ramesh31

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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>"I have to say, to your first point, that exploitation (of humans, labor, resources, consumers, etc.) has always been the primary driver of accumulating large wealth under capitalism" Under all forms of human civilization, s
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
> I would not be at all surprised if they can put a nought or two on that number. People keep saying this and it keeps not happening. ChatGPT Pro was $200/mo when it launched in '23 for a ~100B class model with 8k context. Clau
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>"Ignoring time value of money" The time value of money is the entire point of what I've said. And it goes up exponentially when you are just getting by as most of us are. $17k right now is worth incredibly more to me than
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>Why do you need to assume 100% generation For the time to payback to be even remotely close to 5 years in that scenario. Otherwise you're easily talking a decade plus.
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>"Saying there's no "ROI" is looking at the situation like the only variable is your monthly expenses." That's the reality of life for most people outside of our little bubble of six figure earners. If it&#x
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
That 5 years assumes you can provide 100% of your electricity usage via solar, which is a complete fantasy outside the south/southwest US, and would realistically require a >10kw system. But again, it's also the out of pocket m
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>I installed a solar system at my home in Massachusetts for 17k last year (after tax credits), 7.82 kw. This is the problem still in the US. Even at ~$0.23/kwh delivered in the northeast, you're looking at an ROI of nearly five
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
Thank you!
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
I do this via a simple local MCP tool provided to every harness, that creates a single sqlite .db file in all my repo roots. Anyone can drop in and see what the team is working on, join in, and ask for something to do.
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by ramesh31 4mo ago
>For many, the appeal of a Mac is that it isn't running Windows Pretty much. I broke down and finally bought my first Windows machine in over a decade to play Subnautica 2. It was so infuriating to use I returned it a week later. Yo
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>"Lest we forget, MIT’s The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 study found that 95% of AI projects fail to deliver measurable P&L impact." Well we can pretty much ignore this after that line. It's completely me
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Nope, never would.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>"Risks? The risks of a colonoscopy are crazy low though." Not at the statistical level. Death rate from complications is about 1 in 10,000: https://www.endoscopy-campus.com/ec-news/risk-of-death-from-...
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
People can simultaeneously be reprehensible idiots while being a reliable expert on something they have personally invested billions of dollars into and operate at scale.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Having your own home and property where no one on earth can tell you how to live: priceless. Maybe home ownership is becoming a luxury, but humans don't exist in financial spreadsheets. The intagibles of SFH ownership are worth literal
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant Deliver the news to you anywhere and everywhere with a receiver that can be built from scavenged garbage. Terrestrial absolutely still has a place, and will most
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Boomers get all the hate but GenX really is the absolute worst. They took the me-me-me of Boomers without the civic minded temperance of their G.I./Silent grandparents. Life goals of that generation include climbing mount everest, writ
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
The only way to defeat a grenade is to toss it right back where it came from. Slop replies get 2x the slop in response. Most effective way I've seen to get people to stop doing it.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>Their behaviors feel so detached and alien to me. Because they are. Extreme wealth is literally a brain disease. It is physically impossible to remain a normal empathetic human being with that level of detachment from reality. Back when
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Referring to mossanite and cubic zirconia, which are completely indistinguishable to a normal person, and can be had for dollars per carat.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>"You can get huge, very high-quality diamonds now for a fraction of what they used to cost. Like 95% off. It's crazy." The thing is though, what's the point? Unless you're trying to actually pass your diamond as
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Why are we allowing this? Who does it benefit at all? People would lose their minds if you tried this in commercial aviation, yet we're allowing it for something far more dangerous that even with human operators kills people all the ti
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>It's trash and throwing it out is good. Not learning it is good. Tailwind is a solution to a real problem. Yup. Spent a decade of my career writing CSS every day, I was what you would call a "guru" and have written easily
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>Are they self-sustaining? How do they pay for stuff the want to import Generally the modern day population of these types of islands are simply cover for the government to maintain political control of an area of ocean surrounding them.
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>What would you use it for that other machines are unsuitable for? The thing I love about the tech culture in China is that they never really seem to ask themselves this question. They just do cool things because they seem cool. See thei
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
Surely bodyshop work will scale to trillions of dollars
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
CPanel on shared hosting running WordPress PHP is literally half of the entire internet still.
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I worked my ass off for a decade in one of the highest earning careers available just to be able to barely afford more or less the same house as my grandparents, who worked odd jobs and were able to build it themselves while raising a famil
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>regressive tho it may be, I'd rather live in Utah than most of the South. Yeah fair you got me there
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by ramesh31 5mo ago
>If you support Bison, why commend someone who killed them for a profit? Because they wouldn't exist otherwise.

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