same as with cars - it seems the technology that is actually built in the products is just the annoying / useless ones instead of technology that would be actually useful e.g. to safety
1.) a "long" story is still only like 20 sentences
2.) a real translation for each sentence is nice but often you are still left wondering what each word means. a "word by word" literal translation would be more useful either as an option or additionally. or the ability to click on any word and see the translation (bonus points for the declinations / conjugations too)
yes, diversification is the basis for sound investing.
yet, if you look at all people and companies that have grown extremely rich extremely quickly, there is one very common factor: they didn't take money out of the company, but reinvested every single penny. thats the way you can outgrow your competition which doesn't do the same thing. failing businesses are often those that paid too much to their owners.
> reinvested every single penny. thats the way you can outgrow your competition which doesn't do the same thing
First of all, to reinvest, you need to have some profits in the first place. Even getting to the point of having any revenue at all, you're losing 90% of entrepreneurs just to get there. Second, among those 10% of entrepreneurs who get to the point where they have any revenue (let alone profits), it's sheer hubris to think that you are unique or special in reinvesting; most entrepreneurs are not seeking to take their goose's golden eggs while they are the size of peas.
There are very, very, very few entrepreneurs who pass survivor's bias to talk about their golden eggs.
That's not being financially healthy. That's far closer to gambling than investing in a diversified portfolio is. Just because you add the potential for an extremely high return does not make a strategy financially healthy.
Plenty of businesses also fail. In fact a large chunk do.
Starting a business is one of the most risky things you can do. Much more risky then having a diversified portfolio. However the rewards can be amazing given the relatively small chance it hits jackpot.
Totally, and I hope we care to make this happen. If we cared to, I think we could solve it much faster than 200 years. My doubt is more so about our perceived incentives and will to focus on it. We've solved some insane problems, and while I know virtually nothing about this stuff, my intuition here is that solving plastics problems is likely simpler (chemically and logistically) than, say, sending rockets to space and creating nuclear reactors. I know it's more complicated than it appears on the surface (we have heaps of plastic and its byproducts in a dozen types of forms, in all different biomes, in all stages of decay, and countless byproducts under the same conditions... On a global scale), but other problems we've solved have been multifaceted too.
Maybe what we need is a strong will to solve the problem, no lobbying to prevent the funding of the necessary research or restrictions on creation of plastics, and so on. Similar to how the space race and nuclear programs more or less got all of the money, resources, and agency required to get the job done.
It seems like the reality with plastic is we've become insanely good at making it, but nowhere near as good at dealing with its externalities. We can get better at it.
That's the thing. It was not noticeable at the time. No heavy breathing, no pain in the legs, no sensation of "this is hard" that you get with most formal workouts. But I have no doubt that my heart rate and adrenaline/cortisol levels had already been elevated, enough so to disrupt the typical sleep cycle.
timing can be a pretty big thing. Do you go up stairs slowly, or quickly? One step at a time or two?
If someone is hustling up a staircase, the output can be quite high, even at the level of the 3rd floor. I notice myself, sometimes, forgetting something and moving quickly in and out of my 3rd floor apartment by stairs, and I'll notice myself breathing hard after just the 3rd floor.
And sometimes I hike the building (6 floors) twice or three times, because it feels nice, and everything is timing. One can get easily get a high-intensity, short-interval fairly-involved full-body effort out of ten flights of stairs.
I note a part of me that wants to be defensive wants to say "or perhaps someone else does not know how to try hard enough to make ten flights a good workout?"
Something about your comment feels dismissive, and this random passer-by didn't like it, but I could certainly be projecting, etc etc.
the study compares exercise shortly before bed to exercise longly before bed, so I'd say you can't confirm because that's not what you're testing regardless of your results
Maybe a bank of (extremely) huge capacitors that get charged up very quickly, and are then connected to a battery pack to charge it more slowly?
Keeping control of those charges seems like a huge challenge, as they literally contain the electrical energy of a lightning bolt. I guess for physically plausible capacitors you'd also need to step the voltage way down (by six or eight orders of magnitude!?) before it reaches the capacitors. Are there physically-plausible transformers or other devices that could do that?
Or something that somehow captures the lightning as (lots and lots of) mechanical or thermal energy and then gradually converts that back into electricity?
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