Maxion

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by Maxion 3y ago
I'm not sure how you interepreted my comment as being rude towards some group of people, I was merely describing why things are the way they are. Here's a longer description: KYC and AML costs are fixed. I.e. identifying someone i
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by Maxion 3y ago
Or, you know, the criminal committing the crime without a phone, and OP walking past the wrong place and the wrong time. A lazy police officer making a geofenced information request to Google and getting only one result...
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by Maxion 3y ago
Big problem is AML and KYC related legislation - this is expensive to do for people who are statistical outliers. I.e. people with low income. So it'd have to be government subsidised banking.
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by Maxion 3y ago
They tried to do this in Stockholm, but in the end it completely messed up the apartment market. People end up queing for years, or you buy on the black market for vastly inflated prices. Demand creates supply, but not necessarily at the pr
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by Maxion 3y ago
Once the context windows for these models grows by one or two orders of magnitude, stuff is going to be very interesting.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Yep, I agree. Long term the way to go is to encourage more no-till small scale local farming (A.k.a. the "Ridgdale" model) of vegetables and meat. This won't feed the world, but at least in the less sparse and semi-fertile ar
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by Maxion 3y ago
> I would argue that it needs to be more or less continuous, if we lost the technology it's a different age imo. You're looking at history through modern eyes. Back in the past there was no collective `we`, we were much more se
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by Maxion 3y ago
Exactly. The historical remains that we have are all very biased compared with how people lived. Even from a few hundred years ago, there's not much record of how the average person lived. Most things that survived are stone castles, a
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by Maxion 3y ago
You do know that this paper is published in Nature, right? Unless you're an archeologist with a credible track record I doubt that you have the expertise to effectively argue that this is find is not credible. Just because you find som
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by Maxion 3y ago
> How do they know the wood was used 476,000 years ago, as opposed to a human 6000 years ago finding and using some 470,000 year old wood? Surely we have not fallen this far away from nature as a species? Wood rots. IMO you're just
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by Maxion 3y ago
I think you misunderstand, 2kW is not the heat output of the system, but the energy consumption. That heat pump (AR09BXFYDWKEE) is rated for ~7.1kW of heat output.
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by Maxion 3y ago
You can get 10 heat pumps installed for 22 000 USD here. Maybe more as you'd probably get a discount on the work part of the install if you're doing that many at once.
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by Maxion 3y ago
This is just plain false. The entire country of Finland (and Sweden, and Norway) installs pretty much only air source heat pumps, air-water heat pumps, or ground source heat pumps in all renovations or new built buildings. In the north of t
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by Maxion 3y ago
> Heat pumps aren't that powerful. Is 18 kW not enough? https://thermia.com/products/ground-source-heat-pumps/thermi... Air-water heatpumps are available in ~9kW > Then there's the cost. A gas heat
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by Maxion 3y ago
We all gotta pay the mortgage somehow!
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by Maxion 3y ago
LOL no, we're using websockets but doing REST-like requests over it. It's fun!
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by Maxion 3y ago
I am literally working on a project where the backend team consists of three coders, and the backend currently consists 33 microservices. Common tasks for this platform involves calling around 7+ microservices. Thankfully I am working on th
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by Maxion 3y ago
Try to get developers who love to code and create to stay on a support team and be on an on-call roster. I betcha at least half will say no, and the other half will either leave or you'll run out of money paying them.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Dish washers clean dishes. If they aren't doing so for you, you're doing something wrong. I have never rinsed dishes. The only time something comes out dirty is if it's an oven pan that has something fiercly burned to it, or
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by Maxion 3y ago
> UK and Germany has a hang up that they need to reuse the existing radiators, so you sometimes need to do extra work Air-water heat pumps are a thing
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by Maxion 3y ago
Lol of course you can.
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by Maxion 3y ago
I think the more salient question is WHO will have to give WHAT up if we don't stop? I assume most HN readers work in IT with decent salaries, putting us in the 90th+ percentile globally. We'll still be drinking wine in our off-gr
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by Maxion 3y ago
I don't think the average (or even a minority of HN readers) realize how much they'd have to give up if we'd stop.
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by Maxion 3y ago
And a similar issue exists in Europe where most healthcare is paid for by the government. The value goes to the individual, but the costs paid for by the governemnt. Locally in Finland the situation is way more perverse, without going into
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by Maxion 3y ago
If you look at the margins on logistics and grocery stores (at least over here in Europe) you'll find the profit margins are quite poor, around 10% or less. Even if all profits were directed to reduce prices or raise wages it wouldn&#x
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by Maxion 3y ago
Am I just old if I as a developer think that 10mbit/s is plenty enough? I could probably do with 1mbit/s and still be about as productive as I am now.
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by Maxion 3y ago
> this._states.currentTimeout = setTimeout(() => this._checkTrigger(target), waitMs); So, uh, this seems like it's just a wrapper around setTimeout? I.e. croner will still also not work properly for shorter timeouts when the brow
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by Maxion 3y ago
My UPS most of the time reports just under 240v.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Also power tools, with 400v plugs you can go to much higher wattages on circular saws, planers etc.
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by Maxion 3y ago
I could get up to 3x64A in Finland if I wanted to pay for it. 3x35A is pretty common for new builds here. Older tend to be 3x25A.

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