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by marvin 5y ago
Handing out emission rights can also be tied to the CO2 tax, assuming the CO2 tax is properly used to actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere afterwards. There must be some sort of optimal strategy in there somewhere, that maximizes the eco
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Granted, it's a factor 2.5 difference in height, 1.6 in rotor radius and 6 in rated power, but Equinor operates a floating wind farm with 100 meter hub height outside of Scotland. (I'm assuming that the article reported hub height
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by marvin 5y ago
Norway even has a special term for someone who has failed in entrepeneurship multiple times -- "bankruptcy jockey". You won't be banned from starting a business from a single bankruptcy, but if it happens multiple times and&#
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I reckon Tesla will eventually do this, and also eventually incorporate LIDAR. But they're attacking the hardest problem first (in the sense of "no one knows how to do this").
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Practically everyone is vaccinated now, or very soon. Most people who were in favor of social distancing measures don't want this stuff to be codified indefinitely, just because they like limiting people's lifestyles. The intentio
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A 0.2% infection fatality rate when treatment is available is pretty obviously not the only consequence of covid. We'll hopefully get just about there once enough people are vaccinated, but it doesn't take a genius to realize that
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by marvin 5y ago
>The same argument could be made about IT The military is probably a better analogy. Well paid with few skills required to enter. High risk of permanent injury. Generally not reviled with paternalistic and degrading thoughts about those
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I just can't fathom such a risk-averse decision. I mean, their business is dead. Even if you're not normally the type of leader to bet the farm on a wild shot, certainly it's the rational choice when the other option is a gua
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by marvin 5y ago
But Twitch is already established as a billion-dollar company (acquired, no less) providing SFW streaming services. I could understand staying out of the porn market in their case. But OnlyFans is _only_ associated with erotic content. It&#
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Couldn't the explanation be as simple as them lacking imagination? They're not a Silicon Valley funded startup. My impression is they lucked into the golden goose, and this move makes me think they're downright clueless about
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This would be the perfect spark for such a shift.
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At the mercy of Visa and MasterCard, I would guess. Doesn't OnlyFans work with CCBill, who exclusively work with adult content providers? More info is needed to conclude, but it wouldn't surprise me if their upstream providers mad
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And even that effort demonstrates the incompetency of most financial institutions - anyone with a security team worth their salt would have mandatory two-factor authentication, which would make the approach unworkable.
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Do you make it unmistakably clear for new users that if you have a data breach and someone loses $400,000 because you leaked their password, they are likely shit out of luck? Don't know US regulations, but my country has plenty of case
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by marvin 5y ago
This put me off this type of banking app the first time I tried to register an account with them ten years ago, and I haven't touched them since. I suppose EU users have an easier time with the PDS2 directive mandating interoperability
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by marvin 5y ago
How does a human detect a big ass truck with its lights off at night? This is solvable with computer vision. Tesla's dataset is almost nothing but edge cases, and they keep adding more all the time. My money says they'll get there
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by marvin 5y ago
Not sure if this is in the scope of the discussion, but there are many countries in the world where capital gains are taxed at the same rate as salary. The US is a bit of an outlier there, assuming a relatively small annual withdrawal.
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Hard in the "lots of elbow grease" sense of the word. Maybe also in the "unlikely for you, personally, to have the perseverance for" sense, for a given person. Not hard as in conceptually difficult to implement.
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Wouldn't that be a real crapshoot anyway, if you're thinking in the timeframes relevant for financial independence? Surely you're not expecting your crypto portfolio to predictably appreciate by 6-8% per year over a 10 year t
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by marvin 5y ago
Not sure I'd classify 100% year-on-year growth to revenues of $12 billion as mediocre, during a year when the production lines of two of their three cars were shut down for almost an entire quarter and we also went through the worst pa
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I don't think most people would argue that his review aged well, in spite of getting the direction of gravity right.
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Assuming that the world will eventually transition to 100% renewable energy, it's not unreasonable to estimate the eventual total market size to be higher than the world's nightly power consumption.
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I coincidentally discovered a similar situation yesterday, when attempting to identify a dazed hornet. Comparing it to specimen photos of presumably dead hornets, it was very hard to match them, as they had their wings and body arranged in
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by marvin 5y ago
Does Volkswagen currently produce and sell more (pure) electric cars than Tesla? As GP said, regional sales numbers are irrelevant. The established manufacturers obviously know how to make cars, but are behind on battery cells, packs, drive
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They're skating towards where the puck is, not where the puck will be. I believe it's impossible to win this kind of technological race without appearing to be early. So my prediction is most of them will fail. You might be correc
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Imagine building a multi billion dollar computing cluster solely for research. I guess the main reason it hasn't been done is that the deprecation is still huge due to chip advancements.
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I don't know much about clocks, but the Swiss railway clocks are by some considered a canonical example of an analog clock, and they behave the way GP describes. But all other analog clocks I've ever seen behave the way you desc
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But we won't have 50 more years of complacent oil usage without alternatives. Oil at 75 dollars a barrel is expensive enough that renewables are profitable, so by the time supply becomes a problem and prices rise even more, renewables
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A former partner of mine is an artist, and has a different perspective on the world than most engineers, combined with an amount of melancholic clarity. She pointed out that the central idea of Armageddon, Judgement Day or the end of everyt
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That’s true enough, but I’m not going to argue semantics. Tesla is explicitly clear in their product communication that what they’re selling as «full self driving» comes with the massive asterix of «someday» and is not currently an L5 auton

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