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by ericd 2y ago
Other countries didn’t exactly stay out of their business - the WW1 allies were demanding unsustainably large war reparations paid in gold , rather than a currency they had control over the supply of. My understanding is that this directly
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, even with 48V, we're still rocking parallel 4/0 copper, it's still a lot of amperage to try to supply 15 kw at 48V. They are heavy . The ones we got from WindyNation were surprisingly flexible, though, which has made t
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by ericd 2y ago
Ah makes sense (that 12V is just implied for RVs). I'm used to dealing with 48V, since I'm doing this for a house, and it seems like they specify batteries both ways in that world. I wonder who uses 24V. Anyway, thanks for explain
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by ericd 2y ago
I'm curious, why do people use Ah for batteries, given that there's 3 different common server rack battery voltages (12, 24, 48)? Is 12 just assumed for RVing?
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by ericd 2y ago
Even more stark, the raptor 3 supposedly costs <$500k to build, so you can get around 70 (almost two full starship stacks worth) for the price of refurbishing one of those engines.
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by ericd 2y ago
A bit of a shame, though, because the status quo has lots wrong with it, and it can be impractically expensive to change things around eg equity structure later.
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s enough if there’s enough inventory. The only reason it functions is because there’s not enough inventory in many of these markets.
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by ericd 2y ago
Right, assuming there’s more supply than demand. In markets with low vacancy rates like Manhattan, landlords get away with murder (terrible maintenance, making renters pay for gatekeeping rental agents, high rent despite being shitholes, et
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, you could just delete "readonly" from the input, then try the password manager autofill again. Thankfully no longer necessary.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’d like to see them split off crawling from indexing/search, and be forced to provide the complete crawl to anyone who wants it, at cost. Currently, they have a privileged position, where almost all websites are willing to let them cr
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by ericd 2y ago
Luxury means "something expensive which is pleasant to have but is not really necessary". My anecdotes were trying to show that they're not really necessary, and the sibling comment further explained that individual bedrooms
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by ericd 2y ago
Why is this being downvoted? Do you all not know people whose kids are in the same room? Ours are. Someone we know has 4 kids in a 2 BR apartment, those kids are great.
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by ericd 2y ago
As long as you aren't particularly OCD about getting it to look perfect, keystoning, zoom, etc all work together to make it pretty flexible. We throw it on a variety of walls around the house (helps that white is the default wall color
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by ericd 2y ago
It’s largely to slow lending and credit creation. They’ve got a difficult balancing act to perform, especially since cheap money is a lot more politically popular than the alternative, partly because many people focus on the part where the
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by ericd 2y ago
>I dunno if you were alive at the time but that's not really what happened. I was pretty alive at the time, I was an intern on the iPhone team at Apple when it launched and the run-up, so I was using the first gen phone/touch a
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by ericd 2y ago
It was a good product, but it took a lot of iteration to make it the juggernaut it is today. Add bad battery life to the list of flaws, along with slow web browsing, slow processor, etc. With all of those, and the high price, it was relativ
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by ericd 2y ago
Nah, the first iPhone was too expensive, slow, and limited in capabilities (no App Store). They quickly iterated to improve on all of that. The first watch also kind of sucked. The initial iPod wasn’t a blockbuster, either - didn’t work wel
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by ericd 2y ago
Some people are professional small landlords. It’s an incredibly valuable service for people who don’t want the headache of home maintenance, and there are very significant economies of scale - 1 unit is generally not worth doing unless you
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by ericd 2y ago
Have you talked with contractors recently? It costs a lot more than you seem to think it does.
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m not a lawyer, and I haven’t kept up very closely with the movements in scraping legality, but my impression was that it was ruled in the past few years that if it’s on the public internet with no login-wall being circumvented, then CFAA
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by ericd 2y ago
Why is the CFAA mentioned, then? That’s historically been used as a bludgeon against scraping. “A US court ruled that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing part of Ryanair's website without permission, cour
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by ericd 2y ago
I think a lot of this boils down to the fact that you can make large multiples of the amount you'd make working on this kind of thing by working on something relatively non-productive like finance, consulting, adtech, etc. A large perc
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by ericd 2y ago
Thanks for explaining! That makes sense, it’s mostly that it’s mainly used for relatively long distances. I’m not very familiar with Aussie projects, but it’s cool to hear that the govt there seems to be aggressively planning for this type
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by ericd 2y ago
I’m curious, what’s so heinously expensive about HVDC vs normal HV transmission lines? Is it just that they’re less common, so there’s no economies of scale yet, or is it something fundamental to HVDC itself?
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by ericd 2y ago
I like it as a signal for “probably cares about some things that most devs don’t bother to care about”. Speed/responsiveness, for example, in this case.
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by ericd 2y ago
You just turn off your main breaker, open up the panel, and snap the CTs/current transformers around one of the wires on each circuit (you can open them back up if you mess up). You only want to put one wire through, rather than a full
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by ericd 2y ago
Not quite every socket, but iotawatt can monitor each circuit at the breaker panel, and from there, it's generally not too hard to figure out what's going on, and it's really nice to be able to get a concrete sense of where y
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, options are limited, but there are a few. We got an LG one from Costco with knobs (was a major filter for us).
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by ericd 2y ago
> We need to tax carbon, not just subsidize batteries. Yeah, subsidies are incredibly clumsy/distorting compared to just taxing the problem directly. I hold out hope that we'll someday see a uniform carbon tax, but as my wife l
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah sorry, rereading, that came off as way aggressive for no reason. Rereading the chain, I think I just meant that it’s an algorithm that was frequently taught in AI classes, so at least some profs think it counts, even though it was call

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