Hacker News: Factorium

New comment by Factorium in "Omicron cases are mild so far"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 21:13:41 +0000

Pfizer up 25% MoM: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PFE:NYSE?window=1M

Moderna up 24% in the last 5 days: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MRNA:NASDAQ?window=5D

New variants are great for business!

New comment by Factorium in "It will take 100 days to tailor a vaccine to a new variant"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:17:05 +0000

Endless variants, endless boosters, endless profits.

No wonder natural immunity is being suppressed. Having broad and long-lasting antibody and T-cell immunity is bad for profits and continuing this state of affairs.

New comment by Factorium in "California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:30:36 +0000

It didn't work because they were strangled by regulation, by City Bureaucrats fearful that the private market would outcompete public transport.

New comment by Factorium in "Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:24:25 +0000

Content Creators need to just lobby Governments to regulate ISPs to block illegal stream and torrent sites. Much more effective than chasing DRM.

New comment by Factorium in "People buying SUVs are cancelling out climate gains from electric cars"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 06:18:25 +0000

We could ban all gas-powered cars now: just start with vehicles priced over $100,000, and decrease the threshold by $10,000 annually.

New comment by Factorium in "California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies"

Factorium — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 01:36:35 +0000

Public transport doesn't work if you have to wear a mask to ride it. People on the margins between wanting to drive or get transport will switch to driving because of the inherent discomfort and dehumanization of being forced to wear a mask.

Remove all COVID-era restrictions from schools, workplaces, and transport, and systems will go back to functioning normally.

New comment by Factorium in "‘I can’t do this any more’: US faces nurse shortage from burnout"

Factorium — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:26:23 +0000

Nurses have to wear burdensome levels of PPE, and are forced to get vaccinated (despite many of them already getting COVID during the initial outbreak, and their natural immunity providing broader and longer-lasting protection than vaccines).

Go back to complete normal and this shortage will resolve.

New comment by Factorium in "Polish PM urges ‘concrete steps’ by NATO to address border crisis"

Factorium — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 21:15:57 +0000

Post-2015 Europe is just not the same. Walkable neighborhoods, open public services, just do not work properly when you introduce millions of dangerous men from culturally incompatible regions.

It should be clear from these border events that migrants are used as geopolitical pawns to weaken Europe. We need to see mass deportation, as well as stricter minimum requirements to gain citizenship (eg. minimum EUR100k in income tax paid, fluency in the language), if Europe can ever hope to recover.

New comment by Factorium in "U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere"

Factorium — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:15:51 +0000

As soon as you add that requirement to coal power plants, they become immediately uneconomic to build or operate. They are already borderline due to the fall in cost of renewables.

With a meagre Carbon Tax of $15/tonne, coal costs double in the US.

There's nothing that can be done to fix coal power apart from just shutting it all down.

New comment by Factorium in "MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air"

Factorium — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:13:14 +0000

It could also be used in home ventilation systems. Its much easier to remove CO2 from the inside air than to rotate out the entire air envelope, for a chemical that makes up a few hundred parts per million.

MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air

Factorium — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:19:05 +0000

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remove-carbon-dioxide-air-1025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29214928

Points: 3

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New comment by Factorium in "Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff"

Factorium — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:27:54 +0000

The Fed hired Blackrock to manage the QE program.

They are basically in charge of printing US dollars and buying their own assets.

And we think crypto is bad...

We should just end the Fed and replace it with a giant algorithm, with crowdsourced and transparent consumer price data. Maybe a few humans to keep the lights on, and to figure out how a 4K TV is better 'value' than a 1080p TV, etc.

New comment by Factorium in "Apple: Ten Years Forward"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 22:34:54 +0000

Tesla batteries are only losing 10% of capacity after 200,000 miles:

https://electrek.co/2021/08/12/tesla-claims-battery-packs-lo...

New comment by Factorium in "Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:42:48 +0000

Maybe British police should get off the internet and start policing real crimes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068001

New comment by Factorium in "Apple: Ten Years Forward"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:42:11 +0000

Last-generation automakers sold expensive, complex ICE vehicles and made money back on parts and servicing.

EVs are much cheaper and simpler to manufacture and last basically forever.

New comment by Factorium in "Tech workers warned they were going to quit. The problem is spiralling out"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:32:58 +0000

Europeans, Indians, several other countries were banned from entering the USA since 2020.

New comment by Factorium in "Against Dog Ownership (2020)"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:28:13 +0000

Misplaced paternalism. Why not have children instead?

New comment by Factorium in "Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued by Up to 91%: Moody’s"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:41:43 +0000

Three generations go into one house, if you're wealthy.

If you're poor, in Australia its not uncommon to have a 3-bedroom house with 20 migrant men, who hotbunk and rotate every 12 hours.

This is the dismal reality of mass immigration.

New comment by Factorium in "Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued by Up to 91%: Moody’s"

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:23:16 +0000

Immigration of 400,000 people annually. The Government has announced it will increase immigration levels:

https://www.cicnews.com/2020/10/canada-to-release-2021-2023-...

Drives down wages, drives up asset values. Great for the elite. Furthermore, the new arrivals (from 2nd/3rd world countries) don't complain: they're happy just to be there.

US Fed hired BlackRock to run a portion of their quantitative easing program

Factorium — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:12:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pedrodacosta/2020/04/20/a-glaring-new-conflict-of-interest-undermines-public-trust-in-federal-reserve/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29061764

Points: 8

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