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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
To expand a bit - Ricardian comparative advantage argument relies on the following assumptions: - no transportation costs - no unemployment - barter economy - 100% fungible labor - farmer, teacher, chemical engineer, doctor - they're a
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
It's a different kind of stress, and some people prefer one over another. I experienced both a megacorp and one-man-army setups, and I find fighting bureaucratic inertia, office politics, endless stream of status updates, ever-changing
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Same in Finland, Baltics or central/eastern Europe. Almost everything is within walkable/bike-able distance. Public transportation has good coverage, is affordable and safe. Taking taxis is just not something people normally do. F
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
> Apple makes 100x more margin per device than Foxxcon It's important to note that it's not necessarily labor-vs-capital. Capital-vs-capital also exhibits the same dynamics. One might argue that Foxcon's business model is
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
> Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many [...] Civil government, so far as it is institu
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Not even close. Global energy use is around 170,000 TWh/year (1). This includes electricity generation, as well as fuel for transport, burning wood for heat, etc. Heat flow from mantle is 403,000 TWh/year (2) Solar irradiance is ~
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
> first $25k mass produced electric car That ship has sailed a few years ago: Volkswagen e-Up, Seat Mii, Renault Twingo, several models from BYD, Dacia Spring, Smart EQ, Fiat 500e, and even Renault Zoe or MG ZS in some markets. All under
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
To steel-man parent's post, usually it's not that civilization per se collapses, the collapse is better characterized as a loss of state capacity. The important distinction being - technology wasn't lost. This framing is also
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Even if we assume Facebook's leadership makes perfectly rational decisions, the reasons behind their unyielding behavior could very well be non-financial - saving face, internal office politics, standing ground hoping the push from the
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Battery storage can, and most likely will, be the solution for day-night fluctuations in energy use. However, for the amounts of energy that seasonal energy storage would require, it's not really a viable solution. Regarding clean seas
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Likely hundreds of thousands of people. The burden of proof ought to be on him/his proponents. From the rather scant publicly available material, I've never heard the man say anything profound, original, nor any other sign of exce
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Energy engineering nerd here - naturally I've heard about it. Question that Vaclav Smil had raised as a potentially fatal obstacle to large scale carbon capture. All is nice and well when we're trying to sequester 1000 tons of CO2
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
125 would be sufficient to replace one 1200MW reactor . A nuclear power plant usually consists of more than a single reactor. In addition to electricity, nuclear power plants also produce a lot of heat, which can be used for district heati
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Strained analogies are bad enough, but a special award for teaching anti-patterns should go to analogies to some local features - e.g. to a sport that's popular only in some countries, or a local geographic feature or corporation. To s