by bdcs 12y ago
IME, youtube ads seem to come on dynamically, with dynamic amount of "forcible viewing" time, eg 5sec, 30sec, 60sec, etc. It does a pretty damn good job of showing me the most ad without my walking away in disgust. For example, I
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by bdcs 12y ago
As far as I know, TaxACT[0] is the only tax software whose parent company doesn't actively lobby against tax filing simplification. I haven't used them nor do I have any stake in them, but I figure it is good for people to know of
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by bdcs 12y ago
Thank you for review. I had traditional braces for 8 years and I cannot convey much it would have meant to me to brush my bare teeth or eat some, say, corn on the cob, if only for a brief (albeit painful) moment. All the same, good luck wit
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by bdcs 12y ago
Just for context, solar provides <1% of world electricity and nuclear provides >10%, both of which produce very little CO2
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by bdcs 12y ago
This number is useless without the context of GDP, which is growing exponentially . Even if debt grows at 1.5%/yr, debt-to-GDP ratio can go to zero if GDP grows >1.5%/yr. This has the funny effect of people seeing exponentiall
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by bdcs 12y ago
Which is weird because A16Z invested in AirWare (and they, as all VCs, love to talk to their book!)
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by bdcs 12y ago
It implicitly is if their customers use USD / EUR. Maybe they buy something en masse at, e.g., $99 but not $119
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by bdcs 12y ago
Look back to Sept 2011 to see the Franc do similar price swings without a cap in place... In fact, that's WHY the cap was put into place (also to prevent deflation, recession, and a huge slump in exports).
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by bdcs 12y ago
Thank you for the well-thought-out reply. On the other hand, I don't know whom I should cite to convince you if I can't cite generally well-respected academic articles and periodicals. If you want me to make a strong, free-standin
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by bdcs 12y ago
>Are there any studies that show [immigration] would help growth? Immigration increases wages for domestic workers in the long-run[1-3]. "None of these studies is decisive, but taken together they suggest that immigration, in the lo
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by bdcs 12y ago
> just as it took time for the Irish or Italians to assimilate ... For a variety of reasons, assimilation across racial lines is much more difficult In early America, the Irish and Italians immigrants were not considered white, like the
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by bdcs 12y ago
>Did you actually read these papers? The abstracts and figures, yes. >Did you understand the models and the math? Do you agree with the models? Why? No I didn't read them fully. >Do you agree with the assumptions behind the mo
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by bdcs 12y ago
>A third change would be something to incent people to hold shares for long periods of time. One way to do this would be charge a decent-sized fee on every share traded (and have the fee go to the company); another would be a graduated
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by bdcs 12y ago
>It's as simple as this: If you increase supply to meet a demand, then prices will go down. This thesis statement is overly reductionist. In fact, immigration increases wages for domestic workers in the long-run[1-3]. Therefore, eve
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by bdcs 12y ago
I believe vasilipupkin is referring to the financial phenomenon of ETFs, robo-advisers, and the "democratization" of traditional (stocks, bonds real estate) investing. In yesteryear, middlemen (rentiers) would charge premiums for
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by bdcs 12y ago
The article mentions rates of return of ca. 20%. Are these realized IRR numbers? I would imagine the unrealized IRR (including only priced rounds, not convertible notes [or SAFEs] with a higher cap) are higher than this. Am I mistaken? What
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by bdcs 12y ago
"dedicated for graphics" may be a bit misleading considering the Execution Units (EUs) also do non-graphics computations using, say, OpenCL. This is especially true with the shared memory structure. Although, yes, most end-user so
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by bdcs 12y ago
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ - The Global Consciousness Project "When human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random systems may change. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produ
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by bdcs 12y ago
Yes but PV is one quarter the electricity production of even petroleum.
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by bdcs 12y ago
>I suspect I'm boring everyone to death at this point, so I'll stop. On the contrary, I, for one, am quite engaged by both your commentary and citations. Thanks!
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by bdcs 12y ago
In the vain of generally appreciated papers, I really like "Whitesides' Group: Writing a Paper" by George Whitesides[0][1]. It gives a strategy for collaborating research based on using a paper as a living document. It seems
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by bdcs 12y ago
It's called Unconditional Cash Transfers. It is BIG, except the money comes from a different country's citizens. My buddy at USAID can't stop raving about their efficacy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un
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by bdcs 12y ago
These negative stereotypes of how impoverished people will spend their money are usually not true in practice. See the following: https://www.givedirectly.org/pdf/litreview_2.pdf http://www.poverty-action.or
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by bdcs 12y ago
Wow you usually don't see $21M and "seed" in the same phrase.
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by bdcs 12y ago
Other incubators/accelerators have focused on companies at different stages, but none that I know of are expanding, as YC is doing, from beginning to middle (to end?). This makes sense from YCs perspective because anything with network
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by bdcs 12y ago
Ultimately it comes down to every node defining what they consider a bitcoin or Xcoin. Suppose we're the only two nodes on the network and we disagree about what a bitcoin is (we're running different validation code, either intent
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by bdcs 12y ago
Where are you reading this? I was not issued any codes.

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