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by ericd 2y ago
If you read the article itself, it's probably also just generally not a great idea to drive vultures into extinction.
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by ericd 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer, these look awesome (not cheap, but well designed to not be too frustrating for kids). Trying to figure out if it can handle proper full res camera input, looks like the optical sensor is a bit limited. Maybe these po
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by ericd 2y ago
Are there any good starter kits that you'd recommend on the hardware side that work well with the software stack you all use?
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by ericd 2y ago
Sorry for the hyperbole. I think you're being a bit uncharitable, though, I'm of course not basing this entirely on myself. Lots of people I know have a bar for being satiated that maintains weight without effort. But many clearly
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by ericd 2y ago
Yeah, there's definitely no putting this back in the bag on a global scale.
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by ericd 2y ago
Exactly, thanks for explaining it.
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by ericd 2y ago
Yep, of course you lose weight if you starve yourself. But why do so many people seem to have a natural eating “setpoint” that fattens them, and others don’t? My guess is that it’s largely the types of foods they’re eating. Not fatty ones,
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by ericd 2y ago
No idea, don’t care to know. I drink a huge amount of whole milk, eat lots of cheese, dark chocolate, etc, etc, so I’m sure it’s not a small number of calories. The point was that I’m eating as much as I want, and not restraining myself at
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by ericd 2y ago
I eat as much as I want and don’t exercise enough, why am I far from obese? I’m currently scarfing down tortilla chips and guacamole. To me, that suggests that maybe that simplistic (and frequently repeated) mental model is inaccurate or in
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by ericd 2y ago
The average American family is responsible for something like 50 tons per year. The carbon of one family for a decade is nothing compared to the benefits. The carbon of 1000 families for a decade is also approximately nothing compared to
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by ericd 3y ago
I’m not seeing anyone point at monetary/trade policy here. Every western government is running the same playbook of loose monetary policy and (at least in aggregate across the monetary unions) large structural trade deficits. We buy ma
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by ericd 3y ago
Ha awesome, that looks almost exactly like what I was imagining. I guess it was somewhat obvious to anyone who’s used racking like the one I used and thought about it. I wonder how well their system works in practice, but I can’t imagine it
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, we used the g20 south-facing ground mount, no ballast, about 40 18” ground screws for a 48 panel array (relatively small 108 cell panels). Soil is clay, for reference, not very rocky, so might be unusually well suited for the screws.
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by ericd 3y ago
Thanks for going through that! We used aerocompact, with 18” ground screws/anchors (a lot of them), and their engineering plans for our anticipated wind load didn’t even require all possible ground screw spots to be filled, so it seems
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by ericd 3y ago
This looks pretty awesome, but any reason you don’t use these in a central location to make foldable preassembled racks, instead of transporting the factory to the site? Seems like you could fold them like an accordion into whatever max siz
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by ericd 3y ago
There's a lot that has to go wrong before those two things become a major risk, though. Happy people don't generally decide that doing meth is a great idea. So what's driving the high rates? Is it high rates of bad overall he
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by ericd 3y ago
Past week with the free trial, so presumably 12.3.x
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by ericd 3y ago
I did read it, thanks for laying out your experience. The evidence I’d look for is something like their revenue vs payout over maybe the last 5 years? I think a lot of this stuff can be very unintuitive, because we look around, and everythi
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by ericd 3y ago
Nah, random Youtubers aren't at all a representative sample. Much better to just try it out, since it's now deployed on a large number of cars. We have it on our Y, we're in suburban America, and its average number of attempt
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by ericd 3y ago
Do you have evidence that they make money on their plan? My impression is that insurance of last resort isn’t cheap to provide, they’re only getting the people that were too high risk to qualify for a cheaper commercial plan.
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by ericd 3y ago
As always, obscurity is one (often very helpful) layer of a multilayered defensive strategy. The meme that it's useless needs to go away. If you have a safe at home, you should probably hide its existence, because even if power tools c
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by ericd 3y ago
I think their problem is that it’s not clear how not to cannibalize their core revenue model if this replaces some percentage of search (a large percentage, in my case).
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by ericd 3y ago
You don't need to go to the .1% or .01% to pay for those more expensive flights, top 1% cutoff (of the US) is >$600k/yr.
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by ericd 3y ago
It seems like there’d be some use for something that correlates what it sees on the ground with known satellite imagery as a check? Especially for anything low-flying.
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by ericd 3y ago
Absolutely, we should be trying extremely hard to skim the cream of the rest of the world. That's historically been one of our greatest strengths/abilities.
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by ericd 3y ago
Well, I didn't fail in that case, the company started making money, and they were repaid handsomely. But yeah, having a familial, social, or financial safety net is pretty important. If you never want to have to depend on anyone, or ca
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by ericd 3y ago
Yes, I am blessed to have wonderful parents who would let me move back in. Fortunately, I only got to the "crashing on friends' couches and at my girlfriend/now wife's place" phase. Great way to tell if someone&#x27
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by ericd 3y ago
They might have been better off financially - statistically, they probably would've been. But even my failed startups were more rewarding experiences by far than working in large companies. And it doesn't preclude you from going
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by ericd 3y ago
He's telling kids that they don't have to get a job, and one of the key objections is obviously going to be "but how will I get money". The emphasis in the essay is not getting rich, it's that it's a much more
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, maybe this place was unusually cheap, but chatting with the owner made it sound like the supply far outstripped the demand, so I don’t think that’s fundamentally true. That said, I’d still take the $1000 solid antique over the $600 mo

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