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by conjecTech 3y ago
The table they pull that data from is annual and only has info through 2022[1]. It's not useful for saying anything about the year-over-year monthly number being discussed. The chart showing monthly sales of road petroleum show a consi
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by conjecTech 3y ago
None of those factors are unique to this business. Somehow adults at thousands of other companies are able to handle this situation reasonably despite also having to pay rent and taxes. I'm sure very few of the people whose continued w
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by conjecTech 3y ago
This is the worst take I have ever seen. This company just raised $250 million. That is more money than 99% of companies will ever have in the bank. Being a "startup" does not given you license to wantonly play with your employees
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by conjecTech 3y ago
I mean, there is the rather extensive "Sexual harassment investigation" section of his wikipedia page where he paid $1.4 million as part of a jury verdict in a case of sexual harassment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Can anyone explain this from an RF/networking perspective? What frequencies does this operate at? How well matched are the antennas in most phones? How much more power are you using to be able to do this? What kind of modulation are yo
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Sounds like you live in Long Island. You seem to admit that if not for the local government putting restrictions on how people use their land, individuals would choose to build multi-family structures. It is a compelled choice, even if only
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by conjecTech 3y ago
I'm referring to things like single-family zoning, minimum parking requirements, and the subsidization & forced construction of highways through city centers. The situation we have today isn't some spontaneous expression of co
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by conjecTech 3y ago
That is not the alternative being discussed here. 80% of the US population is urban. We could not undo that without a huge degradation is quality of life. Cities are incredible engines for wealth creation. The alternative more or less impos
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Something like 80% of Portugal's solar has been installed since 2018[1], when solar was on-par with if not cheaper than any other form of electricity generation. And that's from aggregate perspective, the economics are definitely
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by conjecTech 3y ago
There will definitely be induced demand. Most people don't just choose travel mode based on cost though. Travel time/convenience is the biggest factor, and AVs will probably not improve those significantly. The reality is that wal
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by conjecTech 3y ago
I'm a big urbanist (that also worked on AVs for a couple years), haven't owned a car for almost all of my adult life, and view it as a step in the right direction for a few reasons. 1 - I think the impact of parking is actually mo
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by conjecTech 3y ago
If you do the math on that cycle count, you'll see its several times the warrantied amount. 1500 charges at 80% for a standard range M3 is over 300k miles. I think they probably picked that value to align with norms of other warranties
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by conjecTech 3y ago
The last time I looked into this the primary source of capacity degradation in EVs is from aging, not cycling. Most users could probably cycle their battery 50% more for a minuscule loss of overall lifetime/utility.
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by conjecTech 3y ago
I wish _all_ students with that profile were automatically accepted. I went to GT and while I guess it's nice in some ways that its now considered an elite university, I much preferred the persona of admitting everyone and weeding out
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Inflation isn't a scalar value, and all of this complexity is just trying to account for that. This thread is about whether an increase in effective income from prices going down is the same as your notional income going up while price
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Size is denominated in terms of some measure. You don’t eat dollars, and you can’t build a house out of one. GDP has doubled, but so have US prices. Does that mean the economy is actually stronger? Using PPP simply chooses to denominate GDP
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by conjecTech 3y ago
I've worked on plenty of hastily built houses from the 70s that are still standing half a century later and in relatively good condition. They may run up slightly higher maintenance bills, but I'd be surprised if they don't l
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by conjecTech 3y ago
Congratulations! How do you plan to make money?
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by conjecTech 3y ago
That's part of my point. There are 100s of organizations using it at scale, but it only needed to be trained once.
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by conjecTech 3y ago
The more general the model, the longer the lifetime. And the most impactful models today are incredibly general. For things like Whisper, I wouldn't be surprised if we're already at 100:1 ratio for compute spent on inference vs tr
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by conjecTech 3y ago
No, there isn't much nuance here. Accounting has notions of fixed costs and marginal costs. The startups you are referring almost all lose money on fixed costs, but sell things at per-unit economics which make sense at scale because th
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Sounds great to me. Especially considering you aren't paying any taxes on your returns when they come in the form of deferred costs. That's equivalent to a pre-tax return in the mid-teens. You won't find that in most asset cl
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by conjecTech 4y ago
I assume you care about 2D vs 3D for different variables, no? I agree 3D, at least while H<<W, doesn't matter for clock speeds, but wouldn't it still play a significant role in the power characteristics, particularly things
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Transistors at that scale are 3D rather than 2D, so the expected scaling ratios no longer apply. If you wanted double the density of a 2D transistor with 5nm features, you'd need to scale down to 3.5nm, but if you wanted to double the
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by conjecTech 4y ago
5 years is probably a fair current estimate, but that also doesn't come for free. The fans in DC servers move a ton of air, which itself further increases power use. I was thinking more on the order of 10-20 years.
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Yeah, that video is fantastic. I wonder if the higher costs will place more of an emphasis on running chips at power levels that will gives better longevity. We can effectively halve operating cost and double lifetime of chips by reducing t
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by conjecTech 4y ago
You get most of the economic value from the first few divisions. Going from 80% yield to 90% yield shaves 14% off your cost/unit. Going from 95% to 99% only saves you 4%. I'm not an expert at how they combine chips. Like I said fo
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Chiplets aren't so much driven by a need for heterogenous processes as much as minimizing the yield impact of defects. Ian Cutress has a good portion covering it in this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMc
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by conjecTech 4y ago
An EV is a huge battery on wheels. And typically it's far cheaper per kwh than dedicated solutions. Combining the two is a fantastic source of economies and convenience. I'm sure a lot of people in California would have appreciate
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Lowest temperature in NYC last year was 15F. Its cold, but it's not that cold. Tons of people still bike in winter. And if they don't, we have trains and busses. The nice part about orientating transit around bikes is that people

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