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by danans 2y ago
> grow and get bought by corporate, focus changes from good food to profit and consistency, food quality craters, customers depart. While the broad strokes about the loss of a restaurant's soul under corporate influence rings true,
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by danans 2y ago
> Bandwidth/Transport costs for live streaming, especially in group conference call scenarios (where N streams needs to be broadcasted to N-1 participants) become prohibitively expensive after about 8 or so participants unless you c
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by danans 2y ago
> When people suggest owning an EV for daily use and renting a gas car for occasional long trips, this is exactly why that's not a attractive idea for most people. Sounds like a plug-in hybrid might be a great car for you. I have o
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by danans 2y ago
> Yes, but not another layer. Just the environment around us - physical and social. Every sensation comes from the environment, our perceptions are trained on this data stream, every value is dependent on environment, our emotions reflec
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by danans 2y ago
> consciousness is not a manifestation of the physical structures of our mind, but rather a reflection or view into the nature of our soul > To wit, there are several other mammals in the world which have similarly complex brain struc
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by danans 2y ago
I don't understand why Google TV doesn't have a Home app by default, like you get on Pixel phones.
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by danans 2y ago
The sentence order of the Arabic and Urdu examples text is scrambled on that page: Arabic: مرحبًا، اسمي جي بي تي-4o. أنا نوع جديد من نموذج اللغة، سررت بلقائك! Urdu: ہیلو، میرا نام جی پی ٹی-4o ہے۔ میں ایک نئے قسم کا زبان ماڈل ہوں، آپ سے مل ک
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by danans 2y ago
I'm including suburbs and towns in my definition of "cities", meaning urban settlements. I'd like to see some quantitative data either way.
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by danans 2y ago
> Most buildings are not in cities, in general. Citation? It doesn't stand to reason given that most people live and work in cities, not in rural areas, especially in Europe [1]. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator
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by danans 2y ago
> Is there any indication that the high risk properties in California are coastal instead of rural or exurban? https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/03beab8511814e79a0e... There is very high fire risk in the coas
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by danans 2y ago
I don't know if they usually do that, but I could see it as some kind of deal that preserves good will for future business they might do together. My guess is that there's quite a fuzzy distinction between commercial real estate l
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by danans 2y ago
They already owned $45M of the building through being the lender. When you add the $6.5M, they paid about $52M total. The middleman then took a $10M loss (16%). That's a significant loss, but the valuation of the building is nowhere n
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by danans 2y ago
> Does the IRS have anything to do with property taxes? No, but if the bank somehow tries to claim an investment loss (perhaps by acquiring the middleman along with its losses) then the IRS would probably scrutinize.
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by danans 2y ago
If you like this kind of stuff, you should listen to Peter Pringle singing the Epic of Gilgamesh while playing a reconstructed oud. While the melodies/rhythms he uses are his creation, the words are from the epic itself which was itsel
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by danans 2y ago
Some 3rd electric rail based transit systems have regenerative braking that feeds power back into the electric rail [1], which is used by other trains that are drawing power at that moment. I don't know if they use batteries to store
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by danans 3y ago
The article is paywalled and Googling infinity train gets me a cartoon show. Care to summarize?
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by danans 3y ago
AFAIK, diesel hybrid locomotives don't have traction batteries though. Many actually have big radiators to dissipate energy regenerated while going downhill by their electric traction motors. Hopefully, as batteries get less expensive
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by danans 3y ago
"We" in the article refers to the collective of individual users, not search engine companies. The spirit of the article is about how this can be achieved in a decentralized way without search engines, and instead with just your L
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by danans 3y ago
> If you want to see something I think the actual trucking industry is getting excited about, check out Edison motors. They're running a hybrid diesel/electric design that would work wonderfully for things like clean-air city d
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by danans 3y ago
> Sure do! They definitely need all both of those things! When a generation provider bids supply onto the grid, it doesn't tell the operator what the maximum storage capacity of its equipment is, it tells the ISO how much power it c
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by danans 3y ago
> The singular property presented can't even be extrapolated to relate to both things. Both things aren't equally important. The energy capacity of the battery isn't provided for the same reason that coal plants don't
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by danans 3y ago
> This makes it possible to combine two areas of physics that previously had little to do with each other: classical quantum physics and nuclear physics. Is quantum physics now considered part of classical physics? If so then man, time
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by danans 3y ago
> One would think, but Biden is looking at imposing a 30% excise tax on crypto miners. This is directly targeted at Texas, to slow further development and growth in that state. It's not about targeting Texas. It's because the e
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by danans 3y ago
> For some reason grid storage reporting always seems to use a power metric instead of storage metric Grid scale batteries are used primarily for real time demand management, and therefore their most relevant property is how much immedia
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by danans 3y ago
That observation isn't (politically) right leaning, at least not in the American context. Grid balancing storage is already being built out and operated in left leaning California, and already contributes significantly to supply during
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by danans 3y ago
> the overwhelming majority of them were not “normal people down on their luck who end up on drugs”. Rather, mostly folks who had terrible home lives and were basically screwed up from the beginning. Those aren't mutually exclusive,
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by danans 3y ago
I tend to see it the opposite way. Yes men are the ones who enable dictators (also cult leaders). Perhaps that's what you actually meant?
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by danans 3y ago
> These are clearly people with high IQs and active imaginations. Where they fall down is in being prone to being wildly irrational. They're also just self-absorbed and seemingly lacking in empathy and compassion. What you are missi
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Carrier, inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump(cnbc.com)
14 points by danans 3y ago|7 comments
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Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly to join the UAW(cnn.com)
153 points by danans 3y ago|54 comments

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