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Sounds like a desperate attempt to get more people citing you.

That’s not a traditional brick at all! You kids these these days with your modern concrete bricks, why in my days, we had to dig up clay from the river and fire bricks in our own kiln before we could… Uhm… build sheds.

That’s from building nuclear weapons though, not power

Don’t skip the betavoltaic battery, (or the brand-name: Betacel), which turns beta-radiation directly into electricity. They used them in the 70s to power pacemakers, since batteries were kinda shit back then, and implanting Prometium into people is just too epic not to do.

Nowadays we have tritium-decay betavoltaic batteries, on satellites, buried or underwater sensors and probably some too secret military stuff.

$500 for a single glass bottle?

Wow, they made Warcraft look like a flash game…

Does it at least take a long time, thereby not entirely ruining my analogy?

Hedging is done in many different ways. One of the easiest, that requires zero insight is a future hedge.

Say I hold 1000 shares worth 5 bucks each in company Bob. If the price goes up, that’s great, but I’ll need to replace my car in three years, and I’ll need at least 3000 bucks for that.

So, I’m going to spend some money now on buying an option in 2 years 11 months to sell 1000 shares for 3 bucks per share. That way, if Bob company completely collapses, I’ll always have at minimum 3000 bucks.

Of course, those options cost money to buy, so I’ll have to pay to reduce my risk, but I don’t need any real insight into the market to use this kind of hedge.

Hedging isn’t about ensuring gains, it’s about reducing losses.

The classic non-stock example is the apple farmer. Apple trees take a long time to grow, years before they produce any significant amount of apples.

Suppose I plant an orchard of the new Awesome Amy Apple trees. I’m betting those will really take off in two years, so they’ll be really profitable. But since these apples are my entire income, and I’d rather not eat an entirely apple-based diet by then, I’m going to hedge my investment. I’m giving up some profit to reduce my risks.

I’m making a contract to sell half my apples for, say, 20 dollars per bucket. Now, they might be worth 40, but they might also be completely worthless if the Perfect Pete Apple becomes more popular. So I’m giving up some potential profit in exchange for certainty by hedging.

Another type of hedge would be me planting 75% Awesome Amy, and 25% Perfect Pete. I’m still assuming the alliteration will win the day, but by spreading my investment around, I’m reducing my risk.

To translate this to the stock market, the first examples would be to buy options for the future. The second example is simply spreading your investments.

The sewage treatment is not built to handle that kind of stuff.

They’re also not built to handle it in the US, but lower standards solve that problem pretty handily

It is on Audible, and I’ve got too many credits anyway… But it’s also over 15 hours

I hate spell components if they’re not part of the plot, so we don’t use them in the game. If a spell lists no value, just assume you pull a pinch of something out of somewhere, and if you’re stripped, you no longer have it. If a spell lists a value that’s less than half a percent of your wealth, I see above.

The only time I care is when it’s something super specific or expensive. Like “a hair from the target” or “1000gp worth of [thing]”.

I got it from wikipedia, so no clue.

While alone, Schofield is shot and killed. He later wakes up, found to have been accidentally resurrected by his attacker,

I hate when that happens.

I feel like group number 2 is a lot closer to reality.

When you’re loading 122mm rockets into your 120mm launcher.

you now know that they are willing to abandon anyone they claim to protect.

I don’t think you feel irony here for anyone who is, say, LGBTQ, PoC, Ukranianian, Female or poor.

You should now know that their words are meaningless

Well… That could immediately be applied to anyone who helps get conservatives elected as well, wouldn’t you say? Only to a much greater degree, since the people hurt are much more numerous.

Well, it’s a change from draining the coolant to get blinddrunk

But what about the Meriadoc Falcon?