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Projected population of US in 2050 is 458 million from the current 330 million. Given that underlying reality, housing is going to be an investment.
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ONG is not just straight energy play, it certainly is the most important. Petrochemicals are pervasive and feeding 7 billion involves production of fertilizers etc. Organic keyboards and Zero plastic displays may be a thing in 2040 but petr
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You can have positions in Microstrategy and Coinbase. If Tether tanks -- there are definitely decent proxies out there.
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>> You can have a stable power grid with ample supply and 0% "baseline" generation no problem (other than the usual generic ones). Yes, if we have a future battery technology that can save a days worth of City's power c
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Roasting a conference in the keynote is whole another level of charisma. This talk is impressive even for non-OS people like me.
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It is an attempt to become 'panama' without the legal and political framework.
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If Code is law, the compiler is the judge.
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In US FDIC, which insures bank accounts upto USD 250K, has basically obfuscated Good Bank vs Bad Bank quality check for the retail customer. The Fed Reserve and Treasury and FinGov apparatus does some 'stress tests' but mostly a d
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by sremani 5y ago
The version to version changes in the initial years of iPhone were generational leaps but lately since iPhone8 onwards everything feels incremental. I do not think Smart phones 10 years from now are not that remarkably different from today
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China has 80 million housing surplus. I mean.. I congratulate the optimists.
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Sounds like someone chasing Russian bonds in 1997. Good Luck UBS. You are going to need it.
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Which Pandemic got resolved in span of 18 months, I would like to know. The medieval ones took decades to burn through the planet and the spanish flu took 50 million+ and last more than 2 years. Systems built without taking the Pandemic ris
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>> Then BOOM, the black swan of a pandemic hit A pandemic is not a black swan. Just like Earth quakes are not black swans. There is a Center for Disease Control for fighting pandemics. We built fragile but efficient (for profit optimi
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I am not an environmentalist -- I am more commenting on the uncommon time we are living. We shot up from 1 Billion to 7 billion in span of 150 years, and reversion to mean can happen, it is happening as lowering sperm count, and falling bir
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Today Paul Graham has tweeted about coal consumption of the world from 2000, it paints a good picture where to look if you are focused on green house gases. 150 years ago, there are billion of us. Now we are 7 billion going up to 9 billion.
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Hongkong dollar is pegged to USD and US has a special treaty with HK w.r.t Financial transactions. US can walk out of the treaty but there are downsides to it. It will happen sooner or later.
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In what world is 13Lakh INR (cost of TATA Nexon EV) which is appx. USD 18K, 5% the cost of Tesla. You can buy a used BoltEV with that money!
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In America we too have EVs that are 5% cost of Tesla, we call them Golf-Carts. Tesla is one of the minimalist cars, any one calling it 'Luxury' has not either sit in a Tesla or sit in a Luxury car. India today, may not afford the
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I would have agreed if EVs had no Carbon footprint.
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EVs are heavier than normal cars and you are using the road. So, it is fair to pay the road tax. Assuming the money collected for this directly goes to road maintenance. I do not have problem with paying taxes that go for roads. Even though
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Painting the tape is not for every one but somebody got to do it.
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for better or worse the risk of 'random' luck the system failed means Tesla stats should be 10x or better than human driver. A marginal improvement is not going to cut it.
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What I meant was, given the meteroic rise in the past years increase in valuation - Tesla took a lot of capital and invested in this division.
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There is a wow factor in the presentation, especially how many of the things they are making from ground-up and in-house, at times making me feel like, may be they want to be AI company now. Definitely the TSLA stock price increase is being
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Abstinence is easier than moderation. My point is simple here - if you or your family has a history of alcoholism, abstinence is the better way out. Moderation is harder than you think especially the way alcohol impairs your judgement. But
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Could be, was informed (on HN) that Intel 10nm was more like Samsung 7nm and this is sort of adjusting to that.
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Their #2 company has failed miserably and exposed as fraud. SMIC is the only game in town in China. >> How much did we spend on the Iraq War, despite our own country being a major producer of oil and gas? With all due respect, from 20
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It is a challenge and there are no guarantees. Intel has to delivery as much as possible on that roadmap, otherwise this management team is Kaput! edit: Intel seems to play a bit of marketing games here. (source Anand tech). 2021 H2, Intel
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that is not my gripe. I could care less about NYT being slanted but real travesty is the 'omission', omission of important news stories, omission of events of consequence etc. Your esteemed Main stream does not have an army of jur
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Tom Barrack is not arrested under FARA.

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