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by bildung 5y ago
Supply and demand work both ways. If you remove unemployment benefits from the local economy, what do you think this will do to local demand, and thus to revenue of local shops? And what will this do to the wage level the average local shop
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by bildung 5y ago
If you can't afford to pay more than $7,50 per hour, then the market has spoken: you have no working business model.
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by bildung 5y ago
They probably meant Muammar al-Gaddafi (Lybia).
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by bildung 5y ago
> In western culture This phenomenon has to be more localized than Western culture (the worldwide diamond consumption hints at it being US-specific?) - I for example don't know anyone who even contemplated buying one for proposi
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by bildung 5y ago
Yes, but it isn't clear why they didn't make profits. Ikea locations also usually don't make a profit - because they have to pay "license fees" to the mothership registered in a tax haven.
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by bildung 5y ago
I fully agree, it's really hard to compare things like these across national boundaries. The actual countries don't really matter for the point I tried to make anyway: There are large cross-country differences between countries ri
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by bildung 5y ago
Coal is down from 45% in 2013 to 23% in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany During the same time, nuclear is down from 17% to 13%. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie&#x2
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by bildung 5y ago
Well before that period the federal funds rate didn't exist, so one can't compare it to the wild swings from inflation to deflation in the 19th century. (There are a bunch of studies for stock and property returns, or for treasuri
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by bildung 5y ago
From here (and my number was indeed wrong, its 1/5, not 1/6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
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by bildung 5y ago
Because Fukushima provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for politicians to go against the local energy giants without them being able to gain the upper hand in the inevitable fight about the narrative in the local media. This is all pow
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by bildung 5y ago
At least for Germany this isn't true, both nuclear and coal are phased out with about the same end date.
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by bildung 5y ago
Death rate is calculated as deaths per billion miles driven, so I don't see how the respective populations matter here. One could make the argument that population density is important to consider, but in the US the less populated
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by bildung 5y ago
The opposite actually. According to the whitepaper it was designed to be peer-to-peer electronic cash.
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by bildung 5y ago
People in Denmark collectively save for rainy days, which is a pretty efficient solution.
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by bildung 5y ago
This is indeed a problem, but Denmark's highways right now have 1/6 of the death rate of US highways, so if saving lives actually was the goal, AI isn't exactly the low hanging fruit.
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by bildung 5y ago
Technically true, but outside of crises interest and inflation are heavily correlated. Have a look at e.g. the historical federal funds rate: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate and historical infl
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by bildung 5y ago
It's highly improbable that your heartburn was caused by the fat in a single avocado. An average Hass fruit weighs 140g and thus contains about 23g of fat, and most of this is unsaturated. You'd consume about the same amount of fa
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by bildung 5y ago
It means an advertisement disguised as a news article.
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by bildung 5y ago
From the article: "The Ad5 variety has infected a solid proportion of the entire human race [...]. It’s believed that if you already have antibodies and T-cells primed against the Ad5 vector itself (for example) that delivery of its pa
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by bildung 5y ago
The average price of mobiles is $317 currently, which means the median price is quite a bit lower. https://www.statista.com/statistics/788557/global-average-se... More importantly, though, the average console game
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by bildung 5y ago
Think furniture legs, tool handles, spears, bows and arrows, wooden spoons, knives and cups and so on. The bark was of interest for the tannin. The wood was also used for generating charcoal and tar.
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by bildung 5y ago
If the retiree brings his/her own pension, how could this be detrimental? An economy isn't production alone, there have to be consumers, too. Importing affluent retirees is essentially propping up domestic demand.
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by bildung 5y ago
Absolutely, I was replying in agreement (and read throwaway4good's comment in the same way). My intent wasn't to pass blame, but rather highlight the man-made decision behind this, as that also means a more cooperative decision co
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by bildung 5y ago
This comment is downvoted but nonetheless true: US congress essentially excluded China from cooperating with NASA in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_exclusion_policy_of_NASA
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by bildung 5y ago
That first paper doesn't talk about about changes in asset allocation due to the ISF. It's main argument is losses due to capital flight.
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by bildung 5y ago
Wealth taxes basically guarantee that within a decade most wealth will be held in hard-to-value assets. Why isn't this a problem in countries that already tax wealth, like France or Norway?
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by bildung 5y ago
> It's unrealistic to expect that Tesla would continue to dominate the EV market forever. It is realistic to expect that Tesla will become a significant player in car sales globally. How could Tesla become a significant player in
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by bildung 5y ago
> Let's see what happens after the Berlin factory opens up Which most probably won't happen in 2021. Meanwhile, Tesla already dropped to third place in total EVs sold in Germany (a bigger EV market than the US), and place 4 a
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by bildung 5y ago
Because the EV market grew much faster, e.g. +260% for Germany (from 108k in 2019 to 395k in 2020).
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by bildung 5y ago
VW already sold 134k in 2020, of which 56k were the id.3 that effectively was available since september 2020.

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