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by ericd 1y ago
Do they? I think exactly the opposite is true - if you ask any sufficiently wealthy person, they’d need a team of people working for a bit to arrive at a very hazy net worth number. Private stock is extremely illiquid and doesn’t usually ha
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by ericd 2y ago
I think the previous version of this lacks the arrestors, unfortunately, wonder if they can be retrofitted. Thanks for sharing your take!
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah yeah, unfortunately I think we have the version before they added fire suppression, but at least it’s a more relaxed chemistry. Thanks for the analysis!
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by ericd 2y ago
Where would you put this battery in that trenchcoat gamut? Inside a server rack, fwiw. https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-v2-lithium-battery... Was definitely one of the harder parts of our solar install to get comfo
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by ericd 2y ago
Absolutely, kudos to them for following KISS, despite the legions of people who have probably told them they’re doing it wrong.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m part of a volunteer group that lobbies congresspeople about climate change, and there’re at least a few examples of it making a very obvious difference (for example, one republican member of congress started the conservative climate cau
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by ericd 2y ago
Revenue neutral carbon taxes with all income dividended back out per capita are really the move here. It’s also one of the few really promising ways to tackle climate change effectively.
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah, but proponents also want to make it difficult for you to leave with your money. Capital controls are very seductive, even though they’re very authoritarian.
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by ericd 2y ago
No, look up prop 13, it heavily incentivizes sitting on land and never triggering a valuation reset. It’s a massive wealth transfer from the newcomers (who tend to be younger) to those who’ve lived there longer.
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by ericd 2y ago
Presumably there’d be regular missions, so there’d be relatively little additional planning for a given moon trip, similar to how there’s a lot less planning/paperwork that goes into a Falcon 9 launch these days than there was for any
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by ericd 2y ago
Lunar seems more convenient for debugging colony creation than Martian, since the shipping time from Earth will be a whole lot shorter. Projects are a lot harder when trips to the hardware store take months rather than days. I think Starshi
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by ericd 2y ago
Ways that have no realistic way of happening aren’t better ways. Obviously we don’t send a group without making it not certain death first. But the person I was responding to said that it would be reliant on Earth, which, yeah, you can’t re
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by ericd 2y ago
No better way to quickly develop the myriad tech we need for a colony than making a colony.
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by ericd 2y ago
I know of many probationary employees at the DoE that took it.
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by ericd 2y ago
Applied to probationary employees as well. I know of one who was there for two days and took it.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m not sure about that, I think the current setup is an artifact of human limits, which an immortal shared ML model doesn’t share. Also, cross-disciplinary knowledge is frequently incredibly helpful (if rare, because currently it’s the int
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m guessing there’s going to be cuts there, too - Musk spoke recently that drone warfare is the very clear future of war, and I’m guessing that the shift to that will involve cutting down on a lot of legacy programs.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yep, exactly this. There's been a boom in Montessori-labeled schools, but there are comparatively few real ones. Partly, it's very hard to find real Montessori teachers, so the ones that aren't accredited don't have many
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by ericd 2y ago
Well, I guess there’s also sandpaper, cards, glass, beads, other types of boxes/latches, but certainly nothing “collecting data”. At least not in the AMS accredited Montessori school we helped run.
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by ericd 2y ago
I think you're arguing against a position that not many people here hold - people aren't worried about bankruptcy so much as inflation. My understanding is that the reason the USD is unusually resistant to inflation is that there&
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by ericd 2y ago
The Montessori toys are mostly wood in different shapes...
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by ericd 2y ago
So what you’re saying is that leeches as medicine are coming back.
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by ericd 2y ago
I'm imagining something like Solaria in Asimov's The Naked Sun (part of the Robot series). The world is divided up by a tiny human population, each with a huge estate with thousands of robots serving them.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m guessing they think the answer is robots? Same answer for armies.
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by ericd 2y ago
Thanks very much for typing all that out! >These external forcing functions tend to be pretty similar among people of a comparable environment. But the internal equilibria seem to be quite different. So when the external forcing is stron
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by ericd 2y ago
Brilliant summary, thanks. I'm interested in #4, is there anywhere you know of to read more about that? I don't think I've seen that described except obliquely in eg sayings about the relationship between genius and madness.
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by ericd 2y ago
Off topic, but The Verge's bottom cookie banner is truly absurd: "Privacy Notice We and our 868 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device."
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by ericd 2y ago
Ooh yeah, big bonus points if it integrates easily with eg Homeassistant.
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by ericd 2y ago
>Where the CIA once might have coveted the secrets of Albania, now it is Apple, whose wealth exceeds all but the four richest countries. It's really hard to take this seriously when he makes the fundamental error of comparing corp
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by ericd 2y ago
Sounds like it's happening in at least some other parts of the government, too. This order seems to have paused disbursement of even some already-committed funding: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2

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