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by lumost 3y ago
Likely this is a summer at sleep away camp. Although tbh I've usually seen something closer to ~10k for a summer away. Presumably you could pay more for spending a summer in an immersive camp experience or do multiple high end camps sp
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by lumost 3y ago
In Manhattan, it's pretty lux :) If you expand your radius to Brooklyn and the other burrows you can get a modern renovated brownstone with 4k sqft for similar pricing and a 20 minute commute to wherever you need to go in Manhattan. Ad
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by lumost 3y ago
:doh: good catch :facepalm: it's been too long since physics undergrad.
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by lumost 3y ago
I think this over-estimates the amount required to live a luxurious life in perpetuity. Consider the case of someone wishing to live a luxury lifestyle in the trendy lower east side neighborhood of manhattan. We'll use a 1300 sqft 3 be
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by lumost 3y ago
Often, when inventing something new - it can be difficult to assess how novel the "new" thing is. Particularly when there isn't yet a word for it. Planck may have simply believed that this hinted towards something equivalent
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by lumost 3y ago
Presuming that wealth and education are increasing in the general population - wouldn't this pose a problem for the future?
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by lumost 3y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say something that I "feel" is plausibly true, but I don't have any data to back it up. While life has been objectively harder in the recent past (prior 80 years), life is subjectively d
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by lumost 3y ago
Having children has also become higher risk, both in absolute costs - as well as risks associated to the likely possibility of divorce and single-parenthood.
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by lumost 3y ago
I've been doing this math frequently of late. I'm 35, have one child and of my high school class ... maybe 25% have children? there is certainly a bias from polling social media. But the anecdata would say that we're closing
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by lumost 3y ago
I suspect we'll see a broad slow down in classic ML approaches. If I just need a basic classifier -> GPT-4 can do an OK job. Spending an afternoon prompt tuning is vastly cheaper than a dedicated team of scientists and engineers cur
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by lumost 3y ago
Hardware beyond 3 years starts to be inefficient due to the space and power cost. paid off servers aren't free :) Otherwise, we did mortgage the servers in the backend - buying upfront gave us around a 50% discount on top of the steep
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by lumost 3y ago
Once in my career, I did a high 7 figure migration from cloud to colo. Our startups lead investor, was invested in a few firms that aimed to make a cloud experience on-prem. So we enjoyed strong board support, and had a strong team. On pape
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by lumost 3y ago
It’s not so much the setup time for the hardware/networking. This takes some time, but can reasonably be done in a few months even for complex setups. The problem comes when you then wish to have things like CI/CD, distributed dat
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by lumost 3y ago
Practically, this means that if you are an infrastructure tolling company - then you must reinvent all pieces of the cloud supply chain before building your product. That’s a very expensive proposition. While the paper cost of a few racks i
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by lumost 3y ago
Sequestration via pulverized stone will yield various precipitates into the soil, in many cases - the byproducts should be tunable to enrich the soil. I’m less concerned about total cost, olivine weathering proposals generally sit at $50 pe
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by lumost 3y ago
The technology being discussed is not direct air capture. However even in the context of 1200 KWh/ ton, that works out to .04*1200 = $48 per ton. Wind generally runs 4 cents per kwh rate, and there is limited need to distribute electri
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by lumost 3y ago
heh - I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it takes more vehicle volume to move 35 billion tons of feathers. As Vehicle volume is correlated to vehicle weight, moving feathers will be more expensive :P but in all seriousness, t
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by lumost 3y ago
Rocks are very dense. We are extremely good at mining and moving rocks. We produce 30 billion tons of concrete per year. Naively, you would expect that producing and distributing crushed rocks sufficient to capture carbon would be equivalen
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by lumost 3y ago
Electricity decarbonization won't occur in the amount required prior to 2060. We're still building net-new coal plants, and existing coal plants will be allowed to continue operating. The baseline load/peak load problem of re
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by lumost 3y ago
In my semi-informed opinion, this approach is the most likely to yield substantial CO2 reductions in the first half of the century. While industry is greening, the process is slow on the timescales required to arrest climate change. Industr
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by lumost 3y ago
This was for owning, rental rates are more difficult to assess due to the likelihood of collective living. General rule is that mortgage shouldn't exceed 30% post-tax, hence multiplying by 4 to allow a 5% buffer and a stable financial
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by lumost 3y ago
In Tech, H1B is commonly used for relatively generic SWE positions. It could be argued that there is a shortage - or it could be argued that employers prefer Visa holders due to additional control they get from employing a Visa holder. If t
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by lumost 3y ago
Jay peak is more of a six hour drive. SLC would be a 3-4 hour flight. You can get from downtown Boston to the airport in 10 minutes.
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by lumost 3y ago
This sounds like a "Like me" bias in hiring. Your looking for someone with a similar "high potential" upbringing as what the interviewer had. You could likely get a similar interview outcome with less interviewer bias by
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by lumost 3y ago
That is true in a micro-economic sense. However, consider what happens if everyone saves? My point was that to continue driving asset appreciation for a small portion of the population - everyone else must become a progressively larger debt
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by lumost 3y ago
Being guilty of "Something" in the indictment is also a far cry from being guilty of the indictment. For instance, the difference between possession and distribution.
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by lumost 3y ago
This type of imbalance is necessary provided that wealth is unevenly distributed. Either interest rates fall to zero/go negative - or individuals must borrow progressively more capital.
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by lumost 3y ago
In the early-2010s I was driving a budget car from 1995 (a ford escort). When white LEDs became the norm, I’d often be in the situation of trying to drive into the shadow cast by my car from the headlights of the other car. I’m still shocke
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by lumost 3y ago
When discussing potential alien civilizations, one can’t discount the existence of civilizations which exist on substantially more radioactive planets. If the background radiation of earth was 100x higher, would we care about an Orion launc
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by lumost 3y ago
iOS, chrome. Same - what platform is supported?

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