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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   > Who have far less in common with you or me than we both do with some random backend engineer at meta Half the people on HN want to be the billionaires who are chummy with Zuck, Musk, etc Temporarily embarrassed millionaires are one thi
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   If you're watching TV in a sauna you haven't turned the sauna on.
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   1000 cycles is barely 3 years, that's far too low a number
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   Third parties offer new iphone batteries so it's clearly replaceable commercially
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   Can I have a thicker phone but narrower I currently have a 12 mini, but I'd love to go back to the iphone 4 size, or even a blackberry curve. Would be fine for comms, and I suspect I'd spend less time doom-scrolling on it.
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   You can. Oil consumption is about 4,000 TWh per year, or about 10^19 Joules. The Earth receives about 170,000 TWh per year of Solar energy.
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   tiny insignificant amounts
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   The world's most effective ecoterrorist. Greenpeace should name their next ship after him.
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   by iso1631 6mo ago

   > solar becoming the world's primary source of energy Solar has always been the primary source of energy, Something like 99.95%, with geothermal taking 90% of the rest and tidal being basically zero
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Zero cost to run fibre from a nearby IXP to your new data centre with $100m of equipment
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    It would be better. If my listening is to Ed Sheeran for 9 hours a day and I pay $10, spotify take $3 for a platform fee, and Ed should get 10% of the rest - $7 If your listening is to Dave Smith for 1 hour a day and you pay $10, spotify ta
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    I'm saying that it's far easier for them to take out an LEO satellite than an underground data centre, or even a surface one, in the centre of the US. Are you saying it's not?
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Pretty much zero cost. Or just use your satellite capacity you'd use from your space based DC.
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    You need about 2,500m/s delta V to reach LEO altitude. Iranian long range rockets are well in that range. It's thus far easier for Iran to hit an LEO DC than one in Colorado
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    If you build a pyramid with the base pointing to the sun (as solar), and a "height" about 5 times the base in constant shadow, with decent internal circulation, that will operate at sub-20C just from the two radiative sides pointi
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Far easier for someone like Iran or China or the US to take out an LEO satellite than an underground data centre, or even a surface on in the case of DCs in US or China.
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Land is pretty much irellevent in the cost. The Utah Data Center [0] is a 200 acre plot with 35 acres of buildings. Even prime farmland values is arround $10k an acre, or $2m, but for other land you're talking $400k for that much land
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Desert land is free. Floating data centres in the middle of the pacific is free. If a state, or even rich billionaire, wanted to take out your data centre in low earth orbit, it's only a few million dollars to launch a retrograde rocke
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    There is a constant lack of acceptance of the privatisation of the world in the tech industry. Or of course people realise it but like it. The randian matra of "Private = good, government = bad" always wins out You end up with a p
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    I live in the UK in a town of 10,000 people, so say 4,000 houses (probably far higher than there are). If every house had a 10kWp (way more than most installs) that would be 40MW generation. On the outskirts of town we have a 40MW solar far
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    More than "a 3 year old laptop is fine" My thinkpad is nearly 10 years old, I upgraded it to 32GB of ram and have replaced the battery a couple of times, but it's absolutely fine apart from that. If AI which was leading edge
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    https://www.pembina.org/blog/baseload-myths-why-we-need-chan...
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Yes, there are no global externalities from coal, oil and gas...
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    They'll have company soon https://gtnm.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-theocratic-authorita...
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Well most dangerous apart from coal, oil, gas, biomass? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p... And that's before you bring into the deaths due to climate change
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Get a drought and you have to shut them down, ask France. "Base load" is just some nonsense from nuclear fans to get the cost per GWh down.
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Niger springs to mind, massively capitalist with a lot of oil and mining
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    Been through this recently in a fairly large enterprise We have some in house software which runs in k8s. Total throughput peaks at about 1mbit a second of control traffic - it's controlling some other devices which are on dedicated ha
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    I'm a power user and I've used linux for over 25 years. My corporate windows machine is total trash and completely unsuitable for any power users, either because its windows or because corporate locks it down so much it's bar
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    by iso1631 6mo ago

    And over time the volume of blue reduces and changes to red, and even deeper red appears It's generally accepted that red = hot and blue = cold, and there is a scale showing that anyway It's quite obvious based solely on the site