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by thworp 3y ago
> Well, that, but they also offer diversification. [...] > are often uncorrelated [...] Do they really offer diversification and are they really uncorrelated? See http://universa.net/Universa_Spitznagel_SafeHaven_Hedge
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by thworp 3y ago
Ah yes, clearly it's only those people shopping at Walmart that would not be happy about price increases. More than that, it's only that cheap crap that they buy that would get more expensive. Enlightened people like you will
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes, but look at the loss rates for some of the storage methods.
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by thworp 3y ago
> but hydrogen has the advantage that it's cheap to store for weeks or months at a time Where did you get that idea? Hydrogen is extremely hard to work with and really really wants to escape from any containment vessel you put it in
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by thworp 3y ago
No it is the underpinning of civilization. Funnily enough, in the eastern block almost everyone had to work. But as long as the wealthy people call themselves general secretary or commissar and talk about Marx it's all good, right?
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by thworp 3y ago
> However in the 1960s they decided different steering linkages were better, They didn't just arbitrarily decide that, old suspension setups (even ignoring the terrible springs and dampers) were terribly unsafe and unpredictable. I
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by thworp 3y ago
Oh sweet summer child. Not only do some manufacturers bury climate in a submenu, some don't even give you a simple [-][+] touchbutton arrangement. A few years ago I had a rental (can't remember the make but I think it was korean)
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by thworp 3y ago
I think older BMWs (with only iDrive and no touchscreen) and current Mazdas have the most ergonomic and easy to use head unit setup. Since there is no touchscreen the headunit is just below the windscreen (easy to glance at while keeping ro
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by thworp 3y ago
> the supply price of diamond stones has almost nothing to do with the cost of a diamond ring Correct. But it does have something to do with the supply of *diamond rings*. Since there is a de-facto cartel between producers, middlemen and
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by thworp 3y ago
The issue elsewhere is not country-wide net population change, it's people moving into just a few cities. So there is plenty of cheap housing where few people want to live
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by thworp 3y ago
> getting so much from so little I feel the same way about directly using or mimicking systems of the natural world. Stuff like using birds as combined pest control and fertilizer or waste water treatment. I think we haven't even s
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by thworp 3y ago
I think you accurately characterized a sizable portion of the electorate, not just in the US but in many Western countries. That still leaves me wondering what the social workers, homeless advocates, Mission workers etc were doing. Either t
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by thworp 3y ago
This is just about the worst example you could have used for your theory. In this case there are thousands of people that could have just done a 1:1 copy of what they do in Switzerland, Portugal, Netherlands, Scandinavia etc. Instead they c
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by thworp 3y ago
I really don't know where American ""progressives"" (they're sociopaths imo) got the idea that harm reduction and decriminalization involves just letting people rot (and shoot up) in the streets and just releas
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by thworp 3y ago
The approach of giving an addict that is arrested on theft and other charges a choice of prison or treatment is used successfully (as successful as it can be) in many EU countries. Obviously this cannot work if nobody gets convicted for any
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by thworp 3y ago
> Portland did everything! [...] They got all of the carrots sure, but there was no stick. The reason these programs have success elsewhere is that they give people the choice of prison or treatment. Also, nowhere except the US just deci
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by thworp 3y ago
What would that even be? Sonar would be most likely, but there is very little reason for secrecy there, since all the innovation is in the signal analysis not the signal itself. Could be communication but why would you use a medium as terri
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes of course, it was all the evil corporations, they forced us to buy nice things, eliminate most hard labor and be able to travel orders of magnitude faster than pre-industrial people. Let's dissolve all corporations and problem solv
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by thworp 3y ago
Since I rarely get to talk to Malthusians: Do you have a preferred approach for population reduction? Tangential point: You severely underestimate the impact of scale and specialization on our standard of living. There is no way we could th
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by thworp 3y ago
As opposed to what? (National) Socialism was for the benefit of the working people on paper, but in practice that meant imprisoning, murdering and impoverishing anybody thought to be working against the people's welfare. Since this inc
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by thworp 3y ago
If you are suggesting that billionaires like Thiel don't have any skin in the game (of human civilization continuing in a somewhat stable way) you're nuts. If we hit the iceberg they will lose everything. Even if they're able
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by thworp 3y ago
Eh, so far they have nothing on the people trying to act out utopias in the 20th century. I will wake up when the billionaire Zeitgeist goes past resource allocation and into "cleanse the undesirables".
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by thworp 3y ago
Strong claims? So you want proof that an increase in the price of energy, which is an input into absolutely every good and service, causes less goods and services to be produced? I don't think we have a basis for discussion here.
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by thworp 3y ago
Yes, if your only concerns are the %age of renewables in the electricity mix and the health of an industry that could only continue to exist with direct subsidies it was incompetent. Personally, I think the Energiewende is one of the most e
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by thworp 3y ago
Wtf? I was not suggesting everyone buy "matchbox-size" cars. Neither was I suggesting that vehicles with a lot of mass and torque should be unavailable. I was just saying that the visibility in many modern pickups is atrocious and
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by thworp 3y ago
This is like saying all network traffic should be tcp. For many applications there is simply no good reason and nobody would be willing to pay the additional costs.
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by thworp 3y ago
> There's simply no structural reason for power failure (or application crashes) to be able to put hard disk data into an inconsistent, corrupt state. No structural reason no, but a lot of other reasons. You can install your favouri
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by thworp 3y ago
No. A BMW 5-series from the 80s is about the same size as a 2023 3-series. Almost every manufacturer I can think of has been doing this and in all market segments. VW had the compact Golf, the subcompact Polo and the even more compact Up!.
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by thworp 3y ago
My point wasn't about morality, it was about loyalty. The one thing diplomats should be is loyal to their country, to represent their country's interest above their own. Clearly, no sane person could expect someone who just back-s
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by thworp 3y ago
As a European the "X is a foreign Y" trope in your politics has always amused me. Both of your parties are constantly involved in corrupt foreign dealings (that would be decade-defining scandals in some other countries) and there

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