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by danans 3y ago
> Tesla's mission was "to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy" which they were doing by making solid and affordable EVs and electric storage solutions. Since far before Tesla, selling cars at high
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by danans 3y ago
Seems like there are lots of companies willing to sell you reclaimed marble slabs: https://www.google.com/search?q=reclaimed+marble+slabs&oq=re... I'd imagine this stuff is pretty local though because shipping heav
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by danans 3y ago
> before another renovation or a demolition happens and it gets smashed up and thrown away. That's sort of material has a high resale value and usually is sold for reuse in other applications.
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by danans 3y ago
TIL, fossils exist from < O(1M+)ya Also TIL, (from tangential reading) even dinosaur fossils contain original bone material from the organism, not just rock in the shape of the original bones. Of course it makes complete sense in retrosp
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by danans 3y ago
> low IQ can cause poverty Is not the same as "people who are poor are that way because they disproportionately are genetically predisposed to have low IQs", which is the gist of the original comment I replied to. The discussio
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by danans 3y ago
Low IQ doesn't "cause" poverty. Poverty is highly multivariate, and likely dominated by factors having nothing to do with IQ, like structural inequities in health/education access and historical lack of access to asset
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by danans 3y ago
Trauma (physical and emotional) causing reduction in IQ is totally compatible with IQ being in part heritable. Regarding race/ethnicity correlations from the paper you posted: "(McGue et al., 2007; Miller et al., 2012). McGue et a
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by danans 3y ago
> This is because UK gas prices are given on an HHV basis. Either convention can be used as long as all of our fuel consumptions, efficiencies and energy prices are given on the same basis. Consistency is crucial. If your audience is glo
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by danans 3y ago
> The trauma is a consequence of poverty and bad parenting which is because of low IQ You have the primary direction of causality between trauma and IQ reversed. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=childhood+trauma+and+
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by danans 3y ago
> Regarding gas condensing boilers and their efficiency, the notion of them achieving over 100% efficiency, as measured by the Lower Heating Value (LHV) of the fuel, really showcases the value of recapturing latent heat. At least in the
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by danans 3y ago
> I can't work it out exactly without doing more research than is worth. As I said, the schedules are complex, maybe someone more versed in this can chime in. The $0.26/kWh is for the CARE program, which heavily discounts energ
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by danans 3y ago
In absolute terms rent and mortgage tend to always be higher than the other categories for most people. The more pertinent question is how these have changed on a percentage basis, and relative to each other and median income.
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by danans 3y ago
> It blows my mind. We know so well that gambling is a losing battle. Some can have fun and call it the price of fun, but it's such a slippery slope to find yourself losing way more than you intended. That's why this is called
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by danans 3y ago
> If you use very little on the residential schedule I think it can drop pretty low, probably around $0.15/kWh. The lowest price on the PG&E tiered rate plan E1 (implied by the words "If you use very little ...") is $0
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by danans 3y ago
> That is to say, as soon as something goes wrong with them, they are garbage. Can you unpack what you mean by this? Standard A/C's can be repaired - fans can be replaced, as can compressor motors. Also, better and more eff
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by danans 3y ago
It wasn't clear to me what kind of monitoring equipment is being used to gather this data, or whether it's just being manually gathered and reported by each system owner. If the former, I'd like to get the generic equipment t
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by danans 3y ago
> The architect said to me that we'll never fully recoup our costs of putting the hat on the house. That's only true if value your added comfort at a very low price. The problem is that it is hard to put a value on the comfort
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by danans 3y ago
> Proto Indo European is _only_ 5000ish years old in comparison. While I agree with that it's hard to make definitive statements about language relationships past 10K years, it's pretty well accepted that Proto Indo European ex
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by danans 3y ago
> If you can lock in a zero or negative interest rate now, it might still be a good investment In the real world, what lending entity is going to offer you financing at <= 0% for 30 years? Just because 30 year Treasury yields fell bel
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by danans 3y ago
> Whether it's worth it depends on interest rates, not on how long your investors live. We had near zero interest rates for years, but I didn't see any private investors making infrastructure investments that wouldn't poss
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by danans 3y ago
Why would investors today put additional money into something that might be useful in 50 years? They would never see a return on the additional investment. Would you make that investment? The only entities that can make such long term
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by danans 3y ago
Caltrain shares track with freight rail, and doesn't run trains nearly as closely or frequently as BART. No other type of train makes sense to run on BART's tracks.
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by danans 3y ago
> I wonder if there’s an opportunity for BART to switch to standard gauge in the future or as part of retiring trains, or if that’s even a good idea for cost savings? I'm guessing it would be massively expensive, and it's not c
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by danans 3y ago
That's a bad analogy because not only is autonomous driving not generative AI / LLM based, but the problem space, objective, and risk profile is fundamentally different.
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by danans 3y ago
Also, consider that for a great many Americans, their house is the only significant asset they have. A huge number of Americans have no retirement savings at all [1]. For some of these people who do own a house, selling it at retirement i
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by danans 3y ago
> On the 10th of July in 2003, SGI vacated and leased their headquarters to Google. I was around to witness the he tail end of that office space transition (on the incoming side at Google). It was surreal to be sitting in the physical c
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by danans 3y ago
Looks like Svelte ( https://svelte.dev/ )
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by danans 3y ago
The Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid can do up to 60mph on a flat road in serial hybrid mode.
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by danans 3y ago
> The New Deal was a welfare system. Welfare has never made a country prosperous. > The success of free markets has been replicated many times: > 1. the US > 2. Japan after WW2 > 3. Germany after WW2 > 4. Hong Kong > 5.
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by danans 3y ago
> Haven't worked at Google, anyone else share this sentiment? I worked there, and the quality is definitely much higher and the code tends to be far more maintainable. However, there is often a cost for that, which is velocity. Som

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