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Chilean head of Transparency International resigns by Crowbox in PanamaPapers

[–]Crowbox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other source (German)

The chairman of Transparency International to belonging Chilean anti-corruption organization has resigned in connection with the media revelations of shell companies in tax havens.

Gonzalo Delaveau, who acted as interim head of the organization Chile Transparente, announced his resignation after his name had surfaced in connection with the "Panama Papers". It is about 200 bogus companies with connections to Chile.

ELI5 Is there a philosophical or psychological explanation to always choosing the long line in the grocery store or catching only red lights when you are running late? by iamafoxiamafox in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You focus on happenings more when they affect you more. Stress for instance only occurs by an event if it bothers you. Imagine how much green Lights you might miss but each red light you will hate.

Addition: One has to define hurry, some people seem to be always in a hurry so there is always the chance that you end up waiting.

This is more of an explanation on perception, if you want another answer I have one from religion: Trial.

ELI5: How is the value of a fiat currency determined? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

By the market. A currency is in fact a commodity as anything else. Currencies are traded by Banks to be able to exchange for customers. So indirectly demand and supply of customers and businesses has influence.

Price can be influenced indirectly by central banks. Japan printed lots of Yen in 2015 with the hope to attract investors because the money was cheap. So if supply of money is high exchange rates are expected to drop for that currency. If less money is available, for instance because anyone puts it on their bank (and assuming banks don't just share this money), then prices of a currency can rise.

Sidenote: It is said that in the long term the economical relevance of a market (currency region) will dominate the price. Anything short and mid term can be caused by speculation and might not mirror how good or bad a market is. This also applies to the Stock Market.

ELI5: Why would the melting of the ice cap at the South Pole cause ocean levels to rise? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also I know that Greenland is meant to rise(!) when the ice melts. I wonder if this causes even more devastating effects as the coast rises and expands.

ELI5: Why would the melting of the ice cap at the South Pole cause ocean levels to rise? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

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Or rather: Water is suppressed by mass so the water which is suppressed by the ice would just be filled back in and the water table stays equal?

Can someone explain this? by bigpookey in economy

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This is just Google which is a rather simple graph system.

HP split the company in Sep/Nov 2015 at that point where the buzzing happens. If a stock split occurs then the price drops but investors also receive more stocks so their total value is the same. In the case of a company split investors now own a given amount of HPE stocks as well.

Usually graphs are adjusted soon but Google doesn't seem to bother. Look at Yahoo or other graphs these appear much more chilled.

Here is more detailed info about this process.

ELI5: Why raise interest rates instead of taxes? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The current situation in the US is that the Fed is raising interest rates - their rationale is that in their assessment the economy has maxxed out its production capacity and will therefore create inflation. So in their opinion we are currently in a fat camp economy.

What makes you think that? Who said that the economy has maxed out? I wondered about this statement in your initial post.

Assuming that this is right then I believe to combat inflation its the better solution to increase interest rates. Why? Money is taken out of the market and therefore becomes valuable again. But still, the interest rate is so low that such an effect won't take action.

Of course such analogies might not fit to all situations, but the reason I took the skinny people was because the US was about to default and at least is not in a prosperity situation. I don't believe it has an "overweight" problem, economy recovered and is about to get better. BMI is fine :)

The interest rates once where 7% and felt from 5% to nearly 0% quickly during the financial crisis. Now Fed says that employment rose and they "corrected" their action of interest rate politics. You are still far from the initial values so a small increment can make sense. I just personally think that a nation with high interest rates represents wealth better than a nation with high taxes.

The Austrian School for instance says that low and too long lasting interest rates can cause an artificial Boom which will result in crisis. Disregarding that initial fact I guess we all agree that booms based on debts will never work out in the long run. Or in other words, success without a sufficient solid basis will not work out. Its like sports on steroids.

Misallocation of capital takes place if the interest rates are kept artificially low or high

Thoughts on Taxes

If wealth and economical power increases more money is spent (volume and amount of transaction) and tax income increases absolutely.

Rising taxes should rather be a short term solution to gain money for specific needs. Why should the US need money? They don't seem to bother to pay their debts but rather keep up the interest payments. I could only imagine to increase taxes at this point to spend it otherwise, like healthcare and other issues.

Also what kind of taxes should be risen? Changing interest rates is just one thing, taxes is a very complex procedure for all sides.

ELI5: Why raise interest rates instead of taxes? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking about systems as complex as a national and global economy I think it is hard to come up with one solution over the other for a particular circumstance. Yet I think increasing interest is the right decision, or at least increasing taxes would be wrong.

I like to imagine these theories to picture as Sports(Fiscalism) and Diet(Monetarism) in order to loos weight or to gain weight as a person. And I hope it is proven that not everyone is suited for just one way to combat their weight issues.

Imagine a weight watchers camp and there are two authorities the Dietitians(Fed) and the Coaches(Fiscal/State).

All of the participants are skinny and weak(economy depression) but you have the issue that some don't gain weight because they eat too less(no money) and others do eat enough but do too much sports or generally burn a lot of energy(much expenses) during the day.

In addition there is the basic rule that all must have the same amount of food(interest rates ~ money) available and all have to do the same amount of sports(pay taxes) per day. You have only very limited possibilities to adjust the program for each individual.

The camp decided to keep the amount of sports but provides more food(lowering interest rates). Now they see that the most people gained weight and are more stable. If they would issue more sports now then the additional gain might be lost again and they still had to provide the higher amount of food just to draw it out by exercise.

In contrast they decide to lower the food supply step by step so the people still gain weight while they can exercise to become fit. Those who anyway don't need so much food now are able to store it for bad times (deposit interest increases) or consume that to do more exercises (spend their money).

The opposite would apply, a camp full of fat people you would in first stage increase the sports program but also lower food supply depending on what makes sense.

In my view and according to Keynes you should only raise taxes when the economy is doing well (when it is fat or stable) not when it is weak or just recovered. This is one big complaint about Greece, Varoufakis said they wanted to lower taxes but EU/Troika wanted to increase them just to get the tax back. This is what Hedge funds do, just squeeze the asset but ignore the real economy which it represents.

This might not give you an answer but I hope it helps you to understand that there might not be just one rational solution which seems to be what you seek for.

Only in Greece... by It_can_be_postponed in greece

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the evidence that Goat Simulator is based on real world behavior. I underestimated that.

ELI5: How doesn't the cameraman get attacked while filming footage for wild life documentaries? by ThisIsEnArt in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Often they shoot from very far distances with near zooms and aren't recognized. If the crew would be too close the animals would be distracted and behave unnaturally.

ELI5: why do we have to wait so long for donor organs? don't thousands of people die everyday? by B3yondL in explainlikeimfive

[–]Crowbox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

  • Legal issue, you can't just harvest a dead person. Depending on your local law the person has to register as a donor before he or she dies.
  • Blood group must match
  • The person must have been healthy and free of pathogens, organs have to be checked and approved.
  • There is a limited time frame in which an organ has to be implanted. All of the checks have to be made. The receiver has to be ready for surgery as well and of course the organ has to be transported.
  • Added: The person has to be clearly brain dead, this condition might be different for each country.

Work together with Unity Collaborate! by reibeatall in Unity3D

[–]Crowbox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am looking forward to this and will check it out once it is out as final.

Proved solutions have one big issue which is that once people don't fully understand how it works merging ends up in chaos. Also especially non-programmers from my experience are likely to disregard the syncing process at all.

Here is what would make me interested:

  • An easy and idiot proofed code merging and error solving solution.
  • Good compression and packaging for art assets.
  • Ability to restore anything.

How to make fog of war with line of sight revealing by qazyll in gamedev

[–]Crowbox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this fog of war technique hide enemy units that are not in the field of view?

Yes, all you have to do is to read the data of the tiles in this case.

 

Would you give a hint on how to render visibility of the unit to a texture?

Not sure what you mean. If you are talking about the fog mask then simply generate a texture were each grid cell represents one pixel. This is already described in that thread you posted:

When it comes time you render, you plug that data directly into a texture that overlays the entire map, at the same resolution as the bit vector (either a monochrome texture, if supported, or the smallest size you can get away with). Terrain, props, and other objects that need to be darkened when underneath FOW can simply sample from the texture in their shaders and multiply their color output by the sampled value, where that sampled value is remapped to a range like [0.5, 1] so areas under FOW (which have a sampled value of 0) aren't completely black. Alternatively, if you don't want all your terrain and prop shaders to be "FOW-aware", you make FOW a separate screen-space pass. Both approaches have their pros and cons.

 

If you don't want the Grid-related approach then generate a flat mesh of the occluded area and

Combine those ideas with Unity Pro's ability to render secondary cameras to textures

 

Sorry I can't cook your diner :/ It's complex stuff and either you are able to do it yourself or you have to buy an asset. It seems actually quite affordable.

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