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at I know that any of this is true but there is some indication that having low cholesterol makes you higher chance of getting diabetes. So we've got 92 million people on statins and many of them don't even have any heart disease. They're just told their cholesterol is too high. And because of that they may or may not be giving themselves a higher chance of getting a blood sugar disease. Now agai…

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aybe I was sort of on the right track there a little bit. But there the lender of last resort. I think Chamath said they'd rather see the Treasury do that. They set monetary policy. They regulate banks. That probably takes a lot of people. And they're a clearing house for payments, but it feels like that needs to be updated. So yeah, it doesn't seem as Chamath pointed out the Federal Reserve like gets together like once a month or something while there's $130 trillion flying around the world and they only get together once a month. Doesn't that feel like it's just something from the past? I suspect if you looked at all the activities they do around just setting interest rates that you could get rid of all of it and you could just put people in the room and say, "Well, what do you think?" Well I don't know. That jobs report looked a little weak. It just doesn't feel like necessarily they need to exist. Maybe their functions need to be just sourced out to other places.

China has a new source of power that is kind of fascinating. So it looks like it's a dirigible, a lighter-than-air gas balloon kind of thing, but it's shaped like a, I want to say man's sex toy. And it's a hollow tube and the tube part is where the gas is. So it's like a thick pillowy tube and in the center is a wind turbine. Because once you get into the stratosphere apparently the wind is always blowing and a lot harder than it blows on Earth. So one of the problems of wind energy is you can't depend on it. But if you put this thing up in the stratosphere and it just sort of stays there because it's full of gas, the wind will never stop and it will be way stronger than on Earth. So you can generate actually some serious electricity up there.

Now the hard part will be getting it down to earth. So the two possibilities they haven't worked it out yet. One would be that they charge a battery up there and then I guess it has to come down every night and discharge the battery. That doesn't seem like it wo

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uld work because the battery would be too heavy. And the other possibility is there are some technologies for beaming things down wirelessly. So microwave, I think. I don't know how hard it would be to hit that target on Earth with your microwave while you're up there in the wind. So maybe there's no way to get that energy down, but it's kind of a cool idea. The DNC had their little meeting recen…

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