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by nroets 4y ago
I'm pretty sure petrol and diesel consumption will not fall significantly: As the price falls, people will drive more with larger cars in countries with less stringent environmental regulation. Open cycle gas turbines will increasingl
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by nroets 4y ago
Surely the system was designed to accommodate people who lack fingerprints.
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by nroets 4y ago
Swift transfers are slower than crypto. And governments have placed various restrictions on it called "capital controls". They say it's to encourage investment into their own economies, but investors knows it doesn't ach
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by nroets 4y ago
I've never used brouter. My work flow is: 1. Talk to other cyclists to find nice long distance routes. Google the country I'm in for interesting places. Google cgoab. From that I find waypoints that I want to visit. 2. Use https:
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by nroets 4y ago
Pretty good. Some countries like Slovakia built cycle ways on the levies. The EU also pours money into bicycle touring: They design and promote the Euro Velo routes (signposts). I believe they run a few campsites. But there are other reason
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by nroets 4y ago
I've ridden my bicycle on 4 continents clocking up over 35,000 km. OsmAnd was my primary navigation app except for the 6,000 km in China where I used Baidu maps. So I'm really excited about the app being more responsive on my next
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by nroets 4y ago
People older than 30 grew up filling in paper forms for everything and know check boxes well. Younger people are less familiar with check boxes, so the best real world analogy is light switches. They are also expecting changes to happen ins
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by nroets 4y ago
Read my post carefully. I'm not saying capitalism will solve the problem. There are many reasonable answers and proposals to these questions. Here's one: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-pricing-studies&#x2F
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by nroets 4y ago
Nationalists and communists have these grand top down views of their economies. The problem is that they ruin a lot of smaller industries in pursuit of their grand vision. Capitalism turned out be be a superior system and it's not top
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by nroets 4y ago
Yes, flying is just another staw on the camel's back! Methane emission from the oil industry is another "rounding error". By your logic we should just ignore it. The solution is obvious: Just levy a carbon tax and let the mar
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by nroets 4y ago
I'd much rather cycle in busy Amsterdam than drive in congested Los Angeles, Paris, Tbilisi, HCMC etc.
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by nroets 4y ago
So a country like South Africa can just turn off their coal plants and continue as normal ? Of course not ! They will go bankrupt ! Solar+storage is still too expensive ! Whereas if the US consumer stop buying oversize trucks and stop flyin
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by nroets 4y ago
For decades I lived in crime ridden South Africa and helped to organize our neighbourhood in the fight. The best deterrent is quick reaction, even unarmed civilians with torches and calling each other on mobile phones. The system should rar
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by nroets 4y ago
I agree with his expectation that economic growth will be very slow. More importantly, there's a savings glut: A high savings rate in Asia (China in particular) caused real interest rates to become permanently negative. Some of that mo
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by nroets 4y ago
No. With humans the dynamic is completely different: The most effective way to encourage woman to have fewer children is health care. Not just birth control but also nutrition and health care of the children they already have. Then there is
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by nroets 4y ago
Feeding unsterilized animals causes their population to explode and dependence on humans. This is also true for native species: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/don...
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by nroets 4y ago
The HN community should start our own version: We retrieve the latest ElonJet info and then tweet it. See how many of us Twitter suspends.
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Or he didn't want to file for Chapter 11 because he is obsessed with being in the limelight. That would also explain why he can't shut up.
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by nroets 4y ago
It's not just a defensive trait. It also makes them look more attractive in today's world. And it gives them a good excuse to reject a man. That's still a valid defensive strategy because rejection is one of the top reasons w
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by nroets 4y ago
Probably intentional weight loss. Most of the excavation work was done by women: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Astronauts
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by nroets 4y ago
The regulators didn't catch Madoff. SBF's greatest punishment will not be jail. It will be that he can't show his face in public for fear of running into someone who lost money. Noone will want to do business with him anymore
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by nroets 4y ago
Perhaps your home router has a public IP. Google gets the location of the home router from just one Android phone connecting to it. I'm guessing. But some home routers are behind CGNAT infrastructure: Then it's possible that TCP c
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by nroets 4y ago
I can understand why: Translate is the only service that works in China. Countries with censorship laws can easily choose what they allow.
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by nroets 4y ago
So the number of coins I have is not revealed by the Blockchain ? That sounds so complicated, that even someone with a physics degree from MIT will not be able to make it work.
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FTT had a real yield that was backed by Ftx trading fees and measured in dollars. (Weekly back backs and burns) Many analysts did DCF modeling and $22 per FTT looked reasonable.
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Specifically, FTX had a margin pool facility. Clients could specify the assets (not just dollars, but also Bitcoin, tether etc) that they wanted to lend in their wallet. Along with APR. It was strictly opt in. The system also reported small
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by nroets 4y ago
Agreed. Plenty of cyclists have toured over 10,000 miles on a bicycle in a year and written journals about the experience: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/ https://crazyguyonabike.com/ Personally I
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by nroets 4y ago
A predetermined percentage of FTX fees is used to buy back FTT which is then "burnt". Open market buy backs are equivalent to dividends. So FTT has a yield measured in dollars.
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> the ability to exchange them back out for US dollars. Crypto is extensively used to bypass capital controls imposed by many countries precisely because it's so easy send it to a foreign country and exchange them for a currency oth
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Ftx is quite profitable: Good fee income with little marketing expense. So it has a large intangible value. I assume most traders on ftx only put enough capital on the exchange to keep their positions open in the short term. So the intangib

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