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by wcoenen 7y ago
The concern over fraud goes the other way in Europe. We don't like the "pull" model and worry about our card number being used without our authorization. Debit card payments usually require card presence and PIN for each tra
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What are "red queen games"?
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The top voted answer is assuming a neuron firing/not firing (once per refractory period) can be counted as a bit for the purpose of calculating bandwidth. But I think the peripheral nerve system uses firing frequency to encode intens
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The second sentence of the article says that this is comparing active users, not installs.
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> If you are a US citizen without proof, and are stopped, and the official thinks you are lying, I believe you are going to have A Bad Day. e.g. US citizen Valeria Alvarado was shot and killed when she panicked and tried to get away from
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Short term US government bonds are extremely liquid and low risk; unlike other loans they are easy to convert into dollars. Presumably any other government bonds in the libra reserve (e.g. german bunds for euro?) would be selected to have t
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According to the whitepaper at libra.org, they won't hold stocks. The reserve is a "basket of bank deposits and short-term government securities".
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EU Emissions Trading System(ec.europa.eu)
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Airlines are already included in the EU cap and trade scheme. That's effectively a fuel surcharge for CO2. (When that happened, the US disliked it so much that they passed the "European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition A
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But your anecdote is exactly what is explained in the article: the new environment (such as contraceptives) which lead to your ancestors having less kids, will cause increased selection on fertility traits in the future. This will reverse t
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by wcoenen 7y ago
> divest fossil Any hints on divesting from fossil fuels with index funds? It seems that the choice is between underweighing high carbon emitters (e.g. MSCI World low carbon leaders) or removing companies with fossil reserves (e.g. MSC
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The difference is that the german tank sample can only be drawn from the pool of existing tanks so far. But when you consider your own birth, that's a sample out of the pool of all the humans, including future ones. Because future huma
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by wcoenen 7y ago
The people living a 1000 years ago indeed could have used the same argument to show that they should be 95% certain to be in the last 95% of all humans to be ever born, and history indeed showed that this was not the case; the dice fell on
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See also Doomsday Argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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It makes no difference overall, but locally there are effects from mixing. Normally at night, land tends to cool faster than the air higher up because of the difference in emissivity. But the increased turbulence and mixing from wind turbin
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Atmosphere doesn't mean high altitude, it's all the gas around our planet, including what you are breathing right now. Also, the CO2 concentration is pretty much constant (as a function of height) below the turbopause, because of
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> Tesla is literally the only driver assist system that has a fatality count Uber had a fatal self-driving accident.
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> In all seriousness, what can be done about this sort of thing(mitigating it)? The most important thing would be to make sure that we can see these things well in advance. No defense is going to work if you don't see the threat at
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by wcoenen 7y ago
30 year treasury bonds are currently yielding around 2.6%. Doesn't that mean that investors are pricing in a significant risk that they won't get a better return on other investments over the next 30 years? The world might be fol
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Lasers are a very low entropy form of energy; running them produces a lot of waste heat.
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It might be carbon for us, but in general it might just be exponential growth. Exponential growth will always hit some kind of limit in a finite world. e.g. if we got a magical free energy source and dealt with carbon emissions, we'd s
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by wcoenen 7y ago
Belgium. https://finances.belgium.be/fr/comptes-%c3%a0-l%e2%80%99%c3%...
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Windows already includes powershell, and vbscript and javascript (via windows scripting host) as well.
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This was to move money between trading accounts. I don't think these new nimble "mobile" banks offer stock trading accounts just yet. edit : also, those banks are UK ones. I'm not inclined to open accounts there with Br
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SEPA is okay, but it's typically not "same business day". Just this week I initiated a transfer on Tuesday and it only arrived Thursday morning. This was between two Belgian accounts.
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In the video Shellenberger says that he's not against a carbon tax, but that it's too unpopular and therefore not realistic. Weird that he doesn't realize that the same applies to nuclear. Probably even more so.
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I think this snippet sums it up: > Amazon’s Alexa Smart Properties team, a little known part of its Alexa division, is working on partnerships with homebuilders, property managers and hoteliers to push millions of Alexa smart speakers in
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OK, the emissions were indeed confirmed to be coming from China. Fortunately they are tracking down the CFC producers now and shutting them down: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shut...
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CFCs in the atmosphere are still dropping. (The news was that the rate at which CFCs disappear has slowed down a bit, and some are pointing at China for that.) I'd say the policy was pretty effective.
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Either the machines are replaced by ones that run on electricity, or the fuel is synthesized from CO2 by a process that uses electricity (like the process of the Prometheus startup). Either way, more electricity will be needed.

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