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by fuoqi 3y ago
The moon mission and ICBMs have almost nothing to do with each other, unlike the first satellite, which was a clear demonstration of the capability to deliver intercontinental payloads and was launched on the rocket literally designed to be
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Technically... yes. Nuclear plants routinely discharge a certain amount of tritiated water and radioactive gases. But it's well below natural radioactivity levels and certainly MUCH smaller than amount of "radioactive pollutants&
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by fuoqi 3y ago
I find it mildly amusing how for all green talk and net zero pledges, EU bureaucrats and wide public does not give much notice to the third-world-level dirty-as-hell coal-powered generation in Poland.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It does not need such letters anymore. The US got a better thing called "sanctions", which apparently allow US Navy to forcefully detain ships on the high seas and sell their stuff on the grounds of them being engaged in "ill
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>But many enterprises simply took advantage of easy bank loans to refinance their existing debt without adding new spending or investment to the economy. These companies eventually became loan addicts; and as with any addiction, increasi
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by fuoqi 3y ago
In Russia you have to convert 25-30% of your earnings nominated in foreign currencies (it was 50-80% in 2022, but got relaxed since then) and you do it on a somewhat open market. IIUC in China the requirement is much stricter and the exchan
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by fuoqi 3y ago
EUCs "tilt-back" and One-wheel's "nose up/pushback" is the same thing, but it's much easier for EUCs to do because of the smaller required momentum, thus you need less power margin to ride safely.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Personally, I am using EUCs mostly as an urban transport. For recreation I prefer (non-powered) bicycles. >I see people zipping around on models that don't have any handlebars. Do you mean hoverboards? In my understanding, your desc
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by fuoqi 3y ago
My reasons for preferring EUCs: - It can be easily combined with public transit. Its much smaller footprint causes less trouble for you and those around you. You can place it behind your legs while sitting and keep between legs while stayin
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by fuoqi 3y ago
I find it really funny how people blame corporation's "greed" for the high inflation. It's literally raison d'être of for-profit organizations to squeeze as much profits as they can in existing market and regulato
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Yes, it looks like we see his scenario of long-term debt cycles unfolding in real time.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Raising rates is the best way to kick the can down the road in the current conditions. The problem is that the economy got really close to the end of the road (as far as we understand it). And no, the US is unlikely to follow the Japanifica
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Please, read the article instead of commenting based solely on the title. The author specifically explores conditions when the answer is "no", namely: persistent fiscal deficits with high public debt levels.
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Do high interest rates fix high inflation?(lynalden.com)
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by fuoqi 3y ago
The treasure would've sold them regardless of your investment into a MMF, just for a slightly higher price. So counterintuitively enough, by investing into a MMF your actually reduce amount of deposits lost by banks.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
You are right, but I think that everyone understands that today it's nothing more than a formality which feeds those intermediate banks at the expense of taxpayers.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Where do you think your money go when you buy a share in MMF? They do not disappear, instead they get added to bank deposit of one who sold you the share. It will be different only if the bonds which back your MMF are sold by the Treasury o
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by fuoqi 3y ago
How so? Bank deposits and M2 are correlated quite closely. Usually, bank deposits are equal to 80-90% of M2.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Until recently the Treasury was draining TGA, which was equivalent to doing QE. In other words, it was spending money which it got earlier from Fed by selling it treasuries. Now Fed does not buy treasuries anymore, so the Treasury has to re
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by fuoqi 3y ago
What did you expect to happen with contracting M2? It has shrunk approximately to the same ~$500B in Q1.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>I raided the retirement accounts to buy a home. Buying home at the current prices does not sound wise to me. Even if you expect for printing press to go brrr again, it's likely that before that we will see substantial decline in as
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>Basocally everyone wanted NS2 to be gone, including the Russians I call BS. Not only have they invested a significant amount of money into it, they also sell gas to Europe through Ukraine even today. I think they would like to have work
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>NS2 was not quite German infrastructure, it's really Russian infrastructure What are you talking about? Western companies literally own half of NS2. >no gas ever has flown through it and none would have almost certainly even if
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It's spot prices, which: 1) Can change very fast, e.g. on potential strong China reopening or colder than usual winter. 2) Do not fully represent cost of long-term contracts. Also, with reduced industrial output (especially in energy i
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by fuoqi 3y ago
>At this distance I can't even tell that they're explosions Sure, it could've been swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket, which has reflected the light from Venus.
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by fuoqi 3y ago
For some reason, you forget the usual disclaimer "Ukraine says" and instead state it as a fact. It's hard to take them at face value similarly to their Russian counterparts. Also the "minor" claim is also maid by an
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It's hard to take his praise for laser interception of hypersonic weapons seriously. For intercepting swarms of cheap drones? It's a great fit! Space-based lasers for intercepting ICBMs? Maybe? But true hypersonic weapons (which K
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by fuoqi 3y ago
And those "downed" missiles somehow cause a "minor" damage to the Patriot battery doing it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36057675#36065364
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by fuoqi 3y ago
It's interesting how the propaganda story about "intercepted" Kinzhals is being spread together with the official US confirmation of "minor" damage to the Patriot system. Also we have videos which show explosions ha
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by fuoqi 3y ago
Yeah, it sounds like an intentional campaign to reduce discontent from raising the stakes in the proxy war against Russia.

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