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by eloff 5y ago
> In many other places, you have to store for much longer term. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Overbuild and interconnect rather. You can't do things like store summer solar energy for the winter. But there are plenty of places
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by eloff 5y ago
I think this is a question of what is grid scale. Is the Tesla facility in Australia grid scale? Why not? What about the large facilities being planned currently with lithium ion batteries?
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by eloff 5y ago
I'll turn that around and ask specifically why that's not possible. It would require a better interconnected grid, overbuilt renewables, and plenty of storage with some level of on demand generation like gas. A good percentage of
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by eloff 5y ago
Unfortunately markets are not good at accounting for those kinds of external risks (but they could be with the right incentives, like a carbon tax.) It's a tragedy of the commons scenario. I don't understand why politicians don&#x
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by eloff 5y ago
To me this makes so much sense. But when you look at the costs involved it's far cheaper and less risky to deploy 2x in renewables and a bunch of energy storage plus some gas plants and long distance transmission. New innovations in nu
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by eloff 5y ago
It's 30 years to recover losses from the high. That sounds bad, but how long to recover losses if you don't count the ridiculous paper gains during the bubble? The point is you're cherry picking to give that statistic. You ga
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by eloff 5y ago
The Amazon is much older than humans in South America. I don't buy this theory either.
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by eloff 5y ago
You did though. "and then make losses which would require another 30 years to recover from." Make losses starting from that high in the late eighties. Why choose that date to start from. Start a decade earlier and it doesn't
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by eloff 5y ago
I shouldn't have to spell it out so much for you. You have no return for thirty years only if you cherry pick the top of that bubble in the late eighties. Start anywhere else and there is a positive return (ie what you said is false un
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by eloff 5y ago
If you pick the top or bottom of the market as a starting point you can tell a very misleading story about returns over time. Starting and ending points matter a lot.
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by eloff 5y ago
Your 30 year comment is measured precisely from the top of the epic Japanese stock bubble of the late eighties. Whether you are aware of that or not. Measure from the bottom shortly after, and it's a very different story. You are right
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by eloff 5y ago
Yes, that's closer than I thought. We may well need to deploy configurable sunshade at the earth - sun Lagrange point or something similarly drastic to keep the climate in a hospitable band.
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by eloff 5y ago
You're measuring conveniently from the top of the epic bubble in the late eighties. But yes the US has been a better long term bet than Japan. That doesn't mean it's "arbitrary".
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by eloff 5y ago
That's apples to oranges. The Dow has a long history of excellent returns. Those lottery numbers do not.
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by eloff 5y ago
Isaac Arthur on YouTube talks about this quite a bit. Given limitless cheap energy like nuclear fusion, the ultimate limit on human population is not land or water but the waste heat that we generate. We're very far from that being an
886.
by eloff 5y ago
Not necessarily wrong, but there isn't much evidence either way.
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by eloff 5y ago
This is surprising, because elephants have huge brains and giraffes have tiny brains. Size isn't everything apparently. I still think there's no question that elephants are more intelligent.
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by eloff 5y ago
Yes, this is vastly underestimated. The harm greatly outweighs the piddly profits of the tech giants doing this. Using AI to hack humans for maximizing ad revenue is so, so bad for society.
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by eloff 5y ago
> Probably Delta will blow through literally all the remaining unvaccinated people and that'll be the last surge, at least unless we get a vaccine-resistant strain. I think you're right, but that will still happen over years i
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by eloff 5y ago
When you need a senior/lead level software engineer, contact me (info in profile.) It'd be nice to work on something that could really, actually, literally make the world a better place.
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by eloff 5y ago
It's worse because you have more management overhead all the way to the chain, more HR and support needs, and more office space required. A rule of thumb is a worker's full cost is 2x their salary in the US. This varies, but it ma
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by eloff 5y ago
Yeah, I think especially in finance companies would be willing to pay for support and feature development. There has to be a way to monetize the project and make it so at least it pays for your time. There's nothing wrong with a labor
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by eloff 5y ago
It's cheaper still to build barriers, especially since the sea level rise is gradual. It's just that if you think of what we're going to spend worldwide to mitigate the harms of sea level rise, it seems incredibly stupid to b
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by eloff 5y ago
If you felt your theft would be discovered, you could very easily expect the explosion would destroy all traces of the theft and nobody would know any better. Many people, especially uneducated people, would not have expected that the theft
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by eloff 5y ago
We have no shortage of space for landfills. As the OP mentioned, we manage or garbage well in North America and most of it is disposed properly. I would argue the opposite of you, the energy consumption of production and shipping is more im
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by eloff 5y ago
That's plausible. Never underestimate greed and the desire to avoid being caught for a crime.
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by eloff 5y ago
Really. Why don't you go through all 40 counties one by one and explain why it's a flawed experiment that proves nothing? You've made up your mind without looking at the evidence, as you've already demonstrated your igno
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by eloff 5y ago
More like sticking your fingers in your ears and ignoring the evidence that doesn't fit with your world view.
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by eloff 5y ago
This comment is better quality content than the article. I just wish I understood more of it.
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by eloff 5y ago
I think the problem of poor people not being able to afford adequate nutrition has to be tackled separately. You're right that there will be all kinds of unintended effects. You're also right (in my opinion) that the US political

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