danans

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by danans 9d ago
> Tech communities like this skew more libertarian Indeed, this is historically a forum with lots of "temporarily embarrassed billionaires". My observation is the opposite of the GP - that labor identity and consciousness (not
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by danans 10d ago
> The demand is already there. It's the supply that is the issue. Somehow many societies are able to power a huge amount of transportation via electrified rail and bus systems. That's an existing solution that requires zero ne
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by danans 10d ago
> Wrong. Storage is the issue And what's great about EVs is that they are also storage. In winter you can buy electricity from places that do have solar potential - it's not far from Switzerland.
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by danans 11d ago
I'd rather we ask how quickly demand can be transferred to other energy sources, like electricity.
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by danans 11d ago
> EVs are a minority in China outside of a few biggest cities Those biggest cities are majorly influential in absolute energy demand and also patterns of use. The second tier cities will be buying the big cities used EVs in not too long.
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by danans 11d ago
> my first thought is "wow, that's a lot. And some of those aren't even in the same family of language?" The meaning of the historical linguistics term "family" doesn't map directly to our common usage
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by danans 11d ago
> You can print money, but you can only ""print"" oil for a short time from reserves, which the US and China have been draining. What's different between the two is that apparently China hasn't made an equiv
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by danans 15d ago
> if it is too dangerous the go through bab al-mandab strait it is more lucrative to sell the crude oil to europe at a discount? I suspect they would sooner curtail production rather then sell at a discount due to route restrictions.
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by danans 17d ago
> whereas, friends' daycare'd kids are sick all the time, constantly having runny noses and s Probably just the common cold most of the time. My nose was runny through most of my childhood too. And kids are snotty - always h
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by danans 17d ago
> But having an infant in a daycare for 8-10 hours a day is probably not. Unless the child is immunosuppressed, outside of a novel pandemic scenario, a vaccinated child is not likely to contract a very serious infection beyond the common
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by danans 17d ago
> But having an infant in a daycare for 8-10 hours a day is probably not. That's a different problem that would be better addressed by mandatory paid parental leave and universal healthcare - so new parents can afford not to work wh
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by danans 17d ago
> But I think you'd struggle to argue that the caste system doesn't result from Hinduism. The "Hindu" caste system results from the history of social hierarchy in the Indian subcontinent. What you are calling "H
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by danans 17d ago
> or the caste system (unthinkable in Islam or Christianity, a base part of reality in Hinduism), etc. The historical prominence of the slave trade in both the Christian and Islamic worlds should make it quite clear that it was hardly &q
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by danans 19d ago
> I would be very surprised if the manufacturer would sell you one without you agreeing to indemnify them. Why would anyone other than a fool agree to indemnify Tesla against liability for a vehicle whose driving behavior is controlled b
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by danans 26d ago
> If we're really to the point that a trillion dollar megacorp can't stand up to a tinpot dictator because his xits might hurt their stock price, then we need to drop this illusion that corpos are independent from the governmen
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by danans 26d ago
Why would they do that? Their goal is to stay in the good graces of the administration, to avoid financial or legal retribution. If you think conscientious resistance is anywhere on the agenda of these corporations, I'd refer you to t
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by danans 26d ago
> However, to me if somebody controls what you do with your electricity I.e export or curtailed, you don't own the the work product of your system. They are controlling/charging for the use of the infrastructure. If you want to
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by danans 26d ago
As an aside, I always found the clown on the Matrox boxes creepy - never made me want to buy the graphics card.
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by danans 26d ago
> They kinda do via net metering tariffs and curtailment. They don't own your system through net metering. If you have net metering you are using the grid as a battery, which has a cost - the infrastructure to support net metering
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by danans 27d ago
> your own solar, wind, and fossil fuel generation. The OP was clearly talking about on premises primary power generation for datacenters. The utility doesn't have a way to own my residential generation.
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by danans 1mo ago
Sure, I was being charitable
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by danans 1mo ago
> Its not necessarily the best thing that big companies have a business model of taking advantage of poor, or relatively poorer, people, particularly attractive young women. See our global Epstein class and global Weinstein class. I agre
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by danans 1mo ago
> Don’t you still see this with hip-hop to some extent? To some extent yes, but I suspect that is declining also as the genre becomes corporatized.
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by danans 1mo ago
Less likely, for many reasons - including the more crowded marketplace for talent, but also a culture that is more corporation generated over time.
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by danans 1mo ago
To me, apart from her amazing music and philanthropy, what Dolly Parton represents is something that was (emphasis on past tense) at one time truly exceptional about the United States - that someone from a very humble background (poverty in
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by danans 1mo ago
Another impact that doesn't get discussed as much when the primary discussion is around job elimination is the downward pressure on software engineering salaries. Of course it's a different scenario if you are working at a fronti
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by danans 1mo ago
> But to get from "a revolutionary technology" to "the substrate the future runs on", then you need to assume more breakthroughs: long-context operation over weeks or months, displacing human workers 100% instead of 7
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by danans 1mo ago
The energy efficient tires for my Chevy EV are $800 for a set of 4. You're paying the luxury car parts tax.
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by danans 1mo ago
> Localized grid outages might be more common, but you don't have to lift a finger or pay anything extra to get them repaired. I'm not arguing against the electric grid. In fact, I'm an advocate. The grid has different f
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by danans 1mo ago
> All the costs that go into producing from a given source (capex and opex) divided by the total power generated ... total energy generated.

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