ThomPete

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by ThomPete 6y ago
The cost of generating electricity is not really a useful way to think about it if it doesn't look at the cost of generating reliable electricity. Solar and wind are unreliables and can't actually be used consistently which means
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by ThomPete 6y ago
cost of what?
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Wind and solar is less than 1% of the worlds energy consumption. Coal is replaced by gas not by wind or solar.
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Doh I meant electricity is only 15-20% of a country’s energy.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Electricity is only 15-20% of a country's electricity. Add to that. In order to secure reliable energy, coal, oil, gas or nuclear are needed and because of the politically driven focus and preference of wind it make the energy net more
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its not cheaper than coal, in fact it cant function without fossil fuel. You need to account for the backup energy needed to if you want to talk about the price
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Clubhouse seems to be doing something interesting with voice chat, twitter is testing out too. I think it has value as micropodcasting.
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Fun fact pop.com used to be owned by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks. Back in 2001 the company i worked at were involved in developing an identity for them for some tv platform. It never went anywhere.
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Thats not a healthy bias to do research based on given that the kind of research we are talking about comes down to interpretation of data. I dont care if people are woke its up to them, i do care if they have an activist agenda.
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by ThomPete 6y ago
And from what I have seen her express, she wanted to use her presence to push an activist agenda. Google is pretty woke already so while she might be right, she used and benefitted from that too. This sounds like a non-event to me.
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Evolution is one long learning game :)
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All metaphors are learned. Given that technology tend to replace things from the manual physical world these metaphors makes a lot of sense as they help humans transition. Over time new concepts emerge which are based on metaphors native to
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Billions would die without oil as oil pumps and pipes gives access to water among many other things.
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Ask HN: What Back-of-the-Napkin Calculation Should Everyone learn?
23 points by ThomPete 6y ago|17 comments
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It might be nonsense if you believe that making energy more expensive is virtuous. I am unconvinced that's the case.
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Why is it worthy of respect to go against your own interest? By making energy energy more expensive all you have done is taking a step further towards ex keeping 1 billion people in energy poverty because you are making it more expensive fo
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this is why Trump was such a welcome change despite his style. he owed no one and thus were able to remove 8 rule for every one he implemented, challenge china, challenge coventional wisdom about middle east and get results that all the “ex
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by ThomPete 6y ago
Bitcoin makes a lot of sense. Not for physical things but for digital ones. Bitcoin (crypto) will be used for second hand sales of digital items from gaming characters to digital weapons or other unique items across different games from com
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by ThomPete 6y ago
At First Principle we have tried to offer our design help for free for the scientific research community because we want to support the community. Whether robotics, ai or medical. Most of the time there isn't really an interest from th
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by ThomPete 6y ago
I agree but I am talking about the consequences on third world countries of a slowing economy.
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That really depends on the context you think about this paper in. If you see it as Critical race theory activism (which I do) then it's not benign at all on the contrary it's deeply damaging that Google have well paid people who t
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domestic violense is up which hurts kids too. Millions will die of starvation around thec world because of extended lockdowns in te west and we could go on.
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other people who work at google says it was not unusual at all.
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You can turn everything into something it's not intended to be if you want to. This is a quote by a woman who was the First Lady. Intent matters legally to.
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it got approved without the review from what i understand
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"Never accept a no from someone who doesn't have the power to say yes" — Eleanor Roosevelt
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Ask HN: What is the best quote you ever heard?
16 points by ThomPete 6y ago|26 comments
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Thanks for clairfying.
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Thanks for clarifying. And does the physics behind such a construct ensure it wont explode or run amok?
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I assume this means room for another indie in that space now that Slack has been eaten?

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