m101

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by m101 2y ago
I think there are a lot of blinkered folks who don't see the corruption with Wikipedia. What wiki are experiencing with bots is probably ubiquitous with every website yet the violins come out for them, one of the most corrupt instituti
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by m101 2y ago
Wikipedia spends 1% of its budget on hosting fees. It can spend a bit more given the rest of their corruptions.
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Isn't Moore's law about flops/watt nowadays? Yes that skips the Nvidia part which is $/(flops/watt) but they should just price it at a level where they maximise profits (which is also a function of competitive envir
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by m101 2y ago
I feel like this is true but would be great if you could provide examples so we could get a better idea of why you think/know this.
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by m101 2y ago
I would appreciate it if someone could chime in here who knows what they're talking about on the physics of this: My intuition is that there are a number of big problems: 1) power that a power station could supply is limited to the the
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Arguments against the renewable energy transition(judithcurry.com)
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by m101 2y ago
1) to address frontier model company stock valuations (openai for instance): deepseek is creating stuff months after frontier companies. In the AI arms race it might make sense to burn billions to be 3 months ahead (think about how you use
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by m101 2y ago
This. Regulation has been set so high on banks that it makes it extremely difficult for new players to compete. The reasons given for regulation are: - protection from failure because of inability to not bail them out (and it has done a goo
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by m101 2y ago
As with discriminatory pricing in airlines, the benefits of discriminatory prices will flow, in part, to those who pay the lowest prices (and in part to shareholders).
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Bitcoin will just fork to a quantum proof encryption scheme and there will be something called "bitcoin classic" that is the old protocol (which few would care about)
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I think there are some typos in your comment. It is unlikely that a parent will be the only possible donor to a child. However if they were then they could donate it to their kid, and if there was a market for kidneys (price TBD) then the p
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by m101 2y ago
I agree with you that it shouldn't. What I was trying to do is suggest that for some people it might be a function of the money. The suggestion I made was so that the person that gets chosen to donate would be delighted that he was cho
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by m101 2y ago
Kidney sales are not exploitation of the poor in all circumstances. Let's say the market clearing price was 10kUSD. What if legislation made it 1mUSD? Is that still exploitation? It should be exploitation at any price if it's expl
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by m101 2y ago
The UK is a large island nation with full access to the world's oceans. This is also the main geographical advantage that the US has. This is an extreme advantage. Look to Ukraine for proof.
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Ultimately it's about energy return on investment. Solar + battery requires plenty of materials and energy to put together. It also needs to work in the middle of winter for it to be a fair comparison. When you consider it in that way
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by m101 2y ago
It's not about cutting corners but regulating nuclear only to the extent that it is as safe as the next best alternative rather than orders of magnitude safer and until the point it is uneconomic. This is good for regulatory discussion
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by m101 2y ago
I don't know the exact numbers but I know that's how it shakes out. This is not noise - it's just the truth. Here's something on carbon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment T
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by m101 2y ago
If regulations priced carbon externalities then solar would be more expensive than nuclear, but they don't. Edit: I can't reply so adding this for context around my comments on carbon intensity: https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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Gas is a good peaker plant. Solar/wind/batteries are more carbon intensive relative to nuclear. Near term because nuclear can take a long time to build out. Cheapness does not equal low carbon.
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by m101 2y ago
Trump is in favour of nuclear. You can easily find this on Google. The reason to be in favour of oil/gas is because it is a near term solution. Nuclear is a few years out at least.
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by m101 2y ago
The price is a function of regulations. It is self imposed, so a concerted effort here could reduce prices. Also, economics are not equal to climate/carbon. If we want to reduce climate change only nuclear is the way to go - not solar&
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by m101 2y ago
I fundamentally disagree with your comment on "exploiting workers." That's what Marx thought, and it's precisely where he went wrong.
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My point was that the media is looking for whatever reason it can make up which correlates, rather than asking whether the problem lies with their own "team". It doesn't care about the legitimacy of the reason.
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So why is it that this is about money and Amazon contracts? Why isn't it about Kamala just being so bad, in Bezos's eyes, that she doesn't deserve an endorsement. I think that's way more likely. I am not surprised howeve
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"backed" is a somewhat unclear term. Given tether don't only hold cash their securities will have mark-to-market valuations. At purchase prices, in a legitimate operation, they should be "backed", but if they were f
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It is an 8 year programme in order to reduce supply.
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by m101 2y ago
I see. Thank you for the insight.
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We believe things are probabilistic, but we don't know it is so. To the best of our ability to measure it looks that way. I don't think we can say any more than that. I am not denying that the transistor is useful and that science
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It works out even with that. It's actually better than that - many nuclear plants work well past their initial design lifetimes.
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by m101 2y ago
It's not about comparing to coal but rather about comparing to other good alternatives, with that being nuclear. Energy return in investment is <10x for solar, but more like 100x for nuclear. We have an energy budget to solver clima

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