petrocrat

8 ms·

31.
by petrocrat 5y ago
By hydrogen-air battery do you just mean a water electrolyzer system paired with some kind of hydrogen fuel cell? If so, the metal-air systems have a major advantage on the discharging side of things by avoiding the need of a fuel cell and
32.
by petrocrat 5y ago
Is the mass measurement of electrons an abberation then in the QFT interpretation of the empirical data? Or is it that energy can have mass prior to being converted under some conditions?
33.
by petrocrat 5y ago
It seems like it hangs or fails when processing the Genessee River watershed path.
34.
by petrocrat 5y ago
Can you share a link to the Fourier Transform page that you mentionted, please?
35.
by petrocrat 6y ago
You seemed to stop mid-thought... was there a point you were making here?
36.
by petrocrat 6y ago
These companies don't have the legal means to put your body in a cage, end your life or take you into custody by force until you answer to their accusations like a government does. That's why comparing this to government jackboots
37.
by petrocrat 6y ago
Since it is not obvious why calling someone by their name would be offensive, did they explain why using their name was offensive?
38.
by petrocrat 6y ago
I don't understand... How is referring to someone by their name offensive?
39.
by petrocrat 6y ago
The payments system (along with the ISPs) need to become a public utility. For ISPs, the least "socialistic" way is for them to operate like Energy Utilities, but IMO, the would be better off being a single provider, fully publicl
40.
by petrocrat 6y ago
ISPs should be a public utility. They would need to have a guarantee of protection from revocation of service due to speech as they will be a public entity at that point.
41.
by petrocrat 6y ago
npx create-snowpack-app
42.
by petrocrat 6y ago
Is this a custom <Canvas/> widget or is it using a library to create the canvas? If so, which library?
43.
by petrocrat 6y ago
yes, jets are composed of thousands of components, each attached to each other in assemblies. The assemblies are then integrated in such a way as to perform the functions of a jet: providing thrust, providing lift, steering, holding fuel, e
44.
by petrocrat 6y ago
The word market loses all meaning without people. Markets are inherently a trade relationship between people.
45.
by petrocrat 6y ago
The Treasury simply issues the bonds. It isn't analogous to borrowing money, as there is no collateral to put up and no other entity in the economic system needs to have any savings in order for the US Treasury to issue the bonds. The
46.
by petrocrat 6y ago
Just noting that in your scenario here, you are admitting that the private sector is not able to correct it's own abuses, but rather needs the elected government to do so. >market misbehaving is punished by the market through the co
47.
by petrocrat 6y ago
And to you does human trafficking indict the private sector in the same manner or not? We can elect legislators who are opposed to abuses like Guantanamo Bay and campaign on fixing it. What can we or the private sector do about abuses in th
48.
by petrocrat 6y ago
Quite a straw man you put forward here. First of all, You seem to be confused because you are mistaking what happens in Russia, Venezuela and China for actual elections. Whatever happens in those places is certainly not what I meant by the
49.
by petrocrat 6y ago
> The efficient market theorem can be untrue without elections necessarily being better at determining efficiency. Can you go into more detail on how that could be for me? If the EMH is untrue, then there must be some other mechanism bes
50.
by petrocrat 6y ago
If the government could do that it would mean that legislators were elected that passed such a law. It's not a credible hypothetical, IMO. And even if it were, there would be recourse in the form of electing different legislators at th
51.
by petrocrat 6y ago
But there are no substantial distinctions between employers in terms of how the utilize the coercive leverage that they have. So this is an illusory "safety-net".
52.
by petrocrat 6y ago
So the proposition is which "check/balance" is better: Market competition or Elections. Modern economics research shows that the efficient markets hypothesis is not true and definitely requires government regulation to operat
53.
by petrocrat 6y ago
>We don’t want to have what they had in the old “second world” where the state could bend the will of the people because it held all the cards. Isn't it apparent, though, that this type of leverage is inevitable in any societal stru
54.
by petrocrat 6y ago
I quite like them as well. They are just time series smoothed line charts with a pleasing. but nonessential gradient. But they do bear a strong resemblance to a graph type called "sparklines." Sparklines usually dispense with the
55.
by petrocrat 6y ago
I tend to agree with you there. I am starting to think that ultimately, though, the answer is one that no one particularly wants to admit because it boils down to two unpalatable options, one distributed and unregulated; the other centraliz
56.
by petrocrat 6y ago
Deflation causes demand destruction by reducing income because deflation causes (or maybe is more a symptom of) layoffs. A consumer doesn't need to check the price of pizza if their income drops to zero. They will instantly change thei
57.
by petrocrat 6y ago
> rejected by most mainstream economists The mainstream econ record is lately not one to be boasting about. >The major proponents are politicians. Incorrect, You'll find the major proponents are academics at University of Kansas
58.
by petrocrat 6y ago
The analogy to the US public debt is a bad one, since the US public debt is simply the private sector savings. It should be called the National Savings Account or something to that effect. It's only debt in the sense that it eventually
59.
by petrocrat 6y ago
I have definitely started a job search after a superior joked about us being "replaceable". It wasn't even directed at me particularly, but there was a chance it was in reference to either the departments performance in gener
60.
by petrocrat 6y ago
The organization is funded by taxpayers and any awarded damages would be covered by taxpayers... so it's not a disincentive for the Police.

More ›