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by yyy888sss 6mo ago
Level 9 (or 0): Turn off the computer and go to sleep.
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by yyy888sss 2y ago
We actually do need something like this, or at least the right to develop land. Right now in Australia we have tyranny of the majority, because the 30% of home owners + 30% of mortgage holders have realised they can get rich if the governme
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by yyy888sss 2y ago
They should try catching up to their European neighbours first: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D22AQFfh_jg66bW1A/feedsh...
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by yyy888sss 2y ago
Pioneer? Nearly every home in the US already uses heat-pumps: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/technology-adoption-by-ho... In cold climates many people still use gas heating because its cheaper, making electricity c
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by yyy888sss 3y ago
Price of gold in 1989: ~2000 yen/g Price of gold in 2024: 9,800 yen/g
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Prices are rising in Australia because the Central Bank created $450billion out of thin air during the pandemic [1]. The bank has persistently kept interest rates low, creating a massive housing bubble [2
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Heres what happened: The Bank of England (BoE) suppressed interest rates for 2 decades, driving government bonds from 6% to 2%. Pension funds typically had a high percentage of bonds, so they decided to borrow money (again, made artificiall
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
It could of course be the AvroCar [1]. Although in this case they are referring to 'UFOs', there have been multiple experimental aircraft that look exactly like flying saucers. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Youtube premium is the best value video subscription there is and its a win-win: You can a clean ad-free experience and both Youtube and the video creator get more revenue.
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Modern desalination plants produce at less than $1 per cubic meter, thats $0.001 per litre...
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Yep, innovation means prices understate the true level of inflation. Eg: If technology reduces costs by 5% and the CPI measures 2%, then the real rate of inflation is at least 7%.
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Defining inflation as rising prices is the newer, MORE narrow definition as measurements such as CPI are capturing the downstream effects of a fundamental cause (creating money).
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Very true, as construction is not just new builds but also renovation and maintenance. Even a theoretical city with completely stable population still needs to keep its structures up to date and renew infrastructure.
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Inflation is the expansion of the money supply (eg by money printing). A long term rise in prices (houses, stocks, CPI) is the consequence of inflation, just as a rising water level in a lake is the result of rain. The global economy is lik
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
In reality of course central plannners 'pulling levers' and setting prices never works. The interest rate is one of the most important prices of them all, which is why having the government meddle with it has proven so destructive
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Inflation is an expansion in the money supply, such as new discoveries of gold or or printing paper money or creating credit. A baker would say he will 'raise' or 'lower' the price of his bread, not 'inflate' i
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
But the 'neo' refers to the resurgence of basic ideas of freedom, not a big change in philosophy over the original liberal ideas.
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Freedom to do whatever you want as long as it does not infringe the rights/freedoms of anyone else.
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by yyy888sss 4y ago
Liberalism means freedom in all spheres (including economically and socially), no need to add the neo- prefix. When you have freedom in a global economy there will be massive income inequality (think about Lebron James or Elon Musk vs the a
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
For $1.5 Billion, why don't they just build 1000 luxury 5 bedroom mansions? If they had the land area, they could even build 5000 individual detached homes for that budget. They could even splurge and give each bedroom a window!
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
In my town most of the upper income people live outside the city in houses with rainwater collection, septic tanks and increasingly no electric grid connection either (thanks to solar panels and battery). There is nothing self sufficient ab
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
Strongly agree. Recently an important religious leader in my town died, and the police stated it was accident though they had clear evidence it was suicide because they knew it would distress the public less.
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
Yep. Without regulations that restrict people from taking new jobs, any labour 'shortage' can be solved by offering better conditions and/or higher pay. Take it to a hypothetical extreme: if truckers were offered $500k/y
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
The government completely messed up the messaging for the Astra Zeneca vaccine, a lot of people think it is very risky due to the reports of blood clotting (which are actually lower than for most common medicines!!). It doesn't matter
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
Even in Australia, where we have strong consumer protection, they still call it 'Full Self Driving Capability'. Then underneath: "The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle au
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by yyy888sss 5y ago
Bear in mind the photos will usually be viewed on a 1080p phone screen which is ~2MP. Or a 4k display which is ~8MP. The sensor has been getting bigger since the 6s which means more light for each pixel.
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by yyy888sss 6y ago
If anything, a platform like this could also itself be an open source project.
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by yyy888sss 6y ago
It's probably also because they couldn't turn a profit in a year where everyone stayed at home, the market conditions should have been perfect for a delivery company.
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by yyy888sss 6y ago
All current analysis misses the point. Tesla is not just a traditional auto company. Musk is involved with Space-X, which is likely going to be the company that takes humanity interstellar. Additionally, right now there is a Tesla Roadster
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by yyy888sss 6y ago
Bikes are similar to pedestrians not cars. In bike friendly places such as the Netherlands or Cambridge UK cyclists and those on foot share the same part of the city. It helps in these places that almost car drivers also use a bike to get a

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