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by xorfish 7y ago
Switzerland had a open heroin epidemic around 30 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYmaalotK0 Repression only made it worse and I can only imagine how much worse it would have been with the possibility that every
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by xorfish 7y ago
I don't know, but it seems to be a mostly us problem. Many European countries are quite a bit better when it comes to recycling. The most important thing is to separate the different materials as early as possible. Aluminum, paper, car
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by xorfish 7y ago
You can also match phone numbers and Instagram accounts
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I mean today it is very easy to hold the whole market, so why take on idiosyncratic risk that doesn't have a positive expected return when you can just the whole market and maybe some factor premiums? The price you bought it is irrelev
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> I meant more about doubling down on your (expected) winners particularly when their price falls irrationally You can't really know if the price fell irrationally. Maybe its just you misinterpreting the available data. The data is
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Yes, quarantines and public awareness will reduce the spread quite significantly. Hopefully to the point that less than one person gets infected per sick individual.
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A virus with R0 of 2 and a mortality rate of 2% would kill 1% of the world population if no containment measures are taken. That would be 75 million people.
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A positive effect of a higher number of infection is, that it would reduce the fatality rate of the virus.
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Probably depends on how fast the species is eradicated.
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You would probably start with one cable and increase it over time. HVDC cabels are already routinely build undersea. There is a 700km long cable under construction between the UK and Noreway. The longest HVDC connection is over 2000km long
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Semiconductors don't have infinite capacity. You assume that the superconductor is also practically free. Even them, building a net is still very expensive
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So your point is exactly my point? The technology isn't a problem. Superconductors wouldn't solve anything. It is a political problem.
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The main problem with installing solar in the Sahara and transporting it to Europe is the political instability of the region. Laying cables across a sea or ocean is already routinely done.
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HVDC is already below 3% per 1'000km. So connecting Europe to the Sahara is around 5% with current technology
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You can't just walk into a nuclear reactor and take away bomb grade material. Even if you run a reactor, you can't get bomb grade material out of it if you allow regulators in. Dirty bombs are also far less dangerous as they are m
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by xorfish 7y ago
So only home owners are allowed to life there? The only sustainable way to deflate housing cost is to increase supply.
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> A surprisingly large number are with the vehicle being driven manually, or right after the human driver took over. True driverless still seems a long way off given those results. Could that also be because the driver took over to try t
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Psychedelics and mdma seem to be very promising in this area.
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Measuring the performance of hedge funds is quite difficult. You have to account for survival bias, reporting bias and hidden risk.
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They didn't get the money by performing well. They do it by convincing people that they performing well. Even thought that 98% will not outperform a basic cheaper index fund with skill.
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That faq doesn't make a claim about how frequent such things are. In my experience it happens very rarely and is often quite easily resolved.
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This is mostly the system we have in Switzerland. Only around 20% of teens go directly from school to an university. The rest makes a three or four year long apprenticeship, starting at age 15-16. Apprentices get compensated in the range of
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Your believes always drives investement decisions.
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It should use EU, not Europe. The article only makes claimes about the only country that has a decline in the EU. There are quite a few European countries that are not in the EU.
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Personally I value truth quite high. I find that reading behave gave me a new perspective on how to look at people that are less fortunate than me and how I think of "evil" people. > While this is debatable, it is not a useful
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by xorfish 7y ago
Have you looked at GiveWell? "We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar." https://www.givewell.org/ They don't care about overhead, they will recommend a charity that prevents
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> To this day I ask permission to my wife to buy most anything (she has a similar background and does the same). This is such a beneficial personal finance habit. It prevents lots of unnecessary spending on stuff you don't really ne
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> However, I firmly believe that you are wrong in your last paragraph. You can argue determinism, but that is lazy. I escaped poverty and it was a lot of work. I chose to do that and I got lucky. It doesn't need to be determinism. Y
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I didn't say that illness makes the life not worth living. I said an illness that makes the life not worth living. What that is is a very personal decision and should be an option that a person can have. Note that it is pretty easy to
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The reason you are in the position to earn money and the poor person isn't, is luck. No matter how you look at it. You had no influence on your genes, the culture you were born in, your upbringing and the socio economic status of your

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