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by markvdb 6y ago
See als https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder and similar initiatives to allow migratory species to pass dams.
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by markvdb 6y ago
The easiest way to do so might be a choice dividend: cash or stock.
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by markvdb 6y ago
Could you please upgrade the link to point to a respectable news outlet? Two obvious candidates: - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/ibm-is-la... - https://www.wsj.com/article
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by markvdb 6y ago
I had a quick look at Trading212 without properly investigating their business model. They seem to route all of their stock market orders through Interactive Brokers [0]. [0] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/trading212.reg
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by markvdb 6y ago
You probably won't ever see an EU broker offer free trades. The EU market is more regulated to avoid anything that smells of front running. There was a somewhat revealing interview by the people behind Flatex, a big discount broker fro
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by markvdb 6y ago
I just added your remark as an issue to the submitter's repo: https://github.com/evzaboun/garage-door/issues/1
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by markvdb 6y ago
I rather see them cancelling SAP as a positive sign. They seem to know what they are doing...
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by markvdb 6y ago
According to the OECD, productivity per hour worked [0] in Scandinavia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland is comparable to the US, and in some cases significantly higher. All of these countries ha
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by markvdb 6y ago
Fundamental flaws in US health care and worker protection exposed. That's what this is. Compare to the system in my native Belgium: - a month of 100% paid sick leave, paid by the employer - followed by five months 60% of wage in sick l
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by markvdb 6y ago
TLDR: first deployment of Form Energy's "aqueous air" grid battery, 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour, no tech details. MIT professor founder, backed by Bill Gates amongst others. According to MIT tech review [0] , their main lin
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by markvdb 6y ago
As a free software proponent, I don't see the inconsistency in this case. What would you do as a software oriented person if you had nothing to eat? Why would you care about artificial software scarcity imposed by a government that can
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by markvdb 6y ago
I was obviously being slightly sarcastic. I wouldn't want to personally work that way. I do believe that might be quite an effective strategy if one's goal were climbint the corporate ladder.
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by markvdb 6y ago
Why would you, if in good times you can enlarge your own budget/headcount/importance/... just by increasing budget no questions asked, that's a safer way ahead. You risk devaluing your own position in the company for an
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by markvdb 6y ago
Not over here. Belgium is the world taxation champion, but it has no capital gains tax on equities. As you can imagine, accumulating etfs are quite popular here...
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by markvdb 6y ago
Actually they somewhat did: "Spitznagel included a chart in his letter showing that a portfolio invested 96.7% in the S&P 500 and 3.3% in Universa’s fund would have been unscathed in March, a month in which the U.S. equity benchmar
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by markvdb 6y ago
According to those guidelines, YouTube would have to censor the US president's Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing. “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute! And is there a way
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by markvdb 7y ago
You project intentions onto Bernanke. You might very well be right about the consequences, but that says nothing about his motivation to do what he did. Some not so random related thoughts: - It's not always inflation by the way that e
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by markvdb 7y ago
Paul, you're absolutely right about the corona virus being the clearest credibility test fail for these people yet. But you also write: "These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they
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by markvdb 7y ago
You're absolutely right about some of the foam glass materials. Not everything is solid closed cell blocks though...
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by markvdb 7y ago
You mention doubts about moisture or air permeability. It's a uniquely breathable material.
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by markvdb 7y ago
There are several forms. Some of the most popular ones: - Blocks. From a technical perspective, these are perfectly usable as structural wall material in most use cases. Excellent insulation, breathable, moisture resistant. It is more expen
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by markvdb 7y ago
A large fraction of the one time use glass at least in Europe is recycled into foam glass [0]. A wonderfully versatile and ecological insulation material with slowly but surely increasing popularity. There's factories in at least Belgi
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by markvdb 7y ago
You've rightly identified the question as a false dichotomy. People in the US don't _have_ to die for lack of resources. The state helping the people to survive this crisis or not is a political choice.
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by markvdb 7y ago
3.28 10^6 people is 1.59% of the 206 10^6 US working age population. [0] For comparison, in my native Belgium, 18.38% of the working age population receive temporary jobless allowances due to corona [1]. [0] https://fred.stlouisf
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by markvdb 7y ago
Some of the original French ones are hilariously funny. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters for their meaning. I especially like "Abraracourcix" and "Assurancetourix&q
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by markvdb 7y ago
I teach the classical guitar, in small groups of up to four students. I have them send me recordings, and I ask them for permission to share with the other students in their group. In that way, they're playing not only for themselves,
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by markvdb 7y ago
This claims to use bluetooth proximity sensing of other people with the app, in order to be able to trace corona viruts bearers more quickly. Interesting to contrast to the US approach of "give us blanket gps and cell tower info".
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Singapore launches preventative corona contact tracing app(smartnation.sg)
1 points by markvdb 7y ago|1 comments
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by markvdb 7y ago
Cellular triangulation is not sufficiently accurate for that. GPS signal has the same problem, and is often not available inside.
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by markvdb 7y ago
Feels rather solid in most ways I interact with it. Try the public matrix.org instance through https://riot.im/app to get a feel for it...

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