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sremani
7y ago
A8 or A6 ? Just curious.
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>> Wind has already become the "baseload" in the UK Give me another place in Europe where Wind is more abundant than UK ? https://globalwindatlas.info/ Putting wind mills in Greenland and Arctic may produce
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7y ago
>> Folks concerned about consistency and peak load shouldn't be. We're making huge strides in energy storage Solar peaks around noon 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (I am being charitable here) do we have solid storage that would hold th
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7y ago
As usual this where Bloomberg acts as Solar is similar to NG. Solar and Wind are widely dependent on location. Your results of NG in Phoenix or Chicago are going to be more or less same - you cannot say that for Solar. At the right places
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7y ago
The family based is overwhelmingly latin american and Philippino - I am sure H1-B is not the upstream.
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7y ago
If diversity is so dear to you, you must be up in arms about family based immigration, which is much bigger piece of the 1 million GCs and its not that diverse there!
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7y ago
The GC wait times for Indians are insane and it needs to be remedied, but the backers of the bill got a bit too overzealous. I personally prefer a temporary lift on Quota 2-3 year time frame and capping per country to 49%.
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7y ago
>> symbolic importance Do the symbolic with your money, I have respect for that. But a bunch of about to be retired people, who may need every penny of their return, will get reduced return because some fund manager wanted to feel go
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7y ago
Lack of proportion is the problem for me. Mr.Stallman could be censured - but again the people went after his position/job for what are at the best mis-guided or flawed statements. If Mr.Stallman were to be in Epstein's Island wel
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The idea that a special interest that is financially powerful and interested in high prison population, may inject wrong incentives into the society is real and understandable. But we also have other side of the equation - politicians willi
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7y ago
>> building a megacity in the Pearl River Delta that it hopes will one day rival New York and Tokyo Construction is 50% of their GDP (fact-check me here) and this feels like business as usual to keep the gravy train rolling.
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7y ago
Because that does not fit into the ALEC narrative. Washington state was one of the earlier states to consider additional fee on EVs. I do not know if they did it or not. The idea of certain vehicles not paying taxes that fund roads is or at
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I guess so - but again this the interview of the Chinese billionaire.
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7y ago
You are talking about 10-12 year old stuff and he still has his shop.. so I guess he is successful in being in the business - if that makes you happy.
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7y ago
That is a dissident talking to a successful hedgefund manager. Kyle Bass is hawkish on China particularly CPC but calling him or real vision a conspiracy theory outlet reflects a willful blindness.
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7y ago
No Sir, some of the protestors by virtue of their socio-economic stature have carbon footprints that are comparable to african villages. All I am asking is, if you are vilifying an entity in order to save the world, where is your personal s
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Petrochemicals are still an important component of industrial agriculture needed for feeding 7 billion people around the world. If oil prices fall too low, Persian Gulf and Russian borders become unstable and from there its any ones guess,
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Trump extracted transactional Trade treaties with Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Japan. Name another president who re-shaped American trade with that many treaties - I cannot think of any one in the past 50 years. An over-extended america
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India is not perfect, its democracy is full of cacophony with racial and tribal undertones. But once the results are out the transfer of power is clean and peaceful. It is not Norway or Sweden, but its not an autocracy. India built its vers
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7y ago
do not worry, London will be its own shell 5 years after BREXIT.
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For pure Geopolitics - Peter Zeihan has been more right than the made for tv muppet boy Ian Bremmer. Peter Zeihan is good. Geopolitical Futures is good but they have some duds in their prediction but good deeper level analysis. Stratfor has
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7y ago
You are seeing the effects of this "manipulated" exchange rate in American real-estate in every metro-area. One thing you have to understand is, the exchange controls are for plebs, but the connected including the members of Polit
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7y ago
The magic of Chinese two step. There is a glut of Yuan in China while there is a scarcity outside. All you have to do is take a look at their M3. PBOC is printing like no tomorrow, but cleverly puts a wall with they CNY-CNH shit. Deep Throa
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7y ago
what is the rate of kids dying in cages?
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>> concentration-campy Willful lack of proportion to score political karma points.
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Sticking to default stack, where there is collective competence even if it dings a bit of performance is not such a horrible business/organizational idea.
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7y ago
I do not recollect the name, but there is an Indian restaurant with that concept near New Brunswick NJ.
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A land locked nation and blue water navy ?! Navy is different from Blue Water Navy. One must understand there are barely 4 blue water navies in the world on a good day. The distinction is important, here is a link https://en.wiki
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7y ago
Data centers are factories without smoke stacks, they are voracious consumers of energy and since "cloud" everything computing is the name of the game at least for medium term, tech companies would do a favor if they focus on tack
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7y ago
What exactly is wrong with this comment for the kind of downvotes? At personal level, I find adventure one of the most level headed and dispassionate commentators esp. about Finance/Business/Geopolitics. The whole China treasure h
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