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by bequanna 4y ago
So what if rates stay elevated? They shouldn't/can't keep their balance sheet this bloated forever. The FED currently holds ~2.7T of MBS that they never should have purchased in the first place. That is damn near ~25% of the
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by bequanna 4y ago
Umm, absolutely not. How are they making money if they bought when rates were ~2-3% and selling when rates are 5-6%? A bond holder LOSES money as interest rates increase and must sell at a DISCOUNT.
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by bequanna 4y ago
The real question is: What happens to mortgage rates when the Fed starts to offload their massive MBS holdings in earnest?
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by bequanna 4y ago
I prefer to think of the scientists working on solving balding as Larry David or George Constanza-types. Bitter about their hair loss, kept going by the promise of a better life in the future through hair.
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by bequanna 4y ago
What’s the endgame here? $3,000 “carbon neutral” coach class tickets from LA -> NYC? I’m being a little ridiculous but I legitimately don’t get it. Tech like this only works under some carbon credit scheme that provides no value and just
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by bequanna 4y ago
Fair enough, but I think most people appreciate constructive criticism with good faith, specific suggestions on how to improve.
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by bequanna 4y ago
These sites are just scraping SO and dumping the text from the question+answers in a blog-style format. I don’t think this is a cultural issue, I fail to see how this can be considered value add by anyone.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> The technology now exists to theoretically cover many hundreds of square km of Libya in photovoltaics and take the electricty to Europe through a sub-sea cable Climate benefits aside, how in the heck is this an improvement over the cur
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by bequanna 4y ago
I was disappointed the author didn’t have the guts to name them. I would hope he could get some satisfaction in knowing that he might be able to stop them from taking advantage of clients in the future.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I don’t buy this was some mistake in good faith. I think the author is a little naive which made him a good mark. They started work on and subsequently billed for something that was explicitly out of scope. My guess is that the founder of t
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by bequanna 4y ago
Which absolutely makes me think this was a well thought out con designed to prey on those types of fears and maximize the value extracted from the mark. Those lottery phone scams out of Jamaica which target the elderly in the US are almost
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by bequanna 4y ago
Isn’t the diversity keyword injection random? My point is that it is pointless. If you want an image of a <race> <gender> person included, you can just specify it yourself.
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by bequanna 4y ago
You would presumably input “South Korean CEO”. DALL-E would then unhelpfully add “black” “female” without your knowledge.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Some people claim to be emotionally "triggered" by images of police. Does that mean DALL-E should also start blocking images that contain police?
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by bequanna 4y ago
Imagine you're in South Korea (or any other ethnically homogenous country). Do you want "black" "female" randomly appended to your input?
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Here's what we, a small number of people, think the world should look like according to our own biases and information bubble in the current moment. You're being quite charitable. It is much more likely that optics and virtue
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by bequanna 4y ago
> inoffensive tool. Wouldn't that result end up being like "inoffensive art" or "inoffensive comedy"? Bland, boring and Corporate-PC.
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by bequanna 4y ago
> catastrophic tipping point This is pretty funny as people have been calling for some kind of human-caused apocalypse since forever. It must be human nature for some to believe such things. To see ourselves as inherently sinful, wicked,
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by bequanna 4y ago
I don’t follow you. Change what exactly? The fact that we will fight each other for scare resources? That is built into us, I am afraid.
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by bequanna 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean when you refer to “the system” but the extradorinaiy price increases in homes were caused by boomers printing an unprecedented amount of money for themselves and lowering interest rates. If history repeats itself,
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by bequanna 4y ago
If growth becomes a zero sum game as “Economists” like this one would like, you better hope you live in country with a defense budget>0
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by bequanna 4y ago
We are nowhere near exhausting the resources we have available. We are also nowhere near optimal efficiency when using resources.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Ok, so you would prefer to let millions suffer because of their "carbon sins" while the intellectual class entertains themselves with pie in the sky ideas for solutions? I prefer action-oriented solutions that reduce misery for re
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Or another way to look at it is that American cultural value of "Individuality" has been corrupted to lean towards more and more selfishness because of consumerism Wanting everyone's life to be better is progress, not se
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by bequanna 4y ago
Bingo. "Emergency Base Load" isn't a thing and would never make financial sense.
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by bequanna 4y ago
Huh? Are you proposing that we build some worldwide network of transmission lines to move solar power from Africa -> North America when it is night time in the latter?
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by bequanna 4y ago
> most economical growth opportunity for generation Umm, I think you're missing something big here. The only reason this was "economical" were huge tax benefits/subsidies. Decentralized energy production that involves
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by bequanna 4y ago
I understand why you're getting the downvotes...but you're kinda right. I don't really get the defeatist/martyr attitude of Euroland people when it comes to all sorts of issues like this. They seem encounter an economic
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by bequanna 4y ago
> Thereby consuming more energy and warming the planet faster. This is a ridiculous statement. Your personal consumption choices aren't dooming the planet. The only thing accomplished by anti-progress rhetoric like this is that you
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by bequanna 4y ago
How so? Our transition to wind and other intermittent sources instead of building base load is creating a worsening reliability crisis. It seems that people forgot that we still don't have many good ways to store energy.

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