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by mercutio2 1y ago
Thermal power cycle infrastructure has a pretty high lower bound on price even if you’re ignoring the cost of containing a fission reaction. It’s not that there wouldn’t be learning curves, it’s that we’ve already seen the learning curve fo
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by mercutio2 1y ago
You’re either using nominal, not real, returns, or assuming that passive fund is taking on a lot of risk/recency bias. If you had said $2 million, I’d say that’s closer to accurate, although there’s still a conversation to be had about
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by mercutio2 1y ago
I thought they changed the rules around this ~6 years ago, and it’s now allowed (at least in the US)?
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Are you sure Europe has less credit card fraud? When is your data from? The US has a much less secure system specifically because there was much less credit card fraud in the US than in Europe. Chip and PIN was an attempt to combat the ra
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by mercutio2 1y ago
People assert all sorts of nonsense in response to questions like this, usually not at all backed up by the data. The drivers of high US healthcare costs are: 1. Doctors, nurses, and hospital admins make dramatically, *dramatically* mor
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Junior developers love writing code. Senior developers love removing code. Code review is probably my favorite part of the job, when there isn’t a deadline bearing down on me for my own tasks. So I don’t really agree with your framing. Code
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by mercutio2 1y ago
There are 3 different components of PG&E electricity bills, which makes the bill difficult to read. I am also in PG&E East Bay community generation, and when I look at all components, it’s: Minimum Delivery Charge (what’s paid month
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Huh? My maxed out Mac Studio gets 60-100 tokens per second on 120B models, with latency on the order of 2 seconds. It was expensive, but slow it is not for small queries. Now, if I want to bump the context window to something huge, it does
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Your googling gave results that were likely accurate for California 4-5 years ago. My average cost per kWh is about 60 cents. Rates have gone up enormously because the cost of wildfires is falling on ratepayers, not the utility owners. Regu
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Not OP, but my California TOU rates are between a 40 and 70 cents per kWh. Still only $50/month, not $150, but I very much care about 100W loads doing no work.
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Monopolies are not illegal or ipso facto anti-competitive.
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by mercutio2 1y ago
I am so fascinated by the different worlds everyone lives in. I haven’t watched a video hosted on YouTube in years. But I hate amateur video. I never watch anything that I can possibly get through reading. So in my tiny corner of user space
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by mercutio2 1y ago
I’ve never heard anyone say freshman physics is the hardest class in high school! Memorize 6 equations, 15 terms of art, and be competent at super simple algebraic expressions and you’re done. Physics in US high schools is taught long befor
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Can you point to these studies? Anyone who gives a 3% discount for cash will get cash from me, but I already have all my money in index funds. The effort to maximize points is “use this credit card, get the cash back”. It’s really not that
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by mercutio2 1y ago
There are many arguments I've heard about price discrimination being annoying, but deadweight loss is not one of them. Quite the opposite, fixed prices in the presence of undeserved pricing power results in a less than socially optimal
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by mercutio2 1y ago
You just described an agency problem. Investors in a corporation don't want individual teams to spend money "just because it was budgeted, even if we didn't have a good thing to spend it on". I, as a manager of a team at
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Do you realize how extensively companies have to document their buybacks? Who is deceived? There is zero fraud implied or even suggested by stock buybacks. They are heavily-publicized-in-advance returns of capital to shareholders. That&#x27
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by mercutio2 1y ago
Intel did not do a good job with its (sizable) investments for the last decade. There's little reason (at least for me, a casual observer of their failure to deliver good chips) to think they would have done a better job by just throwi
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by mercutio2 1y ago
No. Generally speaking, I want corporations to return capital in excess of operating needs to shareholders unless they have actual high-expected-return, ready-to-be-executed plans for what to do with their money. When corporations just inve
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The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism(asteriskmag.com)
5 points by mercutio2 1y ago|2 comments
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by mercutio2 1y ago
I ate Edwardo’s several times a month on the south side in the 80’s and 90’s, as did a sizable number of my friends. This is back before it became a chain (I guess technically the south side location was the second location, so it was alrea
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by mercutio2 2y ago
WebDAV is pretty darn simple. It just builds on actual HTTP, i.e. you have to actually think about the transport layer in a way that’s out of fashion now. And some people don’t like XML. It’s certainly true that CalDAV specifically is compl
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Dominating finance + Brexit. Brexit worked out fairly badly for rich folks. I'm not sure how well it worked for the folks who were voting for it, but it's possible "take the rich folks down a few notches" even if it lowe
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by mercutio2 2y ago
I am normally all in favor of metonymy, it's perfectly fine and well understood style. In the case of Trump-as-Mad-King tariffs, it sure would be nice if the world didn't conflate America, the historical land of twisting other nat
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by mercutio2 2y ago
No. They’re not, anywhere in Europe. This is a mystifying talking point based on wishful thinking and vastly overestimating the non-monetary value of a larger social safety net. The median US citizen is much, much richer. The first quintile
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by mercutio2 2y ago
I was about to say exactly this. Applying force directly to the center of gravity with one finger is hard. You end up applying torque plus adjustments in response to that torque. And that is heavily dependent on your moment of inertia, un
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by mercutio2 2y ago
iOS hasn’t allowed access to contact notes for several years, and last year added support for providing arbitrary subsets of contacts to all apps.
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Geez. I loathe the administration, but I would really prefer it if people on my side quit it on the hyperbole. In no sense has the current administration expressed that “women” are enemies. Feminists, like myself, need to quit it on the arg
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by mercutio2 2y ago
What definition of treaty are you using that the USMCA is not a treaty? The difference is negligible in international use, but in the US it means “agreement that was ratified by the Senate”. Are you claiming the USMCA was not, in fact, rati
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by mercutio2 2y ago
Telling a sovereign nation, and the US’s closest ally, it should become the 51st US state isn’t making war, but it’s way more than imposing tariffs in contravention of treaties this president signed in his last term.

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