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by epups 3y ago
"The internet" is a vast place. If you believe the first answer on Google, or something you received on social media, then you are not thinking for yourself. If you bother to read the source or multiple sources and decide that the
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by epups 3y ago
I can read all the good stories on Glassdoor. Hell, most of them I think are likely fake. I see much more value in learning about the ugly side of a company, even if I know this is unbalanced.
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by epups 3y ago
The Expanse, The Boys and New Bandits are three original series with very different styles that I found entertaining.
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by epups 3y ago
If Jeff Bezos said "I've got enough", perhaps Prime Video wouldn't exist, which would be a net loss to their employees and their consumers who pay for that. It would also mean that Netflix and Disney would very likely be
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by epups 3y ago
> Because basically nobody doing anything interesting is “creating content”. I think this is dead-wrong. If there are people watching this content, then it IS interesting to them. Most people out there who create content - replace this w
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by epups 3y ago
No, I'm not. I'm saying that just because renewables are cheaper, you cannot simply replace anything with them or you would have severe unreliability.
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by epups 3y ago
Hey sounds great! Except that if you take every battery put together in the world right now, it probably doesn't have enough capacity to store even 10% of Europe's energy needs for a day. Oops!
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by epups 3y ago
I cannot make this issue any simpler, I'm afraid, but here is a try: it's not about the binary existence of "wind" "somewhere within the grid", it is about having enough wind AND wind turbines to power your ent
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by epups 3y ago
Your thinking is very common in Germany. It is correct in a primitive sense: change is costly. But it misses an additional layer of thinking, which is that not changing is even more costly sometimes. The problem was not that the company was
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by epups 3y ago
I cannot reply to your other post. The answer is simple: France's grid was not designed for its base load needs to be supplied solely with nuclear energy. You could, barring political will, redesign Europe's energy grid to switch
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by epups 3y ago
> the general consensus as I understand it is that building new nuclear power plants is not cost effective with other forms of energy storage/generation capacity. Different forms of energy generation serve different purposes. I hope
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by epups 3y ago
> Also, base load is a very loosely defined notion that somehow never gets nailed down to actual GW of capacity or GWH of storage needed. Can you be specific? An energy grid must have a capacity to produce a given amount of energy over a
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by epups 3y ago
> The wind is always blowing somewhere. Sure. With enough power in places that we can reliably use it as our base load energy source? No. If you disagree with that, please point out an existing grid that is based on that assumption, or t
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by epups 3y ago
No, the energy ultimately has to come from somewhere. If its a day without wind or Sun over, say, Europe, how do you propose a distributed grid would work without nuclear energy?
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by epups 3y ago
Please cite one example of an alternative to nuclear that is viable today - no trend, no future projections, today - that fulfills the following criteria: 1) Can be deployed at scale (ie, can cover for up to at least 10% of the world's
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by epups 3y ago
Will be, or is? I'm talking about the current state of technology. There is no clean viable alternative to nuclear except hydro.
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by epups 3y ago
Maybe the better analogy is a chef who has several cooks in different stations.
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by epups 3y ago
Nuclear plants are economical for their use case. In days in which renewables cannot provide enough energy, your clean energy alternatives are batteries (of which we don't have nearly enough of, and are not economically viable today as
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by epups 3y ago
I would be happy if the law conforms to other existing laws, not future edge cases. The solution being proposed here would do that, while the existing system would not.
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by epups 3y ago
> Meanwhile, the brand of WFH HN folks want is to not leave the house and interact with real humans in person. You've made this statement a few times in this thread, have you considered this is nothing more than a strawman?
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by epups 3y ago
The article itself is very assertive and makes a lot of generalizations, but if you look at the source of their claims [1] you see that in the first study they are using GPT-3.5 and achieve only a 5% score on a reasoning test that largely r
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by epups 3y ago
> Second, that's my point, unless it's an investment property or if you're selling and leaving the city altogether, you haven't actually earned $75,000/year. Yes, you have. You can take loans against your propert
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by epups 3y ago
Ok, but people who did not buy a home ten years ago still have to compete in the same housing market, and they didn't earn an additional $75,000 every year from their labor.
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by epups 3y ago
> This means that my family's wealth has increased by $75,000 per year just from owning our home. That's more than the median income in Canada! This is a pattern we also see in Europe. Homeowners, largely older, get richer and
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by epups 3y ago
If Airbnb was the major problem, we would only have a housing crisis in California, NY and other highly touristic places. We don't, we have it even in mid-sized non-touristic cities in the US, Canada and Europe.
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by epups 3y ago
Yes, lack of new constructions is the main problem. For example, housing vacancy rates are near historic lows [1]. The existence of Airbnb and other short-term rentals should increase the demand for housing, which in turn should lead to new
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by epups 3y ago
It's not a crime to expose state secrets that have been leaked by someone else - a person who, by the way, has already been released from prison. Furthermore, these exposed secrets were heinous, they were crimes against humanity. Which
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by epups 3y ago
Assange needs to be released immediately. He is a journalist imprisoned for exposing American war crimes, and every day he spends in prison is another stain in the West's claim of moral superiority to authoritarian regimes.
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by epups 3y ago
There is just nothing out there, open source or otherwise, that even comes close to GPT-4. Therefore, the value proposition is clear, this is providing you with access to the SOTA, 2x faster, without restrictions. I can actually see this sa
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by epups 3y ago
What is the difference to roop? Even the main dev seems to be the same.

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