VintageCool

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by VintageCool 4y ago
Most people prefer the stuff they're accustomed to, and they probably buy $20 wines much more often than expensive wines.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
After the SBF thing about boxes-- > Matt: (27:13) > I think of myself as like a fairly cynical person. And that was so much more cynical than how I would've described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi bu
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by VintageCool 4y ago
But that's TWTR, not TSLA.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
With the increase in EVs, AC, and heat pumps, I'd expect electricity demand to increase in the next decade.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
That comment seems pretty damning. Maybe it would help your point to link rebuttal.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
The pandemic made oil drilling + refining look like a bad investment, so the industry underinvested in new oil resources. Then Putin cut the oil and gas supplies to the world in an attempt to extort Europe into standing aside and accepting
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by VintageCool 4y ago
Steady demand (ie gamers) is good for making investments into the future. A massive flood of temporary demand (ie crypto) is dangerous. If they make huge investments to be able to meet crypto demand and it disappears in two years, then the
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by VintageCool 4y ago
Cursive and block letters are not your only options. There is a wide range of legible handwriting between the two. For example, "Italic" handwriting has (imho) the advantages of cursive without the excessive strictures. https:&#x
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by VintageCool 4y ago
American cursive is an impractical "idealized" script. Some scholar a hundred years ago decided that handwriting would be faster if the pen never left the page, ever . As a result, American cursive is full of tiny hand-cramping lo
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by VintageCool 4y ago
The low hanging fruit is to decarbonize the grid with solar, wind, and a batteries (and nuclear). Meanwhile, switch automobiles from ICE to EVs. And replace natural gas heating for homes with electric heat pumps. There are other challenges,
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by VintageCool 4y ago
Who knows, maybe the bots even have legitimate Spotify listener accounts.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
There was scarcely any financial incentive to address the grid scale energy storage problem until like two or three years ago. There are a half dozen startups working on it now. My vote is to rapidly install renewables while we have the nat
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by VintageCool 4y ago
Coal is dying in the United States for economic reasons, anyway.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
My understanding is that the Texas grid issues are largely due to increased population and lack of a capacity market. Texas has been hitting record high demand again and again in the past few years. Aggregate demand went above ERCOT's
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by VintageCool 4y ago
The Laffer Curve argued that revenue from taxation might represent an inverted U shape with tax rate. If you were above the revenue-optimizing tax rate, then lowering the tax rate could increase revenue. But that revenue-optimizing tax rate
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by VintageCool 4y ago
For the purposes of studying human archaeology, I don't care about the deep sea. I want LIDAR surveys of shallow coastline waters. Global sea levels 20,000 years ago were 125 meters lower than they were today. Our ancestors could have
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by VintageCool 4y ago
Possible title change to clarify: this is $80k / year!
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by VintageCool 4y ago
I think you under-estimate how quickly human populations will mentally adjust to "the new normal" and how much suffering we're willing to tolerate, especially if it happens to someone else on the other side of the planet.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
The article states that the Great Lakes were created by glaciers scouring the land, and while that is true, I think it more accurate to say that the Great Lakes were caused by a failed continental rift. The Midcontinent Rift System formed a
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by VintageCool 4y ago
CS was very popular in the US twenty years ago.
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by VintageCool 4y ago
California already has some big long-distance transmission lines. Path 65 (aka Pacific DC Intertie) is a 3.1 GW line connecting the hydroelectric dams of Washington and Oregon to Los Angeles. Path 27 (Intermountain DC) is a 2.4 GW line conn
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by VintageCool 5y ago
It seems to be much more common to re-use old coal plant locations as grid-scale energy storage sites.
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by VintageCool 5y ago
300° C. Nuclear reactors are pretty cold, for thermal generation. As I understand it, this is because the cooling system has to remain liquid, and you can only pressurize+heat water so much before it turns to steam (or becomes prohibitively
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by VintageCool 5y ago
We definitely can. The apartment I lived in from 2018-2019 was ghostly quiet. For the first five months, I could easily have been convinced that we were the only people that lived on our floor.
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by VintageCool 5y ago
and they might be again in a few years
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by VintageCool 5y ago
Well, he doesn't know. Most of Vinge's works were about getting close to the Singularity without crossing over, because he expected that technology and society would change massively and unpredictably at that time. The point of in
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by VintageCool 5y ago
s/got/for/
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by VintageCool 5y ago
I had believed that "nuclear construction is expensive, nuclear operation is cheap" got decades, and I spent a few months of pandemic downtime trying to figure out why that isn't true. I didn't find all that much to go o
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by VintageCool 5y ago
Hydro is great. Most of our hydro resources have already been tapped. Nuclear has produced a lot of electricity and avoided a lot of emissions. We should keep our existing nuclear fleets. But new nuclear is prohibitively expensive. (Our 196
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by VintageCool 5y ago
That map actually makes me think the statement is true. Even if there are a bunch of ships crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific, the really thick streams of ships mostly stick close to land. The only heavily-trafficked routes that stray fa

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