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by slv77 5y ago
> Let's say I buy 10 bottles of water wholesale for a dollar a piece ($10 total)... Except that the price of water varies based on the season and you are obligated to sell water at a fixed price when it is convenient for the buyer a
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by slv77 5y ago
The retail cost of electricity consists of the capital cost of generation (20-30 year cost of building a plant) PLUS fuel costs; depreciation and maintenance of the grid; financial risk of selling electricity at a fixed price to consumers w
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by slv77 5y ago
From the perspective of the homeowner there is no functional difference between net-metering with a grid tie-in and oversized panels with battery capacity. In either case the light switch will work at night but net-metering comes at zero co
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by slv77 5y ago
Price out a off-grid solar installation with enough battery to realistically provide power 24x7x365 and the price is 3x per kWh over the life of the system over retail power rates. Rooftop solar owners with grid connections are essentially
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by slv77 5y ago
Japans stock market would like to have a word with you. ( https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/30-years-since-J... ) Yes, the US stock market has had a wonderful hundred year run during a time the market went
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by slv77 5y ago
Both the US and China have paid the costs as that liquidity has flooded into speculative assets such as land which has increased wealth inequality. In addition it likely has resulted in misallocation of capital and a future tidal wave of ba
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Because at some point the credits and the debits need to be settled with real goods and services and when they can’t be someone has to take a loss. The loss either comes through default or inflation but allocating those costs are extremely
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by slv77 5y ago
Accessing a BBS required some level of understanding of computers and telecom gear which tended to filter out a good segment of the population. In the US local phone calls we’re unmetered but lines were expensive so most BBS’s in the US we
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by slv77 5y ago
It is also possible that many of the experiences that you’ve had in life have wired you into relationships that are functional but sub-optimal. Either a local minima or a sub-optimal Nash equilibrium if you will. Some modes of therapy are l
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by slv77 5y ago
Niobe Way comes to similar conclusions in Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection but I’m not sure I’d pin it on a shift in religion but the hyper-sexualization of society that started in the 60’s where every intimate r
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by slv77 5y ago
The biggest increases in quality of life comes from public health measure such as access to clean water, food and air. The next is protection from the elements with access to adequate clothing, shelter and fuel. After that I would argue tha
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by slv77 5y ago
Or there are one or more groups with hidden agendas that profit from the failure of the system.
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And married a younger women and had kids later.
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by slv77 5y ago
Outside of housing, healthcare, daycare, education and transportation the two income household of today consumes less then a single income household in the 1970’s. The spending is different, with households today spending less on things lik
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by slv77 5y ago
There are multiple channels to evade phone based registration limits. Everything from free VOIP apps to SMS harvesting to SIM farms.
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by slv77 5y ago
Longer work weeks we’re mostly confined to Industrial Age city populations that didn’t have access to land to farm. Few laborers working in early industrial mills was doing so because it was easier then farming. Agfa, Foraging and hunter-ga
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by slv77 5y ago
Delivering Cash to Pirates as Difficult as Negotiating Ransom https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6298733&page=1
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When rates were higher total interest payments tended to dominate over the life of the mortgage. In most cases the interest payments would exceed the entire value of the principal over the life of the loan. Over the life of a loan the inter
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by slv77 5y ago
Tax foreign savings so that trade surpluses can’t be recycled into US assets. https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/83365
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by slv77 5y ago
With an infinite bankroll there is no reason to stop at three losses. In an infinite series of fair coin flips there will be deviations in the distribution around the mean. A gambler can simply choose to stop at any point of excess “wins”
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by slv77 5y ago
Unlike capital equipment a business doesn’t pay for the cost of replacing labor as it ages. The cost in the US of raising a child is about $250,000 or about $3 per hour over 40 years. Businesses expect a pool of qualified and educated labor
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by slv77 5y ago
This is called a martingale bet ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system) ). Doubling down on losses would be an example of a martingale bet.
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by slv77 5y ago
The stock market is nothing more then a claim on a future stream of dividends over a roughly 50 year time horizon. The longer the investment horizon the greater the uncertainty and the greater the volatility. To compensate for that investor
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by slv77 6y ago
Manufacturing requires the ability to marshal human, technological and financial resources at scale. The US policy for the last 50 years has been to invest heavily in the technological and financial capabilities of the equation and outsour
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by slv77 6y ago
After WWII Japan’s exchange rate was fixed in a way that penalized consumption and subsidized production (for export). The result was the rapid rise of Japan as an industrial power in the 60s to the 80s. This is the same strategy that South
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by slv77 6y ago
The reason that stimulus spending doesn’t result in hyper-inflation is that the increase in the money supply from the debt creation is almost completely offset by a drop in monetary velocity. This is because most of the money injected due t
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by slv77 6y ago
The Federal Reserve operates like any other bank with the exception that there is no regulatory limit on how big it’s balance sheet can get relative to the capital invested. In this case the capital comes from the member banks which are req
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by slv77 6y ago
The Federal Reserve isn’t the only central bank and some central banks like the BOJ and Swiss Central Banks are buying stocks directly. The Swiss Central Bank is buying US tech stocks heavily.
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US productivity increases at roughly 2% per year. With a stable money supply prices would on average decrease by roughly 2% per year. The Federal Reserve has a target inflation rate of 2% per year. In the best case the Fed would need to hol
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by slv77 6y ago
There is also credit risk for an established business that maybe heading to bankruptcy. Amazon is essentially extending credit by paying sellers for items that may not have shipped. Given recent disruptions they are likely on high alert for

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