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by conjecTech 4y ago
The word dense is in the second sentence of the wikipedia article on cities. It is inherent to discussion of urban transportation. You seem to be using the word city loosely, but it's a rather specific term. Even though I agree the pol
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by conjecTech 4y ago
This is an article explicitly about _urban_ mobility. If you're going to exclude large, dense metropolitan areas, are you even addressing the arguments being made here?
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One thing I would love to see addressed in these kinds of analyses: the efficacy of strategic placement of solar. Electrical demand tends to peak slightly after sundown for much of the year. However, the sun obviously doesn't set at th
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by conjecTech 4y ago
They transitioned 3.5% of grid supply last year, and that's actually an underestimate of the transition since it doesn't factor in behind-the-meter use of solar. Solar adoption has also accelerated over the last couple of years, u
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by conjecTech 4y ago
This is a false dichotomy. Other countries have debit systems that solve all of the problems you outline and charge 0.1%.
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The tax burden is similar (maybe slightly lower in NY), but collected through different means. NYC has a city income tax, Chicago doesn't. If we're going to pick a means of collecting the same amount, encouraging good use of land
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by conjecTech 4y ago
It’s funny how many times this same platform has been sold to the public. Elio motors, which is still publicly traded but nearing insolvency, promised to produce a gas version of effectively the same vehicle for 10k.
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by conjecTech 4y ago
I'll voice an unpopular position: There are positions where you use all of these skills regularly (data structures, algorithms, system design), and they are some of the most satisfying, respected, and well-paying in tech. They are also
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by conjecTech 4y ago
That number seems incredibly high to me. The most I've seen blades go for in any kind of volume is around $0.20/blade. Even if you were discarding them every day, that would only account for $70/year. You can admittedly buy s
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by conjecTech 4y ago
This phenomenon becomes a lot clearer when you invert the question: Why are all the products selling for 10x the commoditized version direct-to-consumer? I think that's a lot more obvious. Or at least it is to me since I had a startup
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Sorry if I misinferred. It seemed implied in the first and forth sentence of your comment.
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Insisting on a new solution being "exactly the same" to adopt it pretty much ensures you will never leave the status quo. All changes in complex systems have tradeoffs. In-person whiteboard sessions can be exhilarating. They also
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Upvoted your comment for a solid counter argument. Disney's growth is decelerating as well. If you measure from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, growth was down to 37%. I do think they're a very viable competitor, but I don't think the tw
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by conjecTech 4y ago
Netflix's moat is the marginal unit economics of media. At present, they have twice the number of subscribers of the nearest competitor(Disney), and that ratio is probably far higher in non-US markets. They can outbid everyone for cont
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by conjecTech 4y ago
I didn't mean to diminish the value of documentation. It's hugely valuable. My point was that even if the documentation for all systems was good, the bulk of work in a mature software environment would still be integration, since
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by conjecTech 4y ago
I think the emphasis on the documentation is a bit of a red herring. Sure, documentation for most things could definitely be better. But when you are building a system that is a composition of subcomponents, the bulk of the complexity is a
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by conjecTech 5y ago
Top comment from an admin: """ We decided to do this due to the heavy cyber component to this war and the chance of manipulated content. Even seemingly innocuous links could be hosted by someone that is less benign. We certai
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by conjecTech 5y ago
This thesis is off. It's not as if Reddit just appeared on the internet yesterday. It's been a place people look for this kind of info for a long time, and people have been trying to game it for just as long. And it already has a
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by conjecTech 5y ago
You're creating one big false dichotomy. This notion that you either focus every bit of your being on your career or otherwise be a wage slave is absurd. Having a strong community around you is an incredible financial tailwind, beyond
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by conjecTech 5y ago
Clean technica agrees that VW ships more. VW has more brands and models. Tesla model 3 may be the top seller, but it's one of only 2 models that Tesla has with significant volume. For instance Audi is a VW group company too. Together t
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by conjecTech 5y ago
Well, Ryan decided to block me for a rather tame quote tweet, so I guess I'll repost it here: "YC are some of the kindest, most egalitarian people in SV. They've treated me well even after my company they invested in closed d
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by conjecTech 5y ago
That's true with marginal costs, but it doesn't consider fixed costs. My range is the only thing that uses gas in my unit. The connection fee is $18/month. The actual charge for gas was $0.73 last month. Sure, the marginal ec
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by conjecTech 5y ago
Their argument is that road budgets are a consequence of the same poor designs that lead to conditions that promote crime as well. Busy streets tend to be safer. Additionally, places that aren't economically self-sustaining drive peopl
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Even if lifespans don't increase the population will probably continue to expand for about 25 years since the cohorts already born are larger than they ones they are replacing. Population only plateaus once we've been at replaceme
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Part of the missing picture in the datacenter market is TCO(total cost of ownership). The margin Intel used to have was driven by what it would cost you to recreate the performance they could provide by other means. If Intel had a 20% perfo
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It's still up 25% from 2019 numbers: https://polb.com/business/port-statistics/#teus-archive-1995... .
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Merchants don't usually want to lower prices proactively, but it's done all the time because they do not exist in a competitive vacuum. From inception, container shipping has been plagued by oversupply because of the economies o
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by conjecTech 5y ago
It's not just about the jobs. There are enormous economies of scale to living in cities. Distances travelled are shorter, stores do higher turnover(meaning fewer of them per capita), and multi-family housing is cheaper to heat & ma
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by conjecTech 5y ago
The article stretches to portray this as a cost imposed by society, but I think the bulk of it is far more innate than that. There simply are economies of scale to household size. A lot of housing costs are proportional to surface area, a
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The answer is pretty obvious: those plants aren't new and solar wasn't an option when they were built. There haven't been new coal plants built in the US in some years, and the reasons are purely economic. Wind and solar made

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