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by ephbit 4y ago
> Green hydrogen is needed for steel, chemical, aero… and should not end up in cars. Far too expensive, inefficient, slow and difficult to rollout and transport. – Herbert Diess, CEO, Volkswagen Group Let's wait until green hydrogen
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> Which Technology is Winning? > As you can see from the table below, most automakers have shifted their focus towards BEVs. Notably missing from the BEV group is Toyota, the world’s largest automaker. Interesting fact.
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Interesting how they compare the range of the Lucid Air Dream BEV (505 miles) to the Toyota Mirai XLE FCEV (402 miles). They never even mention that the range of the FCEV could quite easily be extended by say 100 miles by just increasing th
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> With a fiat currency, the central bank can mitigate the disasters by printing more dollars and loaning them to the banks. Because of that, people don't worry as much about their bank, so the runs don't happen in the first pla
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Your're missing the point. OP writes about banks handing out Bitcoins that don't exist on the blockchain but only in the banks' databases. So the subject of mining is mostly irrelevant here. As long as people trust them, bank
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> Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-...
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These temperature gradients obviously lead to convection. Stronger convection means greater heat transfer, thus greater rate of cooling down. But it'd be surprising if the inertia of the convection of the initially hot system didn&#x27
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Would be interesting to know what the outcome of fluid dynamics and physics simulations of this setup is. Heat transfer, convection, conduction, evaporation and so on should be available in useful implementations in state of the art simulat
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She writes about Tether basically injecting non-existent money into Bitcoin to prop the price up after it had dropped to ~ $4000 in March 2020. She also claims that by late 2020, miners stopped selling Bitcoins and instead .. > They took
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Not sure why this got down voted. Maybe because it can be read as if I were arguing in favor of eating more meat. I am not. I am just pointing out why primitive advice such as "Just replace the meat in your diet with grain" might
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Agreed, fructose combined with overeating will lead likely to problems, fructose alone often not. But what do you make of this passage in the abstract of the linked paper? > Thus, fructose can exert detrimental health effects beyond
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With modern urban lifestyles requiring (for many people) a lot less calories than ancient lifestyles of running around some great plains this is actually a feature to some degree for many people People need to take up protein. If the protei
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According to Dr. Robert Lustig of University of California fructose is indeed worse than sugar. [1] It's been a good while since I've watched this video. As far as I remember, he argues that fructose is to the human body strikingl
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> Are Large Corporate Profit Margins Causing Inflation? Phew, maybe there's some thing to this but it'd be a non-trivial chain of interdependencies that's difficult to untangle if it's possible at all. I'd lo
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If you want to save the ecosphere ... you do not go about and divert people's attention - which is very much a limited resource - to minuscule factors of the problem. You do instead point them to the big pieces of the pie chart .
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Think of it this way: Someone's hosting a big party somewhere in the middle of nowhere, off-the-grid, so no grid electricity. Summer, sun shining, air is hot like a hair dryer. They put up a 20 kW generator run on gasoline. It's p
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> Hideous Monstrosity ... Greed You know what's an even worse "hideous monstrosity" than Bitcoin? The way in which a few hundred million egocentric if not sociopathic people in the global west have allowed themselves to be
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> Additionally, imagine why and how someone with an Econ degree who wasn’t very well known became incredibly famous. Whatever you're implying here, I'm too stupid to get it. You mean: he became famous enough despite only talkin
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> Which car? The one I don't have because I'm saving to buy two next year? So eventually you'll have two ... and what will happen? Yes, some time your car will need repairs. Will you have the repair done months later becau
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> I just don’t think your solutions are workable. Care to explain why? I like to think I can be convinced by arguments. > If you’d told me about btc 10 years ago, I would’ve thought it was a radical attempt at a solution. But Bitcoin
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> The reason governments create inflation is to keep population poor and control them I guess? When I listened to the interview I didn't hear him say that. My view on this: governments simply cannot help increasing debt to spend m
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> The debt driven economy is by design. People should ask "whose design?" then. Who's the beneficiary of this design? What do you think is more likely to be true? A. The wealthy/influencial/powerful/elites u
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A comparison of Safedean Ammous to Deepak Chopra isn't useful IMO. Chopra does likely have views on economics but it's not the focus of his work. Ammous' work is about economics. Thus it appears you're merely trying to d
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Do I get this right? You have a rather pessimistic view of the world that leads you to believe that while such tax systems might be possible they allegedly haven't ever been observed in the real world. So you go on to infer that what
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> You do not comprehend the literal scale of the problem. Phew, OK, if you write so. > You have to replace every fucking bank employee with a govt employee .. No, all it needs is a reasonable tax system without loopholes and where tax
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> As you sit down and type from a device created very much by the financial engineering “complications” of the modern market ... That's a ridiculous claim. As if the development of complex technical devices wouldn't have happen
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My point here is: concerns with undesirable wealth distribution (in a hard money system) make IMO no sound argument against hard money. Because there's ways to redistribute wealth through the state. Besides that, if the current wealth
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> ... to allow the economy to unwind when it doesn't want to grow. If our ecosphere had a vote, it'd probably oppose this paradigm of "we still desperately need a growing economy today". What people do need is the b
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> There is no wealth distribution in a hard money paradigm that makes sense. Care to explain how one can come to this claim based on first principles? Maybe I'm misinterpreting this sentence of yours. I read it as: a hard money para
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Safedean Ammous isn't 100 % studied economist. But according to his CV he studied at London School of Economics, also gave economics lectures and was/is assistant professor of economics at Lebanese American University (Beirut). [1

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