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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Talking about the whole labour market is not useful in this case. There are labour shortages in trades, because they do not pay well, so Germans these days prefer to go to university. One of these "trades" is nursing, btw. Other s
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Yes, but at the same time you also don't want to rob a child of their childhood and adolescence. Who cares if by age 20 they aren't a virtuoso in violin and who cares if they haven't already won 5 random bogus academic awards
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
SUVs and pickups are a plague that cause no end of trouble. They need to be heavily taxed. Most people driving SUVs and pickups are only doing it because everyone else is already doing it and they feel insecure in a normal sedan if everyone
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Which is easier: 1. Build solar and wind, anywhere across the globe to 4x overcapacity, and then use power-to-gas technology to store the energy into synthetic hydrocarbons, which can be plugged directly into our current infrastructure. 2.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Maybe Toyota does not want to compete in the luxury EV business because they do not see a profit for them. Toyota's success was not built on their luxury models.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
They don't need to sell it to the public because the public has less than zero say. They need to sell it to the funding agencies and that is what they are doing. Also, the bombastic American style marketing comes off as insincere to mo
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
This is like when people say that consuming meat is a problem for climate change, completely ignoring the utility of meat. Obesity is a problem, but at least food, even fast food, even junk food, has some utility, whereas gambling has none
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
The bottom line is, the batteries that you would need do not exist yet. You just have faith that your extrapolation holds true. I cannot comment on that either way, because there is no way to tell when battery energy densities will stop imp
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
I agree that those are the two and the many industrial use cases that use hydrogen directly are the most promising areas. I think it might be plausible to see hydrogen creep into other market sectors once it already serves a purpose and the
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
You are betting on a 20x improvement in mass energy density of batteries for that to become realistic. That would probably require entirely new chemistries and while I am not going to rule it out, there is really no good reason to believe t
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
The drawbacks are as follows. To convert hydrogen back into electricity you need to either use a gas turbine or a fuel cell. Fuel cells are expensive, so you have capital cost problems. Additionally fuel cells have problems providing variab
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Well, fossil fuels are indeed very convenient. However I disagree that they are/were cheap. The costs are just hidden. I mean, that's the whole point we are having to replace them.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
What other fuels? All green/synthetic fuels depend on hydrogen and as such I consider them the same technology.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
So what is your better option? What alternative technology has the potential to be used to store six months worth of energy for an entire continent? Nobody is saying that hydrogen technology is without its problems, but it is feasibly scala
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Once you build enough wind and solar, energy itself become cheap and one is then more concerned with how to store and transmit that energy. That's why hydrogen makes sense despite the inherent conversion inefficiencies.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
We are all in a superposition of states and each sensory input collapses this superposition and produces a thought, and part of the context of that thought is a glimpse of the self. And this glimpse is an illusion in the sense that there is
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
This is a luxury service sold to people you should not be friends with. They are not price competitive with other DAC technologies.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Superfluous when talking about the European Commission. That's literally all they do. Should be called the Business Lobby instead.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
Smart religious people will invent some, for them plausible reason for why it was all God's plan all along. Better to not touch that topic.
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by goethes_kind 3y ago
When I was being recruited by ASML this is what I thought. Investing all the time, money and energy, to then be at the mercy of one employer, and have to live in a very specific locations, and the salary is not even that great.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
It is selfish, but also just true. Just look at the difference in salary between US and EU SWEs.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
There is one aspect that was not touched on, which I find to be quite cruel to be honest. There is an obsession with forcing academics to move around. If you do your undergrad in one university, then you should pack your bags and move to an
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
Isolation is a real problem in this country. Did you also make the mistake of moving to a small city? I spent my last four years at a TU in a small city and it was horrible here. Just one more general problem with this country.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
Thanks for the insight. I hope you are right of course. Unfortunately, Germany is a bit hopeless in this respect.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
I think my post is more representative of the truth than yours. I am sure you are telling the truth, but these unique talents you are talking about are not representative of the bulk of people working in research.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
I guess we are living in two different universes. Any job ad for an ML role or ML adjacent role says Ph.d required or Ph.d preferable. Maybe it is also a matter of location. I am in Germany. For a plain SWE role a Ph.d might be a disadvanta
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
This is where it pays off to be researching something completely esoteric rather than something immediately applicable. I mostly scoffed at such research in the past, but now I see the value of it. The guy researching QML algorithms for NLP
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
That is not how it works at all. You won't get hired if you don't have the academic pedigree in the first place. That means a completed Ph.D and good publications in good journals.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
Is uses the python shell. I asked it.
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by goethes_kind 4y ago
I do not want to discount your personal experience, but could it be that you are/were just depressed? I know my depression got severely worse during COVID. Depression can make you feel sluggish, especially when you give up physical act

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