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jesuschroist
6y ago
While not being super technical, there is an interesting miniature "The First Word Across the Ocean" in the "Decisive Moments in History" book by Stefan Zweig. It tells the story and circumstances of how the first trans-
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jesuschroist
6y ago
But this is just what Hayek's work is all about: to show _why_ central planning is ineffective. It works with theoretical arguments and there is no need to use real-life examples.
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jesuschroist
6y ago
Sure, it's an assumption. But saying that all concert violinists are intelligent is something different than saying that everybody, who is intelligent, is a concert violinist.
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jesuschroist
6y ago
The article doesn't really use a strict equality between being "intelligent" and being good at making money. It's more an implication, that being good at making money implies being probably something like "intellig
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6y ago
Right, I felt a little insulted when he suggested me to go back browsing FB.
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jesuschroist
6y ago
Once I moved to a new city and business wouldn't start until a few days later. Some time to spare, I walked into the first bookstore I saw on the street. There in the corner this book caught my attention, well, because I like motorcycl
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jesuschroist
6y ago
The recent freedom of press report [1] certainly does not help in building trust, no matter how many western institutions have a presence there. [1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking
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6y ago
> It's easy to get nicotine via gum, pill, patch, or vaping. .. or snuff! Which I think is one of the most elegant ways of delivering nicotine to your body
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7y ago
The strategy here is clearly fighting Covid-19 with 'Security through obscurity'.
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jesuschroist
7y ago
Yes, but the article describes the problem of physical storage running out. This affects the price much stronger than some political gamble.
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jesuschroist
7y ago
The 'oil price war' was 3 weeks ago. Things are changing fast these days.
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The Italian fashion capital being led by the Chinese (2013)
(bbc.com)
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7y ago
But this process requires even more traction than simply moving, which the vehicle had problems to begin with. My guess in answering the initial question would be bad engineering.
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7y ago
And provide soap at sinks in public bathrooms.
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7y ago
There is not a single tech support issue which would make me get out of my slippers into some store.
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> they spend like 3 minutes of loading time generating textures this implies that they do 'know so much more about their data' than a simple bitmap
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7y ago
I'm not sure if it is usual in this field of research, but it seems strange to me to account 'Resuspension' for as emission. And as you say, this single contribution heavily distorts the picture.
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7y ago
But isn't this exactly what the title says it is?
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> A rail line would never dare have two high speed trains that close to each other. Maybe not every minute, but the bullet train runs every 10 minutes during peak hour with up to 1300 passengers. I don't think that capacity is adequ
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jesuschroist
7y ago
just noting that the 'center' you're speaking of is quite left by international standards