geopolitical stuff to watch for if things continue 1. state stability in authoritarian countries 2. democratic control in non-authoritarian countries 3. long-term border hardening 4. autarky gets a day in the sun
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probably slowing of mass urbanization trend, less reasons on the margin to be in expensive cities for many with wfh available if that comes through and if travel declines social flattening
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these emergency measures have a strange way of sticking we still have the TSA and DHS nearly 20 years on much harder to revert a change once made than to maintain status quohttps://twitter.com/costa11235/status/1239947648112656384?s=19 …
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these are not things that are necessarily /likely/, rather they jusr seem quite a lot more plausible now than they did on 2020-01-01 ok i need to work and I am out of likes assume i liked your response
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btw heard rumors of deposit limits I wouldnt run on your bank unless you have more than $250k at a single institution and then you should know all of this already anyway Deposits to that limit are insured by the FDIC or equivalent
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Well--actually keep some handy in case it goes under and insurance takes time to process But otherwise naw You'll get paid and if you dont having paper to folds not gonna do any good in your situation anyway
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Interesting: acceleration of biotech in the US? ramez Naam's sf books have as an important plot point that Asia exceeds US/Euro in biotech advances b/c it is very strong. regulated in the latter. You don't expect "biotech possibly bad, let's put 10^12 regulations into research"?
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seems to be going hard in the opposite direction rn
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Acceleration of biotech sounds cool. Wonder what will come of it. Also hope we get more nuclear energy and power plants. And domestic production of goods wherever possible. Shorter supply chains.
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How domestic are you talking? City, or household?
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