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by quonn 4y ago
> but you never really win with any mortgage Maybe not at 7%. Maybe not at 3,5% either. But at 1-2% fixed for 10-20 years and you don't have to refinance, you win. So your statement is a bit broad. I think it's a good exercise
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by quonn 4y ago
I understand that, but it seems better than loosing the house.
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by quonn 4y ago
I find it strange that nobody here brings up the option of renting out your house instead of selling when you have to. If the mortgage is fully or even mostly covered by the rent, you can usually do that. In fact it would usually be suffici
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by quonn 4y ago
If you don't sell, the inflation makes your mortgage _relatively_ cheaper.
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by quonn 4y ago
> This artificially restricts supply as they take these houses off the market, they don't care if the house sits empty for years as long as they can sell it at their target price Private owners would also sit it out if they can. Unl
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by quonn 4y ago
If most people don't sell and there is high demand, then the few properties that will be on the market will be gone quickly and people will compete, driving up the prices. So it really depends on how large the amount of people who don&
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by quonn 4y ago
Probably true for now. But „what a computer can do“ is not a convincing reason. I have been very surprised by that lately and will perhaps be surprised again.
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by quonn 4y ago
Sorry, it's not even hard. Coordination isn't even necessary. You just locally randomly choose a timeslot and there will be a uniform distribution.
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by quonn 4y ago
> We also have to consider that alternative methods of taxation (how to pay for roads) and the eventual reduction in tax incentives are problems that still need to be solved. Are roads really payed from gas taxes? Everywhere? I perhaps n
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by quonn 4y ago
LFP batteries don't even need No or Co, just Li. > Should we be more focused on hybrids right now? I think most people overestimate the distance they really need. I have not charged at a public charger for months. Charging at home i
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by quonn 4y ago
> EVs as we know them are a dead end. It’s one of those wonderful solutions that look really good until you take a deeper look. Shouldn't you try to at least give a reason why you think so?
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by quonn 4y ago
It's not that easy to arbitrarily raising land taxes without doing a lot of economical damage. But you have a point: The land is inside a country and the country make all kinds of rules.
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by quonn 4y ago
True, but only for goods with a moat. Let's say an iPhone. I may value a fruit at 10 Euros and you may sell me a fruit at that price, but if someone else can produce them for 2 Euros they will perhaps sell them for 5 Euros and make a g
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by quonn 4y ago
If so, renting will also be much more expensive
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by quonn 4y ago
Calling Germany a vassal of the US is more than questionable. I think you also underestimate the EU, as many still do. The US doesn‘t deal with individual states anymore.
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by quonn 4y ago
> it seems unlikely Russia would do this to themselves when, you know, they can just not supply gas into the pipeline. The idea is that this gets everyone to think about the security of other pipelines while being less risky for Russia.
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by quonn 4y ago
The only one except Russia with an incentive would be Germany, and only for NS2, not NS 1. And even then it‘s far less likely. I think also the way it was done. Attacks on two pipes for maximum effect and apparently large leaks. Anyone exc
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by quonn 4y ago
Spain and other countries, yes. Nobody wants the extreme instability of Italy.
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by quonn 4y ago
Europe is not doomed. If we didn‘t join this war, the war would come to us. Most Europeans fortunately understand this.
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by quonn 4y ago
No we won‘t. Gas storages will be almost completely full and the usage has already dropped a lot. Maybe next winter. But by then we probably have a replacement.
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by quonn 4y ago
How many square meters solar and how much did you get out of it? Did you use a battery?
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by quonn 4y ago
Let‘s see. France heats with incredibly inefficient wall heaters. In any case, this winter is very special. It‘s not a good example to make an argument for one technology or another. Long-term I think Germany is better prepared. A lot of wo
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by quonn 4y ago
Actually Germany usually exports power to France. In fact many of the nuclear plants in France don‘t work, especially this year.
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by quonn 4y ago
It would be useful to look outside the US for both the opportunities as well as the limitations. I was recently downvoted for defending cars (EVs) and I was talking from a european perspective where public transport is very developed. Never
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by quonn 4y ago
My iPhone is almost five years old and my mom uses my previous one. It‘s still going fast. Certainly the support is far longer than for Android devices.
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by quonn 4y ago
I think that's because of portability. So that the common types just map to the correct size on a given system.
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by quonn 4y ago
Feeling creatures deserve rights, since they can suffer. Intelligence is at best indirectly related, if at all.
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by quonn 4y ago
But is it a better world? Outside of dense city centers it isn‘t. It‘s less comfortable, far less. Today I quickly bought some things for breakfast. Got in the car in the garage, outside it was pouring. Got out 4 minutes later in the superm
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by quonn 4y ago
Everyone I know with an electric car has photovoltaic on the roof. I will soon get it, for around 150 Euros per month. And even if it wouldn‘t be like that, the fuel would be burned more efficiently in a plant and combined with renewables.
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by quonn 4y ago
Long term, yes. But much of the climate change problem is decided in the next 25 years. Even if this reactor would work right now, building enough of them in that time frame everywhere, switching all industry and factories to electric, swit

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