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by brownbat 8y ago
I think bmon just meant that renewables have more daily peaks than coal or nuclear, so they create more opportunities for battery savings relative to traditional fast start generation. More peaks doesn't mean worse all things considere
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by brownbat 8y ago
These both signal that Google often wastes its resources through poor planning. If you have developers working on competing products, you're wasting developer time. If you inevitably shut down products, you're wasting developer ti
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by brownbat 8y ago
I usually jump right on board when Google engineers build something new. I must be some kind of masochist. Is there any internal understanding that these head fakes are punishing to fans? Me and my friends were the ones that used plus. And
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by brownbat 8y ago
I agree journalism can exaggerate points for clicks, but this is a strange comment here when you look at the actual research cited. They are pointing to multiple economic studies based on natural experiments where the total prohibition of N
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by brownbat 8y ago
At one point it says Goldwyn's story tells you more about America than anything Goldwyn produced. What sounds like a cheap shot really lands, I'd easily watch a biopic about his escape from Europe, early work in a trade, dealing w
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by brownbat 8y ago
Hmm. I'm a little skeptical when medical phenomenon are ascribed to social factors, but I don't really know either way. I wonder if anyone has studied whether ADHD rates are influenced at all by type of schooling. I'd love to
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by brownbat 8y ago
Nights and miles are the metric to separate out "high spend" customers, up until you establish a nights/miles metric and you encourage customers to game it... I can see where he was going with the analogy to Gresham's, b
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by brownbat 8y ago
Wow, on average, these nine experts believe Bitcoin will reach over 100,000 USD! * * if you include McAfee's prediction of 1 BTC = 1 Million USD. :)
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by brownbat 8y ago
Tangent, but this place, which I knew basically nothing about before just now, appears to be stunningly beautiful, judging from the somewhat random sample of images on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayotte I
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by brownbat 8y ago
Huh. I don't feel like that was a "concrete" rebuttal to the point I actually made, especially when you really look at the "numbers" they cite next in the article, but I want to take a step back. I think it's g
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by brownbat 8y ago
> Ironically, the journalist went through the effort of giving some very concrete numbers: C'mon. I addressed that in my very next sentence after the one you quoted. A "concrete number" that is an arbitrary slice of the pr
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'd like to know some estimate of the rate of disabling or deadly accidents per mile ridden to appreciate the scale of the problem. The lack of gear and training probably makes accidents worse than they would be. But how frequently and
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by brownbat 8y ago
George Friedman wrote a book of creative predictions called "The Next 100 Years" that argued mounting depopulation pressures and labor shortages would lead countries to begin competing for migrants. Interesting that has not been E
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by brownbat 8y ago
They can be correlated without being a tight linear relationship. If every two people in a group have exactly one transaction, then adding 20 people to a group of 100 will create more new transactions than you'll find in a group with j
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by brownbat 8y ago
If one preferred the tie break conditions and sought to actively play for draws, how confidently could one force draws? Could you force draws consistently with someone 100 points stronger than you? 200?
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by brownbat 8y ago
Original article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-... Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523847
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by brownbat 8y ago
There has been a lot of research on on the "zoo" of biometrics. Doddington's zoo or the biometric menagerie make reasonable search terms. The idea is that you have a few classes of errors in any calibrated heuristic system, a
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'm constantly alarmed by the recommended matches on LinkedIn. I'm also torn by the business community's insistence that this site is a necessary part of networking and any of its practices are therefore beyond scrutiny. And
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by brownbat 8y ago
When I eyeball the graph, 2002 to 2011 really jumps out. For about a third of the graph the two move in lock step. It's a weird sort of inverted relationship when the variables spend so much time moving in the same direction. Here&#x27
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by brownbat 8y ago
That's a tough question. Distributed production offers some huge advantages, but in the nrel study above you'll find that utility scale is strictly more efficient. I think Hawaii is a good case study. Customers are generally frust
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by brownbat 8y ago
I expected this was true for the same reasoning when buying a home, but when I sampled the historical numbers, there was no strong relationship. Bankrate came to similar conclusions: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/mor
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by brownbat 8y ago
0. Have more conversations with more groups of people. 1. Notice the things that make you laugh or you find witty in conversations. Keep a journal if necessary. 2. Steal liberally.* If the comments are highly situational, think of ways to g
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How the Rise of Amazon Has Destroyed Retail Chains, in One Chart (2017)(digg.com)
5 points by brownbat 8y ago|2 comments
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by brownbat 8y ago
Just to footstomp this, there are other costs that are already beginning to dominate the analysis for solar, like customer acquisition costs. Convincing someone to attach something to their house has significant costs. Like, "over $200
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by brownbat 8y ago
I found one of the linked articles more interesting than the main one. Ten years of changes in the retail sector by firm size: http://digg.com/2017/amazon-vs-walmart-size The pace and scale is even more dramatic than I
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by brownbat 8y ago
Some of these I don't remember, and a couple I actually thought I was still using. :) The Dodgeball saga seems like a good case study: https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/05/eric-schmidt-google-dodgeb... It&#
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by brownbat 8y ago
Yeah, there are some writeups on that phenomenon: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/honda-still-wins-when-i... There are lists of the most stolen cars by year. Late 90s Hondas dominate. I'd love to see a list c
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by brownbat 8y ago
I'm very sorry to hear that, that's got to be a devastating experience to watch someone you know go through that. Basically impervious was an overstatement for emphasis, you're right. I was trying to draw a stark contrast wit
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by brownbat 8y ago
99PI's coverage of forest fire policy and design was really provocative: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/ 1. Our entire approach to fighting forest fires may just be making them worse. 2.
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Should we ban states and cities from offering big tax breaks for jobs? (2014)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by brownbat 8y ago|1 comments

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