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by lamontcg 3y ago
Not really. I've had people driving perfectly normal sedans with 1,000-yard stare off to their left as they're turning right on red, who don't see me at all as a pedestrian trying to walk across the crosswalk from their righ
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> With proper insulation of the tank the thermal energy can be usefully stored for up to a week.[15] > [15] Ehrlich, Robert (2013). "Thermal storage". Renewable Energy: A First Course. CRC Press. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-4398-6115
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Wish I wasn't 4 or 5 uncompleted projects deep right now and had the time to rewrite a monkey parser using all these tricks.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Everyone is trying as hard as they can to squeeze the consumer with higher and higher subscription revenues. This won't end well.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They're different because one of them has a risk of a meltdown with hundreds of billions of dollars of damage. That's the asymmetry and why a nuclear plant costs more than a refinery.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Make the solar plant and the molten salt battery larger, and build more of them, they can store power for up to a week. You can also charge the battery off of excess wind (or run nat gas in some kind of power emergency).
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by lamontcg 3y ago
That just moves the battle into identifying the ads when they play and then skipping over them and updating and maintaining the ad-identifier database. And heuristics/ML can probably be used to identify likely unknown ads.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> In 2013, the plant achieved continuous production, operating 24 hours per day for 36 consecutive days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar_Thermosolar_Plant
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> This was done on purpose. There is nothing inherent in the technology that makes it expensive. "Generate heat to generate steam to generate electricity" is fundamentally the same for nuclear and coal or natural gas, so the on
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I wonder how much of this is "people don't want EVs" vs. "the consumer is getting strapped, and people don't want the overpriced junk we're producing"?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah it reads like they got too much bad press and outright hostile pushback from Plan A so they're switching to Plan B and hoping to boil the proverbial frog slowly over time.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The basic idea here is that excess money can flow into three different disorders. If it flows into the "real" goods economy it produces an inflationary disorder, which is classical Monetarism. If it flows into foreign currencies
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The Theory of Monetary Disorder(imk-boeckler.de)
2 points by lamontcg 3y ago|2 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
ABSTRACT This paper introduces the notion of monetary disorder. The underlying theory rests on a twin circuits view of the macro economy. The idea of monetary disorder has relevance for understanding the experience and consequences of the r
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Due to incredibly low interest rates for the past decade the loan payments haven't been very high so they've been able to kick the can down the road. Interest rates are high now, but those new rates don't kick in until the lo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I pay Kagi for search and Tidal for music. I just won't pay Google.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Uh no, that doesn't say that. > To determine how much subscription revenue each channel receives, YouTube will aggregate viewing data from Premium users to determine a value based on watch time. The word "aggregate" there
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, if it wasn't run by Google, I'd be more likely to pay for it. And paying for it will result in most of my money going to Google and asshats like xQc even though I'd never willingly watch one of his videos and barely kno
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Tech is like a country that just discovered massive amounts of natural resources like oil or gas. The result is a whole lot of corruption and inefficiencies. And this is normally the process that plays out whenever a company gets a whole lo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
People won't be happy with Firefox until they've destroyed it and we have to choose between Chromium-clones and Safari. Victory.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Do we want to stay within the 1.5C warming target? No, we've fucked that up and that ship has sailed. The people raising the alarm over that level being breached aren't actually suggesting that there's any reasonable way
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Does that actually impact your bottom line at the end of the year?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
A lot of rich people are of above average intelligence though and they're definitely "smart", particularly if they didn't just get their money entirely from their parents. Stockton Rush was a rich CEO and clearly smart e
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> fewer freedoms You can't buy incandescent housebulbs any more?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Except to do that, we have to end almost all transportation, reduce electricity usage substantially, stop using all concrete, stop flying airplanes, stop eating beef, stop using petrochemical fertilizers, etc. It is not an exaggeration
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Or they realize its not a productive strategy. I'm usually the first to notice and verbalize that someone with authority is a useless sociopath and things are going to turn out badly. This is never a remotely optimal strategy. Can&#x27
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And we want to stop releasing CO2. We don't want to wind up charging onwards to 1,000 ppm CO2 just because we released enough SO2 to compensate for the climate change.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> started fixing it on software/multiple hw instances level Really we just don't care about it. Things like ecommerce doesn't have the reliability requirements that finance can have. In some cases you can be losing a mill
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Consulting Wikipedia, I guess I'm talking about "Industrial Revolutions Units" then.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> if you do pay for the service they should enable more privacy. They're never doing that. I pay for ad-free Kagi search. I'd pay for an ad-free YT competitor. It would need to be run by someone other than Google though since

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