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by rapsey 4y ago
As a European this article is sadly just a lot of noise. It simply all comes down to investment capital. 1. The EU does not have a stock market that rivals the NYSE/NASDAQ. There are few exit strategies available to EU companies. This
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by rapsey 4y ago
Just like the last 10 times
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by rapsey 4y ago
I have listed 5 different types of batteries than Tesla makes. A number more are much farther than the fundamental science stage of Fusion. Tesla primarily makes batteries for cars, grid storage is actually way more flexible in the type of
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by rapsey 4y ago
Construction has a standardized set of steps, which when followed will reliably produce a desired outcome. Programming has no such thing because it it can not, it is a fundamentally different discipline that is unlike any other that we call
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by rapsey 4y ago
> Once again, I am reminding HackerNews that the technology to build a battery capable of storing enough renewable electrical energy for the (world|nation) for even half a day does not exist at any reasonable cost. But it is almost cer
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by rapsey 4y ago
> It's where nuclear was in the 60s basically. Plants built in the 70s are still operating. It is nowhere near a decade away.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Mechanical, flow, heat, compressed air, pumped hydro are all types of batteries. All capable of storing MW to GW of power. It is not all lithium and cobalt.
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by rapsey 4y ago
> Unfortunately, energy storage is still an unsolved problem. Mechanical, lithium based, flow, heat, compressed air, pumped hydro are all types of batteries that are able to store quite large amounts of power today or in the near future.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Even if fusion ends up producing more power than consuming in the real world, it still has to compete on cost. People too enthusiastic about fusion tend to ignore that it might not actually be a cost effective source of power. Solar panels
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by rapsey 4y ago
Not comparable at all. You can pay to have a bridge constructed and the project will be defined by an architect, built and inspected following a rigorous and standardized set of steps. You can also pay to have software built. The specs will
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by rapsey 4y ago
> The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop Not even close. But we sure love to claim the principles were scientific. A programmer becomes good at his craft with time and experience. Not by studying in school
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by rapsey 4y ago
> See, treating this as an add-on is why software has a reputation as "not real engineering". Software is way more of a craft than engineering.
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by rapsey 4y ago
That is a great statistic. Modern age makes having more than two exceedingly difficult if both parents need to work.
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by rapsey 4y ago
After a certain age for most there is definitely a desire.
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> I feel like it's rather: if given fulfilling alternatives to reproduction, people will choose them over reproducing. Strong disagree. People are quite hard wired to have kids. > Poor people are ironically some of the hardest-wo
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by rapsey 4y ago
Is any country really doing anything of substance like fixing structural problems in their societies?
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Anyone can use that loophole it requires no special legal machinations.
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Also robotics
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Ad hominem
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by rapsey 4y ago
Nice straw man you have built here. I did not answer your question because it is absurd. There is a difference between having an opinion and forcing that opinion on others. My children are their own people and they are allowed to disagree a
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by rapsey 4y ago
> You are saying that anyone that doesn't have children automatically empty and sad. No I am saying that is what they seem to me. Just like people with children are shells of their former selves to him. You are splitting hairs and p
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by rapsey 4y ago
Funny how you can freely call parents shells of their former selves or slaves to their children or whatever you find online. But soon as you express your opinion on people who chose not to have children you are suddenly a judgemental asshol
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by rapsey 4y ago
> Every time I visit family for the holidays, I see this in real-time and it reaffirms my decision to not have children. I have an incredibly comfortable lifestyle saving for retirement, traveling and buying real estate. The moment I bec
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by rapsey 4y ago
Sequoia really made fools out of themselves here. When you listen to VCs they always sing their praises. Is it an emperor has no clothes situation?
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by rapsey 4y ago
One plant does not change the game that much. You still need TSMC to keep working on whatever the next tech will be as well as all their current production in Taiwan which is fully booked.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Sounds like an awful work environment then.
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by rapsey 4y ago
It is incredible that the guy has been shadowing SBF for months and this happens.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Fortunately what we have learned is that terrorists at the end of the day are pretty dumb. People capable of doing mass damage are not ones to soccumb to extremist ideology.
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by rapsey 4y ago
Scheduling tasks on a system is done using UTC/local time which the system keeps accurate. Unix time is not used for that.
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Is it not irrelevant for most use cases? Leap seconds or whatever. Think of the time of this post. It is stored but how important is the accuracy?

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