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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Two issues: 1. In the case of china, we are forcing them to spend more on very high tech, strategic investments, effectively accelerating their march up the value chain. 2. It's true that there is a cost in the extra R&D spending,
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
No, but companies are not shipping their ASML machines to china. US firms are already aware of this and avoid sending the secret sauce to China, they use china for final assembly, production of lower value components, etc.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
This is downvoted, but really too mild. The idea of the chip curb is to force China to develop domestic replacements, which will cause industrial espionage to go up. When you declare economic war on a nation, you can expect them to ramp up
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The issue is that the red tape, delays, and fees add a good ~350K per unit[1] in additional costs atop the land and actual construction costs. So let's say that they want to build affordable housing that they sell to someone for 300K.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
There are many situations where jobs suck, or are dangerous, etc. In that case, the employer can make them suck less or pay a lot more. At some point, they will find people to staff those jobs. So I am not a big fan of employers talking abo
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The Other First Computer: Konrad Zuse and the Z3(hackaday.com)
3 points by rsj_hn 4y ago|0 comments
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Germany has spent hundreds of billons developing solar and wind, and yet they are deindustrializing now with just a moderate decrease in natural gas supply. People are going into forests, chopping down trees in European countries when faced
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Burning dung or wood in a little stove in the house is far worse. A huge part of the world would dream to have an energy grid in which there are centralized power plants that burn coal and distribute energy to every home without the need to
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Yes, and I understand waiting until the war ends. And even waiting for a few years after. But at some point, you do need to accept realities. The Golan Heights, for example, has Israeli registries, phone numbers, etc. If, in the future, Syr
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
This reminds me of the Chinese revolution, where after the Communists took control of everything except Taiwan, many international organizations continued to insist that Taiwan was the actual representative of China, and Taiwan held the Chi
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
No, I am not getting the requirement of oversteering from the original work at all. Oversteering is a basic principle in control theory. There are only very special circumstances -- that of naturally self-correcting processes -- that do not
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Fortune tends towards the clickbait side of things, and this article is no different. But as in a lot of clickbait, there are kernels of truth. Our understanding of monetary policy views the interest rate as a control variable, and the obje
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I'm still shocked that Henry Kissinger is still alive. At this point, it should be a hn story ```Kissinger still alive``` (200 comments)
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> I hold an unpopular opinion that this kind of activism is fundamentally the same quest for transcendent meaning as one finds in radical Islam. I would believe that more if it weren't constantly done in front of TV cameras. This is
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
So the post pointed out that home sale prices were increasing in time in terms of the performance of the asset class, and I pointed out that homes were growing in size, and you seem to have fixated on the age of the house rather than the fa
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Didn't they change this policy with the current energy crisis?
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
And when you look at tertiary education, the amounts we spend are shocking. Education in the U.S., like healthcare, and even defense, is an example of spending way too much money for the quality of the outcome. For a variety of reasons, we
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
What I'm trying to do is provide some context. Start here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPNHSUS So from 1965 to latest, we went from 21K to 450K. Where is that coming from? 1. inflation 2. size of house 3.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
In your area, they don't use square footage as an important factor in determining the price of a house?
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Average house built today is 2,560 square feet[1]. In 1950, it was 980 square feet. plumbing/electrical/insulation are all different. Many would not enjoy living in a 1950 house, and a typical 1950 house would not sell for the pri
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
They are both claims on future production, exactly as I said. If the future generation produces 50% less, then there will be 50% less for retirees to consume. It does not matter whether retirement is financed with social security or private
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
That is how all savings work. You understand that when you save for retirement, you are not burying food in the ground so that you can dig it up and eat it when you stop working, right? Instead, you are purchasing claims on future productio
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Yes, V1. It's closer to a flying bomb. I'll correct.
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The drones have inertial guidance and gps is used for corrections only. That means when the drone is guided to blow up the railway junction, maybe you throw it off a bit so it hits the apartment next door. Not necessarily a good plan. There
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
That's not my experience. The last two hotels I stayed at -- Doubletree Hilton in Dallas and Shelborne in Miami -- had daily housekeeping without any request. But perhaps that's just a fluke. Maybe it depends on which city you are
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Saudi Arabia: US citizen jailed for 16 years over tweets was tortured, says son(middleeasteye.net)
60 points by rsj_hn 4y ago|26 comments
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Having been involved in the writing of terms of service (not my choice), I can tell you that lots of lawyers are involved that pore over every word, and nothing is an accident. Not unless paypal as a financial services company has terrible
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I think everyone is getting emails from recruiters, and this will keep happening until the recruiters themselves are laid off. Good people are hard to find in any market, and if there's even a chance that you're a good person from
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Brilliant! Also try "ShadyForeignEmailProvider.com"
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Whereas in a democracy, free speech is a threat that needs to be controlled in order to prevent "disinformation" or "platforming" dangerous elements. Funny how that works.

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