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by Retric 2mo ago
NIMBY may be the incorrect term, but objecting to building something that raises your electricity bill extends how far your “back yard” goes. Objecting because it raises your ram prices extends that to a global scale.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Saying X if for A and B, implies a non exclusive logical or. Income is for daily necessities and long term investment.
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by Retric 2mo ago
It’s not that significant but don’t assume low calorie means a specific amount of caffeine. Monster Energy Ultra Sunrise, Sugar Free Energy Drink is 155mg which is an unusual number for them.
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by Retric 2mo ago
> hard time parsing the second half of your comment. I’ll put it as a spherical cow engineering problem. Let’s suppose the temperature is 30C and you want to dissipate 2GW of heat across a 1kmx1km flat plate, what temperature will it get
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by Retric 2mo ago
> didn't actually click through Actually, I think misunderstood what they said. Effectively all nutrition labels are just using the FDA’s numbers on their ingredients list. They know how many coffee beans they buy and how many cups
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by Retric 2mo ago
That 3+:1 is actually from being pedantic. 2:1 implies 33% thermal efficiency to the grid which is commonly achieved in normal operations. Unfortunately engineering means you can’t work with such overly simplified models. Many ways of dumpi
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by Retric 2mo ago
At the bottom of the label it’s listing caffeine from all sources 160mg here: https://www.walmart.com/ip/12-Pack-Monster-Energy-Drink-Zero... So not the original is 160mg as are most of their options, only the low carb
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by Retric 2mo ago
As long as it’s designed for those temperatures everything is fine, but efficiency still suffers.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Data centers can afford to spend way more per kWh of heat discharged. Nuclear needs to dump 3+kWh of heat per kWh of electricity generated.
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by Retric 2mo ago
> "Oh no!" No reason to flip out just because you demonstrated your assumption was incorrect. Don’t worry we won’t test if you actually drink strong coffee. > this person You can find random YouTube videos supporting anythi
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by Retric 2mo ago
> An ounce or two of heavy cream. That’s 6-12% of a 16 ounce serving and even more of your “nearly” 16oz beverage. McDonald’s is known for having strong coffee and a double espresso from them is under 150mg.
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by Retric 2mo ago
And how much of that is milk, honey, or just water from making weak coffee? That’s the difference. What’s an extreme amount of caffeine compared to most people is presented as the normal servicing size. So the next step up is 2 of them.
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by Retric 2mo ago
Monster has roughly the same amount of caffeine per volume as black coffee but their standard size is 16oz which is a huge cup of undiluted coffee.
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by Retric 2mo ago
> something they do not need Except France very much does need AC. They may keep it off 99% of the time, but anyplace that experiences 38C+ temperatures should have AC systems installed for public safety. The cost benefit ratio is extr
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by Retric 3mo ago
Avoiding X% tax on money going in and paying X% tax on money going out aounds balanced. But you avoid the highest marginal tax rate when putting money in and social security alone doesn’t push them into the highest tax bracket. So most peop
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by Retric 3mo ago
It’s not limited to conquest, migration takes a heavy toll on languages spoken by a small number of people.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Debt always raises risks, it can be rational but an asset rich and debt free business is vastly less likely to suddenly fail which has a real impact on rational evaluation of the value of their stock.
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by Retric 3mo ago
401k reduces your taxable income when depositing money, this is more tax efficient than paying normal income taxes and then also paying capital gains. 401k lets you rebalance a portfolio with zero tax implications. The downsides are general
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by Retric 3mo ago
That reason was to generate more works. Before the conception of copyright artists would create physical works to be sold after they died to support their families in part because such works would be more valuable after they died. Indirect
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by Retric 3mo ago
Shorter copyright terms don’t prevent someone from retiring after making it big. To do that you’d need to cap how much they could make in total not the number of years their work was protected. Instead you’re essentially talking about hyp
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by Retric 3mo ago
People do care about income streams for their descendants or charitable organizations etc. So it’s not completely ineffective. What’s broken is extending copyright after a work was already created. But that’s true even if the creator was s
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by Retric 3mo ago
> Companies with projects that are doing well don't try to hire consultants who specialized in saving failing projects. Large companies where every project is going well are rare. I agree companies with good AI strategies are unlike
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by Retric 3mo ago
There’s some selection bias involved especially based on their marking, but you’re misreading what they are saying. > even within projects that we have observed in passing while doing totally unrelated work. The kind of companies with fa
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by Retric 3mo ago
> Homo Neanderthalensis is not Homo sapiens [sapiens]. Not the same species, but still capable of occasionally producing viable offspring. Thus the common ancestor as essentially a midpoint between each population would be more compati
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by Retric 3mo ago
Species is a rather arbitrary line here. Humans split from Neanderthal ~500k-800k years ago but could still interbreed 40k years ago. We’re likely more closely related to our common ancestors at that point of divergence than Neanderthal s
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by Retric 3mo ago
Any of the above, the world could just decide arbitrarily everyone with 1+B is suddenly broke. That’s not likely but it doesn’t break the laws of physics or anything.
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by Retric 3mo ago
> If they stop believing money has value (so they wouldn't want to come to my house), men with guns will come to their house You’re assuming there’s going to be large groups of people that believe money still has value. However, th
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by Retric 3mo ago
Signal is easier to detect with more data to work with. Largely AI generated books are a vastly different situation than a one paragraph homework assignment. But multiple rounds of homework assignments would change the accuracy.
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by Retric 3mo ago
It’s an arms race where the AI companies are at an extreme disadvantage due to relative training costs.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Economics has long recognized the distinction between GDP and value creation, but not everyone in a field is going to produce the best work. Intangibles and unpaid work get ignored not because they cannot be included but because doing so is

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