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by akamaka 2y ago
For those interested in the economics of this project, the details are available in this publication: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/88816.pdf Summary: This particular research project won’t quite break even p
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by akamaka 2y ago
I’m replying to the parent commenter and giving him the benefit of the doubt, assuming that he’s talking only about social security payments which are beyond the essential, and which could “safely” be cut back. I recommend to you to also i
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by akamaka 2y ago
Taking money from one group of people and giving it to another isn’t “government waste”, though. It’s essentially zero-sum (unless you get way down into the details of the economic effects of how that money gets spent or saved.)
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by akamaka 2y ago
Let’s look at the numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S Seems not ideal, but also not terrible. We have much less of a hole to dig our way out of than we did in the 1990s. Certainly doesn’t look lik
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by akamaka 2y ago
A good economics education would let someone be specific about what they think the problem is. What year will the US default on its debt? How much money needs to be cut from the budget to avoid that? To what extent will those cuts slow d
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by akamaka 2y ago
Not quite, because a successful business could be as simple as a lemonade stand. Government finance, on the other hand, is an exceptionally delicate game of safely maximizing spending to stimulate economic growth (and therefore future tax
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by akamaka 2y ago
> I should work for Elon and Vivek at DOGE and help America get off its current crash to defaulting on its own debt I’ve got an idea: take some good economics courses so that you learn how government spending actually works.
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by akamaka 2y ago
The west already built nuclear, but that era is mostly over. Two thirds of the world’s nuclear power capacity is in the west, with the USA far ahead of any country (with double the nuclear output of China). Even if all of the reactors bein
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by akamaka 2y ago
Is it unfair that if someone plants a tree, they get free apples for the rest of their life? It’s easy to see finance as just a game of numbers, but underlying it are real things that provide real future value.
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by akamaka 2y ago
By the pound, they’re 99.1% cheaper.
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by akamaka 2y ago
On that note, it’s fun to look at the responses on HN when deep learning made its breakthrough on the ImageNet dataset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611830
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by akamaka 2y ago
I went looking for a quote that explicitly references gothic architectural details, and quickly found one in Edgar Allen Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher , from 1839. The room I came into was very large and high. The windows were high, an
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by akamaka 2y ago
Your proposal is fairly modest compared to some of the ideas out there. In his wildly enthusiastic 1860 book The Central Gold Region , William Gilpin claimed that the Mississipi Basin could support at population of 1.2 billion people, and
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by akamaka 2y ago
As someone who hasn’t used Rust, I found your comment very helpful for understand the advantages compared to how JS does parallelism.
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They certainly can do something about methane emissions in other countries, such as this proposal (which is similar to the EU carbon adjustment which came into force this year): https://juliabrownley.house.gov/brownley-intro
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> people will build stuff like aluminum smelters and desalination plants to use the excess energy, and electricity will cost money again. But will electricity cost enough to justify the huge upfront cost of nuclear plants? If we have the
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by akamaka 2y ago
But the price of energy can be negative, so a new nuclear plant might never pay off its cost, even if it provides the public benefit of cheap electricity.
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by akamaka 2y ago
What you didn’t mention is the effect that renewables have on the cost of nuclear power. When you get plentiful and nearly free solar energy at certain times of the year, the utilization of your nuclear power plant will drop. Because nuc
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by akamaka 2y ago
Presumably the utility wouldn’t have purchased these panels if they weren’t priced appropriately. If you’re asking if Oxford can make these profitably, the answer is an obvious “no” because this is part of an initial production run meant t
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20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use(oxfordpv.com)
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by akamaka 2y ago
I counted 63 display ads on this site, whereas the article contains 9 sentences. That's 7 ads per sentence of content.
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by akamaka 2y ago
I think of it like exercising. It might be better to stay fit by doing heavy construction work and accomplishing something productive, but in today’s work it’s more realistic to go to the gym and work out with a machine. Similarly, since m
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by akamaka 2y ago
There is hydrogen airport infrastructure under development, with this project aiming for commercial flights by 2035: https://aviationsourcenews.com/airport/airbus-leads-uk-hydro... But it takes a decade to design and t
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by akamaka 2y ago
Twilio was forcing users to install Authy. See this thread: https://1password.community/discussion/116314/sendgrid-requi...
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by akamaka 2y ago
Thanks for the correction. One thing I definitely don’t remember from the book is the alignment of all the groups. I checked again and what happened was that the POUM (independent communists) ended up fighting alongside the anarchists aga
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by akamaka 2y ago
> Orwell maintains that revolution is the only way to remove from power the oppressive business-based ruling class of the type that has dominated the West since World War II. This line from the article seems to misrepresent Orwell. Perh
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by akamaka 2y ago
Carbon emissions calculations aren’t astrology, there has actually been a lot of detailed data collected. For example: https://www.fao.org/4/i3460e/i3460e.pdf
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by akamaka 2y ago
One example of how they might be abusing their monopoly is by forcing data centers to pay an inflated price for hardware that is similar to consumer GPUs: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
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by akamaka 2y ago
Didn’t read the first line of the article: > frequent alcohol consumption has remained stable
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by akamaka 2y ago
> But what conditions made deflation and growth possible together in the 1920s? They didn’t go together, the chart shows two severe episodes of deflation, one of which was the Great Depression, and the other was this: https://

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