I saw this solved with a USB stick on a keychain and the computer shuts down when the stick is removed. Does anybody still have the link? Ah. Found it: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-k...
Short answer: No Long answer: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
This is a pretty good answer. With cash you are total contrarian in the current environment. But this strategy also comes with risk. "Haircut" etc.
"Assets? Physical, material goods? Or investment vehicles like bonds and funds?" Everything. "What happens when the bubble bursts?" Good question. High inflation? Strong recession? Or decades of stagflation? Everything…
This is extraordinary, if true. But if true, it should also hold for this guy: https://pics.me.me/keith-boadwee-inserting-paint-into-his-an...
"But overly tight money is really really not the way to make land affordable." It is the other way around. Please google "asset price inflation". "It's an exceptionally destructive approach." Only in your head my friend.
"Prices of houses may be high but affordability is not because of cheap financing." A 7 fig house still costs 7 figures. In many countries you can not lock in the interest rates for 30 years but they get re-adjusted…
"I tried to explain why here" Well, you failed. Interest rates are historically low. We have seen a gigantic amount of liquidity injected over the last decades. "The poor are much much more hurt by overly tight money."…
"I wish western world central banks were as competent." Well... "Western world central banks tend to pressure prices down during economic shocks by withholding liquidity." Well, we have seen gigantic quantitative easing…
"Is that a universal truth, or is it historical? Situational?" It it experience based on historical data. A virus jumping to a new host (species) will be more aggressive in the beginning until it has adopted (mutated)…
AFAIK the flu vaccine is terrible ineffective. I would have to google numbers but the reliability is low.
"I suspect that “chance of dying” varies based on treatment, " I doubt this. WHile this may be true for a known disease, we have to ask, how much can the hospital do in this cases? It is a little bit like HIV in the…
>50 years is not old. I don't know what is considered old but I know that >75y has a two magnitudes higher mortality rate with the flu. I doubt that the 50 years old Hospital doctor who died had any serious per-existing…
Edge Router X looks interesting. Is there a Raspberry now that offers Dual Gigabit Internet Ports (2XGBit)?
"I don't know what you are trying to say here." You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. But I mentioned this time frame myself and it was the only time. >> The reason why Europe explored more during that time…
> It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution. > It was why europeans…
What is Chinese Culture? If nothing else, the writing system? Putonghua was only adopted in all of current China under Mao. I could also talk of the "western culture" and take Sanskrit and all indu-germanic languages…
I think there is little doubt that Rome was en pare with China. I don't see me shifting definitions of the West. You could argue that I switch between Egypt and Rome. While not the same culture, they are interconnected…
"Until the Opium War of 1840–42 the European merchants and voyagers who reached the distant land of China had looked upon the Chinese with a good deal of awe as a people of superior culture." Bullshit and Chinese…
They were idiots when they laughed. The Soviet Union was actually leading in this for a long time (Georgia).
Me too. But lets not forget, we are dealing with 16 years old kiddies here. But for you: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
" it sounds like you could but now cannot patent " I am afraid such small distinctions are beyond the mental capabilities of most HN readers. I have more and more the impression of dealing with 16 y olds on HN
Downvote -4? The voting system here lets me question the sanity and competence of many readers here. For those interested: ---------------- Proposals for such inoperable machines have become so common that the United…
"I guess you can actually patent a perpetual motion machine" No, you can't because it violates fundamental principles of scientific laws.
Honestly, I have lost track of state of matters. How many are there? 3? s,l,g? Plasma? Bode Einstein Condensate? I vaguely remember at least three more.
I saw this solved with a USB stick on a keychain and the computer shuts down when the stick is removed. Does anybody still have the link? Ah. Found it: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-k...
Short answer: No Long answer: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
This is a pretty good answer. With cash you are total contrarian in the current environment. But this strategy also comes with risk. "Haircut" etc.
"Assets? Physical, material goods? Or investment vehicles like bonds and funds?" Everything. "What happens when the bubble bursts?" Good question. High inflation? Strong recession? Or decades of stagflation? Everything…
This is extraordinary, if true. But if true, it should also hold for this guy: https://pics.me.me/keith-boadwee-inserting-paint-into-his-an...
"But overly tight money is really really not the way to make land affordable." It is the other way around. Please google "asset price inflation". "It's an exceptionally destructive approach." Only in your head my friend.
"Prices of houses may be high but affordability is not because of cheap financing." A 7 fig house still costs 7 figures. In many countries you can not lock in the interest rates for 30 years but they get re-adjusted…
"I tried to explain why here" Well, you failed. Interest rates are historically low. We have seen a gigantic amount of liquidity injected over the last decades. "The poor are much much more hurt by overly tight money."…
"I wish western world central banks were as competent." Well... "Western world central banks tend to pressure prices down during economic shocks by withholding liquidity." Well, we have seen gigantic quantitative easing…
"Is that a universal truth, or is it historical? Situational?" It it experience based on historical data. A virus jumping to a new host (species) will be more aggressive in the beginning until it has adopted (mutated)…
AFAIK the flu vaccine is terrible ineffective. I would have to google numbers but the reliability is low.
"I suspect that “chance of dying” varies based on treatment, " I doubt this. WHile this may be true for a known disease, we have to ask, how much can the hospital do in this cases? It is a little bit like HIV in the…
>50 years is not old. I don't know what is considered old but I know that >75y has a two magnitudes higher mortality rate with the flu. I doubt that the 50 years old Hospital doctor who died had any serious per-existing…
Edge Router X looks interesting. Is there a Raspberry now that offers Dual Gigabit Internet Ports (2XGBit)?
"I don't know what you are trying to say here." You pic a time frame, were China was indeed ahead. But I mentioned this time frame myself and it was the only time. >> The reason why Europe explored more during that time…
> It wasn't bullshit. Generally, the merchants and voyagers who reached china were in awe. Well, this was after Rome, and while after the middle ages, still before the industrial revolution. > It was why europeans…
What is Chinese Culture? If nothing else, the writing system? Putonghua was only adopted in all of current China under Mao. I could also talk of the "western culture" and take Sanskrit and all indu-germanic languages…
I think there is little doubt that Rome was en pare with China. I don't see me shifting definitions of the West. You could argue that I switch between Egypt and Rome. While not the same culture, they are interconnected…
"Until the Opium War of 1840–42 the European merchants and voyagers who reached the distant land of China had looked upon the Chinese with a good deal of awe as a people of superior culture." Bullshit and Chinese…
They were idiots when they laughed. The Soviet Union was actually leading in this for a long time (Georgia).
Me too. But lets not forget, we are dealing with 16 years old kiddies here. But for you: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
" it sounds like you could but now cannot patent " I am afraid such small distinctions are beyond the mental capabilities of most HN readers. I have more and more the impression of dealing with 16 y olds on HN
Downvote -4? The voting system here lets me question the sanity and competence of many readers here. For those interested: ---------------- Proposals for such inoperable machines have become so common that the United…
"I guess you can actually patent a perpetual motion machine" No, you can't because it violates fundamental principles of scientific laws.
Honestly, I have lost track of state of matters. How many are there? 3? s,l,g? Plasma? Bode Einstein Condensate? I vaguely remember at least three more.