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by atwood22 4y ago
> So if people are literally reducing their energy usage during the night as a result of 'smart' thermostats then that's a good thing. That is a good thing, but the power grid needs enough capacity to meet peak demand, so
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by atwood22 4y ago
Go is a GC language, but it doesn’t need a VM. It’s a native, statically linked binary that contains the Go runtime.
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by atwood22 4y ago
That’s what you’re not understanding. “GWh of storage” is a unit. It’s not an SI unit, but it is a unit, i.e. a thing you can use to measure something. The production of this factory is being measured in this storage unit. Watt is also a un
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by atwood22 4y ago
It really depends. A lower valuation also means raising money will be at lower valuations, which means investors get more of the company, which means more share dilution.
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by atwood22 4y ago
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding the units. I don’t know what else to say. “Watt hour of storage” is not the same as a Watt hour. You can’t divide by time to get power. That should be obvious.
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by atwood22 4y ago
No you cannot. Watt hour is a unit for energy derived by applying power over time. That’s why when you divide by a period of time you’re left with power. The unit “GWh of storage” is a complex unit that’s not easily broken up. When you divi
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by atwood22 4y ago
The unit is not GWh. It's "GWh of storage." It's ironic that this thread started with you lamenting that units are used incorrectly.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, "1000 gal/d of storage capacity" is valid. "1000 gal/d" is not. Even if you used 1000 gal/d colloquially, you would have been talking about the capacity of the bottles. The misconception you're h
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by atwood22 4y ago
Netflix has 180 million more subscribers that Paramount Plus, which probably means 10 times the cash flow, which means it can produce more content, which means it can attract more subscribers.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Watt hour is a unit of energy. Energy is the capacity to do work. When the batter leaves the factory, it is empty. It has no energy, but it can hold energy if you give it some. It's like if you produced gallon-sized plastic water jugs.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Last quarter they reported 1.6B net income. Not even close to insolvency.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Sorry I’m not sure I understand. Watt hour is a unit of energy. Energy can be stored. They’re making batteries that store energy. A Watt is a unit of power. They’re not making power. So after a year of making batteries, they will have produ
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Why can't journalists use units correctly? > Side remark: it's actually kind of cool that you can literally specify the battery output of these factories in Watts. The unit is Watt hour storage capacity.
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by atwood22 4y ago
"Not only is this work evil, it also involves wasting 8 trillion dollars and killing civilians"
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by atwood22 4y ago
This raises an interesting question. Why is code copyrightable and a recipe is not?
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by atwood22 4y ago
That's definitely overwhelming. After reading it for 5 minutes though, there is a type called Telegram and it has a field called 'Opts' that has a lot of different fields. MakeExtra lets you take a type from 'Opts'
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by atwood22 4y ago
You're not including bank holidays. The UK, for instance, has 20 days + 8-10 bank holidays. Italy has 20 + 10. Germany has 20 + 10. Denmark 25 + 11. France 25 + 11. Spain 22 + 14. Finland 25 + 11. I could go on...
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by atwood22 4y ago
I guess it just feels a little elitist to assume she didn't know what she was doing because she was a real estate agent. She definitely was a part of the scene way before most people, so hindsight makes me think she should get some ben
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by atwood22 4y ago
I didn't think Bitcoin was a bubble 5 years ago. The only people I knew using it were using it to buy drugs, and the price seemed to reflect that utility plus the novelty of its implementation. That real estate agent probably did quite
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by atwood22 4y ago
I highly recommend TypeScript. I don't really like the JS runtime, but, purely from a language point of view, TS is my favorite. Some cool features: 1) Type unions interface A { a: string; } interface B { b: string; } type C = A | B; c
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by atwood22 4y ago
What do you like about Dart over TypeScript? The type system in TypeScript is far superior to Dart's. Other than that, the languages are more-or-less the same.
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by atwood22 4y ago
That data is adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). So in real dollars Germany did not overtake the US.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Dude, it’s a product owned by a private company. Do they owners not have rights to you? To compare it to murder is like the slipperiest slope ever.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Sure, but they can’t spend more than they make, and they can’t make more than they produce. Obviously this might not hold true for every individual, but it holds true in aggregate.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, value is created by work. The asinine thought process is to somehow suggest that a meaningful amount of economic output is intangibly created by not working. Economic output isn’t the end-all-be-all metric to use for life. But it’s a
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by atwood22 4y ago
> That's quite a stretch. Ask any engineer about having that a-ha moment in the shower, or when out for a walk. Downtime is incredibly important for mentally intense work. I agree but I think you’ll find that working usually contrib
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by atwood22 4y ago
U.S. productivity is higher than Germany (outputs / inputs), so it appears Germany hasn’t quite figured out how to worker smarter than people in the U.S.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Don't feel bad. Europeans have a much better work-life balance. Plenty of parental leave. A culture that prioritizes life outside the office. Six weeks of guaranteed vacation that people actually take. Etc. Those things have a price. N
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by atwood22 4y ago
tl;dr > While land system change and climate change are in a zone of “uncertainty with increasing risk” of overstepping the safe operating space, the report says, biochemical flows and ‘novel entities’ (“new engineered chemicals, materia
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by atwood22 4y ago
It's a form a price discrimination.

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