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slaw commented on No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance   arxiv.org/abs/2508.16872... · Posted by u/bikenaga
catigula · 15 hours ago
>But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence

A razor for people who think like this:

Do you think Japan and Japanese people would have a higher or lower quality of life if they had accepted unlimited sub-Saharan Africa immigration?

This should separate serious people from the not so serious people pretty rapidly.

slaw · 11 hours ago
Every country that accepts immigration from Africa gets lower quality of life. See Germany as an example.
slaw commented on No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance   arxiv.org/abs/2508.16872... · Posted by u/bikenaga
loeg · 15 hours ago
It is a major flaw. Birth rate is falling basically everywhere and below replacement (~2.1) even in places people think of as booming in recent history -- India is at 1.98, South America somewhere around 1.8. It's really just portions of Africa that still have TFR above 2.1 and the rates there are declining over time, too. Immigranting your way of a demographic collapse only works if there are lots of births happening somewhere else.
slaw · 11 hours ago
Africa has TFR 4.1
slaw commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war   jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
cm2187 · 3 days ago
Are you talking about manufacturing or operating? Europe has something like 225 F-35 operational right now with more coming.
slaw · 3 days ago
Manufacturing.
slaw commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war   jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
mcphage · 3 days ago
That’s… not really very many.
slaw · 3 days ago
8+ J-35, 1 prototype J-36, 1 prototype J-50 and 250+ J-20. Europe has nothing like that.
slaw commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war   jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
cm2187 · 3 days ago
Well, technically Pakistan shot a Indian Rafale with a Chinese made missile a few months ago, which created some consternation in France. I heard the French explaining it away, as India trying to bomb some Pakistani territory without hitting the Pakistani military, hence putting their jet fighters in unecessary harm's way. I am not qualified to draw my own conclusions on the quality of Chinese weapons but it seems to imply they can certainly do significant damage.
slaw · 3 days ago
Rafale was shot down by J-10 plane using PL-15 missile. Rafale, Eurofighter and J-10 are old 20+ years designs. Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-35

slaw commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war   jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
spwa4 · 4 days ago
Military procurement is not about what is the best system, it is about who gets the money.

Plus every other party has far inferior fighters to "the West" anyway. And then you calculate ... you are not going to successfully defend against the F-35 in a war with the US. Not going to happen. Against Russia/China or anyone else ... every fighter jet will do fine, so take the cheapest.

The US got guaranteed this business because of international treaties ... which Trump has abandoned. But no worries, I'm sure he'll just make a "deal" and fix things again, right? Meanwhile I suggest you invest in EU weapons manufacturers, who are a lot cheaper than the US ones.

slaw · 3 days ago
None of European jet fighters can stand against Chinese, but China is far away.
slaw commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation   npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
XorNot · 9 days ago
You need inverters to run them, and you can't just put more battery on one inverter. The price is about 1:1 now for battery and inverter costs when I looked into it last.
slaw · 9 days ago
6.2kW 48V -> 230AC inverter is $300
slaw commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation   npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox
Jedd · 9 days ago
I'm in NSW - curious on what you got, what subsidy/ies you were able to obtain.

I'd previously looked into this and it sounded like a package was required - PVC + battery - whereas I've already got 10kW inverter + 12kW panels, and basically just want something around that size (40kWh).

Street pricing seemed to be around the $9k installed per 10kWh, so a) your subsidy options sounds spectacular - around 60% discount? - and b) payback for me would probably be around 8 years.

But if I switch vendors (Amber I think is what one of my friends is on) I can engage in something analogous to wholesale market activity, 10m bidding / sales, rapidly decrease the projected lifetime of my battery, but potentially be $-positive even through the winter months.

But all that feels like something the power companies here in AU are going to try to try to undercut / tax.

slaw · 9 days ago
15Kwh Lifepo4 48V 300Ah is less than $2k USD. You are overpaying a lot for installation.
slaw commented on Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September   reuters.com/technology/br... · Posted by u/CXSHNGCB
omega___ · a month ago
Poland has the fantastic BLIK system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik Used country-wide, it's popular enough that global stores allow using it, like AliExpress or Steam.
slaw · a month ago
BLIK contactless payment uses Mastercard network.
slaw commented on Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content   itch.io/updates/update-on... · Posted by u/panic
ath3nd · a month ago
It's easy: https://simplebeen.com/onlyfans-statistics/ OnlyFans is so big in the US and so widely used in the US (94 million active accounts) which is about 28% of the population (with the caveat that some people might have multiple accounts). It's too big to fail. The American economy will fail and the government needs to bail it and nationalize it as a public goods service. /s

It's either that or shady backroom deals with Visa.

slaw · a month ago
Valve is also quite big. It is shady deals with Visa.

u/slaw

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