At highway speeds aerodynamic drag creates more noise than the motor itself (externally). So an electric car makes little difference there. Reducing speed reduces noise non-linearly. Therefore electric cars make a big…
For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power…
I can already see this in the Balkans. Countries which have stronger ties with the US (eg Romania, Kosovo) can easily see developer salaries be 5-20x local average salary. This has contributed to real estate prices…
Hardware is tricky. Anything hands on really. For anything abstract I would argue that the people who are able to onboard and form teams and ideas remotely are inherently the best for the job and likely produce a…
That's the supply chain reality of most non-port cities/countries in the world. It's also normal to pay 1.5-3x the original ticker price for what you ship in based on tariffs, fees, shipping, etc. The trick is to pick…
The geothermal plant in Basel, Switzerland was AFAIK among the very first production ready plants using fracking. I remember the news of them turning it on and then a series of 2-3.5 Richter earthquakes happening. The…
Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
That's a very good question. Community cooperatives and municipal banks seem to be doing this, but not the commercial banks. I wonder why.
TBH, that works as long as your demographic pyramid is healthy. For most of Europe that is not the case. On top of that, return on additional debt has been stagnant since the 90s in OECD countries. There's simply almost…
What’s the support behind this atm? I’ve read about this for some time, and it’s pretty much a no-brainer, but I haven’t seen any politician speak about it yet.
I think the soy idea has been debunked for some time now. The main external estrogen source is milk and to some extend meat products.
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the…
> Someone has since pointed out to me that HFT is currently done by bouncing microwaves off the atmosphere. I would love to read up on this. Is this similar to HARP?
Or the government automates jobs. In Prishtina, Kosovo about 50 clerk jobs were replaced by a single automated machine which would give you all kinds of documents, certicicates, etc. It cut down waiting time from hours…
That’s more of an economic problem though. If you are further than 20min each way from your work place, monopolists are screwing you on income, cost of living, time, etc. Furthermore, you can work remotely.
Definitely in Southern Europe. I met some of my best friends in random encounters.
Do you have any links or books on the topic or this specific calculation? Sounds very interesting.
Well demand is a good thing in this case. It implies good economic development. My point was more that market mechanisms don't make sense for public good infrastructure/monopolies. Building as much (and sustainably) as…
That's actually a really good point for housing as public infrastructure. The parallels to roads are very interesting.
Not from the US, but I lived there shortly and was asked to move there and had to decline. To me it's pretty clear that your single biggest problem is your suburbs and car culture. Everything from anti-social behavior,…
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t…
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.
It's mostly because of the VC Ponzi scheme. US investors invest in US incorporated companies because it is easier to sell them and to get other later stage institutional investors interested. There's two ways how…
It's funny. The smart companies I know are all moving away from hiring full-time devs. They want a very small core team of highly skilled devs, all with relatively high equity, combined with tons of…
At highway speeds aerodynamic drag creates more noise than the motor itself (externally). So an electric car makes little difference there. Reducing speed reduces noise non-linearly. Therefore electric cars make a big…
For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power…
I can already see this in the Balkans. Countries which have stronger ties with the US (eg Romania, Kosovo) can easily see developer salaries be 5-20x local average salary. This has contributed to real estate prices…
Hardware is tricky. Anything hands on really. For anything abstract I would argue that the people who are able to onboard and form teams and ideas remotely are inherently the best for the job and likely produce a…
That's the supply chain reality of most non-port cities/countries in the world. It's also normal to pay 1.5-3x the original ticker price for what you ship in based on tariffs, fees, shipping, etc. The trick is to pick…
The geothermal plant in Basel, Switzerland was AFAIK among the very first production ready plants using fracking. I remember the news of them turning it on and then a series of 2-3.5 Richter earthquakes happening. The…
Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
That's a very good question. Community cooperatives and municipal banks seem to be doing this, but not the commercial banks. I wonder why.
TBH, that works as long as your demographic pyramid is healthy. For most of Europe that is not the case. On top of that, return on additional debt has been stagnant since the 90s in OECD countries. There's simply almost…
What’s the support behind this atm? I’ve read about this for some time, and it’s pretty much a no-brainer, but I haven’t seen any politician speak about it yet.
I think the soy idea has been debunked for some time now. The main external estrogen source is milk and to some extend meat products.
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the…
> Someone has since pointed out to me that HFT is currently done by bouncing microwaves off the atmosphere. I would love to read up on this. Is this similar to HARP?
Or the government automates jobs. In Prishtina, Kosovo about 50 clerk jobs were replaced by a single automated machine which would give you all kinds of documents, certicicates, etc. It cut down waiting time from hours…
That’s more of an economic problem though. If you are further than 20min each way from your work place, monopolists are screwing you on income, cost of living, time, etc. Furthermore, you can work remotely.
Definitely in Southern Europe. I met some of my best friends in random encounters.
Do you have any links or books on the topic or this specific calculation? Sounds very interesting.
Well demand is a good thing in this case. It implies good economic development. My point was more that market mechanisms don't make sense for public good infrastructure/monopolies. Building as much (and sustainably) as…
That's actually a really good point for housing as public infrastructure. The parallels to roads are very interesting.
Not from the US, but I lived there shortly and was asked to move there and had to decline. To me it's pretty clear that your single biggest problem is your suburbs and car culture. Everything from anti-social behavior,…
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t…
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.
It's mostly because of the VC Ponzi scheme. US investors invest in US incorporated companies because it is easier to sell them and to get other later stage institutional investors interested. There's two ways how…
It's funny. The smart companies I know are all moving away from hiring full-time devs. They want a very small core team of highly skilled devs, all with relatively high equity, combined with tons of…