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by hristov 11mo ago
Also of interest is vile bodies, which is a very good but characteristically depressing book by evelyn waugh.
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by hristov 11mo ago
The maltese falcon (the book, not the movie) is entering the public domain next year!
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by hristov 1y ago
It sure seems that way. The stock options are worth, at the current price of AMD stock, about 32.8 Billion dollars. AMD is giving out these stock options essentially for free in exchange of open ai purchasing chips from AMD. So open ai are
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by hristov 1y ago
No this is an attempt to shift the burden of taxation to the middle class and poor. It is a consumption tax pure and simple. If you tax everything like sneakers and toothpaste the tax burden shifts to the middle class and poor because a bil
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by hristov 1y ago
There are many reasons for subsidies and it is a complex field. I was not discussing subsidies I was replying to a flat out false statement that solar is very expensive. When discussing solar subsidies one should keep several things in mind
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by hristov 1y ago
First of all your post is off topic. Second of all, the reason why solar panel installations in both Australia and Germany are cheaper than the US is solar panel tariffs. Neither Australia nor the EU has solar panel tariffs. The US does. Th
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by hristov 1y ago
So wait, what you are saying is that a rooftop solar array may be a bad deal if your roof is not sunny? Wow hold the presses.
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by hristov 1y ago
Wrong, solar is cheap and probably the cheapest energy source a household can get if they have a sunny roof. Source - I have solar, have done the math.
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by hristov 1y ago
I vastly underperforms silicon in the most important category: cost.
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by hristov 1y ago
I am not going to download an app to read an article.
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by hristov 1y ago
The fact that it is a continuation of existing trends does not mean we should treat it as a non story and not take note of it.
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by hristov 1y ago
Inodata
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by hristov 1y ago
Of course when you read the article to the end you realize that by “fox infestation” they mean one fox.
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by hristov 1y ago
Their massive it staff provides them with a way to communicate securely and they ignore it deliberately so that their communications are not preserved for history or for future court cases.
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by hristov 1y ago
There was a terrible spate of kidnappings in the first half of the twentieth century, the Lindbergh baby being the most notorious, but the police have gotten good at foiling them. They mark the currency, alert all the banks etc. Most busine
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by hristov 1y ago
Not sure about that. Industry created, private energy efficiency programs have often been nothing more than industry cheerleaders.
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by hristov 1y ago
The data you need for power cost calculations was also collected by the energy star program.
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by hristov 1y ago
Very disappointing, although not unexpected. The energy star program was a very useful. It is very easy for a manufacturer to save a couple of bucks on some voltage converter circuits and saddle the customer with hundreds of dollars of elec
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by hristov 1y ago
Wrong you disgusting pervert. You do not know me you have no right or ability to do psycho analysis to me. Even if what you say is true and if ecstasy only “lowers your standards” then, by definition if someone makes you take it without kno
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by hristov 1y ago
The responsible drug user is a myth created to sell more drugs. Most illegal drugs are both addictive and tolerance causing. It is certainly true of MDMA. That means you will not get the same effect, from the same amount next time. You will
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by hristov 1y ago
Not entirely on topic but a relevant warning. Extasy is used nowadays as a rape drug. Be careful. I have had extasy three times in my life, none of them consensual -- every single time it was slipped into my drink. I described the symptoms
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by hristov 2y ago
I don't think IGBTs can handle frequencies up to "several megahertz" as the article says.
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by hristov 2y ago
This is very interesting and cannot happen fast enough, considering the current worldwide transformer shortage. I have a question for people more familiar with these. What exactly happens at the isolation stage. They say it includes a high
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by hristov 2y ago
Good news, although it is depressing that they keep bundling nuclear in with clean energy. Alas nuclear is not clean.
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by hristov 2y ago
The WSJ article says that most of the minority non-musk investors of xAI are also non-Musk investors of Twitter. So they are self dealing as well. It is just one giant orgy of self dealing. Apologies about the mental image.
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by hristov 2y ago
Looks like a payoff to me.
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by hristov 2y ago
What internet points do you have to spare? What are these points that let your posts be on the top even though everyone is voting you down. I always had doubts that HN is taking some sort of bribe to force disliked and false posts into peop
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by hristov 2y ago
It is very strange to see a grayed out comment on top of a thread that has about 160 non-grayed out comments. I thought that highest rated comments go to the top and grayed out comments are rated below zero. Regarding your points. First the
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by hristov 2y ago
Not necessarily. Hypothetically speaking, if the federal government becomes more efficient, i.e., it produces the same services for less money, the FED could stimulate the economy with low interest rates, so that the private market employs
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by hristov 2y ago
It did not work because they did not try it. They suspended enforcement before the thing was going to take effect.

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