This is the 4th or 5th time it's plunged like this(percentage basis) since 2010. Why is the outcome this time different?
What's different this time is the money supply in crypto has exploded. This was totally not supposed to happen, because each brand of crypto is designed to max out at a mathematically limited number of coins.
At first, this worked, and actually too well. While fiat money can be used as for transactions because the money supply expands as the economy it's based on expands, the most popular cryptos, being in limited supply, began to rise in price (fewer coins to buy the same good). This caused crypto to change from currency to digital investment. As the speculative fever bubbled, entrepreneurs began to offer more new currencies. Crypto "investors" began to treat each one as though it were a new penny stock on the Utah Mining Exchange. Each currency remains in limited supply, but traders kept moving into new currencies, not realizing that this process is like printing Venezuelan fiat banknotes.
Suddenly, people are waking up to what has happened.
All single-payer means, economically, is buying in bulk. If Canada can buy a million doses of a compound at once, companies sell even new, branded compounds for a lot less. No marketing or distribution costs.
So...why shouldn’t any purchaser of this old, generic compound be able to buy in bulk? Medicare, insurance companies, state indigent care, and private buyers’ clubs should all be able to buy in bulk when this would save them money.
All we have to do is make this legal in the land of the free market.
Actually it was I, not Ms Mash, who posted this story.
I’m always amoused when these low-budget shkrelis claim to be defenders of the free market when they make insane price moves. If we actually did have a free market in pharma, we would be able to fill our prescriptions for this compound at the world market price of $18, as per the closing line that was oddly edited out of my post.
The only way price increases like this can be made to stick is to have the FDA on your side, preventing us from being able to compete. Time to rip out the FDA’s ability to keep competition out of the market. Let it manage testing, not price manipulation.
The copyright lobby in the US (and everywhere else) will screech and wail and demand that politicians bring policies in lockstep with the EU. US Pols, who mainly represent Disney and Hollywood, will be happy to concede.
So let me remind everyone that we have an election coming up. Now is the time to let candidates know how we feel about this.
If the Republic of Rurethenia holds its foreign exchange reserves in US dollars, it could 'peg' the Rurethenian rasbucknik as being one dollar times a given coefficient. A country might do such a thing so it can have national pride in its own rasbucknik, with the King's face on it, and have it circulate internally at a fixed rate in dollars.
This proposal is for the same thing, but digital and crypto. The question is, why? The convenience of digital trade in real dollars is well established. If you want anonymity and privacy, just carry around wads of US cash. What commerce can you do with the digital rasbucknik that you can't do in dollars?
Seeding areas of open ocean with nutrients that promote the rapid growth of sutrface algae has been suggested as a way of sequestering atmospheric and ocean-dissolved CO2. The Pacific gyre would already be an ideal place to do this, because nutrient and algae would be held in the gyre by surface circulation, rather than being scattered.
Suppose we seed with one of the algal species that forms surface mats while it grows, with some closely matched nutrient that promotes temporary explosive growth of it? As it grows, a surface mat would entrain whatever is floating there. When it dies and sinks, it would pull down trash and particles floating near the surface. As a bonus, such a mat would kill and pull down a lot of fish under it - the fish that have been ingesting the plastic micro particles associated with the trash. We don’t want those fish to stay in the food chain.
We need more technological hubris. It’s the only way to solve the really big problems.
What mess? Plastic is inert. It literally doesn’t matter how much we dump in the ocean.
Even when you’rel lucky enough to get plastic that stays inert in seatwer, which eats into almost everything, it will still get mechanically ground into tiny pieces. Then these get into the food chain.
Even if these devices just dried and burned the trash as it’s collected, converting it into atmospheric CO2, we would still be environmentally better off than having it floating in the ocean.
As you do this, your have probably noticed how light and bulky recyclable material is compared to what gets trashed. It largely consists of containers and packaging. Separating this at the source would really cut into our landfill problem.
Good idea, but first make them release all the hostages their "justice" system has produced: the couple who kissed on the beach, the woman who was served one drink on the plane heading there, and all those Indian workers paid virtually nothing to build those towers for the elite.
Most likely you're regarded as a spammer AKA a marketer who's precious "message" (really, fraud and noise) is being rejected. All communication can be compromised by too much noise as well as too little message.
Because subject-verb agreement (or in your case, proper use of whose) is a marketing scam?
The "museums" that do have a problem with photography are usually for-profit corporations that think photos will keep people from coming to the museum, and probably not worth your time.
Most museums don't allow photography even without flash, generally on the grounds that camera gear interrupts the flow of people through the exhibits - patrons being shooed away from displays so they won't be in the shot, and so on. This is especially true if you want to take any kind of good photograph, the very kind being requested here. There usually isn't much light, and you need to use a tripod. It is also not possible to get a good shot through a glass case.
And of course, when you exit through the gift shop, they would appreciate it if you bought the postcards of important works. They would be especially thrilled if you bought the coffee table book depicting the collection.
That's the utility-common carrier model for deployment, which is how it will probably all shake out in the end.
Imagine the potential of a national backbone of exceedingly high capacity fiber, run along Interstate Highways. Telecom companies and municipal services would lease connections to it at their local freeway exit.
I have seen attempts at growing forest there for the first time. They look pathetic in the grandeur of the Icelandic landscape, like Christmas tree farms.
I can remember a flurry of interest in pairing large offshore windfarms in shallow European waters with large, wall-off "islands" of sea adjacent to the farm. Whenever there was excess wind for the grid offtake, seawater would be pumped into this enclosure, available for release as hydro when the wind slackened. Was this idea ever tried?
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My takeaway is Musk is a very odd guy, and I do not mean that in a good way.
When you accomplish what Elon Musk has already accomplished, you can be as odd as you want.
This is the 4th or 5th time it's plunged like this(percentage basis) since 2010. Why is the outcome this time different?
What's different this time is the money supply in crypto has exploded. This was totally not supposed to happen, because each brand of crypto is designed to max out at a mathematically limited number of coins.
At first, this worked, and actually too well. While fiat money can be used as for transactions because the money supply expands as the economy it's based on expands, the most popular cryptos, being in limited supply, began to rise in price (fewer coins to buy the same good). This caused crypto to change from currency to digital investment. As the speculative fever bubbled, entrepreneurs began to offer more new currencies. Crypto "investors" began to treat each one as though it were a new penny stock on the Utah Mining Exchange. Each currency remains in limited supply, but traders kept moving into new currencies, not realizing that this process is like printing Venezuelan fiat banknotes.
Suddenly, people are waking up to what has happened.
The next weirdly silly regulation this body passes may well cause regular Europeans to send killer robots in against the Parliament itself.
No patent is even involved in this case. It’s a generic.
All single-payer means, economically, is buying in bulk. If Canada can buy a million doses of a compound at once, companies sell even new, branded compounds for a lot less. No marketing or distribution costs.
So...why shouldn’t any purchaser of this old, generic compound be able to buy in bulk? Medicare, insurance companies, state indigent care, and private buyers’ clubs should all be able to buy in bulk when this would save them money.
All we have to do is make this legal in the land of the free market.
I'm often amoused as well. I find it amousing when the spell check doesn't work.
Yes, that’s what happens when you post mobile. That and the mangling of typographically correct quote marks.
Actually it was I, not Ms Mash, who posted this story.
I’m always amoused when these low-budget shkrelis claim to be defenders of the free market when they make insane price moves. If we actually did have a free market in pharma, we would be able to fill our prescriptions for this compound at the world market price of $18, as per the closing line that was oddly edited out of my post.
The only way price increases like this can be made to stick is to have the FDA on your side, preventing us from being able to compete. Time to rip out the FDA’s ability to keep competition out of the market. Let it manage testing, not price manipulation.
It wont matter.
The copyright lobby in the US (and everywhere else) will screech and wail and demand that politicians bring policies in lockstep with the EU. US Pols, who mainly represent Disney and Hollywood, will be happy to concede.
So let me remind everyone that we have an election coming up. Now is the time to let candidates know how we feel about this.
Which is quite a feat for an organization that doesn't have any guns. Let's just ignore them.
If the Republic of Rurethenia holds its foreign exchange reserves in US dollars, it could 'peg' the Rurethenian rasbucknik as being one dollar times a given coefficient. A country might do such a thing so it can have national pride in its own rasbucknik, with the King's face on it, and have it circulate internally at a fixed rate in dollars.
This proposal is for the same thing, but digital and crypto. The question is, why? The convenience of digital trade in real dollars is well established. If you want anonymity and privacy, just carry around wads of US cash. What commerce can you do with the digital rasbucknik that you can't do in dollars?
No, you want the plastic dropping to abyssal depths, where the ongoing rain of biological debris will bury it, until geology turns it back into coal.
Seeding areas of open ocean with nutrients that promote the rapid growth of sutrface algae has been suggested as a way of sequestering atmospheric and ocean-dissolved CO2. The Pacific gyre would already be an ideal place to do this, because nutrient and algae would be held in the gyre by surface circulation, rather than being scattered.
Suppose we seed with one of the algal species that forms surface mats while it grows, with some closely matched nutrient that promotes temporary explosive growth of it? As it grows, a surface mat would entrain whatever is floating there. When it dies and sinks, it would pull down trash and particles floating near the surface. As a bonus, such a mat would kill and pull down a lot of fish under it - the fish that have been ingesting the plastic micro particles associated with the trash. We don’t want those fish to stay in the food chain.
We need more technological hubris. It’s the only way to solve the really big problems.
What mess? Plastic is inert. It literally doesn’t matter how much we dump in the ocean.
Even when you’rel lucky enough to get plastic that stays inert in seatwer, which eats into almost everything, it will still get mechanically ground into tiny pieces. Then these get into the food chain.
Even if these devices just dried and burned the trash as it’s collected, converting it into atmospheric CO2, we would still be environmentally better off than having it floating in the ocean.
As you do this, your have probably noticed how light and bulky recyclable material is compared to what gets trashed. It largely consists of containers and packaging. Separating this at the source would really cut into our landfill problem.
Good idea, but first make them release all the hostages their "justice" system has produced: the couple who kissed on the beach, the woman who was served one drink on the plane heading there, and all those Indian workers paid virtually nothing to build those towers for the elite.
I would love to see museums that haven't been devastated do something of this nature as an insurance policy.
This exists, but we need to make this a standard for all museums, rather than just a few superstar institutions.
Most likely you're regarded as a spammer AKA a marketer who's precious "message" (really, fraud and noise) is being rejected. All communication can be compromised by too much noise as well as too little message.
Because subject-verb agreement (or in your case, proper use of whose) is a marketing scam?
But they have a sprinkler system, so the whole museum can be saved after the exhibits are covered and the pipes are charged.
The "museums" that do have a problem with photography are usually for-profit corporations that think photos will keep people from coming to the museum, and probably not worth your time.
Most museums don't allow photography even without flash, generally on the grounds that camera gear interrupts the flow of people through the exhibits - patrons being shooed away from displays so they won't be in the shot, and so on. This is especially true if you want to take any kind of good photograph, the very kind being requested here. There usually isn't much light, and you need to use a tripod. It is also not possible to get a good shot through a glass case.
And of course, when you exit through the gift shop, they would appreciate it if you bought the postcards of important works. They would be especially thrilled if you bought the coffee table book depicting the collection.
That's the utility-common carrier model for deployment, which is how it will probably all shake out in the end.
Imagine the potential of a national backbone of exceedingly high capacity fiber, run along Interstate Highways. Telecom companies and municipal services would lease connections to it at their local freeway exit.
Anything from CenturyLink can be stopped with enough cleansing fire...
CenturyLink is a DSL provider in most places. It can be stopped by just being out of sight of the nearest switch.
Either you are trolling or you are full of shyte.
Re read the article.
If Google Fiber had worked, we would be able to "Whoosh" much faster.
I have seen attempts at growing forest there for the first time. They look pathetic in the grandeur of the Icelandic landscape, like Christmas tree farms.
I can remember a flurry of interest in pairing large offshore windfarms in shallow European waters with large, wall-off "islands" of sea adjacent to the farm. Whenever there was excess wind for the grid offtake, seawater would be pumped into this enclosure, available for release as hydro when the wind slackened. Was this idea ever tried?