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I will look into TabaPay. I contacted stripe and assumed that they would not even reply. They did reply and were very kind but ...We don't offer the functionality to send money to cards the way some other providers do. ...

There are two books. Only one is available in the print version. The other one may be available in print soon.

The one that is available in print just arrived in my mail but I have not read it.

Please help me. Maybe this is the right place to ask regarding this: How can I send money to a debit or credit card?

Yes. I do not want to charge the card, not reimburse a charge, no, I want to send money to a credit card or debit card. I need this as a solution for a business.

It can't be so hard. If you ever got your VAT/Sales tax reimbursed in Europe (e.g. via this service provider: https://www.globalblue.com/ ) you know what I mean. It does not require you to have bought the goods with a credit card. They just send you the credit to your card that your provide.

How can I do this?

You can actually fake the IMEI number on some phones. Be advised that this is a crime in several jurisdictions. (The UK being one of them if I remember correctly)

So you are telling us that Corona is not caused by 5G?

Well could be. Could also be some Jehovah Witness, beggers, Gypsies, tax collectors or whatever.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Protect-Children/dp/...

Would have actually prevented the guys problem in the first place. Nobody knows where he lives...

But kidding aside. I don't understand this guys problem. If it would annoy me then I would put up a sign that explains the problem and states that I don't take any food deliveries.

If I move into a new place I actually disconnect the door bell. Friends call by phone if they come and I receive my mail by a mail service. Somebody ringing my door bell can't be a good thing.

As long as it is paid for I would not mind. I can't eat gluten, maybe they could switch to gluten free pizza or sushi?

> As a German who's been exclusively working in the US tech space for the past few years,

As a new immigrant your are still in the euphoria phase of your new live...

> but the reality is that any European who truly grasps the pace of the US tech industry would rather go there directly..

Well, as a naturalized citizen with a PhD from the US and experience in technology I can assure you, that this is not the case for everybody. Neither me, nor my business partner with the same background - we both work now in China.

That is unlikely. Germany can't get enough from "non-integrating gap countries"-immigrants. They have the reputation of integrating really well into western society.

"This would be a great opportunity to avoid the classic Unix mistake of using text files"

Don't get it. Where is the mistake? I think it was its biggest strength. In the successor, Plan 9, everything is a file...

You just made a statement about a field of science where you seem to have zero educational background and understanding and described something as "without such evidence is outright reckless, unprofessional, and unscientific" and I called you out on it with some Biology 101 information with a Wiki Link. Where is your problem?

I don't care what you dispute or not. It is unlikely that you are qualified to make any statements about this or that you have ever worked in genetics on a high level.

It is Biology 101:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence

No, says science, experience and game theory. While this outcome is not guaranteed, it is basically expected.

The directed evolution of a virus, as mentioned, to become more invective but less lethal can be explained by game theory and is backed up by experience. But is is not a law, could also go otherwise around.

A UV dryer? You must be dreaming. Besides that it would bleach the clothes (what may be beneficial to WHITE but ONLY to white clothes), I would be skeptical about aging of the fibres. UV light is a bitch.

But I have heard about Japanese laundry machines using ultrasonic sound.

TLDR: The "news" is not the age of the samples, there are older ones, but that the virus genome is still intact and allows for a more accurate estimation of mutation rates and origins of HIV.

"There are older fragments of HIV out there, one from 1959 and one from 1960, also from DRC. But those pieces aren't as complete, and thus can't offer as much information about the virus' mutations. "

Paintings are behind UV shielding glass. Source: I asked an art dealer if he is not worried about his Andy Warhol pictures.

Tokenize it, make a Crypto IPO

Try Bodhi Linux. Then you learn about "snappy"

"U.K. leave and profit from the deal.|

I find this unfortunately phrased. There is not much the EU can do and the EU has no intention of "punishing" the UK.

But the EU will

1. Protect its common market and the four freedoms

2. Will not give a European country the same deals as a non-European country to protect the European idea. (e.g. won't insists on freedom of movement with, let's say Japan).

Both things are hard to comprehend for many Brexiteers.

It is unlikely that google owns trademarks in all countries for all trademark types.

Well, her prediction is pretty close for conventional oil: https://www.postcarbon.org/new-u-s-record-level-oil-producti...

How sustainable the production of non conventional oil is, has to be seen, taking into account: costs of production and ROEI.

"And predictions from the Peak Oil crowd from 15 years ago about what would happen in 15 years were mostly wrong."

I am not sure about this either. The limits of growth projected the problems into the 1st half of the 21th century. This would end 2050, in 30 years. The questions is: Are the roller coaster oil prices and negative interest rates we are seeing the pre-curser of problems ahead or just a funny coincidence?

"My personal take: after the 1960s, people basically stopped inventing more energy-intensive goods and services that could achieve mass market adoption." This is wrong. Most people would like a flying car or a trip to the moon. Bitcoin consumes energy too.

This may be an overstatement: By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/25/semiconductor_indus...

Please also consider jevons Paradox. A more efficient use of resources leads to faster depletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

"We are encountering the per capita "limits to growth" in highly developed nations but the limits showed up on the demand side before the supply side"

I doubt that either. In this book scientists explain there most dangerous ideas: https://www.amazon.com/What-Your-Dangerous-Idea-Unthinkable/...

One idea was: Purpose of live is energy dissipation. Consequently, I remember a scientist saying, in what to look for in extraterrestrial live: Look for an entropy source.

"It's true that the US effectively imports energy via foreign goods"

Not only this. Apple designs IPhones. iPhones are produced in China, some may be shipped to the US, some may be shipped to Europe. If you do this via HK, you basically pay zero Tax on the profits. This leads to:

1. High profitable US tech companies

2. Little tax revenues

3. As a side effect, the US and Europe have a trade deficit with China since an iPhone shipped to the US or Europe appears in the export balance sheet of China. There is a paper, I think from 2007 about this, that calls this "dark matter in accounting" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=878096

Based on google (it shows me a graph: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+energy+use+per+capita )

I would call the per captia consumption basically constant from the 80ies to 2008. After that is is shrinking.

Please also see:

Is it really possible to decouple GDP Growth from Energy Growth?

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/15/is-it-really-possible-...

EDIT: Added the link the the dark matter paper

It is mentioned in this post: Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

I don't know a book in English out of my head that explains some inherent features of capitalism. Gail Tverberg does a pretty good job but she does not explain a lot of things, she just assumes that you are aware of some things:

"There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)" http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat...

Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but not recognized http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-growt...

Partly relevant if you accept: 1. The need of growth in capitalism 2. That growth and energy consumption are interlinked:

Galactic-Scale Energy http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...

The was one guy he wrote, I think it was in the HBR if I remember correctly, that he found that the US has more and more industrial output/GDP growth with fewer energy needs. This is not wrong but it is only true because the US outsources energy hungry productions to China. I actually emailed him with some data. Unfortunately he never replied.

"It's important to distinguish between what Chinese people wanted and what the administration wanted. The imperial administration's pursuit of mercantilist policy didn't mean that "The British could offer little in return that Chinese merchants wanted to buy." as the article incorrectly states."

I think it is mentioned in "On China" that, when they saw an army steam ship heading upwards a river in the war they realized, the west had something they should have bought: Technology and weapons.

"It's important to distinguish between what Chinese people wanted and what the administration wanted. The imperial administration's pursuit of mercantilist policy didn't mean that "The British could offer little in return that Chinese merchants wanted to buy." as the article incorrectly states."

Yes, of cause. I did not point it out explicit. I am also not surprised nor do I care that my post got downvoted.

"Useless to talk with someone where the hint of an idea is not sufficient" Gomez da Vila.

It is all pretty well explained in "The rise and fall of great powers" by Kennedy or "On China" by Kissinger.

Scale and per-financiation of industrial production that requires economic growth to pay back loans (that are actually paid back with future loans).

Economic growth was also likely close to zero due to lack of energy resources. With no expected future growth you won't make any investments that bet on future growth. Capitalism also requires an external energy source like coal, gas, possibly nuclear since economic growth and wealth needs energy to be sustained. I have a paper about it, which calculates it in mW per dollar growth and mW per Dollar of wealth.

Edit: With me "having a paper" I mean on my data collection. It was not published by me.

They are basically the same thing since capitalism requires industrialization and the pre-financing (read debt based) of production methods on a giant scale.

You seem to mistake a market economy with capitalism, which are not the same thing. In the middle ages we had a barter economy and more or less a market economy. Nevertheless we dd not have capitalism.