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by mdorazio 4y ago
The thing about trains is that they gain cost efficiency in exchange for a massive time penalty. In most cases, you have to truck your goods from a warehouse to a rail center, unload them from the trailer to a rail car, wait for the entire
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I work with two companies developing true autonomous trucks and the conclusions in this article are dated and not accurate in light of the bigger picture. 1) The model most are working toward is "hub to hub" not point to point. A
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm not qualified to evaluate how plausible this is, but if it does actually work out it could be a huge boost in multiple ways. Air conditioning accounts for somewhere around 10% of US energy usage [1] and probably more in southern a
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by mdorazio 4y ago
PSA: Data on these kinds of questions is available. Here's the data for Chicago on Uber/Lyft vehicle type: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/bc6b-sq4u/visualization It will vary by year and city, but gen
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> It forced a reduction in the out-of-control government spending No, it didn't. California just kept adding taxes everywhere else to make up the difference and still had an annual deficit most of the 13 years I lived there. >
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> commercial property tends to change ownership and undergo construction more often Definitely going to need to see a reference on that one.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. Yes, rolling brownouts are still very much a thing in California and probably will be for the foreseeable future: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-faces-...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
> I wonder how others do this kind of thing. Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options? Fwiw, in a similar situation I did about half myself
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think you're mischaracterizing the nature of the problem. Take a look at [1] for example - US total CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions per capita have been dropping for a while now. The same is true for the EU as a whole [2]. So wher
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Apparently we’re in the minority together. Cynically (and practically) there’s also the legal side to think about. If you cause a person to be killed by a trolley, you will at minimum be sued into oblivion. If you do nothing no legal case c
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by mdorazio 4y ago
That doesn't actually explain anything, though. What is "optimal" in each of those categories and why is that level optimal as opposed to any other one?
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by mdorazio 4y ago
And yet if I did the math right, the gold mined each year still has a market value around $350M. Gold is really expensive.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Counter-perspective as someone who moved from LA to Austin earlier this year and also worked in Austin back in the late 2000s. Good things: - To me, the city is about right-sized. It feels like an actual city, but isn't a sprawling me
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I don't really agree with that. I have family in both Nashville and Raleigh. By both their estimations and mine, both cities have gotten quite a bit better over the last ~20 years.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Don't worry, you're not alone. During the pandemic, one of my clients got about 20 Quest 2s for employees to have at home in an effort to make people feel more in touch and experiment with VR meetings & workspaces. After the
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Going to have to contradict you here. I’ve worked with multiple OEMs, including on dealer ops. Dealers are generally good at basic maintenance and repair items, and warranty work. They are generally not great for anything else and are expen
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Kind of a click bait title from Google, which is disappointing. This is really about characteristics of effective leaders, and has little to do with effective entrepreneurship, sales, hiring, engineering, etc. The points they suggest are al
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Do you actually have data to back that up, or just one anecdote from a friend? Median pay for electricians is about $57k/year [1], and that's after 4 years of apprenticeship and passing the exam. That's compared to a median
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I only ever held assets in USDC and haven’t been actively tracking anything related to Celsius specifically.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
As someone with a decent amount of money in Celsius, this hurts. Not money I need, but still.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Parent post is probably referring more to energy resources. Gas and diesel degrade fairly quickly and unless you live in the middle east, aren't just flowing out of the ground anymore. Solar + BEVs might be an option, but only if the
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I hate seeing people say things like this with zero data to back it up. With a few exceptions, less than 5% of cars reach 200k miles [1]. [1] https://www.iseecars.com/longest-lasting-cars-study#v=2022
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Somewhat related: has anyone found round LCDs that don't have a giant side tab where the wiring connects? I've been wanting to build a round device, but using these screens always necessitates a giant bezel to cover the non-round
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by mdorazio 4y ago
That doesn't really make sense, though. The entire point of the 2nd amendment is to allow the rapid formation of a militia to protect against tyranny, oppression, foreign aggression, etc. So "military grade" is exactly what
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by mdorazio 4y ago
If you have data that granular, please share. If not, a top-level analysis seems better than none at all.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
These kinds of titles bother me because it's never clear if that's actually a lot or not. I did some basic research and it looks like there are about 180,000 car fires per year in the US on average, out of about 275 million regis
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Here's the thing - the launch costs are only an insurmountable issue if you aren't SpaceX. The math might not be great if you assume dependence on dedicated Falcon launches, but SpaceX gets a lot of Starlink satellites to orbit b
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by mdorazio 4y ago
As a counterpoint, every single person I know who is careful about sun exposure also takes Vitamin D supplements.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
From reading their investor statements it was more complicated than that. They overpurchased inventory of goods that saw lowering demand as people started going back to the office or spending money elsewhere as pandemic restrictions lifted.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
1) why are you comparing to credit cards? The average ACH transfer costs zero dollars. 2) why did you pick $100 as your basis? If I try to buy a $5 sandwich in Bitcoin and have to pay 20% transaction fee that is not a good platform for tran

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