Yes, pardon me, inflation in gold. More commonly over time the supply of goods increases because if technology faster than the supply of gold, causing gold to deflate.
What exactly are you investing in? The continued growth of the black market in drugs, weapons, murder for hire,... ?
I see an emerging growth market in kidnappings for ransom, a crime which has fallen out of favor in the US because it's too easy to surveil the money drop. Now that Bitcoin has been established as untraceable, kidnapping will be back in style.
No, discovery of a big new gold mine reduces the value of gold, meaning deflation. When central banks manage a fiat currency, their supposed goal is to avoid flation of either kind by continually adjusting the money supply to match the aggregate value of everything that is exchangeable for it.
In practice, most central banks overestimate the value of their nation's economy over time, causing the currency to inflate.
Germany has built a few new. Oak plants sinc 1990, as it makes its switch from uranium to lignite. They hope that this one will be the last: https://energytransition.org/2...
The headline lied again. The proposition to abandon nuclear power following German policy was voted on last last November, and it went down hard. The current proposition was to not build any new reactors after the current generation ages out after about 2030. The general attitude (I have relatives there) is that given such a comfortably far off year, why not make a symbolic gesture of support for hoping the German program will eventually produce enough clean energy to run the economy?
Before 1970, Switzerland's power mix was 90% hydro; because of nuclear, that fraction has dropped to 56% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Switzerland). So whereas Germany has to produce its baseload by opening new coal plants, Switzerland has all that hydro to fall back on.
Switzerland values the beauty of its countryside, which is exactly why it started building nuclear plants in the lowland rather than new mountain dams in the first place. Switzerland doesn't have any expense of offshore mudflats, and there is no sentiment for festooning the Alps with wind turbines. My personal guess is that by 2030 Switzerland's new renewable energy will be entirely in the form of solar roofing, and that the aged-out nukes will be replaced by new factory-built modular reactors from China.
Note also the anti-Uber fake talking points suddenly get duplicated all over the place. For example, every Uber thread now contains the argument that the limited number of cabs in medallion taxi systems is good because if Uber were to be let into the market, thousands of new vehicles would magically pop into existence, overcrowding the streets and (Muahahaha!) satisfying consumer demand, driving riders away from the city's spotless and gleaming subway system.
Pay no attention to the union shills behind the curtain.
No municipal transit service can cover every address, unless the city is rich enough to afford dial-a-ride for all. That's why every municipal bus service tries to serve too many small stops, resulting in it being too slow for all but the poor and drunk to ride. Let's see ridesharing as a supplement to a transit system that runs fast enough for riders who get transported to and from the stops on it to actually want to use it.
Sending high-level nuclear waste to space is a bad idea because it represents a waste of 95% of the energy in the original fuel. Sending low-level waste to space is a bad idea because the tonnage of inert material that would have to be lifted is uneconomically high. Better to vitrify it and drop it into a subduction zone.
This report brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
And by the Liberal Nuculer Iss-Yew Diversion Network. Hanford is a weapons facility dating to the early Cold War, when we knew little about nuclear waste storage.
Surely there's an abandoned working somewhere inside a mountain, well above sea level, that would make a better location for the repository than a tunnel in permafrost.
What you taxicab socialists are overlooking is that any ride service where the supply is able to accommodate any demand is inherently cheaper than any ride service that limits the number of providers.
Not only do I Uber, but on occasion to Walmart. May your heads explode.
Because we don't do science anymore, and technology only after every imaginable pressure group has been satisfied. The California high speed rail uses tech that is off-the-shelf in Europe and Asia.
The current state of the airline industry has turned people back to the old family road trip. If you're going to see a theme park, make it one in the next state and plan a route that includes a lot of adult attractions along the way. Take a close look at the map and you can find places to hike, explore ghost towns, see interesting downtowns, and hit the beach on the way to Wally World.
At this point, the public trust level for both Republicans and Democrats is even lower than it was when Trump was elected. To me the defining indicator that Trump cannot fulfill his promises was healthcare, an issue on which both parties have ignored their voting bases and core philosophies to satisfy the whims of corporate lobbyists. The Democrats in crafting the ACA under Obama could have used a "Medicare for everyone" model to cut medical costs. They did nothing on the cost side, which no amount of fiddling with the insurance system could fix. The newly elected Republicans could have attacked cost the Republican way, by allowing in competition to as many parts of the medical system as we can manage. If that includes opening up the H-1B spigot for underserved rural areas, then so be it. Let a field other than tech undergo manpower competition for once. Let us fill our prescriptions through Amazon on the global market. But no - the lobbyists won again, preventing AHCA from fixing the problem either.
We need more political parties with new ideas. I would like to see a Science and Technology Party emerge. Nerds, let's do another March For Science this time for all the sciences, not just climatology. Lobby to set engineers free to apply research findings and fix our problems.
How do we know that older patients don't just like going to older doctors?
This was my first thought. In my area we have a lot of retirees, and the doctors are older too. When they were young they treated gunshot wounds and drug overdoses in the big city. Now they're up here in the mountains replacing hips, transplanting kidneys and treating hiker falls.
Liberals, be careful what you wish for. Mike Pence is everything that Trump is not: bright, articulate, a polished politician who will not have to hold a well-thumbed copy of Presidenting For Dummies in one hand while tweeting with the other. And also an evangelical Christian who is pro-life and hates every letter in your gender preference string.
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Yes, pardon me, inflation in gold. More commonly over time the supply of goods increases because if technology faster than the supply of gold, causing gold to deflate.
What exactly are you investing in? The continued growth of the black market in drugs, weapons, murder for hire, ... ?
I see an emerging growth market in kidnappings for ransom, a crime which has fallen out of favor in the US because it's too easy to surveil the money drop. Now that Bitcoin has been established as untraceable, kidnapping will be back in style.
No, discovery of a big new gold mine reduces the value of gold, meaning deflation. When central banks manage a fiat currency, their supposed goal is to avoid flation of either kind by continually adjusting the money supply to match the aggregate value of everything that is exchangeable for it.
In practice, most central banks overestimate the value of their nation's economy over time, causing the currency to inflate.
Man, $11 million dollars for a pizza; I hope it was damn good!
Silicon Valley prices aren't that relevant to the ret of the country.
Germany has built a few new. Oak plants sinc 1990, as it makes its switch from uranium to lignite. They hope that this one will be the last:
https://energytransition.org/2...
The headline lied again. The proposition to abandon nuclear power following German policy was voted on last last November, and it went down hard. The current proposition was to not build any new reactors after the current generation ages out after about 2030. The general attitude (I have relatives there) is that given such a comfortably far off year, why not make a symbolic gesture of support for hoping the German program will eventually produce enough clean energy to run the economy?
Before 1970, Switzerland's power mix was 90% hydro; because of nuclear, that fraction has dropped to 56% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Switzerland). So whereas Germany has to produce its baseload by opening new coal plants, Switzerland has all that hydro to fall back on.
Switzerland values the beauty of its countryside, which is exactly why it started building nuclear plants in the lowland rather than new mountain dams in the first place. Switzerland doesn't have any expense of offshore mudflats, and there is no sentiment for festooning the Alps with wind turbines. My personal guess is that by 2030 Switzerland's new renewable energy will be entirely in the form of solar roofing, and that the aged-out nukes will be replaced by new factory-built modular reactors from China.
Note also the anti-Uber fake talking points suddenly get duplicated all over the place. For example, every Uber thread now contains the argument that the limited number of cabs in medallion taxi systems is good because if Uber were to be let into the market, thousands of new vehicles would magically pop into existence, overcrowding the streets and (Muahahaha!) satisfying consumer demand, driving riders away from the city's spotless and gleaming subway system.
Pay no attention to the union shills behind the curtain.
No municipal transit service can cover every address, unless the city is rich enough to afford dial-a-ride for all. That's why every municipal bus service tries to serve too many small stops, resulting in it being too slow for all but the poor and drunk to ride. Let's see ridesharing as a supplement to a transit system that runs fast enough for riders who get transported to and from the stops on it to actually want to use it.
Sending high-level nuclear waste to space is a bad idea because it represents a waste of 95% of the energy in the original fuel. Sending low-level waste to space is a bad idea because the tonnage of inert material that would have to be lifted is uneconomically high. Better to vitrify it and drop it into a subduction zone.
This report brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
And by the Liberal Nuculer Iss-Yew Diversion Network. Hanford is a weapons facility dating to the early Cold War, when we knew little about nuclear waste storage.
It says so in green ink right on the sign I'm carrying.
Surely there's an abandoned working somewhere inside a mountain, well above sea level, that would make a better location for the repository than a tunnel in permafrost.
You're a creationist, and you're squirming. Mission accomplished.
"A self-checkout kiosk can already do the same job, and is often better because the lines can be shorter."
Until your cart includes produce or a bottle of wine.
What you taxicab socialists are overlooking is that any ride service where the supply is able to accommodate any demand is inherently cheaper than any ride service that limits the number of providers.
Not only do I Uber, but on occasion to Walmart. May your heads explode.
Because we don't do science anymore, and technology only after every imaginable pressure group has been satisfied. The California high speed rail uses tech that is off-the-shelf in Europe and Asia.
"IIRC methane is a seriously nasty greenhouse gas. "
It also breaks down quickly in the atmosphere. CO2 sits there until it is absorbed or used by something.
THIS is what needs to be in the next March For Science.
Death to Elsevier
After a lot of Slashdot contention on issues, along comes something we can all agree to hate.
The current state of the airline industry has turned people back to the old family road trip. If you're going to see a theme park, make it one in the next state and plan a route that includes a lot of adult attractions along the way. Take a close look at the map and you can find places to hike, explore ghost towns, see interesting downtowns, and hit the beach on the way to Wally World.
At this point, the public trust level for both Republicans and Democrats is even lower than it was when Trump was elected. To me the defining indicator that Trump cannot fulfill his promises was healthcare, an issue on which both parties have ignored their voting bases and core philosophies to satisfy the whims of corporate lobbyists. The Democrats in crafting the ACA under Obama could have used a "Medicare for everyone" model to cut medical costs. They did nothing on the cost side, which no amount of fiddling with the insurance system could fix. The newly elected Republicans could have attacked cost the Republican way, by allowing in competition to as many parts of the medical system as we can manage. If that includes opening up the H-1B spigot for underserved rural areas, then so be it. Let a field other than tech undergo manpower competition for once. Let us fill our prescriptions through Amazon on the global market. But no - the lobbyists won again, preventing AHCA from fixing the problem either.
We need more political parties with new ideas. I would like to see a Science and Technology Party emerge. Nerds, let's do another March For Science this time for all the sciences, not just climatology. Lobby to set engineers free to apply research findings and fix our problems.
How do we know that older patients don't just like going to older doctors?
This was my first thought. In my area we have a lot of retirees, and the doctors are older too. When they were young they treated gunshot wounds and drug overdoses in the big city. Now they're up here in the mountains replacing hips, transplanting kidneys and treating hiker falls.
Liberals, be careful what you wish for. Mike Pence is everything that Trump is not: bright, articulate, a polished politician who will not have to hold a well-thumbed copy of Presidenting For Dummies in one hand while tweeting with the other. And also an evangelical Christian who is pro-life and hates every letter in your gender preference string.
Preview, the Apple PDF editor, comes with the system. On Windows you have to buy the Pro version of Acrobat to do that.
What I just proved is that "-1, Troll" means "How dare you post a comment I don't like!"