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by IMTDb 4y ago
How will energy be stored then ? Where will the humongously large utility storage center located ? When does their construction start (and when are they scheduled for completion) and how are those going to be financed ?
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by IMTDb 4y ago
You are right, I double checked. 275 10^10 Wh are needed as per my comment above and there is 160g of Lithium in a battery per kWh of capacity [1] 275 10^10 Wh = 275 10^7 kWh => 275 10^7 kW * 160 g / kWh = 45375 10^7 g = 4
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Basic physics 101. The US produced 4 10^9 MWh in 2017 [1] That's roughly 11 10^6 MWh / day or 11 10^12 Wh /day So to power 50% of the US for half a day, we need : 11 10^12 Wh /day * 0.5 day * 0.5 = 2.75 10^12
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by IMTDb 4y ago
The problem isn't the safety regulation, but the opening authorisation regulations. Because we basically forbid the opening of new reactors regardless of their safety we have said to all people with nuclear expertise "Go find an
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> The amount of proposed solar and wind and battery projects in the United States at the end of 2021 was 1000s of time larger than the amount of proposed nuclear power projects. Your article links to capacity not effective production
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Ah yes the famed 0 sum game. If that was the case, it should work both ways: when Bezos "lost" $20 billions of May 1st, how many skimmed labourers suddenly were able to afford $1 million houses ?
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Who's to say that companies do not also ask those questions while you are there ? I am a manager at my current company, we regularly ask feedback to employees. Partly thanks/because of this, we have a very high employee retention
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Then don't use it in the [insert warm place] ? -20 C to 45 C might not cover every place on earth, but they cover a significant portion. If you had to design a first version of a product, in order to gauge interest of the market, wou
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by IMTDb 4y ago
As the saying goes in the mobile app world : "Android generates twice as much downloads as iOS, but iOS generates twice as much revenue as Android". As a professional, you care about what pays your salary. And that is iOS.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I assume here that your point is that your company should use that money to pay higher wages instead of using it for stocks buyback. The two question that needs to be answered are - With two more billions in wages, how much more/better
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by IMTDb 4y ago
The question is not "can these job be done remotely". The question is "can these job be done more efficiently remotely perpetually". A lot of things were doable during pandemic time because it was global, temporary and n
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Unrelated to fork itself, but I always wonder how do people implement the vertical colored lines representing branches and merges. This is present in almost all git desktop clients, and of course very useful.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> "no, we don't trust the government even to decide if somebody is in a precarious situation, much less to know how to help them" UBI switches the question : "we think the people themselves would do a much better job
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by IMTDb 4y ago
That add-on works great. On firefox. On a desktop. Of a computer I own. That's not exactly covering a significant portion of my use cases. Also: I really don't care about analytics cookies, I think they are fair game and can gen
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Yes but you must understand that most of users are incapable to do what you did. Third party browser disabling is now enabled by default in firefox and safari, so no operation needed. API used for fingerprinting alternations require no
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Considerably worse Consumer end up clicking accept all on every single webpage, after the equivalent of an attention grabbing popup, something we were happy to see disappear when organisations ( and not governments ) decided to pretty muc
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> You really think that Bolt, and Bolt's ex-CEO, saw a letter from YC No, but I strongly suspect that both YC and Bolt CEO reached the same conclusion: "what was true few month ago isn't anymore, so we need to buckle, focu
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Both "we overhired" and "it's because of the market" can be true at the same time. You get a $335 million in Feb with a common understanding with current investors that you are going to raise $ XXX in roughly 24 mon
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Nowadays, he couldn't do the research work he did there and at other places at any big IT company - it's R&D, with the emphasis on "D". I, on the other hand, am amazed by the progress being done today, and the
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Note that this applies to biology PhD. Isn't a solution to reduce the amount of fellowship offered and increase the stipend. This would reduce the amount of publications, but potentially increase the average "quality" if more
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> I think the use case of this kind of train is more similar to a flight with one or more nights at destination, so that the specific arrival time is not that important. OP was explicitly comparing car and trains, not flight and trains.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Definitely looks pretty bad - but on the other hand, an accelerator not making any bets in crypto is not a sensible accelerator. That's why we have the concept of "due diligence". YC is absolutely allowed to make bets in
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by IMTDb 4y ago
This is assuming that your trip starts and stops exactly next to the train station and that there is a non-delayed train available precisely at the right time. In practice that's not the case and those time add up quickly . Car trip w
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I think a significant point in the 996 is also to ensure people are available, not only productive. Most probably are extremely productive few hours per day (let's assume 4) and few days per week (let's also assume 4). We could al
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> But that doesn’t mean that colleagues stopped connecting altogether, says Lopushinsky. They just started doing it in ways they actually found enjoyable. “On the flip side, the pandemic also led to the rise of more employee-led initiati
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Those 3 reasons can be summarised as : "We are a bunch of excited 20yo who think they know better than everyone else and we have received pinky swear promises from shady asian websites, so we are definitely going to be rich, trust us !
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Well...op left the company, so why should he still get a cut of their current revenues ? That does not seem very fair to the current engineers who a currently able to manage the $200 MM. As far as we know, the company really started working
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by IMTDb 4y ago
That does not change the point that most of the engineers earning insane salaries are working for FAANG There are 4.4M engineers in the US, but almost all of them make far less than the one working for FAANG.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
Netflix was beloved by customers because they were fiscally irresponsible. Users were getting more for their money than what they paid. Similarly, Uber was absolutely loved by customers when trips were only costing a fraction of what Ub
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by IMTDb 4y ago
We call them : The Iraq War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War ) and the Russo-Ukrainian War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War ) This is a discussion about a special kind of ex

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