Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Can you define the term "genocide"?
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
That, and a really powerful visualization suite. In the example I gave above, you could plot the prescription purchases on a map and see that people were driving along the highway and hitting up pharmacies along the interstate. Better yet,
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
When I interned at Palantir (summer 2014) their business was mostly in data ingestion, visualization, and correlation. A typical workflow for a Palantir customer was that Palantir would come in and dump a ton of data out of old crufty datab
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Sure. But we also shouldn't assume they will be successful at grid-scale either. Planning a grid assuming that some future storage technology will be a silver bullet that solves grid storage is a massive gamble. Hydroelectric storage i
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
What are the other storage options? Besides batteries and hydroelectric, there's only prototype technologies that haven't seen any significant deployment at scale. Compressed air, hydrogen, and power to gas have been tried but no
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Adding more overcapacity just wastes energy. Storage is the main bottleneck to widespread renewable adoption without frequent blackouts. Having more energy when you don't need it is only really useful if you can store that energy.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Norway is already 100% renewable because it has lots of hydropower. Germany on the other hand, would suffer from an extremely unreliable grid even with 50% overproduction and 12 hours of storage. The further a region is from the equator, t
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The further a region is to the poles, the worse intermittency becomes. Both for solar and for wind: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z > However, the share of solar generation increases less, or even
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The fuel is burned at the same rate using this method of modulating output. Thermal output from the reactor is the same. Electrical output is reduced because heat is deliberately wasted.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You don't need to change fuel cycles to reduce the output of a nuclear plant. You can accomplish it by more aggressively cooling the water in the steam turbines, effectively wasting heat (and thus generating less power). Nuclear is a b
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Nuclear's electrical output can indeed be turned down, by over-cooling the steam in the turbines. The reactor is putting out the same power, but less electricity is generated since you're deliberately increasing waste heat. This i
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Overbuilding doesn't make solar generate power at night. Days with minimal wind can see 10% average wind speeds or less.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Intermittency is a tough thing to handle. The US uses 12,000 GWh of electricity per day. The word used 60,000 GWh per day. Evening out daily fluctuations, let alone seasonal fluctuations, demands an enormous amount of storage.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Antartctica has a permanent presence that's totally dependent on regular supplies delivered from other continents. They don't grow their own crops, have their own industry. We couldn't fly until the early 1900s, primarily bec
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I don't think people understand just how un-feasible life on Mars would be. It's got 1% of the atmospheric pressure as Earth. It's -65 degrees Celsius. It'd be more feasible to try colonizing the Moon or Antarctica.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The areas around the nuclear waste disposal sites are monitored for radioactivity. Radiation drops to ambient levels very sharply. Radioactive material decays over time - it'll get strictly less radioactive as time goes on.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Seems backwards that people would want to work 14+ hours a day to make more money. What's money without a life to live? At least CEOs can vacation at their leisure. Blue collar overtime is just draining your life. That's exac
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I do not believe that was ever the case. They track searches, sure, but it is not associated with your user id. The way they treat incognito browsers is just like a freshly installed firefox browser that's never been logged into a goog
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I think the granularity of this map is far too coarse grained. Forks, WA and Seattle are in the same bucket. Same with San Jose, sharing the same bucket as Ukiah. The "Greater Portland Area" stretches all the way to the southern b
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Their hourly pay is misleading, because of overtime and container royalties. > And if you would rather push overtime pay than hire more docks men, you reap what you sow. The ports would absolutely love to hire more workers. It's the
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
For desktops users, there were other appeals for windows. A solid productivity suite, gaming support, and easier user experience But the important part is that they had the choice of exploring other alternatives. Unlike ports, which have to
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> But it'll remind other companies of what happens if they go too far (hence why they spend so much on union busting/prevention). How did the ports "go too far"? They agreed to 50% raises over 6 years. That's sti
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
If the unions really did shut down ports, I would be completely in favor of changing laws to allow non-union employees to work critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructure like ports, power plants, and sewage should not be allowed to b
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Even if they're put out of a career, they'll still be receiving container royalty payments until retirement (even if they get another job). More expensive shipping is a regressive tax: any product requiring shipping becomes more e
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Most of the regulations nuclear proponents want relaxed are around plant construction, not waste disposal. The older generations of western nuclear plants have a strong track record. The justification for regulation need to be weighted agai
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Yes. We've dumped tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean, with no observed ill effects. This is very strong evidence that another 900 tons will have no effect either.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The analogue to the kitchen remodel is that critical infrastructure is held hostage. Ports are prohibited, by law, from hiring non union port workers if they find the union's demands too onerous. This gives the union incredible leverag
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
They are in the position to hold critical infrastructure hostage, via a government mandated monopoly on labor. The ports can't just reject the union offer and employ non-union workers. Laws mandate that the ports can only hire union la
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
There is such a thing. Unemployed former dockworkers in the US get "container royalties" - fees that shipping companies pay to compensate dock workers laid off due to innovation. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lo
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> which can campaign on behalf of candidates. Wrong, if the candidates are directing or otherwise leading ostensibly-independent donations this is illegal. Independent donations are exactly that: independent of a candidate's campai

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