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by ericd 2y ago
Alternatively, we got one piped into the HVAC ductwork. It's not as optimal as its own ducting, but it's much easier/cheaper than running a bunch of new ductwork.
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by ericd 2y ago
I think digital money is just too abstract for kids, and even adults struggle with comparing amounts and truly grasping their significance. Handing over a stack of bills just feels a lot more significant than swiping your card, which is the
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by ericd 2y ago
I’d agree with you that it was accurate pricing if they sold power for similarly cheap at that time, such that you could just install storage and profit off of time shifting by backfeeding when there’s not a glut. But I’m pretty sure they s
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by ericd 2y ago
Who would it have succeeded as well with? Because they tried hiring a few CEOs, and far from succeeding, they were very nearly bankrupt. After bringing him back, they worked their way to being the most valuable public company. He's one
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by ericd 2y ago
Sure, materialism generally is a problem, but CDs are just not a significant contributor.
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by ericd 2y ago
Eh I'd revise that to say it's anti-rooftop-without-storage. Basically, the CA grid now has a massive glut of solar generation at midday, and so they changed net metering to not pay anywhere near 1:1 on backfed power (it's a
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by ericd 2y ago
Plastic in a landfill and carbon dioxide in the air are two very different forms of environmental damage, even though they frequently get lumped into the same catchall, and only the latter has the potential to be a civilization-ender, so mo
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by ericd 2y ago
Ha awesome, stashing this for the next time I make dough. Already have stacks of Cento SMs, since they sell them at Costco and they work well with Marcella Hazan’s pasta sauce. Thanks for typing all that out!
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by ericd 2y ago
The problem with that is there are also a large number of people who make a large amount of money and still save very little. So we should maybe put more work into figuring out what is the fault of economic structure, and what is the fault
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by ericd 2y ago
There's a simple way to think about this that doesn't require doing a ton of research and number crunching. Think about the volume of fuel in a single airplane, about 7,000 gallons for a 737, or about 100 55 gallon drums. It'
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by ericd 2y ago
The intermittency is really bad/hard to deal with unless you have a large geographic distribution with long distance transmission that can handle that level of power. Even if you can handle weeklong cloudy stints, winter is especially
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by ericd 2y ago
You can consider that they might've had to raise the fare by that much to keep up with inflation/rising costs, but instead, they're keeping it constant. Like the sibling comments have already mentioned, it's an extremely
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s just unbundling, it’s not the end of the world, relax. Most “basic economy” is already like this. This seems like a result of people buying primarily based on price via Kayak et al without seeing the full picture, and tools like Google
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by ericd 2y ago
All of the online banks pay pretty close to 4 week T-bill rates, maybe 1% off. Chase/etc are only worth keeping a small amount in, everything else should be transferred to Ally/Marcus/Fidelity Cash Management/Vanguard&#x
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by ericd 2y ago
I don’t think it’s the Sol-Ark branded inverters that shut down, but Deye inverters that people imported via eg aliexpress?
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by ericd 2y ago
Sorry, haven’t looked, we have a sol-ark and this was the go to solution for people on diysolarforum ( https://diysolarforum.com/ ). I’d recommend searching around on there, or making a post, it’s amazing for learning about t
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by ericd 2y ago
Highly recommend using solarassistant for this, instead - local server software that install on a raspi, and you hook a usb on the raspi to the WiFi dongle port on your inverter with a serial cable. Don’t provide the inverter itself with an
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by ericd 2y ago
How about intensely torquey EVs? Except for the sound, they seem like they’d be just as fun, even better throttle response than N/A. I guess there’s not the same hackability, though.
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by ericd 2y ago
If you go spend $5k on a MacBook Pro m4 max with 128 gigs of ram, and toss on Ollama with Qwen2.5-72b, you have your local LLM, free to run as much as you like. At first glance that might seem expensive, but then consider how insane it is t
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by ericd 2y ago
I think there is some natural inclination towards abstract thinking versus more grounded in reality, just judging based on kids I know. Some of them really enjoy playing with ideas in their heads, some enjoy playing with things they can tou
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by ericd 2y ago
They're talking about learning, probably as a broke teenager who wouldn't have been able to pay anything, I think you can save the outrage.
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by ericd 2y ago
Right, it's mostly because of the large skew in incomes, and I agree that that's not a great situation. It's kind of why I scoff when people say that you can't get Americans to do farm labor for any price. I'm prett
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by ericd 2y ago
The top 10% of earners pay ~75% of income tax in the US, income taxes at least are pretty progressive, especially when you include the standard deduction. Maybe you mean the people who live off of investments rather than high earners? But y
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by ericd 2y ago
Where'd you get 10 years? I'm seeing "through September 2026" for the deployment of those funds. Also, it's taken them a bit to get back up to speed, since the political fallout around Solyndra basically caused them
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by ericd 2y ago
$400B is moderate? Have there been other bills that have come anywhere close?
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by ericd 2y ago
The comically named Inflation Reduction Act included a tremendous amount of money for scaling up clean tech manufacturing in the US, and it’s been getting deployed quickly. The DOE Loan Programs Office got something like $400B in loan aut
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by ericd 2y ago
My wired Shure in ear monitors have much better sound quality, and battery management on AirPods is pretty annoying. Even when they’re not running out mid-trip, it’s just unnecessary mental overhead to keep another thing charged.
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by ericd 2y ago
To your comment about even the best <=5 schools being glorified daycares, you might consider Montessori, if your kids are still in that 3-6 age band. There are many faux-Montessoris which are daycare with wooden toys, and use the name to
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by ericd 2y ago
Elon at least seems to be against sudden implementation of tariffs, he wants them phased in in a predictable over time, he talks about exactly this near the end of his JRE interview: https://youtu.be/7qZl_5xHoBw?si=0XNnSP8ps
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, it'd probably be at least a bit messy.

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