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  1. Re:During a mild Sunday, I'd hope so. on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    France has the situation under control. There are multiple ways of dealing with it, the obstacles are all NIMBY and anti-nuke propaganda.

  2. Here's a video of the thing in action. Kind of a cool hack, but I can't imagine full-scale combat with these things being anything but dull.

    The Japanese version seems more agile, but......

  3. Re:Silly rabbit - entitlements are for the unemplo on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds delicious.

  4. Re:Silly rabbit - entitlements are for the unemplo on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  5. Re:Silly rabbit - entitlements are for the unemplo on 'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. The ironic thing is, his headline point is still correct: If we get to the point where basic goods can be 3-d printed cheaply and medical care is also cheap, then all those things that contribute to big government kind of go away.

    If you consider sufficiently advanced technology, then the headline "Technology Will Replace the need for X" will (eventually) be true for all values of X, or at least, will not be provably untrue.

  6. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    If you actually get a book and read it, then yes, it will create more interesting conversations (apart from making you smarter).

    btw, you said, "There are actually countless examples of money supplies increasing without any resulting inflation -- specifically, when the economy expands faster than the money supply." If you have actual examples of that (instead of just hoping there are countless), they would be really interesting time periods to examine.

  7. Re:daily mail reporting on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The paper is talking about particulate matter emissions. Your analysis makes sense, but you're mostly talking about gaseous emissions, so it doesn't contradict the paper.

    Summary is sensationalist, though.

  8. We're doomed, actually, check out this study that predicts seven meters of sea level rise by the end of the century. That is not a joke: it's a real, peer reviewed scientific paper.

  9. Re:Warning: Healthy At Every Size supporter on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A little big of overweight (BMI 25-27), especially with low levels of abdominal fat is not a big health issue, it might even be slightly more healthy than normal weight.

    FWIW being a little overweight is significantly better than being a little underweight

  10. Re:This article smacks of fat acceptance on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you saw this study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com... Basically, some these people ended up with metabolisms that only needed 800 calories a day after dieting (although they would still feel hungry).

    Anyway, what I realized from the study is that there is a difference between feeling hungry, and needing nourishment. That probably seems obvious but somehow to me it wasn't. So the next question is, how can I recognize the difference in my own body, and use it to my advantage?

    My answer has been this: when I feel hungry, I drink a v8 (small can), or eat vegetables or something similar. Doesn't taste great, but whatever. If the feeling of hunger goes away, then it was just a feeling. If it persists, then I probably actually am in need of nourishment, and follow up by eating something more.

    So far, since I've been doing this, I've been eating a lot more vegetables, been eating less, and a surprising advantage is that everything I eat tastes so much better, because I only eat it when I really need nourishment.

    Anyway, that is my current hypothesis, maybe it will help you.

  11. I'm expecting it to be like the Reagan recovery. And then everyone will say how great Trump is for decades to come, just like they say it about Reagan now.

  12. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    So are you going to read a book and get knowledge, or are you going to continue to be ignorant?

  13. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    if I tell you that I've read "an economics book", would you then proceed to actually answer any the questions I've posed to you?

    No, I would tell you to find a better one or read it again, because somehow you didn't learn. My goal is to have interesting conversations, and you would be more interesting with more knowledge.

    Incidentally, I did answer your question here, specifically "previously (throughout history) when the money supply was increased, it caused inflation ~1.5 years later, almost automatically."

  14. Basically it's the bucket of money they have awaiting the next 'tax holiday' to repatriate.

    President Trump will let them bring it all in, as a memorial and homage to himself.

  15. Re:Microsoft is dieing on Microsoft Hits $1 Trillion In Total Cumulative Revenue: Reports (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows is dying. Microsoft is pivoting towards the cloud. See here for lots of supporting information.

  16. Re:Conservative? on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People need to find a better label for the Republicrats.

    Politician.

  17. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary is even worse. In pandering to the far left rabble she will undermine and undo the values that made America exceptional.

    Or maybe she'll just be like Bill: talk liberal, govern centrist.

  18. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump...You really can't pin him down at all.

    He's a guy who wants to build monuments to himself. Specifically, a great wall of Trump. People remember Hadrian for his wall, but who remembers Domitian or Trajan?

  19. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    yes + bonds + stocks + treasuries would be my guess

  20. Re:So? on New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable (polygon.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some things are more important than work, Mr AC.
    Do it for the love, not for the money.

  21. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    The net outflows of cash in the country are negative, that is, more cash comes into our country than goes out.

    In trade, we have a deficit, but in money flows, we are positive.

  22. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't hold it, almost no one keeps their money in cash, if they have no where else to put it, they buy treasury bonds, and the money gets circulated again as government spending.

  23. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheers, and may we both have better luck next time.

    I really wish you'd read an economics book.

  24. Re:Yes 100% Yes on Does Free Comic Book Day Help Retailers? (freecomicbookday.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it's a shame you weren't introduced to comic books as a kid.

  25. Re:Capacity is growing faster than money supply on As Robots Eat Our Jobs, Fed Should 'Drop the Money From Helicopters,' Says Bill Gross (janus.com) · · Score: 1

    Money dumped into the stock market to buy more shares of Apple is not "invested". It is being dumped into a hole in the ground, for all intents and purposes.

    Heh.....are you aware that when you buy stock, someone else sold stock? Every single time. And they get the money, and they do something with it. There is literally no money in the stock market.