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by meric 11y ago
That's true of all analysis. We can't even calculate 1 + 1 if we are not going to agree to the definition of the plus sign. See my other comment describing what a perfect answer looks like.
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by meric 11y ago
The problem is thus: How to price every good and service at equilibrium in the economy, with regards to the marginal cost and marginal benefit of every individual for every good and service. You have not seen any suggestion to solve this pr
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by meric 11y ago
New Zealand seems good.
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by meric 11y ago
The democracy is already dead. This is what death of a democracy looks like.
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by meric 11y ago
The problem of market pricing in the economy is NP-hard. It's means as a human if you're good you'll always have a chance. At the very least you can pull moves like "1. buy a big stake in the company. 2. Kick out the dir
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by meric 11y ago
It means for supply to continue to expand while maintaining equilibrium, manufacturers must continue to lower its costs, year after year relentlessly. The oversupply is a hint some of them are having trouble doing just that.
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by meric 11y ago
An oversupply means demand for solar panels that can be produced at a profit is less than the supply of solar panels. If they can't produce the solar panels for a profit, eventually the companies will be too broke to further expand sup
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by meric 11y ago
Considering people can live on $30k a year...which is what some jobs pay. >> 75k really is about 6 months of expenses and costs. What kind of expenses and costs are you talking about?
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by meric 11y ago
>> If you get a full ride scholarship, the $50k/yr is all yours. Would that work? I'm assuming for some it would. Bitter personal experience taught me using extrinsic motivation destroys intrinsic motivation. The kid will ge
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by meric 11y ago
If banks can 'pay back' their TARP loans with bad debts, students ought to be able to 'pay back' their student loans with promise of future earnings excess of minimum wage, that was supposed to be enabled by taking on a
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by meric 11y ago
"stupid" = depends on the age. Unless you meant all children are stupid....
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by meric 11y ago
Modern steel can be used to create bullet proof body armour.[1] A frontal plate costs $65 and weighs 4kg. [1] http://www.ar500armor.com/ar500-armor-trauma-plate-advanced-...
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by meric 11y ago
I'm into my third year working full time programming. Thanks for the heads up. Will retire sooner.
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by meric 11y ago
Except the biggest one - tax on labor.
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by meric 11y ago
Unless it's a mining startup, the kind I invest in. The ones who have almost finished their mine, and will start producing within the year. I value them using a good rule of thumb: If they're priced less than cash at bank plus exp
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by meric 11y ago
http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_162.shtml : >> "A once-through one-gigawatt nuclear power station uses 162 tons per year of uranium" >> "World total (conventional reserves in the grou
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by meric 11y ago
I have thought about this problem and came to the same conclusion - we need to move to nuclear. But then if most of our energy needs are from nuclear, now we're going to be back in the same situation in 50 years running out of uranium.
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by meric 11y ago
Most our energy comes from fossil fuels. Even fertiliser for our food. So we can't just replace it all with solar power. One key questions for rulers and governments from antiquity is how to allow the population to gather energy to sur
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by meric 11y ago
Maybe it'd be a good place to put logistical details of where the grave is, address of last place of residence, childhood home, and contact details of nearest family members. I always have to hit my parents up for details on where rela
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by meric 11y ago
We're relying on fossil fuel to produce fertiliser for the vast majority of Earth's food.
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by meric 11y ago
Relax. Be aware (but not worried) of your surroundings and act as you do and everything will work out. Hey you got the job, right? That's got to count for something!
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The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change (2011)(theatlantic.com)
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by meric 11y ago
If you had all the money you could ever want, what would you be doing? Then, if you could do that in your 12 hours of free time, you'd have turned 12 hours of your time into all the money you could ever want, and used it to do whatever
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by meric 11y ago
Hmm, they could if it's to make ethanol!
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by meric 11y ago
>> I am shocked sometimes to see empathy here for anyone that would execute you by cutting your head off, stone women and homosexuals, and rule a nation with an archaic religion. No empathy. No empathy for the U.S. government who were
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by meric 11y ago
It should be noted these people who swear oaths have a greater responsibility to the constitution and the nation as a whole than to the individual organisations within government.
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by meric 11y ago
My opinions used to be unpopular and down voted often, but in the past half year or so, that's no longer the case.
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by meric 11y ago
'Somewhat knowledgeable about something'. I think I would qualify...
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by meric 11y ago
Build some websites and sell them on https://flippa.com . Or buy one and improve it and collect adsense money.
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by meric 11y ago
The "magically raised" funds could be from the founder's personal savings, which he was reluctant to use, and he was trying to see if he could get away without using.

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