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by rsj_hn 4y ago
> but we didn't need their oil The problem is that oil is sold into a global market, so even if a nation produces as much oil as it consumes, if there is a shortage of oil, the global prices go up, and then your own oil prices go u
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The Pentagon fails its fifth audit in a row(responsiblestatecraft.org)
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> Oh, well, Forex rates! Go try to buy USD with RUB for this rate. Go try to wire those USD out of Russia. Go try to withdraw your USD in cash. Go try to export that cash from Russia. I am sorry for sounding like a jerk, but you don&#x27
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I mean, I addressed that -- did you read a few more sentences down?
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> What value is being provided by RealPage? According to their website, the issue in question is "price discovery" -- e.g. let's say the market price is $1000 a month for your unit, but you don't know the market price
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> because the Russian currency has, through a series of impressive self owns, become completely useless. Huh. Checks forex rates . Not worthless, USD/RUB went from 100 to 60. It's worth 167% what it was before Feb 2022. How do
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
The idea of economic monopolies makes sense only for produced goods -- for example, diamonds, in which you influence what the market will bear by producing more or less . If you can get all the producers together to restrict supply, then
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I would not apply sanctions, and not do anything until the opportunity arose to do something that is effective. The idea that we must perform an ineffective and self-destructive measure just because it's the only one we can think of do
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The sanctions have driven Russia and China together to being strong allies, which is a strategic defeat for the U.S. But you are right, they do send a "message", which is that the West is an irrational actor that undermines its ow
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Well what happened was that sanctions created a sharp, fast, contraction -- maybe 5% or so. Russia measures GDP year over year, so there are still declines. But the standard way of measuring GDP is continuously -- e.g. quarter over quarter,
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I mean, if, by "fighting back", you mean destroying its own economy, then yes, The West is "fighting back". But not the world , as the vast majority of nations - 7 Billion people -- are not imposing any sanctions beca
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This is 100% caused by the anti-Russian sanctions policy, yet not a single comment on this thread so far has even mentioned the sanctions and tried to engage in a reasoned debate about whether the economic costs paid by Europe (and especial
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Moreover, low GDP growth and high interest rates will cause the UK to catch right up :)
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I don't think that's a particularly representative example. Zoning is determined locally in the U.S., and taking the most extreme locality doesn't really shed light on what's going on in the country as a whole, and isn&#
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Comparing the price of unreliable energy to reliable energy is like comparing the price of a junk bond with a treasury and wondering why the latter costs so much more. It costs more because when you turn it on you get a known and reliable s
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> So we don't have those fixed costs - they are already paid. No, that's generally not how infrastructure is funded. Infrastructure is funded by bonds that are sold and have to be serviced. So the payment for the fixed costs is
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Honestly I would much rather trust a voter who spends a lot of hours watching TV than someone who spends a lot of hours on social media.
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Because there are fixed costs, and you need to pay for all the infrastructure in case it's a cloudy day. Imagine there is a car that costs $10,000 and works every day, or there is a car that costs $3000 but works only every other day.
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Not burning coal also kills people. This isn't something you can reduce to platitudes, particularly if you are a first world professional who never has to worry about the price of fertilizer, about the lung diseases caused by burning d
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> You’ll save money most of the time over the life of the vehicle in the form of lower fuel and maintenance costs. In theory, this is true. In practice, Teslas are very expensive to repair, don't have a very good reliability track r
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
That's like saying "I am five foot tall" stops being true when you use a different definition of "tall" (switch it to weight, for example). This isn't insightful and it's also false. People have agreed on
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
What is politically possible in France isn't necessarily politically possible in the U.S. - and vice versa. Different populations, different institutions, different commitments. EU bureaucrats can strong arm France into doing something
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
I once did an internship that involved chasing down senior devs and generating documentation for them (needed for FIPS certification). It was a great way to learn about the tech stack. Suffice it to say I didn't have any PM role at all
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Update: One of the two AP reporters who broke this story was fired: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/11/21/james-laport...
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This has nothing to do with Brexit, it is about the anti-Russian sanctions, specifically the energy sanctions, but also knock on effects. The UK imports large quantities of oil and natural gas, and these are now much more expensive, which i
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Request denied. I've decided to watch a game of the world cup (my first ever, probably just the final) without checking to see what John Oliver has to say about it. I will also not check to see what Kate Winslet's take is. Now I n
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> How so? Surely if NASA can do something cheaper it should have more money to do other things or find it easier to get money for more things? This touches on an important question in economics. When you take your 101 class, if you pay a
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by rsj_hn 4y ago
Curious, what role do pop singers play in the world cup? Honest question, I've never watched it, so is this for a half-time show?
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I'm not sure which of these is worse: * (Awareness) Europeans who didn't realize that Qatar is a muslim country that doesn't allow LGBT advertising * (Asymmetry) Europeans who knew about Qatar's values, but didn't t
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The (always insightful) Joel Spolsky discusses this in his essay "The Developer Abstraction Layer" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab... Bottom line, what is necessary for

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