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by phreeza 5y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment, I'm saying things could have easily been worse if colonialism had continued, in response to the parents claim that bad things happened after the end of colonialism. The opening line was just my att
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by phreeza 5y ago
> least they have skin in the game, don't they? They do, but not in the game of writing truthful blog posts. If you think the market consensus on future inflation is wrong, you can buy TIPS, maybe even with leverage. People buying a
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think it is very hard for us to estate these days how good/bad it was living under colonial rule, without experiencing it or even having contemporary reporting about it. We do know it was apparently bad enough for people to rise up a
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think the great stagnation is widely considered to have taken hold in the mid 70s. Institutionalisation of science has been going on since the 30s at least, if not earlier. It provided inventions massively increasing total factor producti
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by phreeza 5y ago
I think it is probably a great illustration of how merchants actually think. The idealized vision of a market induces a seller to act as you say, in reality there is probably a lot of indirect collusion, where people don't undercut eac
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by phreeza 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed response, I see I was missing significant context, and my perception was wrong. I am surprised because I got this notion from some relatively conservative podcasts I listen to. I will be better informed in the future
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by phreeza 5y ago
I know this is dangerous political territory, but my understanding is that neither would object reunification on their terms, and see themselves as the 'true' China [1]. The same was the case for Germany. Things just became so bad
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by phreeza 5y ago
Yes of course, sorry if that came across wrong. Just wanted to give an example of one country absorbing another for non-monetary reasons.
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by phreeza 5y ago
> rig their semiconductor fabs and the other things the CCP wants with thermite You can't rig national pride with thermite. Western Germany wanted to reunite with eastern Germany not for any economic reasons but because of a sense o
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by phreeza 5y ago
It would be fantastic to turn the chapters into Templates where one has to plug in the relevant parameters for a country and see the calculations for that country.
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by phreeza 5y ago
You should write a book about this revolutionary theory!
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by phreeza 5y ago
No, if they arrive independently then they are best described by a poisson process, and the expected time to arrival is exactly 1/(event probability per interval). Not sure where you got the 0.5 from?
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by phreeza 5y ago
Honestly I think we have been getting through the pandemic with surprisingly little problems regarding supply chains, at least as far as I am personally concerned. Anything I have heard has been basically minor inconvenience or higher price
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by phreeza 5y ago
I've developed a sort of morbid curiosity around how everything now gets politicized. Looking at the comments here, it seems like it is currently up in the air. I can see it going at least two ways: the way of invermectin, where it is
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by phreeza 5y ago
But not as a source of electricity right?
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Startup Develops Worst Imaginable Way to Get a Cup of Coffee(defector.com)
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by phreeza 5y ago
Thanks that is a great point I hadn't considered. I suppose strictly speaking it is not renewable when you use it like that, but still pretty clean.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I am always a bit bearish on geothermal, because the energy flow through the earths crust is just so damn low. Per surface area, it is about 3 orders of magnitude less than solar irradiation, which means that the circumstances in which it r
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by phreeza 5y ago
No, but I don't not read text messages because I don't know the sender.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Important distinction between % of total population (what OWID reports I believe) and % of eligible population, which >90% is more likely to be.
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by phreeza 5y ago
First hit on google I got says: > During April 4–July 17, a total of 569,142 (92%) COVID-19 cases, 34,972 (92%) hospitalizations, and 6,132 (91%) COVID-19–associated deaths were reported among persons not fully vaccinated, In the same pe
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Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter(blog.twitter.com)
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by phreeza 5y ago
That seems like a pretty extreme position to me, I guess we just have different standards for these kinds of providers then.
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Stock component is slightly lower in CH so if anything it would bias the result in the opposite way.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I don't object to anything you've said, I was just replying to the absoluteness of the statement made by GP. Making a land border of that size absolutely safe against sufficiently motivated and individuals is harder than they se
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by phreeza 5y ago
> > It all comes down to a test. > And feasibility of getting an US visa. Or Switzerland, which is relatively easy for most Europeans, and easier than US for virtually everyone, I think.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Do you have the same opinion when you buy a flight on Expedia?
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by phreeza 5y ago
True to a degree but in the end you get what you pay for. If you want a more standardized experience, take an IC bus, or the train. Just like an Uber. Compared to Uber I agree the aggressive branding of the busses is misleading though.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Not sure greyhound was/is the paragon of customer service though either.
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The Berlin wall was orders of magnitude shorter, had a much smaller population of people trying to cross it, guards with shooting orders, several decades of progressive technological improvements, pervasive surveillance of the people trying

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