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by nwiswell 2y ago
Right, it's just the stock price. The health of the underlying company is a different matter. From a corporate financials perspective, Tesla is a very healthy company: low debt, high profit. Their stock does seem to be at risk of d
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by nwiswell 2y ago
Not really! Many of the major CAD packages have built-in or add-on packages for FEA. Some of them will even do dynamic multiphysics simulations -- so for example you could model an internal combustion engine, simulate the combustion cycle,
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by nwiswell 2y ago
> perpetually Is this a fun thought experiment, or are you immortal? You may be shocked to learn that GDP growth can't continue perpetually either, under reasonable assumptions: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/
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by nwiswell 2y ago
#2 actually undercuts your argument about "IQ gating". Pay for software engineers is the product of supply and demand, and the absurd salaries clearly have much more to do with the demand side of the equation because of explosive
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by nwiswell 2y ago
> Coding pays so well because the operating costs are low and the returns/profits are enormous for companies. Unrelated. Coding pays well because of the tight labor supply compared to the demand. Companies NEVER direct excess value
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by nwiswell 2y ago
> never mind the same is true of nuclear; not even France is fully nuclear powered This seems somewhat bad-faith: nuclear does supply the majority of France's power, and since nuclear is a "base load" part of the mix, it
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by nwiswell 2y ago
> There is a big difference in labor between confirming sealed bundles of cash are intact, counting the bills, and tracking every serial number of each bill. There are machines for this. Garda absolutely has them.
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by nwiswell 2y ago
It's difficult to imagine that it wasn't recorded well before it even reached the vault. Firms like Garda inventory cash in excruciating detail as a matter of standard procedure, since otherwise it would rapidly disappear into emp
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by nwiswell 3y ago
None of this works if the serial numbers were recorded when the cash was put into the vault. Take your first example: the music festival promoter shows up at his bank with a duffel bag of cash -- that's not unusual until suddenly every
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> You might think how do you define that, but the companies have already made a whole science out of it so it's not that abstract anymore Hardly. Addictiveness does not exist in binary. There are many people who obsessively check th
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by nwiswell 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351839/age-of-nuclear-p... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster Note that the age of reactors is calculated based on the date they were comple
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Safety doesn't matter to the degree we think it does when literally thousands of people die in traffic accidents, and hundreds of thousands to preventable diseases. I vehemently disagree. Another major disaster is all it will take
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Some other thoughts: - Personnel-level warning to immediately rerack servers, close racks, and get off ladders and away from fall hazards - Proactively spin up generators to reduce failover in the more-likely event of a power disruption - P
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by nwiswell 3y ago
When I was really into it, between $5-10k a year depending on effort, which was largely not taxable. I figured I was making around $30 an hour post-tax, which was less than my day job paid, even after accounting for tax. These days I unders
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The Port of Baltimore does not even have an oil handling facility, never mind the fact it could not admit a VLCC even if it had cause to. Even ports on the US Gulf Coast do not generally have the capability to dock VLCCs. https:/&#x2F
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Those ships would never have been permitted in the Baltimore harbor. They presumably still aren't, since there's no reason for them to be there.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The sheet piling didn't need to be 50 years old. In 1977 (and in 1972, when construction began), vessels of this size did not exist, and certainly were not allowed in the harbor[1]. But over time, they were given authorization, despite
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This seems to have more to do with population growth projections over the very long run rather than anything that's actually going on in Congress right now. Bottom line, our taxes need to go up modestly in the coming decades... but onl
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by nwiswell 3y ago
You're right, I mistook the year-to-date figure for the full-year projection. That said, > It's been widely reported [1] that the US debt reached $32T in June 2023, $33T in Sept 2023, $34T January 2024, achieving those mileston
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> The US is spinning $1T new public debt every 100 days and there's no credible path to return to a sustainable trajectory. How are you calculating this? The full-year deficit is running at less than $1T... You aren't counting
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by nwiswell 3y ago
If my best dairy cow was Don Knuth, my bones would be NP-Hard.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Because it's on the detention level. It's part of the punishment, clearly.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This bullet train is absolutely not statewide. You can get from basically anywhere in California to anywhere else using the state highway system, and millions and millions of Californians actually do. (CA has 2,459 miles of Interstate hig
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> How do you print IX with yours? You rotate XI 180 degrees.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
It seems pretty clear what you were implying. I don't see a problem with their journalism.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
While most of this is valid (how dare a space opera expect me to suspend disbelief!), I think there is a basis for such a compactor to exist in the first place. It stands to reason that a smaller vessel like a Star Destroyer, it is not lo
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The entire CA transportation budget is $21 billion per annum (not counting federal funds, which were elevated at $8.8B in 23-24). That includes DMV and CHP as well as the city/county road funds, state highways, transit programs, bridge
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by nwiswell 3y ago
That's really cool. I don't have a bio/pharma technical background but I'm very sympathetic to the scene and the ethos so I'll have to check it out.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This feels very Dallas Buyer's Club. I assume communities exist on the Internet for this kind of "drug piracy"?
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> There is NO opportunity for large scale integration What about vertically? CMOS logic is still "mostly planar". With sufficiently low heat dissipation, you could make a cube and easily overcome the planar density problem. The

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