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by patfla 7y ago
Maybe but the Japanese capture of the memory market was just as much about low costs of capital. Semiconductor manufacturing is about as capital intensive an industry as exists. I'd note that the Koreans now own this market. Same str
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by patfla 7y ago
Perhaps, but the article itself says that Comac is having problems certifying its (first) commercial airliner. And part of what was targeted was Airbus data relating to certification. I add (first) because I've read about the C919 els
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by patfla 7y ago
That's from January 2015 - much has changed since then.
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by patfla 7y ago
The Economist writes up this history well and I learned a few things. But in particular in the conclusion, the Economist does their usual Mr-Market-knows-best, and Mr-Govt-makes-us-weak, shtick. There are true believers of the left - and t
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by patfla 7y ago
Part of the way I remember the early Amazon is they were bootstrapped by the fact that web purchases were, for a time, exempted from state sales taxes. Some of that history here it would seem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by patfla 7y ago
I'd curious to see an explanation of just how the ride-sharing business might be profitable. I assume this: "Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, argued that Uber’s future was not as a ride-hailing company, but as a wide tec
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by patfla 8y ago
Share buybacks have probably been the single largest component of 2019's market rise. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=2019+st... in particular: "This Stock Market Rally Has Everything, Exc
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by patfla 8y ago
The economy is like an (enormous) electrical circuit with, crucially, non-linear elements. Mainstream macroeconomics models that poorly which we've seen well demonstrated over the last 10 yrs although there were earlier demonstrations
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by patfla 8y ago
Still, opiate deaths now outnumber vehicular deaths, although vehicular death has been dropping. Opiate deaths probably skew young and one might ask: just what percent of, on average, poor impulse control young people are now killed by opi
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by patfla 8y ago
An interesting part of the article says "SpaceX’s existing business faces headwinds. It expects to see declines in launches of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket for 2019 and perhaps 2020. Global demand for launching commercial satellites,
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by patfla 8y ago
Tit for tat. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-kovrig-former-canadian-...
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by patfla 8y ago
There's been plenty of inflation in sectors like education and healthcare except the government, conveniently, doesn't count that as 'core.'
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by patfla 8y ago
Yes China and the US are basically the same size in area. India is smaller. What, to my mind, gets paid less attention is that the US is, in fact, the 3rd most populous nation in the world.
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by patfla 8y ago
It's likely that the places worst hit now by global warming are a) the Arctic (but few people live there) and b) the Middle East.
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by patfla 8y ago
Nobody really knows what Saudi reserves are. Including, very possibly, the Saudi's themselves. Moreover, very old fields and, I believe, little in the way of new discoveries.
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by patfla 8y ago
That's odd. The gwfp.com link says: "the Permian region in eastern Texas and western New Mexico," that's got it backwards actually (western TX and ...). And the _current_ EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook (reference
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by patfla 8y ago
Just one interesting point from Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, published in 1973, was that post-industrial society would require a vast network connecting everyone, and thing, together.
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by patfla 8y ago
One way in which I'd thought of Mercedes going back to high school (1970's) was in terms of their reliability so I was very surprised then to look in consumereports and find just how much most German auto manufacturers have fallen
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by patfla 8y ago
The Model 3 has, or may have, become profitable for Tesla since the average selling price has gone from the $34K initially advertised to (last I checked) $59K. Good deal - if you're Tesla.
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by patfla 8y ago
Amen Clinics and SPECT? Right. Google for it. And yet Daniel Amen seems to have acquired many reasonable sounding co-authors for the paper.
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by patfla 8y ago
I first bought GEB in the early 80's. At that point, I had only a year in college and I made little headway with the book. Went back to college and ended up double-majoring in Japanese and Computer Science and took a bunch of math co
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by patfla 8y ago
I was wondering how r/wsb translates to options. Ah: wsb = wall street bets. Indeed.
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by patfla 8y ago
> half a dozen No, the market has concentrated and is very largely dominated by just 3 companies: Samsung and SK Hynix in Korea and Micron. I don't think China has a whole lot of choice as regards memory chips in the volumes that t
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by patfla 8y ago
How is that of note?
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by patfla 11y ago
Ah - Webster Tarpley. Kind of nutty, lots of conspiracies, but some good information nevertheless. That said, the (very long) history of the Venetian Republic is both fascinating and important. The city of Venice (in the lagoon) is built
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by patfla 12y ago
Diesel is a different mix of longer carbon chains than gasoline and I'd think that makes it a different fuel type.
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by patfla 12y ago
Fwiw, I thought Montier to be a well-respected behavioral economist where behavioral is in reaction to the failure of previous economic models in 2008 (the Global Financial Crisis). Behavioral puts human psychology back into the picture. Mo
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by patfla 12y ago
I read the Meditations. It was good and I enjoyed it. It has many wise things to say and it expresses itself in a 'modern' voice. The mindset doesn't seem antiquated at all. That said, it wasn't written for this kind
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by patfla 13y ago
Hmm, a not irrevelant data point. http://allthingsd.com/20131125/fda-tells-23andme-to-stop-mar...
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by patfla 13y ago
Energy is probably the largest industry in the world - our civilization runs on abundant energy. The world energy industry needs to be very substantially reworked otherwise there's a high chance that many (most) of us (or subsequent ge

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