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by cwalv 4y ago
I suspect it will get cheaper, esp for the common case where you don't need to upgrade the service to your home, and there's already a panel/subpanel present. The cost is mostly labor, and in that case it can be installed in
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by cwalv 4y ago
> I think plugging a 110v during the cold is kind of an edge case, the car tries to charge but it makes thing worse I doubt if it could make things worse, despite what the range indicator says.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> But you know what I don't do? Freeze my ass off standing in a gas station in subzero temperatures and howling winds! Not missing that at all. Right! And I suspect by 2035, not having a 220v outlet in the garage will be like not ha
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by cwalv 4y ago
> It would also be nice to not have to have that awkward taxi conversation every time I go to the store. This is the real reason ppl will own cars for the foreseeable future. Same reason I prefer a detatched home with a private/fenc
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by cwalv 4y ago
> By comparison an EV charged with a domestic solar array would probably more liberating By comparison, yes. But where are you going to go, or what are you going to do, that isn't dependent on other ppl in some way? I like the idea
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by cwalv 4y ago
> The most generous interpretation is that Musk is delusional and out of touch with his company and his technology. I'm not sure I'd describe that as a generous interpretation, but there is other evidence that he's just wi
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by cwalv 4y ago
Also if you change one very low level function (maybe something in the runtime, Unicode handling etc.) you'd also have to recompile the world. In some ways it's nice to reference things by a name, and let the implementation change
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by cwalv 4y ago
Sarcasm?
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by cwalv 4y ago
It's notoriously hard to get excited about VR without having tried it. It doesn't seem like it should make that much of a difference, but the "immersive" nature of VR really does make a lot of things a lot more engaging,
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by cwalv 4y ago
Just an observation: roblox' market cap is now > 10% of Meta's.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Odds are most are still up on their investment. I'm not so sure about that; FB hasn't traded in this range since mid-2015, doesn't pay dividends and hasn't had any splits. Also, USD today is worth ~20% less in real
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by cwalv 4y ago
> Sparsely populated rural areas are really the only place where personal autos make sense This might be true, if rural areas and densely populated uran areas were the only 2 states, but there's a lot of intermediate density in betw
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by cwalv 4y ago
> with the exception of stopping at the exact destination you wanted to This, and leaving from the exact starting point you want to, at the exact time you want to, without out-of-the-way intermediate stops that you don't want, witho
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by cwalv 4y ago
Remote work in general seems like a preposterous idea many folks .. even after being forced to do it, they can't really wrap their head around how it works, or why some people like it
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by cwalv 4y ago
Having bad teachers (or dealing with bad/pointless systems generally) can also be instructive. Esp. prior to high school, if I had any control, I'm not sure I'd choose for my kids to not have any bad teachers.
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by cwalv 4y ago
My wife and I play a similar game .. except we don't actually exchange messages, we just talk in private about something. Next we'll try just thinking about it, and see if that works too!
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by cwalv 4y ago
It doesn't even have to be slowing growth: it can just be slower relative to interest rates
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by cwalv 4y ago
Even if the economy overall chops along with small (but positive) real GDP growth, persistently high (relative to the last decade) interest rates are devastating to growth stock valuations
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by cwalv 4y ago
Production Engineer https://engineering.fb.com/category/production-engineering/
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by cwalv 4y ago
PE at Meta is a bit like this. When people ask what it is, my best description is "SWE that focuses on non-functional requirements" (called 'better engineering' internally)
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by cwalv 4y ago
I believe it's possible to get a fixed rate "jumbo" loan for even more than that, but since they're "non-conforming" they can't be sold to fanny/freddy, and so the banks take on the full risk of these
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by cwalv 4y ago
The home ownership rate in the US is > 65%; it seems unlikely that this correlates well with "upper middle class", by any reasonable definition. A more interesting metric would be the percentage of people that benefit from the
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by cwalv 4y ago
I'm looking forward to reading thoughtful and direct answers to some of your points. This deserves more than just downvotes, calls to just shut up and "accept consensus", or pitchforks.
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by cwalv 4y ago
It very often reduces it, and also often has unintended consequences (e.g. prohibition era in the US). In the context of the parent's point, that when "the open method is banned, people will start using layers of indirection"
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by cwalv 4y ago
The most relevant definition (i.e. the only one that states anything about evidence) from your link seems to agree: > 2.b. firm belief in something for which there is no proof With respect to the Christian Bible reference, I don't r
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by cwalv 4y ago
I wouldn't say that faith is believing without objective evidence. It's believing without certainty
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by cwalv 4y ago
Over how much time? Does "consensus" never make a wrong turn?
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by cwalv 4y ago
Just because a conflict/war hasn't been officially resolved or declared over by both sides doesn't mean the final outcome isn't clear.
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by cwalv 4y ago
> the base assumption simply has to be that the field as a whole moves forward. Otherwise it becomes very difficult - maybe even impossible - to have any sort of evidence-based discussion. It seems like this "assumption" needs
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by cwalv 4y ago
You've come to value your limited time at a fundamental level by 23; many people spend their whole lives without really taking time to think about what is really important (either to them personally, or to in principle). IMO, that&#x27

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