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by beefield 5y ago
of course you can also shift demand curve. If you have current price P and demand D, and you slap a tax T on top of the price P, the demand at price P is going to be lower, thus the whole curve is shifted. Yes, ceteris paribus if you lower
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by beefield 5y ago
If people can't afford it, it means it is expensive, and only way for it to be expensive is that someone can afford it. And the more expensive it is, the more it is going to be extracted. In the end, it is very simple. You want to
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by beefield 5y ago
Those are just some of the means to get the price of natural gas lower, which is still the only fundamental reason that reduces the amount of gas/oil/whatnot being dug out.
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by beefield 5y ago
This is bad, because it will incentivize more natural gas being drilled and burned. The long term logic is ironclad and simple: Given a price P of a resource, all recources available cheaper than P will be eventually dug out and used. The
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by beefield 5y ago
Grandparent claimed that something done in excel by one person in a week takes a team of five and half a year to reimplement in some other language. I disagree with that as a general rule (of course, exceptions may apply, as usual). I fully
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by beefield 5y ago
I think you misread my comment. Some of the excel sheets were a result of considerable effort. Years of different people working on them. Converting those to SQL was not a tremendously large effort. That was made by me, so I kind of know
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by beefield 5y ago
Opposing anecdote: I have converted excel spreadsheets built over years to SQL, and typically it did not take weeks to do that. ( Any organization that has a smallest reason to care about their data should remove save button from excel an
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by beefield 5y ago
I have managed to find myself accidentally twice at the receiving end of IBM "services". Conclusion was pretty much same both times: Never. F###ing. Again.
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by beefield 5y ago
> Yep! So tell me again why I should employ what the previous poster referred to as "hardcore nerds"? Because the referred "hardcore nerds" are only ones who actually bother[1] to figure out what piece of config to c
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by beefield 5y ago
Only slightly tongue in cheek: Removing the ability to save workbooks would still allow people use excel where it shines while not allowing people and organizations shoot themselves in foot by using subpar processes for anything you actuall
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by beefield 5y ago
The shape of the exponential curve makes the time difference between small and big players giving up relatively small (if that difference exists in the first place.) Both have reasonably long time with reasonably low patent tax to develop t
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by beefield 5y ago
Doubling the tax each year will make the tax non-trivial for even the largest corporations in reasonably short timeframe. You may want to check what e.g. my initial proposal (1000 bucks first year, double that annually) would yield in say
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by beefield 5y ago
Not sure how such copyright tax would be interpreted in Berne Convention context. (Would happily support that as well, though)
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by beefield 5y ago
Tax patents. Progressively. Start from say $USD 1000 per year and double each year until the patent holder decides to not pay and gives the patent to the public domain. Feel free to add a couple of free years in the beginning or tweak some
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by beefield 5y ago
I have some professional backround in finance and still have literally no clue what "route liquidity for direct asset swapping" means. Can you ELI5 what uniswap does that current financial system does not? (Orher than "decent
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by beefield 5y ago
The output looks already more intelligent than a significant chunk of internet commentators. I wonder what happens when someone retrains this to produce opinionated replies to articles and comments and hooks the output to about a million re
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by beefield 5y ago
Could you point me to a defi project that lets me borrow some crypto even if I have none in the first place?
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by beefield 5y ago
You do not need to issue any new bitcoin. What you need is a trustworthy entity that borrows your bitcoin and gives you an IOU slip, which you can then use as a means to pay other people. That slip, stating that whoever owns the slip is ent
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by beefield 5y ago
This. So much this. The disruption in finance was moving from things as money to debt as money. And somehow the people who think current crop of crypto could work as money are so delusional that they fail to understand they are trying to tu
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by beefield 5y ago
> Technology alone is not enough.....The solution is political Sorry, but all the evidence so far suggests you are wrong. Different kind of political solutions have been tried for decades without any practical result so far. Meanwhil
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by beefield 5y ago
And this, in my humble opinion, is the reason why there has been a long term decreasing trend in interest rates for the last 40 years. And it will not reverse before the trend of wealth distribution getting more and more inequal reverses.
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by beefield 5y ago
I think that would be a shot at the bow. A shot across the bow would be to maybe stop buying gas from Russia for a week or two during the summer. I have no clue how much that would cost, but I have started to think that it might make sense
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by beefield 5y ago
One of my plans for my retirement days is to make a cubesat that uses a solar sail to gain momentum and then somehow give that momentum to space junk so that the junk falls down to atmosphere faster. Then use the sails again to increase the
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by beefield 5y ago
Out of curiosity, in the hypotethical future case where the custody accounts would start to "pay" negative interest, what would happen to USDC? To me, there are only a limited set of options: 1. the peg fails 2. the custody accoun
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by beefield 5y ago
That is one of the regulations that should be applied to adtech companies: Adtech companies should be required to offer a paid version of all their products with a price that covers the costs of producing the service (including a decent pro
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by beefield 5y ago
I think there are/has been negative interest mortgages in Denmark[1]. And actually, after the first shock, when you have thought it through, there is not that much interesting in negative rates. Unless you have so spotless opsec that y
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by beefield 5y ago
I would imagine this not being the case if they can show that the customer downloaded a DRM free copy of the content at any point. After that it is the customer's problem to keep access to the downloaded copy.
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by beefield 5y ago
Is there some confusion in the units? IEA claims that global electricity production from solar is in the order of 720TWh https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv And the total electricity consumption is over 20 000 TWh&#x2
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by beefield 5y ago
There should be some consumer protection regulation around using words buy, sell, purchase etc. Can you sell what you bought to someone else? If not, you did not buy it. Do yo have root on your device and all it's components? If not, y
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by beefield 5y ago
I like to think that intelligence is the set of questions you can solve. Wisdom is the capability to pick the right questions.

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