luis_cho

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by luis_cho 3y ago
Michael Burry, one of the guys that shorted the house market in 2008, started to invest in water since 2013 From Wiki: "In 2013, Burry reopened his hedge fund, this time called Scion Asset Management, filing reports as an exempt report
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by luis_cho 3y ago
We should all have a personal postal code that would link to our current address. When we change our address we would link the postal code to the new directory. By having this the companies would not know where we live and we would have a p
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by luis_cho 3y ago
When you say crackpots are you referring to Sam Bankman-Fried?
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by luis_cho 3y ago
This takes programming by coincidence to a whole new level.
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by luis_cho 3y ago
We could add taxes for cement that could be redirected to a carbon dividend. There is a environmental cost that we are not paying when we build houses, and having a tax it's a fair way to incorporate this externalities. I don't tr
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Why do we need more cement? In my country there are 2 houses for each family, and we in a housing crisis. Maybe the solution can be less speculation, a social solution instead of a technological one.
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by luis_cho 3y ago
The problem with remote work is that it effectively solves more problems than it creates and this is a nightmare for those who live off speculation under the guise of "changing the world". Now they have at risk the millionaire ren
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by luis_cho 3y ago
All the other people that are attending the facetime call should also be using the glasses and why not an apple headphone. That way instead of talking to my brother I could talk to a Daft Punk member. We could change the name of the app to
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Thanks, raising 1,5 degrees on a average of 13,9 it's really a lot. In my opinion the only way to slow down involves changing this growth oriented economy. I hope the EU conference "Beyond growth" is a start of a new movement
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by luis_cho 3y ago
It's not the goal but the value itself (1). It's strange that we don't a value but a definition of a value. I totally understand that we need a target to motivate politicians (sad but true).
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Ok but what is the value? Is there hard value like "15.4 degree celcius"?
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by luis_cho 3y ago
Does anyone here knows what is the temperature value that we are comparing to? I cannot find that anywhere.
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by luis_cho 4y ago
Try to buy a kobo and connect with your getpocket (firefox read it later). I cannot read blog posts on my computer but I can read this way. It has a very nice feature. You read the articles offline (after you sync the kobo with pocket), and
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Borsodis Law(leanlogic.online)
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by luis_cho 4y ago
Just before the pandemic, when I moved house, I carried out an experiment and did not install internet for 6 months. It should be noted that I use a dumbphone (fruit of another experience), and therefore did no have access to any social net
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by luis_cho 4y ago
I don't know if you know the concept of degrowth https://www.amazon.com/Case-Degrowth-Giorgos-Kallis/dp/15095...
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by luis_cho 4y ago
There is a famous quote from Kenneth Boulding “Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist."
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by luis_cho 4y ago
Sadly we will know in the next years how fragile is the current food production system. High centralised food system based mainly on fossil fuels gives high yields until it doesn't. Every time I listen to Steven Pinker I think that he
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by luis_cho 4y ago
> we see that "depletion of mineral resources" is #53. So why #53 as opposed to #191, or #67, or #3? I think the list is on alphabetic order. Regardless of the reasons above the real problem is that we are putting all the eggs
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by luis_cho 4y ago
I confess I haven't read the article yet but it gave me the feeling of being related to limits to growth. It intrigues me that growth is one of the goals of sustainable development (the 8Th), when we have a group of brilliant MTI scien
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by luis_cho 4y ago
For those who don't know Jay Forester is one of the persons responsible for world3, and the limits to growth report 50 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
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by luis_cho 4y ago
I agree with you, the other problem is to rely on only one system. Our global economy is fragile in this sense.
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by luis_cho 5y ago
What you are talking its called environmental decoupling. Studies suggest that is not possible to have absolute environmental decoupling globally. Absolute decoupling is when emissions going down while we have economic growth, relative deco