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>> I certainly hope we'll see progress on cancer in my lifetime). Good news. You already have :). Firstly, it's worth pointing out that "cancer" is not really 1 thing. There are lots of different conditions that ar
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Yes we all die. Yes a lot of those deaths could be delayed. However I'd argue that it's not as simple as "blaming the news". Health education starts as children, and continues throughout life. Secondly, focusing on just
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>> That is naive. China will become imperialistic if given a chance. Look at how they treat their neighbors. yeah, but I'm not in the US, so the US is not offering a compelling alternative at the moment (look at how they treat th
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>> People care about the license The % of people who could name a license (any license at all) is a rounding error from 0. Imagine just about anywhere outside SV, say Nashville, Tennessee. Imagine going into a supermarket there and
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The problem with the "Olympic Pool" scale of measures is that it has no real meaning to most people. Yes the Netherlands is "mid table" in a list of countries, but absent a good knowledge of statistics, population distri
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Panels are often quoted has having a 20 year (or 25 year) lifespan. But it doesn't really work like that. Panels degrade a bit (about 0.7%) every year. So after 25 years or so they're down to 80% of rated power. Or, put another wa
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Yes, the grid votes into play. Especially for commercial solar installations. If I drop a 200Mw facility in a sunny area the grid needs updating to accept that 200Mw at that point. Bit that's "boring" infrastructure. Cables,
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Inverters have more electronic parts, but the parts themselves are very off-the-shelf, and the electronic design is pretty straightforward. Inverters are still fairly expensive for a couple reasons; Firstly economies of scale. A residential
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True. Given their lifespan it behooves folks to "get them while they can". A warlike country with a history of antagonism to China is probably less secure than countries that have chosen to behave like good neighbors. If you feel
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It doesn't really matter where the panels come from. Yes the manufacturer captures some of their value, but that's in the range of 20% of their overall value (and dropping). In my country there is no govt subsidy for solar. But ma
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Um, the Netherlands is not a mid-sized country. Areawise its smaller than West Virginia. Population is around 17 million. (Contrasted to a world population of 8 billion ish.) If bitcoin is using the same as 17 million people, that'd re
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The moment you say Linux you immediately eliminate 97% of the population. When you add f-droid (like that's a completely normal way of naming things) you pretty much ensure that 97% starts thinking about anything else. I get it, you li
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What you're hinting at here is risk. If you work, deliver, then invoice then you are assuming all the risk. If you demand 100% up front, then they assume all thd risk. If you do deposits and partial payments and so on then you share th
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It's easy to point at any one thing and make that the cause. More likely though it's a combination of things all working together. Yes, the labor market is changing. As the economy changes from industrial to services, so demands f
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I agree with your idea. I'm working in Open Source. How much money can you send me please? The above statement of course raises more questions than answers; A) you believe Open Source should be funded. Are you willing to be a funder? B
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I think this is correct. And the poster equally identified this issue. "Customers love it, merchants hate it". But customers would drive adoption of any system, and why would they use this one? Speaking as a merchant, I don't
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Govts are typically "large enterprise". In most cases the largest enterprise in a country. In some countries they also have the burden of being legible to outsiders. Between the shareholders (voters) and journalists etc there&#x27
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Net loss means that if you add all the players together, the losses exceed the winnings. Yes some individuals win (at least occasionally.) But as a group it's always a net loss (because the house takes a cut.)
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This will vary greatly from one jurisdiction to another. It can also depend on the specific kind of marriage. Yes, some marriages are "community of property", some are not. Even in community of property though some debts may be on
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Is it bad for society? It's certainly bad for individuals, and by extension their families. I guess if it scales up such that a serious chunk of society is affected, then yes its bad for society. Let's start with the obvious- in a
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I do.
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Yeah, REST, gives you none of that. Thats all done by HTTPS. Using that logic XML (ergo SOAP) has all that for free as well. Of course HTTPS only applies to transport, not storage...
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Forgive me for assuming you were American. That was my bad. My argument was indeed around the late-capitialistic environment of the US. Talk of cultural barriers to your approach are in that context. (And i believe are valid.) The European
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Your argument is well made, but alas I fear will not work. There are two reasons (among several) which I feel make it ineffective. Firstly, there's an assumption that with economic schooling people would understand the benefits of dela
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Absolutely true. Although lots of countries have oil, and derive profits from it, Norway (as far as i know) was unique in not spending that income, but rather creating the sovereign wealth fund. That long-term thinking, which was fundamenta
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Not to be unnecessarily sparky here, but are we limiting this discussion to legal drugs? Drugs like Oxy are both "legal" yet also consumed illegally. Made by a perfectly legit pharma company. And that's before we discuss the
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When you are poor, and you need cash, you sell things of value. If you give a rich person 50k in shares, chances are he'll keep it. If you give a poor person 50k in shares, he'll sell it. The rich person has sufficient immediate r
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A variation on this would work, but alas we don't have the math tools as yet. The idea (not mine) is that you can think of data as "very large numbers". So a 4096 bit number is just a big number. Well, we have a short way to
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I'm not sure which one of us you're referring to, but the primary "cost" as I see it is disclosing your DNA to some 3rd party, who are then free to use that DNA, or sell it, or whatever as they like. So, in a sense, if y
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Correct. Using new investor money to pay out old investors would make it a ponzi. At this point, from what I can see, it's all money going in, nothing coming out yet. So hence, not ponzi. It may be a bubble. Or it may be smart investin

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