cman1444

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by cman1444 9mo ago
Parking for charging can be done en masse though. For example, waymo could have a single large charging facility somewhere out-of-the-way. Small price to pay in my opinion. The parking gains are huge though. As adoption increases, parking d
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by cman1444 9mo ago
California, while not a country, is basically the size of one and they have made significant progress with this strategy. Why is this any different than the sheer size of manufacturing and natural resources to extract other forms of energy?
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by cman1444 9mo ago
Surely it is? The fixed installation costs are spread over a smaller number of panels. Which do you think is cheaper: installing an acre of solar panels across 300 seperate homes, or an acre of panels in one go on a solar farm?
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by cman1444 9mo ago
Exactly. Funnily enough though, these city council requirements are a big part of the reason we aren't building enough housing around the US.
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by cman1444 9mo ago
Of the dual mandate, which would you say prioritizes the investor class, and how would you approach it differently?
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by cman1444 9mo ago
Maybe you're right, but I view it more as: China can now be confident that the US doesn't care much at all about the sovereignty of weaker nations or coming to the aid of allies. "Might makes right", and if China asserts
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by cman1444 9mo ago
>How does Maduro being ousted change the physical realities of an amphibious invasion of Taiwan? You think international law is what has been preventing Xi from invading? It doesn't change the physical realities of that much at all
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by cman1444 9mo ago
Indeed. If I'm Xi, I'm invading Taiwan tomorrow. Russia invading Ukraine, USA decapitating Venezuela....there's not even a pretense that international law matters any more. It's also clear that Trump only respects power,
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by cman1444 10mo ago
Doesn't this happen for lots of area codes? 305 for Miami in particular as Mr. Pitbull likes to remind us.
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by cman1444 11mo ago
I'm not. A few podcasts I've listened to recently (mostly Odd Lots) explored how a pop is often preferable to a protracted downturn because it weeds out the losers quickly and allows the economy to begin the recovery aspect sooner
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by cman1444 11mo ago
And yet, if the system wasn't set up this way it's likely that these medicines would never have been developed in the first place. If we take away investor returns now, why would they ever pursue developing similarly effective dru
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by cman1444 1y ago
One interesting aspect of this is that, with the exception of OpenAI, all of the companies leading this boom generate massive amounts of income from other arms of their buinesses. I think this is one reason for the potentially longer run, s
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by cman1444 1y ago
...do nuclear bombs release significant amounts of CO2? I didn't think they did.
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by cman1444 1y ago
I agree, though it's not out of the question that there could one day be a single country whose economy relies entirely on data centers, similarly to petrostates. Maybe we'll call them datastates, or compustates.
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by cman1444 1y ago
What's the advantage of the end user financing this? If it would be a good investment for an individual, surely it would be an even better investment for institutional money.
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by cman1444 1y ago
I meant advantageous in that the anti-duck-curve of these panels would only be superior compared to the duck curve of a fixed panel. But that it would be inferior compared to the (what I presume is) the very high peak of the regular-duck-cu
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by cman1444 1y ago
Just to be clear, this is only advantageous when compared to fixed solar panels, not solar tracking ones correct?
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by cman1444 1y ago
I think the main point is the manner in which these cuts were conducted. These were chaotic, very quick, and reckless. Very little empathy was shown. They were conducted by 19-23 year olds with the world's richest man (who bought his p
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by cman1444 1y ago
I agree that rail still wins on the capacity front by far. I was just pointing out that self driving cars should offer some improvements over the current state of traffic. I don't think that walking for 30 minutes is "no issue&quo
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by cman1444 1y ago
I could certainly see a scenario years down the road where having your own self driving car is a luxury/status symbol.
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by cman1444 1y ago
I disagree. Building trains in America is next to impossible in the modern day. Obtaining the property for the railways would be extraordinarily difficult, because America has such strong property rights and is such a legalistic society. It
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by cman1444 1y ago
- There were many weapons in fact, and there were vague plans, but not detailed ones. An insurrection is according to Webster's "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government". https:&#
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by cman1444 1y ago
For me personally, the through line is that chester cheetah, along with most other spokespeople, was not advancing a political organization that demonized and persecuted outgroups, or that tried to subvert and consolidate power. I believe t
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by cman1444 1y ago
First of all, it is important to not generalize an entire side of the spectrum based on the actions of an individual. Secondly, if you are going to do that you should apply the same logic to both sides, and we know that there have been as
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by cman1444 1y ago
I think there are many differences and I certainly wouldn't say that the two are perfectly analogous at all, but I think the comparison mainly refers to their similarities as propagandists for their respective leaders which has some va
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by cman1444 1y ago
Of course there are instances of this on both sides. Kirk was just a prominent example of this on the right. I'm not sure books or blogs are a good example of this though. While they may contain lies or disingenuous talking points, the
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by cman1444 1y ago
This may be true for Kirk specifically, but in general I don't think it's an exaggeration at all to say there are threats to "our" (meaning all Americans) democracy when there's frequent attempts to subvert and even
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by cman1444 1y ago
Why is the comparison absurd?
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by cman1444 1y ago
Your comment seems to imply that Kirk was simply not as good at holding a good-faith debate as the "finest minds". It's not a question of skill or aptitude, but rather that he actively sought performative "owning the lib
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by cman1444 1y ago
Technically even that wouldn't be a "mass shooter". It would instead be a spree shooter or serial killer. But it's kind of beside the point.

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