As it is now, wood pulp and waste products are recycled into plywood and wood composites by binding them with glues and resins. This process allows us to take the wood pulp and produce wood beams and boards without using the glues and resins. With the added benefit that it's even stronger than existing wood composites.
If I understand correctly this process enables recycling wood pulp and waste with less inputs and less environment impact.
2-3 a week? I’m jealous. I’m just a programmer (or “IC senior software engineer” in corpo-speak) and I have 2-3 per day. Most days I only have about 3-4 hours after lunch to get any work done.
Citation needed. If you're referring to the USSR, please pick an economic measure that you think would have been better, and show why the calculation problem was the cause of its deficiency. USSR was incredibly successful economically, whether it was GDP growth, technological advancement, labor productivity, raw output, etc. Keep in mind all of this occurred under extremely adverse conditions of war and political strife, and starting with an uneducated agrarian population and basically no capital stock or industry.
The Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe writes of Hayek's calculation problem:
> [T]his is surely an absurd thesis. First, if the centralized use of knowledge is the
problem, then it is difficult to explain why there are families, clubs, and firms, or why
they do not face the very same problems as socialism. Families and firms also involve
central planning. The family head and the owner of the firm also make plans which
bind the use other people can make of their private knowledge […]
Every human organization, composed as it is of distinct individuals, constantly and
unavoidably makes use of decentralized knowledge. In socialism, decentralized
knowledge is utilized no less than in private firms or households. As in a firm, a central
plan exists under socialism; and within the constraints of this plan, the socialist
workers and the firm’s employees utilize their own decentralized knowledge of
circumstances of time and place to implement and execute the plan […] within Hayek’s
analytical framework, no difference between socialism and a private corporation
exists. Hence, there can also be no more wrong with the former than with the latter.
A family is small enough to allow for reasonable planning. (Imperfect still, as you know if you ever tried to run a family.)
Indeed, a private company usually operates in a way a centralized monarchy / oligarchy would operate: the bosses determine a plan, the subordinates work on implementing it, with some wiggle room but with limited autonomy.
Larger companies do suffer from inefficiencies of centralization, they do suffer waste, slowdowns, bureaucracy, and skewed incentives. This is well-documented, and happens right now, as we facepalm seeing a huge corp doing a terrible, wasteful move after wasteful move, according to some directives from the top. This is why some efficient corporations are internally split into semi-independent units that effectively trade with each other, and even have an internal market of sorts. (See the whole idea of keiretsu.)
But even the most giant centralized corporations, like Google, Apple, or the AT&T of 1950s, exist in a much, much larger economy, still driven mostly by market forces, so the whole economy does not go haywire under universal central planning, as did the economy of the late USSR, or the economy of China under Mao, to take a couple of really large-scale examples.
> Whatever you think you need to have saved, know you probably need more. I quickly blew through my rainy-day funds.
Huh!? Forget canned food and go-bags. If you only have a few days worth of savings that is an emergency. I hope I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “rainy day funds”
There is nothing that justified spending +2000usd worth of stuff for a 6 days power outage if the household had even a limited supply of non perishable food in cans + water. The first 24 hours you finish the fridge, the second one the freezer and then only into the third you really have to start using from non refrigerated food.
All his purchases were directed into having and maintaining power which were not really the priority. The silly part is he had still access to takeouts so there wasn't even remote risk of starving
BRICS is larger than G7 now by GDP and most of the world has deep trade relations with China.
US bluff is called. They can’t win a war with China, militarily or materially.
US wasted half a century and trillions on lost wars, instead of investing in its citizens. China did the opposite. And those fruits are just beginning to ripen.
Current membership of BRICS (BRICS+) is larger GDP than G7.
Either side!? Only the USA speaks of China as having no right to exist and attacks Chinese sovereignty openly at every opportunity.
The USA started the trade war, not China. US leadership and its propaganda news channels constantly speak of war with China. Not as a war to defend US territory but as a war to topple the Chinese government. The current defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote in his book "American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free", that if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, "Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years".
Hegseth said China “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, "If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday".
Relax, that's just words. War starts with weapons. And I would disagree that the US started the trade war. China has been much more aggressive than any other country when it comes to trade policy, certainly more aggressive than the US ever was. Ask literally any company on the planet who wants to do business in China. Or ask the Kenyan's, or Nigerian's about who operates and uses their railways. The only difference is that the Politburo doesn't (openly) discuss its policy. That doesn't mean its actions are hidden, the intention is clear.
Free speech is great and all but a lot of Americans seem to have internalized the idea of just saying whatever you like with no regard for feelings of or impact upon others.
War starts with weapons.
Please read more history.
And I would disagree that the US started the trade war. China has been much more aggressive than any other country when it comes to trade policy [...]
This too is historically illiterate. The US happily ripped off others to build its own industrial base, and arguably still does so, with AI companies training on vast archives of unlicensed content and data brokers laundering personal information with zero regard to consumer privacy. Historically the US forced open markets at gunpoint, most famously by sailing naval vessels into Tokyo harbor to demand the Japanese Shogunate engage in trade relations.
There aren't any ad hominem arguments in my post, though. Are you unclear on the definition, or just throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks?
If I understand correctly this process enables recycling wood pulp and waste with less inputs and less environment impact.
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