RC_ITR

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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> FYI, coal is nowhere near dead. In fact it had it's biggest year just last year. Maybe globally because India/China, but the US has shed Gigawatts of coal capacity over the last two decades. > It's most likely replace
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>All car companies will shift away from the EV and towards hydrogen at some point. Sure and all coal plants will be replaced by fusion, but a utility executive single-mindedly pursuing fusion is not a good corporate leader.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>I really get the feeling that many companies are just blindly doing whatever other companies do. Alternatively, we are in a unique window where cutting underperforming projects whole-cloth can be done with almost no signaling risk (had
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Where does the article mention that? The entire discussion is around a 3rd party using public-facing URLs, not logged in users.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
To be clear - the issue is that you can't rip them from the public facing URL, not that a logged in creator can't download their own files...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>They missed the "we'll take 1/3 of your price too" part :-). Maybe revealing - the incentives provided by the 1/3 cut are maybe why Amazon succeeded and Sun did not.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>they say it will have DRM I confused what possible definition of 'Digital Rights Management' could entail 'anyone can freely rip your files.'
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>so that's what people value. It's not what I value, it's an observation of what others value. I know people couch their own opinions in the views of others a lot, but nowhere did I express personal feelings. It was jus
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I'm not sure how to respond. I don't think being conniving is better than being smart, just sharing an observation. Do you disagree with the premise?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Going to Idealab's Pitchbook page: 202 investments, 135 'exits' (I think this is where you get your 65% number), but 65 of those 135 'exits' were bankruptcy.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
There's two ways to succeed (oversimplification): being conniving and being smart. In an environment like the USA (where many of the world's smartest tend to flock and extreme wealth is relatively achievable), being connivin
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
An interesting take on AI is that it's just a tool that overcomes some of the quirks of capitalism, and we are impressed with that because we are so deeply entrenched in capitalism. Put differently - every website needs a back-end. 95
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification, but it still seems arbitrary to single out garages (I think it was chosen because it’s simply the most palatable)
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
And this is part due to the fact that real estate has to (at least in part) be valued on hypothetical replacement cost. Can’t have apartment buildings reading hands for $100mn when a new one costs $20mn (or have the land sell for $80mn when
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I disagree. The root cause is that homes are in part appraised (for mortgage purposes) on hypothetical rebuild costs, so this is a way to make those rebuild costs higher (and justify why you’re paying $500k for something that cost $40k in 1
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
There's the theory that building codes are used similarly (and complimentarily) to zoning laws to limit the supply of new housing (and therefore raise property values). A great example being fire walls and mandatory self-latching doors
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Yeah, because people who believe “services are a fake part of the economy” vote and their representatives pass bad economic policy as a result.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Energy production is kit a self contained endeavor. Transformers, steel, copper, pipe, valves, digital equipment for monitoring and control systems are just some of the necessary inputs for construction and maintenance. Freight is a ve
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Do we ship natural gas via rail now? Are we replacing our turbines every year? Plenty of economic activity that is not fake involves no freight.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
What about electricity generation requires a shipping container?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Yeah, the illusion of electricity and the Internet...
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
And therefore completely ignore the 50% of the global economy that is services.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Acquisitions mask a lot of it. Its why almost no YC companies have “gone bankrupt,” someone one will usually pay a nominal amount “for a team” and founders are happy for the soft landing.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Divorcing the conservative/liberal split from its current muddied use in American politics: Conservatism generally follows the principle of “be conservative in your attempts to alter society”. OpenAI is being aggressive in moderati
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Everybody can multiply money, but only the government (and it’s entities) can make it. Turns out, multiplying money is way more impactful than making it, much to the confusion of people who learned economics when M2 money supply was an
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I am saying he’s not guilty of any crimes yet (though he likely will be soon). Beyond reasonable restrictions to his behavior (monitoring to make sure he isn’t actively committing further crimes), he does have the right to live a normal l
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
How can alcohol consumption not lead to intoxication? Society has decided that for most people, low-level intoxication is no big deal, but I’d argue it is for people accused of crimes. Even one beer could make fleeing just appealing eno
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Even though there's basically no material effect of such use on your showing up. Disagree. There are plenty of correlations between intoxication and appearing at a certain place at a certain time in a condition of sound mind.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Pre-trial detainment is definitionally not intended to be a punishment, but rather a means of ensuring a party is present at trial.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
One has to remember that journalism is 50%+ access. All those hard hitting journalists just didn't get access, so clearly there's a place for both approaches in journalism.

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