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by IMTDb 5y ago
How much does renewable energy cost on a windless November night, when I need to heat my home and cook my dinner ?
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Logarithmic axis warning! We see no "breakthrough", just incremental optimisation (fine in itself). The biggest drop happened between 2000 and 2005, and for the past 15 years the progress have slowed (even after accounting for t
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Alternatively, the world was in a state were these people really did not need really to be working because economy was so slow, and government grants were paying for those salaries anyway, so people were kept on the payroll. Now that the ec
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by IMTDb 5y ago
More accurately: If me and me friends lemonade stands makes $1 million on it's own and your lemonade stands makes $1 on it's own. We bring them together and make $1.1 million because we had an amazing product and you are an amazin
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Imagine if I'm working at Google and I find a way to save Google $10M/year via improved hardware efficiency. The sole reason while your research generates millions of dollars of year of saving is because it would be applied a
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by IMTDb 5y ago
If it's just an irrelevant fact, don't put it in the title. In reality, the fact that we talk about an EFF member here should barely be mentioned at all as it's just an explanation on how the device was identified, but has no
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by IMTDb 5y ago
One thing that might explain this is how different the pressure is between different professions. My best friend is a surgeon, I work in tech. We both experience pressure but in ver different ways: 1. If he is having a bad day, the impact o
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by IMTDb 5y ago
It's absolutely a net gain when compared to running gas/coal only. But unfair to say that this produces 0 CO2, like it's often claimed. And this backup CO2 production is very far from negligible. Similarly, the cost of runnin
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> The buyers were nice enough to give us the precise reason for their drawback: - churn - business too dependant on us > About the second point, I was also surprised because we already talked about it a lot. > And this is why we ag
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Actual scientists and competent tech people have driven the costs of solar and wind power, as well as storage, down by several orders of magnitude Yet have been incapable of offering a way to power my oven on a cold windless night with
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Yes, a good business model would have been to : - Invest (a lot of) capital to develop the product, make data more readable, refine the UX etc - Invest (a lot of) capital to market the service to doctors, offering it for free to them, with
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Companies could pay junior staff significantly more if they eliminated facilitates costs and in-office perks for those employees. Those number seem weird to me. In my company, the office space amounts to roughly 10 to 15% of the wage c
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> I'll provide it for free, or my employer can Might be anecdotal data, but from what I have seen, the amount of people that are working from home with proper equipment and dedicated space is really small. People work with their res
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by IMTDb 5y ago
As shown in the comments over there, the article is very quick in drawing conclusions that jobs can be done fully remotely. Eg: In Q17, the respondent have to say that they work outdoors every day. If the majority does only say that the
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Where I live, people aren't that short sighted. They bought all the toilet paper, planning months ahead. Where you live, people chose to ensure that their comfort would be safeguarded, above all else, even if that lead to shortage
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> I'm in Europe and I'd happily wear a jacket and a winter cap indoors. That's the theory. Here is probably what would happen in practice: all the people that have disposable income will swallow the cost. All the people wh
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The vast majority of jobs cannot be done remotely. The HN crowd is heavily skewed toward programming / engineering jobs that can sometimes be done remotely. But overall, most jobs do require a physical presence. Think "people care
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Because the only way to guarantee that people have less than an hour of commute to their job is to create extremely dense population center which means extremely small living spaces which are almost universally hated. And most jobs cann
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by IMTDb 5y ago
I think labels are more relevant than ever. In a world where it's easier and easier to create music, and distribute it, how do you discover music ? Through curators, podcasts etc. And those are managed by - you guessed it - labels. T
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> What does this say about NFTs exactly? "it was done as a joke and nothing more." can pretty much describe NFTs
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by IMTDb 5y ago
And there is "the law" and "the other law", often times the two being incompatible, so you're kinda left in the middle trying to kinda please both sides. Like when governments agencies ask to both "disable all
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> declaring HFT completely useless, for example. Please do ! The amount of resources invested in making HFT possible and profitable is no where close to being justified by the benefits it brings to society as a whole. Making financial in
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Precisely as much as what today's kid are doing. Which means close to none for some, and quite a lot for others. And some discover it from books and some from wikipedia, reddit, YouTube etc. Some kids with use those new resources to cr
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The same argument can be made about anything subsidised: sport, art, research, healthcare, ... . Yet, a significant portion of what you experience has been indirectly affected by these subsidies. I am willing to bet that opera has had a tre
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The spirit of the GDPR is "do what we think is right even if we don't really understand what you really are doing - we have very fancy principles but no idea how to implement those, so we'll impose a ton of crazy measures hop
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Wait, does the mean that if we wanted to use solar as an energy source for the world we would need to cover roughly 1/1700 of the entire surface of the planet with perfectly efficient panels and interconnections between the east an
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by IMTDb 5y ago
I think you are overestimating the amount of jobs that can be done remotely. Things that can never be done remotely: agriculture, construction, manufacture, hospitality, a big part of health/elder care, a big part of education, anythin
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> People who prefer "from home" would rather make the effort of communicating by text / visio so that they don't have to deal with the commute. Precisely ! That's why it's important to communicate clearly t
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by IMTDb 5y ago
It's only a sunken cost fallacy if you consider that the cost to be in-office is lower than the benefits it brings. Otherwise you can see this as being able to get the benefits of an investment, which would be strange not to do. Some a
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Well...they are, for companies that have decided to be primarily office oriented, and have invested a lot in making that work. And similarly, office worker are a burden for remote oriented organisations because they incur costs that were no

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