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by qqqwerty 4y ago
The days of keeping you money under your mattress are long gone. The vast majority of modern day economic activity takes place electronically, and as such requires partnering with a number of different financial organizations to make that h
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
He is suggesting that the Fed/FDIC make depositors whole, not necessarily bail out the bank. There is a good chance that depositors will be made whole regardless, but even if it does require some intervention it is probably worth it to
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
"Processed" as in, this food has been altered from its original state. i.e. Peas = not processed, pea protein = processed. The exact cutoff of how much processing is allowed is kinda up to the individual, but generally when you he
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Your explanation is even dumber You are the one that took the thread off topic because you couldn't be bothered with basic reading comprehension. > made enough money early in life that they could retire. The OP was suggesting t
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I am not sure what to think about China. Dropping the zero-covid policy feels like just the start. They still might go through a couple of waves of covid before things get back to normal. Or things could snap back fairly quick, hard to pred
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
This is a good point that I had not previously considered. Inflation has been pretty stubborn. I assume some of that is coming from supply chain issues, but some of it also could be due to higher-earning households not being as price sensit
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> My understanding is that the fed is leaning into this particularly hard in order to dislodge the stubborn housing bubble. They are trying to reduce inflation. The housing bubble certainly played a part, but inflation was hitting nearly
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
This may have been true in the past, when people tended to have lots of children. But with families having fewer children, it is probably less likely to be true in the future. Just as a personal example, I have 2 siblings and over 10 cousin
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
There is value creation, and then there is rent seeking. The OP is proposing that the philosophical justifications of a UBI are based on the ever increasing amounts of rent seeking behavior that underpins our economy. One example, intellect
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
FWIW, after doing a quick scan through the forum post, I could be convinced that Robbi and RIP where using signals to coordinate hands. There did appear to be a fair bit of subtle communication between the two throughout the game. Of course
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
The WSJ is paywalled, unlike the source I linked to. How convenient. Regardless, based on the headline it most likely a bunch of arm chair generals speculating about fraud, with no actual evidence. Again, I am not saying fraud and theft doe
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I literally pointed you to the source of the 30%/70% quote. And that person literally said that his quote was taken out of context (by Amnesty International, who later turned out to be very biased in the pro-Russian direction). The per
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
You (and the original CBS report) are trying to launder a poorly sourced statistic (the 30% figure) and spin it to insinuate massive amounts of fraud and theft. The article I linked clearly traces that statistic back to the source (an off t
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
You clearly don't know how war works. If you send your newly acquired equipment straight to the front lines, with troops who have not trained on that equipment and an army that does not have the logistics to support the equipment, then
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Inflation is trending down and there are plenty of long term CDs and bonds with decent rates that will almost certainly mature long after this current inflationary period comes to pass. The Fed has given strong signals that they intend to t
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I live in a suburb. Despite nearly every house having a garage, almost everyone parks in the driveway or on the street and uses the garage for storage or other purposes. And the way the trees (minimal, and mostly in backyards) and houses ar
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Agreed. It is worth mentioning that in CA my landlord is benefiting greatly from Prop 13. They bought the house a long time ago, it is almost certainly paid off by now. And due to prop 13 they have locked in absurdly low property taxes. Thi
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Firstly, when prices start to drop people stop selling. Most people who sell their home also buy a new one at the same time. So if those folks remove themselves from the market, it doesn't really change anything as they are decrea
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I am in that camp as well. But... my rent is less than half the cost of a mortgage (including taxes and insurance) for a similar place. And this doesn't even account for maintenance costs. My landlord prefers long term tenants, so has
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I feel like supply chain issues are worth a mention here. The labor market has been super hot, and finding new employees is a chore. At the same time a number of sectors outputs have been rate limited by supply chain issues. Do you reduce s
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Inventory will likely go down, but that doesn't really matter if demand goes down further. A lot of folks think that higher interest rates are going to result in more people sitting tight which will lower inventory, which in turn will
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Most people only own one home and when they sell their current home they need to buy or rent another one. So for these owners, the supply/demand balance should be minimally impacted by their actions. This is certainly an over simplific
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Everyone in this sub-thread is shifting the goal posts. There is no requirement that solar inverters need to be aware of household power consumption. You can certainly set that up if you want, but an installation in its most basic form woul
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Unless everything speaks standard protocols and can easily be swapped to a different control and monitoring system We are taking about AC and DC current. That is about as "standard" as it gets. Your panels produce DC current.
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
You can't DRM a solar panel. But if you want to devote your life to trying, I am not going to stop you. EDIT: And the more I think about, it is very unlikely that you could do the same to an inverter. You could certainly brick the cont
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> But the lock-in is there regardless of whether they intended it or not. Are you familiar with these systems at all? You can't lock someone into an inverter brand. If you don't like your current inverter, you just buy a new on
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Please tell me how the output of a solar system will ever be useful to an ad company. The fact that you own a solar system is easily obtainable in a number of different ways (permit data, google earth, etc...). The fact that you own a solar
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Maybe I'm too paranoid. Thoughts? Yes. They aren't using these features to serve you ads. They aren't using them to lock you in to their platform. They added these features because the vast majority of users are not part
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
It sounds like the question they still need to answer is if this effect continues indefinitely, or if it is a one time effect. Across a 10 year disease progression this could slow it down by 2.5 years. I might make that trade off, at least
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Maybe a voltage drop? Most sensors just return a voltage. And then you have to calibrate that value and convert it into some sort of measurement using an equation. So an increase in VOC might result in a drop in voltage on the sensor.

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