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by Panzer04 4y ago
I guess you just swear off ever doing an algorithms problem? This doesn’t seem comparable at all - there are feasible circumstances where you need to know this stuff.
782.
by Panzer04 4y ago
Isn’t this the classic use case for debt? Upfront funding to fund an investment?
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by Panzer04 4y ago
This intuition can be kind of wrong - Long haul grid power isn't cheap, and it may turn out that large batteries on location will be more effective in many cases.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It’s only insane because we aren’t charging enough for the water. It’s not properly accounting for the real cost of the water usage.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I wonder how much of this effect comes down to 0 effort, rather than the actual cost - If I'm stopped to sample a chocolate, the free one doesn't require me to take out my wallet or find change. As soon as both cost money, the 13c
786.
by Panzer04 4y ago
I got a pretty solid foundation in embedded from ~1 year worth of uni EE courses. Learn a bit of Arduino, learn a bit of VHDL, fiddle with some registers and you're 90% of the way there. The last 10% comes from finding a job and just s
787.
by Panzer04 4y ago
If the price continues to fall and they can keep arbitraging, they could easily do quite well out of this (assuming they have a reasonable amount of reserves).
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Except market driven allocation by and large works, despite the sheer denial going on here. Not every user of water is uncaring of price, and water prices demonstrably work. I don’t understand the resistance against such a measure, this is
789.
by Panzer04 4y ago
I’m a little surprised at the vitriol towards market forces here. What would happen if we fixed prices? Make things even worse longer term as no incentive exists to reduce consumption and increase production. The shale boom has made oil com
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by Panzer04 5y ago
You can certainly margin your stock and buy something else with the withdrawn money, often at very low rates (eg. 1-2% at IBKR), but that runs the same risk of automatic liquidation as all margin does.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Likely referring to high-pressure room temperature superconductivity, which is about as practical as the low temperature versions (if not even less so)
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Agreed. It’s surprising how hard it is for people to hold two corresponding ideas - Russias invasion is unjustified, and we have done little to deescalate tensions with Russia. Both can be true, and doesn’t mean we agree with either approac
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Reading text on a low-res screen sucks. I agree, color isn't that important though. Depends on your workload, compiling a large program can chew a lot of RAM.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
The time was reduced by 68%. Typical confusing factor, lots of people get a "reduction" mixed up with "rate of work". Happens all the time in games.. I would agree with you, 200% faster is more appropriate, or time reduc
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by Panzer04 5y ago
If you don’t raise prices, many people/companies will senselessly consume excess electricity they don’t need. Thus, you get power outages instead of merely high prices. That being said, it’s not like most people have a real-time monito
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Yep. Traditionally, drones use 2-3 bladed props, each additional prop blade increases thrust per rpm, but increases load by significantly more, hurting actual thrust per watt. I’d expect a screw to be the degenerate case and probably worse
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Only if it means you’d prefer resistive heaters to heat pumps. In home gas is more efficient than a resistance heater.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
The second part is very significant. Many people want to diversify their risk, and public companies allow that. Rather own 10% each of 10 companies than 100% of one risk-wise.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Investors forcing the replacement of shareholder-unfriendly management. US companies tend to be better at returning cash to shareholders by buyback or dividend than many other locations (probably half the reason Asian shares are often cheap
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by Panzer04 5y ago
There’s a huge difference between what I’d be willing to pay for a good search engine and how much I feel should be charged amid competition (and cost to provide). Existing search engines are good enough for most purposes, but if there was
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by Panzer04 5y ago
I think it's worth playing this out a bit, because I'd claim there's an exponential curve here. Offer someone 500m (hell, even 1m for many) for one year, and I doubt you'd find many who would say no. There's a margi
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Because then they simply wouldn’t exist. If they did, interest rates would be stratospheric, with most of the money coming from the successful borrowers subsidising everyone else.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Gas is better than coal in a strict sense, and a combo of gas and renewables will vastly reduce emissions, and in a way most people can deal with. Over time battery prices will fall and renewable install base will rise so that gas peaked ev
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by Panzer04 5y ago
In fairness, a car represents more than 10x the manufacturing effort. A 10k fancy road bike is going to be much easier to manufacture than the equivalent small 10k hatchback.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Bit late, but I think you're tying the concepts of assets a bit too much into this. Any expensive item can be an asset, it just so happens that land is by far the easiest for governments to regulate and control. Houses are still asset
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Inflation screws the rich, not the poor. Statistically, the wealthy have way more cash than the poor, while the wage-earning population will get increased income along with inflation.
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by Panzer04 5y ago
I suspect this will also suffer from the “grass is greener” problem. Those who live in cities will romanticise suburban living, and vice versa in suburbs. Culture also matters; in the west the city is often seen as a place for single profe
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by Panzer04 5y ago
Sure, but that’s not due to houses being an “investable” item insamuch as regulatory capture. What would be your proposed alternative? Arbitrary planned construction? Like it or not, prices are one of the best ways to choose where our resou
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by Panzer04 5y ago
What? That makes no sense. More expensive housing increases the incentive to build more, which decreases prices. The problem is many governments, local councils etc regulate land use so heavily that if a developer wants to build a block wit
810.
by Panzer04 5y ago
And are the landlords just leaving the house empty for the hell of it? Or is it being rented out to people? I know with one is more likely. The thing is, housing is a surprisingly flexible commodity (too expensive, people live with parents&

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