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by omgwtfbyobbq 7d ago
I think this is a different situation than what you're describing. It's one thing when a company acts in their own interests, their communications are consistent with that, you observe that, and align with them (or don't). It
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by omgwtfbyobbq 12d ago
The problem with drawdowns is they can and have compromised the structural integrity of the caverns used in the SPR. Like oil, they're a finite resource and should be used judiciously. https://www.osti.gov/servlets&#x2F
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by omgwtfbyobbq 12d ago
IIRC there were also posts about this in the shortages subreddit around the same time.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 13d ago
That's the rebound effect, and is fairly common. Jevons is a relatively uncommon edge case.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 14d ago
My insurance is getting to the point where I might do the same. My car is worth maybe a third of what it was new, and my monthly insurance bill is the same, it's nuts. I may go with a significantly higher deductible as a compromise.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 14d ago
By the definition of per capita. If only a small group of people have significant more emissions than the rest of the world, then they're only increasing the average by a small amount, but that's still worse, not better. Practical
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by omgwtfbyobbq 14d ago
Usually, normal insurance is reasonable, or if it's not, you get liability only because the difference in cost is enough to buy another car after a few years. Unfortunately there's a fair bit if industry built around charging peop
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by omgwtfbyobbq 15d ago
Per capita is worse by definition, unless your arguing that people with higher per capita emissions are somehow more valuable to society than those with lower. The other aspect is that China provides a large industrial base for the West, wh
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by omgwtfbyobbq 16d ago
It think it's both. The more stuff you have, the more you hoard, and the less you need to pay in terms of time/energy/money to get something you had in the past if you need it now/later, and on the flip side, you can be
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by omgwtfbyobbq 20d ago
Or distributed (grids) if they can't be defended. But yeah, most large infrastructure is susceptible to strikes by adversaries. Satellites are I think more delicate, difficult to replace, and easier to strike in certain cases.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 20d ago
It's possible. IIRC, the large powers have enough mobile nuclear capabilities that even if they suffered from a first strike, they could still retaliate and cripple the striking country, but maybe I'm wrong about that. It's p
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by omgwtfbyobbq 20d ago
I think the point is that there are scenarios where large powers would disable/destroy each other's satellites without using nuclear weapons and we would be poorly prepared to replace them.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 21d ago
Yuck... They increased a bit ($150+?) after the GPU unlock came out, but they're nuts now.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 25d ago
Because they likely have a better sense of what could and/or will be fruitful. Same reason an experienced mathematician likely is better at this than a random person off the street.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 28d ago
There are 5th amendment issues too IIRC.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 1mo ago
I have an M5 pro at work, and certain things are a smidge faster than my personal M1 Max, but they're pretty close overall. Given how much more you can get buying used versus new, I'd go used unless there's some feature/
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by omgwtfbyobbq 1mo ago
Depending on what motivations are, separate controlling interest from personal wealth, at least above some reasonable limit. Obviously easier said than done, but unless the predominant incentive for everyone is just to generate more wealth
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
The government needs regulation to allow access without granting consent in certain cases. Not quite as far as declaring something a utility, but better than almost completely unregulated.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
Yup, but then you have other limitations, like significantly worse high speed range and correspondingly less useful soar charging. Someone already did it with a Model Y, so it's doable for $25k-35k now. https://teslamotorscl
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
It's got it's place. I'm guessing the downsides are the extra range only applies to low speed operation (it's a brick), low cost may be a function of low cost labor, which can hurt scaling, and I'm not sure how safe
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
I can see that. The founders shouldn't have gone to VCs then. Start low/limited runs and get cars on the road. If those work out, then try to get funding from sources that aren't going to screw you.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
It kinda has been to some degree. The first corporation went bankrupt in 2011. Hopefully they'll build/deliver some consumer vehicles this time. There's also been plenty of vaporware from existing manufacturers, and the major
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
Good for them. I loved the concept since I first saw it in the 2000s. They still have a niche for some, like people without easy access to charging, people who want the absolute lowest charging/driving costs, and off-grid usability. 20
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by omgwtfbyobbq 2mo ago
The US is centrally planned to some degree, just in different ways and by different interests. I suspect the interests/actions of lobbyists for certain companies/sectors had significant influence on things like taxes, and is a typ
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
CA can and did recently, but that's money that will need to come from and/or could have gone to other programs/etc. I think the most recent cut was $4+ billion in federal funds for HSR. It's going to come from cap and tr
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
We can in part. Like you said, it took a ton of time because of environmental review, and that's on the state. With that said, construction didn't begin until 2015, and Trump pulled billions in funding in his first term in 2016 an
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
To be fair, part of the inordinate expense is just because it takes longer for the environmental reviews (costs are in expected year of construction, so pushing a project a decade into the future can increase costs by 30-40+% (inflation + i
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
Does conscious parallelism require signaling? But yeah, if there's demand a limited supply, price increases from that are legit.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
And at the data center level too (AI). Not that we don't need some, but I don't see how this won't be another boom bust cycle eventually.
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by omgwtfbyobbq 3mo ago
We're paying more now than we paid in the late 2010s, but less than we paid in the early 2010s.

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