Brainsploosh

@Brainsploosh@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You talk a lot about Economic Theory considering you completely ignored one crucial detail: consumers won’t buy it if the price gets high enough

  not many enough would pay $99 for a phone cover), and some things will never be able to be produced cheaper (no child labor, expensive adult labor).

  I seem to have mentioned this.

  This could effectively become an Embargo, and it should because Fuck Chinam

  If that is the case it’s kind of an own goal; China is still free to trade with anyone, including US consumers that pay more. It’s just the US consumers gwtting worse access to thw products they want. Closer to a self embargo, no?

  It’s like a much more expensive “Buy American” campaign, only it also makes the US utterly untrustworthy in any future trade deals or investments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a cut off your nose kind of thing again?

  The way I see it: US consumer wants Chinese thing, pays China. With tariffs US government goes: “Hey, we don’t do that over here, pay me” - US customer also pays US government.

  US customer ends up paying more for the same thing.

  ---

  Now to the tricky part:

  If economic theory works and thing costs what it’s worth, this means tariffed consumer is overpaying and leaving margin for others to fill. A domestic producer could then make a profit even when not as efficient as the Chinese, cool.

  But, a lot of things China does aren’t currently made in the US, factories have to be built, some things won’t be viable at higher prices (maybe not many enough would pay $99 for a phone cover), and some things will never be able to be produced cheaper (no child labor, expensive adult labor).

  So it would take quite some effort to first figure out if it’s viable to produce in the US and then to build the production in the US. It also takes quite a lot of time, years probably. Will the tariffs stay that long? If unsure, why risk wasting the effort. If sure, how will the years of punishing prices affect consumers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still blocked, but thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Article is capped at 18 views/day so can’t see numbers.

  But theoretical cap of energy from a would be something like E_kin = (\gamma -1)mc². Witgout knowing anytging about the mission or engine, a 50 kg probe at a velocity of .9 c means an energy requirement of about 1,0e21 J.

  Fusion of H2 to H3 yields about 340e9 J/g meaning we need about 300 million kg of fuel at 100% conversion rate, or a third if we manage He3 reaction.

  Realistically heating, engine efficiency, deceleration, vibrational damping and such would probably lower efficiency to at most 40% and we end up at 750 million kg of fuel to propel a 50 kg payload.

  Seems unfeasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t realtors share their closing prices? Seems like a good marketing tactic - “look how much I can get you for this thing”.

  You could also take a look at listing prices for land of different types. Or even just call realtors and say you’re interested in buying something similar to yours and ask what the range is for them.

  You could probably also buy this data from a data broker for cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check sales listings for any sold property at that price?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck geometry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re about as imaginary as numbers are in general.

  Complex numbers have real application in harmonics like electronics, acoustics, structural dynamics, damping, regulating systems, optronics, lasers, interferometry, etc.

  In all the above it’s used to express relative phase, depending on your need for precision you can see it as a time component. And time is definitely a direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus Christ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In English yes, but not in closer languages like Aramaic, Hebrew (יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (Yehoshua)) or Greek (ἰησοῦς (ioesous)).

  Source (a little long but interesting read)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus Christ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should it more accurately be Yesus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently privileged men apply when fulfilling 60% of the requirements. Women and minorities 100%.

  Maybe that’s why they have the ridiculous reqs?