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Comment #16616161
it has happened to me once or twice as well :(
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Comment #16602232
> And that is not analogy. technically analogy has a broad definition that applies anytime you compare two things.
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Comment #16602219
> Because China is doubling down on solutions and we really need the US to be doing the same. I hadn't heard this. can you give some examples, please?
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Comment #16564294
yes that is more parsimonious however in non-technical language the term "radiator" is associated with heat exchangers. if you put heat exchangers on the sides of your spacecraft t…
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Comment #16564280
> It gives me hope that it could be passed knowing that opinion, not a cabal of interests, stands in the way. as I've become more open to other people's political worldviews, I've …
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Comment #16563918
take pre-calculus and do every assignment immediately as it is assigned. then review before the next class. pre-calculus is designed to give people like you the tools to move onto …
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Comment #16561765
> Black bodies are theoretical, they do not exist. Apollo had radiators, they might have been black but they were not a black body. they were, as I said, "black body radiators" whi…
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Comment #16559635
they will be IR visible, but what do you mean they don't exist? Apollo used them to bleed off excess heat.
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Comment #16559630
> If it helps read here: that doesn't support your novel assertion. > Unfortunately this "nonsense" is the explanation that any economist would give you. lots of people running aro…
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Comment #16556916
I think you could use black body radiators on the other 5 sides to bleed the heat from the side facing the sun.
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Comment #16556908
> "rich" people in vast amounts of debt aren't rich, they're broke. not necessarily. if you have a lot of debt, but you hold the title to capital goods that produce income, then yo…
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Comment #16556894
> Inflation caused by bad monetary policy is indeed bad, but that's only one particular case of inflation. yes, the textbook case. > Indeed, maybe you should give it a try! indeed …
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Comment #16556888
money doesn't have a yield, so it can't have an interest rate. also consider that the interest rate is denominated in a ratio of currency units. its nonsensical to reify currency a…
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Comment #16553840
money is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. a loan is an obligation. its a value with negative valence. > So what happened when the risk is the lowest p…
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Comment #16553683
> nflation is good not because of inflation itself, but because of what it signals: a growth in demand outpacing the growth in supply. price inflation is a signal of monetary infla…
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Comment #16553584
> That's a popular, but untrue, idea. There is a ton of research my microbiology professor said it is true. several major antibiotic companies have shut down their antibiotics rese…
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Comment #16553553
last year I read that they have two major innovations in this field: 1. they can use a t4 bacteriophage to deploy an arbitrary genetic payload and 2. they can alter the "hooks" on …
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Comment #16553050
> With "savers" being a close approximation of "the rich" and debtors being another word for "the poor". thats false. many rich hold vast amounts of debt, which makes them benefit …
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Comment #16550247
exactly.
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Comment #16549649
savings is for more than just retirement. there are transaction costs associated with breaking into retirement vehicles in order to meet emergency obligations. more importantly, in…
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Comment #16549605
contrariwise, it is infact already cash.
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Comment #16549481
well when you can fund giant capital expenditures with debt, you can buy up enough resources to build a company with current dollars, and pay for them with future (inflated) dollar…
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Comment #16549468
> Inflation is good. inflation is good for net debtors and bad for savers. > Inflation comes from a imbalance in supply and demand price inflation is a necessary consequence of mon…
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Comment #16541983
sprechen se habla?
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