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Dominance Explains Paternalism
(overcomingbias.com)
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TuNur CEO Kevin Sara: Why Invest in Concentrating Solar Power?
(solarpaces.org)
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Could Congress Commission a Government Agency Like WAPA to Build CSP?
(solarpaces.org)
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6y ago
And a lot of those papers saying that you "own" gold have similar issues compared to those that say you "own" stock/bonds… rehypothecation, leverage, liquidity, etc.
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Innocent Verdicts
(overcomingbias.com)
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6y ago
I'd be only interested in this stuff when we can do our own dna readouts at home and compare it against population level statistics that have been published publicly by researchers
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U.S. Treasury, General Account: Wednesday Level (Wdtgal)
(fred.stlouisfed.org)
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6y ago
> What assumptions are you talking about? I’m talking about welfare. Welfare takes resources, takes people agreeing on what resources are acceptable for welfare and what is not, resources people have to produce and distrubute at some cos
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6y ago
> I mean, some things shouldn't fail. This is just asking for rude awakenings. History is full of these kinds of events of where people thought things shouldn't fail, never prepared for them, and they did. > I would have les
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6y ago
> Yeah, and it's their problem up until the point at which the situation is unrecoverable without you, and even then it's still mostly theirs, but I would have a lot of hangups about acting in a situation like that. It's b
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> I think this calculus flips around when your commitment has entered a stage where other peoples' livelihoods depend on it, basically. For you, not for others. > Get out before it springs a leak in an org like that, is my advice
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6y ago
I owe no loyalties to corporates, I have other interests that I would like to spend time on and pursue more than convincing stakeholders to make decisions that should have been made long ago to have them avoided being put in the position th
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6y ago
And they also have less incentive to stay because these are supposedly people who could provide the same work for other companies in similar situations at the same or higher prices. I find myself in this situation right now: ill stay on at
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6y ago
> 2. some kind of actual change was/is required to snap most people out of just going about their business as usual. If the basis for such change comes from state diktats rather than understanding and willingness of the population t
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6y ago
> More succinctly though, there are many people refusing to wear masks, claiming it is government control rather than reasonable common sense in their own best interest. Yeah, I don't get that, but I'm not surprised many americ
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6y ago
One can be against the lockdowns in response to a public health emergency and against incidences like these… Reminds me of my response to my wife in reaction to the State Dept "pleading" for americans to come back "home"
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cinquemb
6y ago
>>> import langdetect >>> probabilities = {x.lang: x.prob for x in langdetect.detect_langs(text) Works for me, for differentiating Russian and Ukrainian text.
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6y ago
The way things are set up, one can only vote and debate for people who routinely get "persuaded" by K street when elected And I would say that in response to `salawat`: >> This would include exposure to well funded lobbyi
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6y ago
`zatel` has it correct.
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The way things are set up, one can only vote and debate for people who routinely get "persuaded" by K street when elected
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6y ago
> I do think it's an example, though, of how certain topics are "off limits" because a small group does not want them to be discussed. > For me, it exacerbates my long standing worries that abuse of flagging (or the co
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Future Timeline, in Econ Growth Units
(overcomingbias.com)
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Concentrating Solar Power Best Practices Study [pdf]
(solarpaces.org)
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IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit Convenes 80% of Emitters Online July 9th
(solarpaces.org)
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6y ago
> The Fed bought the bonds on the open market That was facing a situation with no bids on many issuances from AAA to C rated CUSIPs. And true, you don't negotiate the price of a can of Coke, but if people stopped buying Coke in mass
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6y ago
Yup, i've been following the alphabet soup of insolvency for a while[0] [0] https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/US-Fed-Bal...
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6y ago
> Unless they directly issue to the fed and use the proceeds to pay off prior debt True, it could happen, but it would take away from the profits banks and secondary market participants get from issuing it directly them selling the debt
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cinquemb
6y ago
Yeah, nothing in default yet from EOD friday in LQD. Of about 2272 CUSIPS in LQD then, 58 are rated BB, Baa1 392, Baa2 406, Baa3 251. I expect that it will happen soon that at least a few of these go into default.
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6y ago
Asof EOD friday from about 1145 trackable CUSIPs in firna trace underlying HYG, there's 20 of them either in default or companies that have applied for bankruptcy protection. A lot more have be rolled out from HYG though.
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cinquemb
6y ago
I have been using armadillo now vs Eigen for a couple of years, which can be compiled against OpenBLAS and LAPACK, where matrix ops are handled by fortran routines. http://arma.sourceforge.net/download.html
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