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by nickles 6y ago
You’re right that I should have been citing my sources. I’ve been largely relying on the book Apocalypse Never by Michael Shellenberger. It’s well worth reading. The (decade old) source you provided for energy subsidies appears somewhat d
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by nickles 6y ago
> Most solar doesn't require rare metals. However, it does require lead, cadmium, and other dangerous materials. Solar power can produce up to 300x the toxic waste as nuclear power does. [0] https://www.cfact.org/201
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by nickles 6y ago
> Nuclear requires a lot of concrete and steel, both sources of carbon emissions Alternative sources of energy also require materials to produce them. Natural gas plants require similar amounts of concrete and steel but have lower energy
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by nickles 6y ago
> We don't need nuclear, because we have other options for firm low-carbon energy (geothermal) and energy storage of surplus and super-cheap intermittent renewables (lithium ion, flow batteries, hydrogen, methane, compressed air, li
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Dropbox makes remote work permanent(cnbc.com)
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by nickles 6y ago
> Food, shelter and transportation aren't included in the CPI. This is wrong. Food, shelter, and transportation are all included in the basket used to compute CPI. [0] > The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for con
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by nickles 6y ago
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that software is speech in Bernstein v United States . The precedent already exists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
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by nickles 6y ago
This is an executive order, not legislation.
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by nickles 6y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_aphasia Speak to a neuroscientist if you don't believe Your source doesn't support your assertion. It lists the more common causes as: * Stroke or brain anoxia.
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by nickles 6y ago
> In addition the act of reading and writing code does a ton of damage to the Wernicke and Brocas area. Over time it can cause damage to the ventral what pathway to the point of complete speech impediment, memory loss and even Alzheimer
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by nickles 6y ago
The headline changed since this was posted. It's been updated to reflect the new title.
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by nickles 6y ago
The article headline changed since this was posted. I've updated it to reflect the new title.
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U.S. Economy Contracted at Record Rate Last Quarter(wsj.com)
132 points by nickles 6y ago|143 comments
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A New Understanding of Herd Immunity(theatlantic.com)
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by nickles 6y ago
> It's perfectly possible that after this, vitamin D is added to tap water Vitamin D is fat soluble, not water soluble.
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by nickles 7y ago
Your comment has a lot of misinformation in it. > This is the one thing they do which helps, not hurts, human traders. Providing liquidity is their job, and it benefits the market as a whole. If market making by HFTs is a good thing, it’
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by nickles 7y ago
Tweaks like Goldenchaos can help with usability. Volume control becomes a 2-finger slide on the touchbar. It’s not ideal, but it’s certainly better than nothing.
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by nickles 7y ago
It has been argued that the current environment of low rates is driven by a safe asset shortage [0]. Many investors (e.g. insurance companies, pension funds) need to match liabilities with assets yielding reliable returns. With a constraine
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by nickles 7y ago
> mutual fund managers who generally underperform their index for years operating a relatively high-fee fund (compared with ETFs) There is a bit more nuance here. The fund manager oftentimes has an obligation to follow a given mandate, w
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by nickles 7y ago
> Selling a pre-configured hackintosh isn't illegal on any jurisdiction as long as you have a valid license for the OS that you ship This theory was tested a decade ago by a company named Psystar and didn’t work. [0] https:/&#
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by nickles 7y ago
Technically this is incorrect. Stocks trading below $1.00 may be quoted in sub-penny increments.
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by nickles 7y ago
> But at some point he was confused why many of his buy/sell orders weren't being executed despite being open for several minutes (hours?) his algo would make bids far away from the current spread, anticipating movement * Did h
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by nickles 7y ago
I should clarify I was responding to your assertion that the earth is far past capacity. ~10% of Earth’s land is occupied by humans. Not all of that is arable, but humans have successfully terraformed throughout history and conceivably will
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by nickles 7y ago
> The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity. Given we have most of the world in need of developing to reach the levels we enjoy, I suspect we are far past that capacity already This argument has been made for hundreds o
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by nickles 7y ago
This seems similar to an old technique, 'inoculation', which predates vaccination and was used with some success to protect against smallpox. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation
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by nickles 7y ago
> The fact that they have outlawed and happily tweet about confiscating e-bikes is digusting. NYC has a long ways to go. e-bikes have been legal in NYC for 1.5 years [0] [0] https://mashable.com/2018/04/04/
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by nickles 7y ago
> Why hasn't a spot-market for transfer been introduced? Enron tried to create a market for this. [0] https://www.wired.com/2001/11/enron-a-bandwidth-bloodbath/
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by nickles 7y ago
You’re not going to be able to trade swaps with a party that doesn’t have an ISDA.
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by nickles 7y ago
Journalism, whistleblowing, accessing censored information, preventing stalkers from tracking you, etc.
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by nickles 7y ago
> Involuntary mental health treatment. It can be dangerous to give governments carte blanche to do this... > Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe w

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