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by readams 6y ago
Surely, you don't think punishment is an end in itself?
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by readams 7y ago
Going to 4% makes YC much more attractive. At 7% it's really hard to justify, though even at 4% for such a small investment it may be a hard pill to swallow for founders who aren't right out of college.
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by readams 7y ago
nit: while this is true you cannot pick up enriched nuclear fuel off the ground. You have to process many tons of ore. Overall it's still better but this is not guaranteed by simply the energy density of fuel rods.
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by readams 7y ago
wood frame is fantastic for earthquake resistance.
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by readams 7y ago
there is no technology that exists or is contemplated that can provide storage at the required scale. renewables are very cheap when they are a smaller percentage of the power, but as the percentage increases you need to massively over pro
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by readams 7y ago
Apple makes billions annually by charging for being the iOS search engine.
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by readams 7y ago
They care a lot about their reputation. Reneging on promises and dealing in bad faith is a quick way to get a bad one.
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by readams 7y ago
They announced their plans years ago. The astronomy community could have raised concerns then. The fact that they didn't would indicate nobody connected the dots.
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by readams 7y ago
I admit to being very confused about collections. They just seemed very inconvenient and there's no way to get to normal bookmarks.
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by readams 7y ago
you need to know watts and lumens. It's not rocket science.
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by readams 7y ago
They could have printed electricity costs on the packages. Instead they artificially limited competition. That doesn't sound like they had anyone's interests but their own in mind.
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by readams 7y ago
The retailer is looking to maximize its own profit. It's not going to put a totally DOA product on the shelves, but they do charge slotting fees to allocate shelf space for products. There's always a large set of products they cou
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by readams 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee
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by readams 7y ago
I think most people don't know that shelf space is actively sold by the stores. They imagine the stores go out and find the best products to display. That's not what happens.
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by readams 7y ago
You just invented collections agencies.
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by readams 7y ago
I'm sure there are no attack targets for malware here.
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by readams 7y ago
Here's average revenue per user (per year) for many top companies. https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every... For anyone who is a user of multiple brands, you need to add these numbers.
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by readams 7y ago
You also need to consider that solar/wind+battery needs to be massively overbuilt to get reliable power because of the variability, both day to day and seasonal. More sophisticated analysis needs to recognize that as your percentage o
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by readams 7y ago
Power-to-gas would be a cool technology if we could figure it out, though honestly if we did it would make the argument for nuclear even stronger. Whatever the technology ends up being, it will benefit from large, efficient facilities fed
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by readams 7y ago
Battery storage is not an option for large scale. Battery technology is good for bridging gaps measured in minutes while larger power plants spin up and react to demand. That's a real benefit, and helps to eliminate some expensive peak
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by readams 7y ago
The argument here is that we need to streamline the regulatory environment for nuclear, invest in it, and convince people not to fear it, if we hope to make a real dent in climate change. Solar and wind are great technologies, but they cann
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by readams 7y ago
Specifically on devaluing the currency: this doesn't really work like people imagine it would since the US continually turns over its debt by paying older bonds and issuing new ones. If it started to look like the US was devaluing its
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by readams 7y ago
You believe that all political advertising of all kinds should be simply banned?
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by readams 7y ago
We simultaneously fear the power of Facebook but then demand they become the final arbiter of the truth, censoring even the speech of our political leaders. Why did we think this was a good idea again? Ask China their opinion on the value
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by readams 7y ago
It's more fair to say it rarely happens and when it does it makes the news.
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by readams 7y ago
You seem to be confusing what is legal with what is reasonable. It's entirely justified to criticize a company for doing entirely legal things. Indeed it is impossible to make illegal everything for which a company might deserve such
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by readams 7y ago
It's billions. Not millions.
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by readams 7y ago
Of course, the other side of this is billions of people outside the United States raised out of extreme poverty. Eventually, globalization means that everyone in the world has access to the same opportunities. The nationalist argument that
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by readams 7y ago
Scott Aaronson's post on the latest announcement. Also covers the IBM and Gil Kalai objections. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
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by readams 7y ago
"John Martinis explicitly confirmed for me that once the qubits are calibrated, you can run any circuit on them that you want." https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372

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