DeRock

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by DeRock 4y ago
I’ve done >800 miles in a day a few times (San Jose <-> Seattle) with my EV (Ioniq 5). It was fine, stopped every 2-3 hours for 15-20 mins. Granted, it’s one of the better supplied charging corridors in the US, so your hassle/
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by DeRock 4y ago
My car has 77kWh of batteries, so it could power that stove for 24 hours straight.
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by DeRock 4y ago
https://projectsolar.com is another DIY-able option, where they help with the permitting, etc.
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by DeRock 4y ago
It would be interesting to see that metric normalized for average population age. US over time has skewed older (and will continue to do so).
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by DeRock 4y ago
Picked a random generator off home depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWALT-8000-Watt-Electric-Start-... 11 hours runtime at 4kW == 44kWh capacity. 44/7.5 gallon tank == 5.8 kWh per gallon. Lets say your EV has a
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by DeRock 4y ago
So did FTX.
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by DeRock 4y ago
Just use ESPHome: https://esphome.io/components/sensor/scd30.html
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by DeRock 4y ago
How do you do cash payments over the internet? Thats the whole point, enabling illegal commerce over the internet.
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by DeRock 4y ago
It’s literally there in figure 1. Wind and PV are now cheaper than oil, but still more expensive than coal and gas. I’m not sure what you’re getting at though, looking at the price of existing installations is not sufficient to account for
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by DeRock 4y ago
Not who you are asking, but here is some recent research using probabilistic cost forecasts: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00410-X
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by DeRock 4y ago
> $8 is way more than the profitability of an ad supported user. There's no excuse for "half the ads", it should be none at all. Adverse selection. The people willing to pay to remove ads are probably your most profitable
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by DeRock 4y ago
The real story is how much expenses rose. As a percentage of revenue, expenses went from 70% last quarter, to 80% this quarter. Even if their revenue was flat (it wasn't), that alone would represent a third of their net income disappea
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by DeRock 4y ago
> He'd rather lose billions. Its an AND not an OR. He either proceeds with purchase and loses billions, or proceeds with discovery/trial, has personal info exposed, and is then forced to proceed with purchase and lose billions.
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by DeRock 4y ago
The who is hiring post is always done on the first business day of the month. In this case it was Monday, not Saturday.
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by DeRock 4y ago
Its down >50% year over year (which should be seasonally adjusted): October 2021 [1]: 853 posts October 2022 [2]: 415 posts Not an exact comparison, as some posts will continue to trickle in to Oct 2022, but its still a sharp decline. [1
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by DeRock 4y ago
I have this exact set. It was a wedding gift to my parents, I grew up using and abusing it, and now it has been passed down to me. I wish it was easier to find replacements, as I find it too the best cutlery I’ve used.
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by DeRock 4y ago
You can just make the tax revenue neutral, and give each person an equal dividend. That way the average person would actually get money back from this tax scheme. It’s what Canada does. The goal isn’t to raise money, it’s to incentivize con
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by DeRock 4y ago
> a) Waiting 5 seconds/frame * 60 fps = 5 minutes / second for a video to generate on their personal computer, and doing this constantly enough that it manages to become a problem? There will be much more compute resources thro
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by DeRock 4y ago
I mean, its not hard to imagine where this goes next: video (and eventually 3d/VR scenes). Say 60fps -> 2394 frames/60fps = 40 seconds. That's equivalent to driving your car at (3600 seconds per hour / 40 seconds &#x2
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by DeRock 4y ago
What about oil changes?
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by DeRock 4y ago
The killer feature here is the recharge time, compared to the ID4 it will charge a similar amount in 20 mins vs 40 mins. That adds up on road trips. Its also more powerful, and has better tech (buggy/laggy infotainment is a common com
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by DeRock 4y ago
On a 5 year period: -MSFT: up 267% -GOOG: up 143% -AMZN: up 131% -AAPL: up 316% and META? down 6%
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by DeRock 4y ago
> My rough and ready sums put 30,000 pounds of petrol through the lifetime of an average ICE car. My calculation shows ~50,000 pounds. 200,000 mile lifetime at 25 MPG = 8000 gallons * 6.30 pounds/gallon fuel density[0] = 50,400 Also
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by DeRock 4y ago
It’s not very team dependent. There are a few tiger teams that work between Christmas and new years, but they are the exception (outside of retail). Those days are official shutdown days on the company holiday calendar.
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by DeRock 4y ago
Its a pyramid scheme distilled to the fundamentals.
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by DeRock 4y ago
They literally encouraged password sharing: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712
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by DeRock 4y ago
> the moral and legal right I don’t think bringing morality into a discussion about a public corporation trying to make more money is helpful. The owners are abstract from it enough that they only care that share price go up. > In wha
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by DeRock 4y ago
Here’s the summary stripped of the corporate BS: “We used to scale simultaneous streaming with your Netflix plan tier. We now want you to give us more money for that feature, so we are going to gaslight you into thinking you were never supp
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by DeRock 4y ago
I have a device from launch, and remember for the first while this didn't work, but now does. It must've been fixed at some point with a SW update.
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by DeRock 4y ago
More specifically, it is > Buying drugs, laundering money, ransomware over the internet. And I’m only being slightly facetious, these are serious industries. Bringing the coordination and scale of the internet to these activities is big

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