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by danielharan 8y ago
That does also suggest that rewarding with stock is not reasonable: if CEOs were actually motivated by money, they would go for easy mode instead.
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by danielharan 8y ago
Taken aback that there's an artist that passed MC Solaar - although in this source, they report him using 7691 words out of the first 30,000. http://www.slate.fr/story/93477/rap-francais-infographie-mc-...
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by danielharan 8y ago
Yeah, it's time value of money. There are many kinds of subsidies, including direct to consumer. If you're interested, the IEA's old reports mentioned here would be the best place to start (many countries have since cut their
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by danielharan 8y ago
An easy way to favour an industry is to allow them to write off assets faster than they're actually used up. So while the amortization itself seems fair, many oil companies have lobbied for these types of changes, which together amount
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by danielharan 8y ago
Beyond cars getting more efficient, a lot of cities have also dramatically reduced their share of trips made by car. Paris reduced car mode share by 45% since 1990: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01&#x
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by danielharan 8y ago
We're passed 400 ppm globally, and urban areas are much higher. Indoor air is often 1000 ppm - how many air changes do you need to get that down to a reasonable amount if your intake is around 450? 500? And do we know for sure that 500
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by danielharan 8y ago
I'd like to propose a different scale removal, for anyone that may have the means to do it: home and office CO2 scrubbers. CO2 concentrations are higher indoors, and they're affecting our cognitive ability. Atmospheric concentrati
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by danielharan 8y ago
Most progress on clean energy doesn't come from the breakthroughs alone - you also need large deployment to bring costs down. That's certainly what they appear to be doing with electric planes. This will spur innovation and lower
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by danielharan 8y ago
Do you remember how many language options there were? Adding many seems like a really good reason to replace humans with tech.
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by danielharan 9y ago
One of the surprises with the Netflix prize contest was seeing how predictable people are. You don't need 100 movies. 95% of the time, 6-10 movie ratings will be enough to figure out how you'd rate any other movie.
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by danielharan 9y ago
I don't think theirs specifically, but that type of problem is core to all these models. David Roberts has been complaining about this: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/23/9604120/climate-models-uncert...
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by danielharan 9y ago
It'll work for the more than 80% of the USA that's urban, and a lot of places around the world. After AVs are adopted in cities their prices will come down, and rural people that need cars will just have their own.
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by danielharan 9y ago
"The Boring Company's ambitions include reducing both the diameter of tunnels and increasing the speed of soft-soil boring machines to carve them. It wants to increase machine power and have them run on electricity instead of dies
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by danielharan 9y ago
"car in walking distance" is going to seem nonsensical very soon. These changes are predicated on autonomous vehicles.
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by danielharan 9y ago
Mostly scrap. If you're in the market for a vehicle, do you take a gas-powered car with high operational and maintenance cost, or do you buy one with low costs? Most people won't even buy, as it's cheaper and faster to rely o
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by danielharan 9y ago
There's a whole world out there outside of rural America. USA is #41 at 82.4% urbanization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country Saying cars are going to be obsolete doesn't mean they'll
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by danielharan 9y ago
You can probably use your already sorted legos to re-create a training set with a new machine.
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by danielharan 10y ago
So 3000X the difference of 0.5, or 1500 crashes avoided. :O
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TV anchor says live on-air ‘Alexa, order me a dollhouse’(theregister.co.uk)
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by danielharan 10y ago
Any city building high-throughput transit corridors should take this into account. I think carpooling and on-demand, self-driven vehicles can help. Some adjustments might include putting stations further away from each other, so total tra
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by danielharan 10y ago
People will figure it out. Parking lot owners will have an incentive to provide charging stations; leave your car keys to the attendant and they'll get to it over the day. More meta: our inability to see solutions to minor roadblocks n
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by danielharan 10y ago
You're comparing completely different things. It depends first on what is done with the ~1kg of CO2 captured. If humans get their carbon from sources that are removed from the air, we don't have a net addition.
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by danielharan 11y ago
Fish oils are NOT trans fats. Omega 3 is a polyunsaturated fat, while trans fats are those we artificially saturated.
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by danielharan 11y ago
For 3, there's evidence that very low carb diets will improve insulin response. Over time it seems plausible that your body will respond differently to food if your hormones stay out of balance, storing more of it as fat. How we store
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by danielharan 11y ago
+1 If you sell your company after 3 years or get a job that's better than consulting, the business entity is no longer operating - though that may not be a "failure" for the founders and employees. Meanwhile there are zombies
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by danielharan 11y ago
Also: "Hotz hadn’t programmed any of these behaviors into the vehicle. He can’t really explain all the reasons it does what it does." Good luck to him understanding how to fix corner cases: he's built a black box.
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by danielharan 11y ago
I'm hoping this could save me some work. A few questions, if founders are still around: -Can you cache pages / download entire sites? -If caching, can you detect changes on a given schedule, trigger the extraction "pageFunc
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by danielharan 11y ago
If all the pro-life crowd took that stance, it wouldn't take long until the death penalty was abolished in the USA.
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by danielharan 11y ago
330 exonerations and counting, so #3 isn't always a yes - and there's a likely no on #1 and #2. For #4 and #5 I usually say no - mainly because we can't get 1-3 right. http://www.innocenceproject.org/
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by danielharan 11y ago
http://www.innocenceproject.org/

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