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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
Yes, China is a big country that has deployed 1.25TW capacity of renewable energy, which will deliver approximately 40% of that actual energy, while using 5.6 TW from burning coal. FYI the reason you get 40% of capacity delivered rather t
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by carefree-bob 1mo ago
It is not just the US, it is all industrial economies, because this is primarily a tech innovation story. Newer tech is more efficient, so over time the economy as a whole does more with the same energy input. Whether you are looking at car
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by carefree-bob 2mo ago
No, you did not understand correctly if your eyes read "cheap currency" and your mind read "cheap labor". Something went wrong between the text processing unit and the meaning processing unit. Perhaps your meaning proces
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by carefree-bob 2mo ago
If you are trying to apply lessons from the gold standard era to lessons in the current era of non-convertible fiat currencies, then you are going to draw the exact opposite of the correct conclusions. There is a fundamental difference in h
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by carefree-bob 2mo ago
Being the reserve currency means the rest of the world accumulates your liabilities as their savings, i.e. it means you are the world's largest debtor, and the world's largest net importer. That is how the rest of the world accumu
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
You may be interested in David Noble's work on this, see "Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation". People do indeed slur the luddites, and I have to say, emotionally they are very sympathetic. At the
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
I don't think the schools are worried so much about not knowing how to teach students to use a word processor, but rather their IT staff not being able to maintain the equipment and set things up properly. Kids will learn how to use ba
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
It is not standard exegesis that Cain built a city "because he was a criminal and needed protection from the world when he lost God's grace." That's not even Biblical, as God provides Cain with protection via the mark th
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
No, he will lose the case because because when you are hired to, say, be an auto technician, then you can't refuse to do oil changes when your boss tells you to to do them because you are convinced the customer would really be better o
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
That is a very idiosyncratic interpretation of the tables of patriarchs in Genesis. A more orthodox interpretation is that Cain's line is the urban, civilization-creating line, you have metallurgy, music, cities, trade, all coming from
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by carefree-bob 3mo ago
Both Vedic Sanskrit and Mycenaean Greek are the same age. Of course there may have been mutual influences as languages take cognates from each other.
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by carefree-bob 5mo ago
The best Chinese RAM on the market is 50% larger and requires more power and thus emits more heat, as it is a 16nm feature size. If they can get to competitive sizes, then of course data centers will purchase it.
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by carefree-bob 5mo ago
I get lots of "load bearing", "seam", and "payoff"
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by carefree-bob 5mo ago
When I saw the design, I thought "This looks like a Tesla". I'm sure it's an awesome car, and also a high quality premium experience. The question is whether it can command supercar prices - they are selling it for $650,
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
What is a good TV show that is on today (or was, say, within the last couple of years)? I'm looking for recommendations.
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
Exactly. The mechanism by which the price ends up as X plus margin is just competition. Others enter the market and compete with you until the returns are driven down to the rental rate of capital. Any barriers to entry result in higher mar
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
Yes, search and summarization is where LLMs shine. I use them all the time for that, and much less for code generation. I would say search > summarization > debugging > code gen/image gen
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
The vast majority of offroad equipment is not farm equipment but operates in urban environments. As NOx is an air pollution concern, there should be different regimes for rural areas versus urban areas. Construction equipment operating in u
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
These are regulations, not laws, and can be changed fairly easily. E.g the EPA recently changed the rules requiring NOx sensors and power downs, which were the most failure prone components of the system, while still mandating the actual eq
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
There is not 30% inflation in any region. Not even 15%. I think you have to go back to the civil war era and greenback inflation to find numbers like that in any region. https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index&#
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
People forget that you could buy Ferrari's in the 60s for 7-18K. 7K was the entry Ferrari. Average new car price in 1967 was $3000, so the entry Ferrari was 2.3 times the average new car price. Today the average new car price in the US
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
I think this has to be done with technological advances that makes things cheaper, not charging more. I understand why they have to charge more, but not many are gonna be able to afford even $100 a month, and that doesn't seem to be su
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
Apple didn't use to be a status symbol. I think they earned it. And the fact that they are going all in on Neo tells me they don't care about the status symbol part as much as the profit maximizing. Let me know when Ferrari sells
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
That is a unique view of what happened in Vietnam. But let's look at a more modern example that makes your case: Syria. The US starved that country, seizing the food and oil, funding/arming terror groups - not just the kurds but a
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
The EIA is where Ember gets its data from. It's where everybody gets their data from. Because they have thousands of employees collecting data. These are professionals, like the people at BEA, HUD, NIST, etc. Ember, on the other hand,
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
I forgot all about the Apple car when assessing Tim's legacy, too. I guess if you are gonna fail, fail so deeply that it doesn't affect your legacy :P
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
Gas is certainly bifurcated. The west coast is paying up to $5.80 and Texas/midwest are paying $3.20 or so. NY and New England is paying a lot, but from Virginia on down, they are paying less. All the midwest is paying close to texas p
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
Except that didn't happen, and it's not a milestone. First, you are confusing share of electricity generation with the share of all energy. Electricity is only 21% of all energy. Natgas, oil and coal are crushing it in that rema
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
$3 a gallon is less than a dollar per liter. Do you live in Saudi Arabia or a gulf state? Here are historical real (inflation adjusted) gas prices for the US. You can decide how terrible this is: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
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by carefree-bob 6mo ago
No, not even close. US energy sources for 2024 (last year for which we have data): https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/data-and... natgas: 38% oil: 35% coal: 10% all renewables: 9%

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