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by abeppu 3y ago
... but university students (and especially international students) are paying a lot of money. We're all (understandably) upset if we pay for something much more modest and when it has an issue we're unable to talk to a real human
902.
by abeppu 3y ago
But if you already have a substantial PV setup, and you're within shooting distance of providing power to cover your own use, it may be come worth it to expand (or decrease your use) if you're faced with paying $1536/year (12
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by abeppu 3y ago
The authors _want_ you to use more power. But they think it's going to be in the form of buying an EV or an electric furnace, as versus just running your AC more days per year. They frame this specifically in terms of meeting our carbo
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by abeppu 3y ago
I spent some time digging into this a while back. I think this is a really poorly thought-out policy, in part b/c it's conflating three separate issues: 1. Low and moderate income families should be able to afford their energy bil
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by abeppu 3y ago
One question this raises for me is, how should the number of dependents a person has impact their compensation? How should a person's membership of a larger household vs living alone impact their compensation? This displays the cost of
906.
by abeppu 3y ago
I'm kinda shocked by the pictures near the bottom of it being moved, including one where it's lifted by ... a tractor with a loader fork? Or loaded onto an open trailer?
907.
by abeppu 3y ago
Having never heard of this person, I clicked through to their author page which has apparently only the books she actually wrote. They're all books about writing books: "The Business of Being a Writer", "Publishing 101&q
908.
by abeppu 3y ago
I'm guessing this can't happen for institutional reasons, but given that dentists are using x-rays + cameras, and apparently even sending people home with copies of images, is there room for a standardized ML-based "check&quo
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by abeppu 3y ago
Honestly, I get that. I work at a company with engineers mostly in the US and in an EU country, and my understanding is that, though our salaries in that EU country are top of the range, they are still meaningfully lower than for US enginee
910.
by abeppu 3y ago
While I think there are a bunch of legitimate reasons to be skeptical that LLMs are going to turn out to be the primary ingredient of AGI, I think this take is just a bit off the rails. You don't get to hold up Newton and Kepler etc an
911.
by abeppu 3y ago
What do you mean "next"? People are dying today (and in previous years) from heat waves (and floods, and hurricanes, etc etc). Climate crisis deaths are here, and will only accelerate. I agree, we need to take it seriously, and th
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by abeppu 3y ago
Maybe everyone shouldn't use exactly the same amount of resources (e.g. living in some places "naturally" requires more energy for heating/cooling than others), but so long as the externalities associated with consumptio
913.
by abeppu 3y ago
The linked footprint network says that globally we're at a deficit of ~1 hectare per person, and because they're using 2019 figures for population, this is about 7.8B hectares total. Apparently the earth's land area is around
914.
by abeppu 3y ago
Ok, I agree that disruption for the sake of disruption is distinct from disruption as a tactic towards some actual goal. But also, MLK was part of a movement with a huge number of people, almost none of whom had his style. But the people wh
915.
by abeppu 3y ago
So if the uptake is "refrain from (non-productive) virtue signalling, especially where that takes the form of criticism or indignation directed at someone else", then considered as a first order comment and suggestion, that in ge
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by abeppu 3y ago
That article specifically discusses water filtration plants that are handling concentrated PFAS after filtering them away from drinking water. That the small fraction of them flowing through water treatment facilities can be broken down wit
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think the 30kg/tree varies widely both by species and conditions, and critically given the timeline you've mentioned (by 2030) by _maturity_. E.g. this source estimates 10kg/year for the first 20 years, but if much of that
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by abeppu 3y ago
That only makes sense if you're willing to commit to it. "Leave areas alone and let nature do its thing" can't just mean "don't run deliberate tree-planting efforts with short-sighted planing". Actually le
919.
by abeppu 3y ago
> Like google has strip mines the internet and left a toxic pit behind Can you clarify what you mean? I think there's a sense in which sometimes people say that google ruined the internet b/c (a) their prominence and their algo
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by abeppu 3y ago
> A majority of the value created by modern software ultimately comes from free and open source software. > From this perspective most VC investments aren’t about creating value but about strip-mining FLOSS projects and communities. T
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by abeppu 3y ago
More than one thing can be true: - Cars can be dangerous for cyclists, even when those cyclists follow all the rules, as the article makes clear - E-bikes can also be dangerous for other road (or sidewalk) users, especially when they disreg
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by abeppu 3y ago
> “Ancient DNA and language phylogenetics thus combine to suggest that the resolution to the 200-year-old Indo-European enigma lies in a hybrid of the farming and Steppe hypotheses” Can someone with a background in this area speak to why
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by abeppu 3y ago
Re your comment on CS PhDs not having probability background -- do you find that's true of ML researchers? I would understand that in a bunch of CS specialties, probability may not be a requirement, but in ML I would have expected othe
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Pyro enables flexible and expressive deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling. Does anyone who works in this area have a sense of why PPLs haven't "taken off" really? L
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by abeppu 3y ago
Even looking at the actual paper [1] I think no raindrop ever touched such a device during their experiments? In their extremely brief experiments section, they say "The water droplet was generated by the commercial infusion sets"
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by abeppu 3y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Mouchot Aside from the fact that this was in the 19th century, the other really impressive thing is he was a working math teacher!
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The French solar power pioneer who was light years ahead(theguardian.com)
2 points by abeppu 3y ago|1 comments
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by abeppu 3y ago
While I of course agree that you should be able to exercise your first amendment (and other constitutional rights) around police officers, and I would also like to see fewer officers carrying deadly weapons, I don't see why they should
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by abeppu 3y ago
But also when one family with school aged kids moves out, some proportion of the time, the buyers don't have kids. The houses don't have to be vacant for their stated number to hold. I didn't look closely but their data did c
930.
by abeppu 3y ago
I guess it's a bad sign for the discussion that currently the two posts trying to point to the actual document are at the very bottom.

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