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by wcoenen 7y ago
Indeed, articles claiming miraculous technology without technical details don't belong on the front page. Flagged.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
No need to invoke aliens. We're seeing these now because our ability to find smaller objects in the solar system has improved rapidly over the last few decades, as is evident from this animation of asteroid discoveries: https:/&#
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by wcoenen 7y ago
PCI rules limit credit card data retention.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> Is a fact also that radioactivity is bioaccumulable. This is a very vague and inaccurate statement. Some radioactive substances bioaccumulate, while others do not. For example, caesium -137 could be a problem for bioaccumulation, but t
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by wcoenen 7y ago
ETFs are trade on exchanges for cash, but the fund manager is not involved in that. You simply sell your ETF shares to another buyer. Redemptions are something different that only "authorized participants" can do, and as far as I
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Why would cash be involved for an ETF redemption? Doesn't the ETF manager just hand over the underlying securities?
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Link broke, other one with slowmo: https://youtu.be/lsoS6C0uzGY?t=659
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by wcoenen 7y ago
That's what I linked already. Your link is the same, just two seconds later.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
An RCS tank fell off during landing and went flying :-) (if not visible, rewind a bit. It's only clear when the video is shown in the highest resolution, which might not be the case during the initial buffering.) https://you
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> Rates didn't suddenly skyrocket after the ECB announced the end of QE. That's because the QE program only stopped increasing the ECB's assets. When bonds that are held by the ECB mature, the equivalent amount in new bond
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by wcoenen 7y ago
This would explain negative bond rates down to -0.40%. Because if you need to park a very large amount of euros safely, banks will start to apply that rate to your deposits so it's better to get any rate that is less negative. But curi
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by wcoenen 7y ago
It's still being solved, in the sense that CFCs in the atmosphere aren't zero but they are decreasing. The new emissions were only a minor setback. From the article you linked: > Atmospheric chlorine levels are still decreasin
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> What's wrong with accelerating toward the planet It rotates the orbit, which is not the most efficient way to de-orbit. Instead, to de-orbit with minimal delta-v expended, you burn retrograde at the highest point of the orbit. Thi
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by wcoenen 7y ago
I took your advice, and the fifth message in the list (by "@amazonfcrafael") starts with "(2/2)". I don't see the (1/2) of that message, so it seems parts of the conversation are missing and I'm looki
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Banks are special because they can deposit money with the central bank. The central bank won't disappear, and like most money it's just numbers in a database (nothing "backing" them) so there's no risk associated wi
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> Last year I switched from MSCI World Index to MSCI World Custom ESG Index. The S is for social, not sustainable. Other, more climate focused MSCI options: MSCI World low carbon leaders, MSCI World ex-fossil. Disadvantage of "low
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by wcoenen 7y ago
I like Teams for a similar reason: it is replacing Skype for Business. Properly persisted group chat is a must have for remote teams, and SfB didn't really have that. Or actually it did ("chat rooms"), but it's one of th
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by wcoenen 7y ago
I think this example falls under falsehood 31, where None would be considered a "bad word" that can't appear in names.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
It's a lightweight nuclear reactor that heats up air for propulsion. US project from the fifties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto Current russian project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Higher efficiency should eventually result in a lower price, as mentioned in the article. Prices do affect consumer behavior.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> flying this aircraft is extremely expensive with an average flight hour cost of about $60k This made me wonder how many disposable small drones could be mass produced for that price. Like in the "slaughterbots" video, or th
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Mandatory pauses of at least 1 minute between scheduled programs, with no moving images, to allow viewers to wake up from their "TV zombie" state.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Notably, like the proposed Australian bill, this rule in Belgium does not apply to transactions between consumers, e.g. a transaction between two individuals for a used car sale. https://www.nbb.be/docs/ts/enterpri
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Ray Dalio calls that "monetary policy 3". (MP1 is lowering interest rates, MP2 is buying financial assets.) In this article he gives some examples of forms of MP3 in the past: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/it
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by wcoenen 7y ago
You measure swimming distance in yards? Aren't swimming pools usually 25 meters ?
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by wcoenen 7y ago
The article is not exaggerating. I hiked a bit in the Jura region this month, and I was wondering why I encountered so many dead pines.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
At this point the housing bubble in Australia likely can't be ended without triggering a recession.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
I started Red Mars. I love the setting and engineering but couldn't get through all the political intrigue.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Online payments usually go through something like 3DSecure, where you get redirected to your bank and need to authorize the payment amount with a digipass or card reader, which require a PIN.
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Not yet by cumulative emissions, and CO2 is a cumulative problem. Also definitely not per capita.

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