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by maliker 7y ago
There was a $300/person tax rebate during the 2008 recession in the USA. So it's not that far fetched an idea. I wonder how these kind of direct-to-consumer payments compare with traditional monetary policy (cutting interest rates
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by maliker 7y ago
My office of 500 people is going mandatory remote today until further notice. Estimates of infection rates are getting up to 50% of the US population. With the current 1-2% mortality rate thats 1.6 million dead. Seems like a no-brainer to r
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by maliker 7y ago
This is a good point. Demand flexibility is a great resource. However, effectively zero consumers pay the spot price currently. Distribution utilities worry that time-varying electricity prices (1) are confusing to consumers (2) any change
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by maliker 7y ago
I think it's fair to say both research funding and tax reform should both be pursued. A nice benefit of the "luddite tax" is that it would make renewables and energy storage relatively more attractive, which would drive reven
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by maliker 7y ago
Climate tech has driven solar and wind generation from the most expensive generation assets to the cheapest over the last 20 years. Energy storage has gone from a product for cordless consumer devices to something that's cheap enough t
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by maliker 7y ago
I work in climate tech, and it's funny to hear the US democrat candidates for president talking about investing huge amounts in energy research. I think, well yes we could grow our research efforts, but taxing carbon emissions and chan
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by maliker 7y ago
Become Jeff Bezos and put $10 billion [1] towards lobbying... Last Christmas I was looking for a good climate charity to donate to. I was disappointed to find that GiveWell [2], which does great reviews of charity effectiveness, found a lot
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by maliker 7y ago
Self-reply, sorry, the ribbon really gets my goat. Here's the deck from the Office team on how and why they designed the ribbon: http://video.ch9.ms/slides/mix08/UX09_Harris.pptx I realize the Office team had
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by maliker 7y ago
I confess, I am a ribbon hater. For three main reasons: 1) It kills muscle memory by changing the size and location of the buttons depending on the window size. And not just the size, but also their shape, appearance and place in dropdown h
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by maliker 7y ago
I liked his explanation of state-controlled currency evolving as a technology of war. I.e. the king needs to pay his soldiers something portable, dense with value, and hard to counterfeit, and precious metal coins fit those requirements. An
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by maliker 7y ago
Anyone know how to calculate the revenue side of these attacks? E.g. if it costs 700k to attack the bitcoin network for 1 hour, how much money could you make in that hour (say based on average transaction volumes)?
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by maliker 7y ago
The parent comment got downvoted, but I have definitely experienced this "too much power" issue at work in other languages. E.g. one programmer on the team chooses to use powerful abstractions, but then other folks have trouble mo
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by maliker 7y ago
Interesting. Choosing languages to get work done in the 2010s has insulated my team from a lot of these historical forces; interpreted and garbage collected has always been more than fast enough. I can see how earlier businesses would choos
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by maliker 7y ago
Interesting. We didn't look at this closely since we liked the numpy/scipy/sagemath tools, but we should have realized this put clojure ahead of java. Especially java's 2009 features and syntax.
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by maliker 7y ago
Sounds like the lisp programmer skillset doesn't have a strong overlap with the java/python/javascript programmer skillset. Makes me want to learn more lisp. :)
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by maliker 7y ago
So maybe other languages have finally beat lisp at its own game? Makes sense from the wave of functional language features becoming popular in the 2010s.
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by maliker 7y ago
Some combination of easy integration and a big ecosystem of active development? Makes a lot of sense to me.
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by maliker 7y ago
Always great to hear there are companies out there thriving with these more powerful languages. The tired example I always turn to is Ocaml being the language for all the code at janestreet (~900 employees). I've always been annoyed by
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by maliker 7y ago
I've read this story a couple times as it's popped up on the internet in different places. I've enjoyed it each time because it promises that lisp is an uber-powerful and easy (?) language. I'm always curious though: wha
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by maliker 7y ago
Tesla also has a residential energy company inside it. Not saying that should make up the difference in valuation, but it’s a nice compliment to the car business.
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by maliker 7y ago
There's at least one fully-electric solar yacht on the market. At $1.5 million and a 23 MPH cruising speed, there probably won't be a lot of these built. I'm definitely curious to see if more demand for these drives the price
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by maliker 7y ago
Google has an alternate interface to maps called "My Maps"[1] with the kind of editing and composition features the author misses. I use it all the time to make maps for road trips with lots of points of interest and complicated r
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by maliker 7y ago
It is really inspiring to see that you've stuck with this problem for the long term and continue to iterate on solutions.
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by maliker 7y ago
Sounds like we should do some more OpenLayers testing! Thanks.
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by maliker 7y ago
We switched the opposite direction (D3 to Leaflet) on a different app and got a performance speed up for big sets of vector shapes. Seems like there are tons of ways to engineer these web graphics apps and no clear "best solution"
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by maliker 7y ago
We were just trying to get a ton of circles (electric vehicle ranges) on a map. We were going to do something to optimize it in OpenLayers by simplifying the shapes, but when we tried it in Leaflet it just worked a lot faster (fast redraws)
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by maliker 7y ago
We used openLayers, ran in to performance issues, switched to Leaflet, and couldn't be happier. Just our experience, for what it's worth.
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by maliker 7y ago
I work with electric utilities, and every time we talk with car manufacturers (including recently Tesla) they say vehicle-to-grid (v2g) isn't on the roadmap. On the other hand, almost all charging happens at night, which is a time of l
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by maliker 7y ago
Electric aviation for aircraft larger than 4 passengers is extremely hard. Batteries don't have the energy density needed, and fuel cells are barely at the prototype stage for aviation. ARPA-E has been looking at this for while, see sl
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by maliker 7y ago
In this case to clarify that I was looking at a specific OS feature. It aggregates iOS and macOS usage data.

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