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by epups 3y ago
The Netherlands already voted for a Eurosceptic, invoking similar rhetoric as you here - "replacement" of locals by foreigners, taking their jobs, etc. Interestingly, as is almost always the case in Europe, the places with fewer i
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by epups 3y ago
In my experience Europe has a dramatic shortage of highly skilled workers, in technology and healthcare in particular. There are simply not enough qualified workers. I also believe that the economy is not a zero sum game where there is a fi
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by epups 3y ago
> According to SEMI, China will have 8.6 million 8 inch equivalent wpm capacity this year, Taiwan will have 5.7 million wpm, Korea will have 5.1 million wpm, Japan will have 4.7 million wpm, the USA will have 3.1 million wpm, Europe will
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by epups 3y ago
Having a foreigner stay in the long term could be worse, economically. Five years of taxation on highly-paid individuals - who are presumably producing far more than their salary to the companies paying them - is essentially free money for
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by epups 3y ago
The arguments used here are weird. The decision says that Musk was close friends with many members of the board so he effectively controlled it. That's the case for many, if not most public companies. The other argument was that the bo
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by epups 3y ago
They are already losing the lead on the EV market to BYD: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-delivered-1-81-mill... I personally think this prediction is grounded. It has been over-promising and under-delive
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by epups 3y ago
Did you? > And in retrospect, from a purely EV perspective, I do think that this little crypto side quest may have hurt compounding value into my primary occupation
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by epups 3y ago
One of my biggest fears is that I spend time building things that are useless and have no value for anyone else. I absolutely hate when corp reorgs and other major events redefine priorities and make everyone waste their time into something
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by epups 3y ago
It was a great engineering firm, and he turned it into a bad engineering firm.
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by epups 3y ago
And who built Google as it is? Both founders were from academia.
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by epups 3y ago
This looks like a change in policy for personal student accounts. If this person is doing something related to research, their own group should provide a solution for data management and backups. I really don't see the problem here, ot
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by epups 3y ago
I wasn't aware of this accident, it does look very similar. Airbus got some flak at the time for the AF 447 accident, both for this side stick issue and for the way the stall system unintuively stopped when the plane was pointed up (be
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by epups 3y ago
Maybe not loved, but corporations can certainly be hated.
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by epups 3y ago
The Air France 447 incident occurred in an Airbus aircraft with these warnings, and it ended in a crash ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 ). The airplane in this incident had a flight system that gave
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by epups 3y ago
An excerpt: > The captain then acted, most probably by reflex action, on the control column to reduce this pitch attitude without taking back the controls and making the procedure call-out, based on the principle of only one pilot having
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by epups 3y ago
> Most of Google is now mature products. Run it like a business -- maximize profits. It seems logical to me. It is logical if all you want is to extract maximum short-term value from what was already built. To me, the logical conclusion
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by epups 3y ago
I was trying to place everything in the same unit as much as possible so that we could compare, and it appears I failed miserably. However, you seem to be really good at it. Could you tell me which proportion of the US' electricity nee
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by epups 3y ago
My bad! So, the issue is that the US needs 3800TW of electricity every hour, and by the end of this year it will have 0.014 TW of battery capacity. It is clear that batteries are not replacing base load generation any time soon.
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by epups 3y ago
The US consumes approximately 4 trillion terawatts/hour of electricity. If this prediction holds true we will have 14 gigawatts of storage this year. You do the math and you tell me whether base load generation is still an issue or not
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by epups 3y ago
Mate these studies are very clearly talking about percentages here, so they are directly comparable. You said 0.1% could lose 10 pounds over five years, the studies you cited mention 25-35% are able to do at least that after five years -
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by epups 3y ago
I posted a link detailing exactly the argument for the link you claim does not exist - in a nutshell, ever since Reagan, the richest people in America were able to multiply their earnings at the expense of the working class. They have done
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by epups 3y ago
https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/issues/1210
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by epups 3y ago
Here is what you wrote: > Permanent weight loss of more than ten pounds is nearly impossible from a scientific standpoint. The success rate after 5 years of weight loss is somewhere around 0.1%. Your sources indicate that your initial st
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by epups 3y ago
What I said is that wage growth in the West has been kept lower than it could have been because of their policies, including massive financial deregulation. Here is a primer in case others are interested [1]. > (Also, how is quality of l
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by epups 3y ago
The core of the issue seems to be that the graph I posted represents the experience of the median rather than the average worker. The data you suggest as more representative is simply the result of placing CEOs together with factory floor w
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by epups 3y ago
I never said they should have kept other countries poorer - if anything, they achieved the opposite with their policies. However, they were elected democratically by their societies and, in my opinion, they implemented policies that were no
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by epups 3y ago
This seems to map pretty well to that famous graph showing the divergence between productivity and wage gains [1]. It also at least correlates with the start of a relative predominance of China and other third-world countries in economic gr
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by epups 3y ago
I don't understand your point. It seems that you are saying that this is all an accounting trick by Amazon, but we don't really know whether they "charge" Twitch anywhere close to the costs that it actually incurs.
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by epups 3y ago
No you can't, because you actually don't know which model is which when you vote.
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by epups 3y ago
Perhaps you should read your own sources. From the abstract of the second study: "At the 3-year follow-up, 53% of the original sample (of 621 persons) maintained losses of 5% or more and 35% losses of 10% or more.". From the third

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