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by ericd 3y ago
According to the wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(rocket_engine) ), they're aiming for 3-5 reuses, which I believe is significantly fewer than SpaceX's Falcon 9 engine, Merlin. Bu
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by ericd 3y ago
It’s unlikely, since angriculture alone is >1/10, water heating, home heating, manufactured goods, logistics/shipping, steel, and concrete are all major sources. Pretty sure the average family’s direct energy consumption is les
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by ericd 3y ago
We can’t conserve our way out of this. We have to electrify everything we can, and completely decarbonize our electric grid. To do that, we need to make clean electricity cheaper than fossil electricity, and just as reliable. Spending our f
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by ericd 3y ago
To get a head start on other developers for when there are tens or hundreds of millions of users.
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by ericd 3y ago
Or it could’ve ended up at 1/3 by the end of the lockup. With cash, they’re free to put it into FB stock, if they want, though statistically (especially from a variance/gut wrenching swings perspective), an S&P500 fund is a mu
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by ericd 3y ago
Thanks, you said it better than I could have. I feel like engineers frequently get stuck in this “perfect or worthless” mindset. Putting your life on the line is a hell of an incentive.
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by ericd 3y ago
I think you’re underestimating how much work goes into hiring and producing something. Making it more self-service will go a long way toward making it more accessible to small creators. And my impression is that many books don’t sell 200 co
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by ericd 3y ago
Sure, and then we'll get more audiobook options, as it becomes economically viable to make more niche stuff into audiobooks.
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by ericd 3y ago
I think it basically does? I think they pay out a big chunk of the subscription fees to songs based on plays.
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by ericd 3y ago
Seems like most companies could use a Defense Against the Dark Patterns teacher :-)
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by ericd 3y ago
I don’t think we know that. The point of my comment is to poke a bit at human exceptionalism. I think we’re going to see something that’s hard to deny is intelligent come out of a combination of a world model and an RL agent within the next
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by ericd 3y ago
Err why? The css adds a lot of flavor, generally doesn’t get in the way of functionality.
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, I’d say that the default in the US is generally cheaper and lower quality than the default in France, at least (no experience with Ireland).
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by ericd 3y ago
We live somewhere humid and have very young kids, their playroom is covered with a very big one of those loom hooked ones, it’s awesome for that because it’s so soft. Spills tends to come out of it pretty easily, the wool seems to be at lea
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by ericd 3y ago
And if your brain is mostly a statistical model of the world, with action probabilities based on what parts of it happen to be excited at the moment?
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by ericd 3y ago
American milk is very varied, sounds like you’re describing plastic gallon jug skim milk. If you want something a bit heartier, you can probably find creamline milk from a local farm.
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, polyester/nylon/polypropylene are everywhere. There are some really good, reasonably priced all wool ones available here: https://hookandloom.com/browse/undyed-natural-wool-rugs/loom... They’re so
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by ericd 3y ago
What percentage of lacquers these days do you think is the old natural type? I’d wager it’s very low.
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by ericd 3y ago
I don’t know if a centralized payment service that’s usable for that and trustworthy, do you? Most of the services that I know of charge a fixed fee that’s ~7x higher than that, in addition to ~3%.
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by ericd 3y ago
It’s not just brand, Apple is much better at making high quality devices than HTC.
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by ericd 3y ago
Not having sensation would be a massive evolutionary disadvantage...
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by ericd 3y ago
Do you think that comparing HTC to Apple might be a little bit of apples to oranges?
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by ericd 3y ago
I still think that saying "Tesla chose to kill people by shipping a low quality system." is a strong allegation. I don't think it's reasonable to speak with that kind of certainty about an unknown. If your other comment
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by ericd 3y ago
Strong allegations, what is the death rate per million miles of FSD vs baseline? Is that a publicly known figure?
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by ericd 3y ago
Don’t meter it, just make it a flat fee based on average?
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by ericd 3y ago
That’s all because the economic model has almost completely collapsed. Classifieds used to be a huge source of revenue, Craigslist gutted that for them. And to news sites, they lost most of the market power they had in terms of reaching new
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by ericd 3y ago
I think we’re going to start seeing learning based on all the video out there. Text is just computationally easier, but video contains a lot of information that people rarely write about, because it’s completely obvious to humans who grew u
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by ericd 3y ago
At $1k, it’s not a no-brainer, but it’s also not that expensive in the context of the risk it counters.
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by ericd 3y ago
It’s any investor, not only the rich ones. Typically includes things like very short duration bonds (like t-bills).
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by ericd 3y ago
This hasn’t been my experience.

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