romafirst3

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by romafirst3 2y ago
Nonprofits in the USA are basically failings in government. Non profits at their best provide services that any half decent government should provide but do it at a fraction of the efficiency that the government could. At their worst they a
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Delivery is what happens if it’s not spam or abuse.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
I’m using the terms correctly it’s just that while red lobster is owned by the PE firm, the PE firm is more than red lobster.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
I do understand
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by romafirst3 2y ago
No I don’t mean the strategy, I mean selling the real estate for 7.5 years of rent. Usually the multiple is closer to 20x
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by romafirst3 2y ago
That’s what I’m wondering, or if they got some other compensation that isn’t mentioned.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
They sold their real estate for 1.5 billion and then red lobster paid 200 million a year in rent. That’s insane. In 7.5 years they would pay back the purchase price. That just seems like a massively bad deal for red lobster, I wonder was t
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Hilarious to think that everyone is worried about AI becoming sentient and murdering us all - it's more likely it will just give bad advice to enough humans that we all lazily murder ourselves attempting something stupid like a real li
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Are you working for Big Sprout? I seem to remember seeing that exact phrase on here in the last couple of months. "Not your parents sprouts anymore" For the record I loved them 30 years ago and still love em. My recipe is very dif
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Still took 9 years to get to 7 chargers. So this article is complaining about a 450% increase in rate of charger building.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
That’s why it takes time to build the infrastructure, that’s my point. It’s taken time to build all the other infrastructure, why do we think that a whole new transport infrastructure across all the states should just magically appear in 2
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Tesla was founded in 2003. Obviously they didn’t start building charging stations straight away but this doesn’t really feel like we are all having an honest discussion :/ That said they’ve had a long time to plan those chargers.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Tesla was founded in 2003. So only 9 years.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
In fact, many building projects take years to just purchase the real estate to build on.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Petrol pumps also have insanely high energy requirements and take a long time to permit and build. And for good reason. They just get their energy via tanker. The fact that something needs energy doesn't mean we shouldn't build it
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by romafirst3 2y ago
It just takes time to build physical buildings. Tesla doesn't have any secret sauce they just started years ago.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Are they permitted, funded and planned and built in less time than years? Not very many are. This a good thing, we don't want people cutting corners and building wherever they want. The downside is that we need to wait a little before
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by romafirst3 2y ago
But “goals” is doing an insane amount of heavy lifting here. In order to have goals you need to have a model of the world. LLMs do not have a model of the world. Your goal then is changing this world somehow so you need actuators. So you n
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by romafirst3 2y ago
This. Llms aren’t very good and are just predictive text. And I say that as someone who has a lot of experience using them. We don’t have anything to fear from AI for quite some time. As an aside, the AI generated search snippets in google
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Building physical things in the real world takes more than a couple of years. Think how long it takes to plan and build a regular building and these are buildings with insanely high energy requirements. This seems to be just partisan point
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by romafirst3 2y ago
There are very few rigorous measurements and a lot of people just saying whatever they feel like :) With regards to acid and GERD which is when doctors normally talk about coffee acidity, what they usually say makes no sense at all and they
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by romafirst3 2y ago
I've found that lighter roasts don't degas/bloom anywhere near as much as coffees that are taken even a little more darker (like talking about the difference between super light and light). I think this continues up to second
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Are you sure when you are brewing that the concentrations/extractions are the same ? If you brew an aeropress and then dilute it, it will probably be less acidic. Here is more info on hot/cold https://www.researchgate.n
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Hot water is fine.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Huge difference between burr and blade.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
There should be no grassy taste, that’s a roast defect and comes from inconsistent roasting. You should find a better roaster. You can roast really light and not get that taste, but you need to be consistent.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
All coffees tend to be in the same ph range regardless of brewing technique.
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by romafirst3 2y ago
The reasoning is a bit reductive, it makes sense if you think of success as binary (you become a billionaire or you don’t, which in fairness is what yc and many VC firms push). Obviously you can fail to become a billionaire and make some no
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by romafirst3 2y ago
You asked me why I insisted on responding, I told you why I responded. To not allow exaggerated nonsense to just exist unchallenged. I used humor in my response. My use of a joke highlighted the absurdity and overblown nature of the origina
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by romafirst3 2y ago
Comedy in the service of a strong argument is twice as funny.

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