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by baron816 3y ago
I think there is an high likelihood that weights will come down as batteries become more energy dense, which is probably necessary for full market penetration.
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by baron816 3y ago
This is kind of like saying “physics is harder than math”. Well, there’s some parts of physics that are substantially harder than basic math, and vice versa. Frontend development, backend development, physics, and math are all very broad fi
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by baron816 3y ago
European unions and American unions are very different. American unions tend to be far more adversarial and treat their relationship with firms as a zero-sum game. But Europe also has a lot of problems that the US doesn't it's une
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by baron816 3y ago
Can you point me to any unions where it's common for workers to get paid according to merit? Yes, I'm sure it's possible for workers to negotiate a separate deal with employers, but does that actually happen regularly in pr
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by baron816 3y ago
I don't expect modern unions to be as viciously racist as they once were, or to get captured by the mafia again, but you shouldn't expect them to be a workers paradise either. Their history is not unblemished, and their future wil
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by baron816 3y ago
Even if this doesn’t go anywhere (due to economics or funding or red tape or whatever), the best parts of this is we know people are actually working to resolve this issue and are making progress.
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by baron816 3y ago
Makes me appreciate being able set phones to vibrate instead of ring. Had that not been possible, you have to wonder whether cell phones would have caught on as widely as they did.
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by baron816 3y ago
Right. Amazon couldn’t have beaten Walmart at its own game, so it played a different game and won that instead.
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by baron816 3y ago
This kind of reminds me of all the weird toys people would buy in the 90s and 00s. Just an infinite amount of junk that would get used four times and then stored somewhere in a McMansion and never used again. I’m sure people will buy this t
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by baron816 3y ago
How much does a nurse deserve make? Or a home health worker? Or a waiter? Or a teacher? Or a software engineer? Or a business executive? I’m not prepared to put a dollar amount on what anyone deserves to make, and neither are any of you
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by baron816 3y ago
It’s been probably a year since I read The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich, but the ideas in there have really stuck in my head. The WEIRD acronym stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The thesis
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by baron816 3y ago
It was kind of like thinking about winning the lottery—the fun is in the fantasy of it.
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by baron816 3y ago
Let’s say frogs are proven to be room temperature superconductors. How do we turn them into maglev trains?
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by baron816 3y ago
I just mean that when you lower prices, more people will buy it, and they’ll buy more of it. That can more than offset the lower margin on a per item purchase. If your train has 200 seats, it’s better to sell 200 tickets at $65 per ticket t
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by baron816 3y ago
That’s not what I mean.
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by baron816 3y ago
I wonder how often managers forget that you can often make more money and profit by lowering prices.
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by baron816 3y ago
It would be good for countries to put a bounty on these sorts of things. That would encourage this sort of research. Better yet would be to offer partial payouts for failed efforts if research is made public. This is probably more relevant
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by baron816 3y ago
Imagine a magical genie came to you and said, “if you pay me 50% of your net worth, within 6 months, you will meet the person who will matter more to you than any other you have ever met. You will fall in love, have children (if you want),
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by baron816 3y ago
> The numerous unbelievably wealthy global companies all doing this in the same very specific areas surely have the area's best interests at heart, and want to raise its standard of living, so it must be something else. That’s the p
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by baron816 3y ago
Yes, it’s terrible that people in low income countries have jobs.
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by baron816 3y ago
People’s perceptions of college costs have been skewed by 1) tuition sticker prices, which really don’t reflect what most students pay and, 2) the media reporting on student debt and inflated college costs. I think #2 is made worse because
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by baron816 3y ago
Well, I’d prefer there to be much less parking in cities and for those big box parking lots to get filled in with housing or something more useful. But I guess it’s fine to put solar in them for now.
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There are better alternatives than rooftops. Covering canals and reservoirs works well because it also prevents evaporation. Farms and grazing land can also be covered with solar since a lot of plants and animals prefer not to be under dire
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by baron816 3y ago
I built a library https://github.com/Evernote/Aquaman meant to accomplish some of these same tasks for a Redux app (also did the same think for React context, but that was never open sourced). The things this misses, I
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by baron816 3y ago
There's a lot of work journalists want to do, but just don't have the capacity for because these types of articles take precedence. It could higher value, but riskier/time intensive work (ie investigative work). It's p
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by baron816 3y ago
Seems to happen in Russia all the time
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by baron816 3y ago
I wonder if "defenestration of Prague" became a memorable term 1) because of its historical significance, 2) because "defenestration" sounds funny, or 3) because nobles at the time just thought it was absolutely hilariou
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by baron816 3y ago
I think we really need microtransactions. Pay $0.05 to read this article? Sure. Whoever figures out the infrastructure for that (seems like it would be right up Stripe’s alley) is going to make trillions.
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by baron816 3y ago
Anyone notice they did the currency conversion backwards? CAD$82K = USD$62k
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They laid off all the employees based out of Chile too.

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