shawndrost

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by shawndrost 3y ago
This makes the datacenter out to be a massive water user. Which it is, in some sense. It's also worth considering that this volume of water usage -- 274.5 million gallons per annum, or 842 acre-feet -- is about 1/3 that of an aver
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by shawndrost 3y ago
This is a truly insane apologia for a firm which marketed a banking-like product with risk-free returns of up to 17%. > Mashinsky explained that Celsius's rates were so much higher than bank deposit rates not because it was riskier
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by shawndrost 3y ago
About 30% of interstate gas pipelines were built between 2007-2017 as one of the many consequences of the shale boom. Global LNG trade doubled in the same window. Germany installed 6 (floating) LNG import terminals in 2022. California built
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by shawndrost 3y ago
"1.67–2.08 ug/ml" is incorrect. Your link states "1.67–2.08 ug/L". In other words, the paper is about the effects of nanoplastic concentrations which are 10,000x greater than in tap water.
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by shawndrost 3y ago
My good man, you are responding to an actual union organizer who actually spent the recent boom years doing "now is the right time" work at software companies, at the actual right time.
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by shawndrost 4y ago
The basic job of a retail bank is to fund long-term loans with short-term deposits. A bank which is doing this optimally is still curiously vulnerable to bank runs. If all short-term deposits decide to redeem at once, that collective decisi
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by shawndrost 4y ago
I think everyone envisions Mars as harder than the South Pole. The reason people like Elon envision colonizing Mars instead of the South Pole is that they posit a big prize for succeeding at the former (becoming the emperor of a large, viab
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by shawndrost 4y ago
Haven't you explained too much? Your robust explanation should hold true in 1990, 2000, 2010 but the phenomenon had a discrete beginning in 2009 (and arguably a smaller inflection point in 2002) per the graph.
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by shawndrost 4y ago
I cofounded Hack Reactor, the coding bootcamp. (I'm no longer involved.) Your story is extremely typical, it's very normal to successfully do what you want to do, and you have way more marketable skills than you think. I recommend
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by shawndrost 4y ago
Residential solar reduces retail power costs @ $0.30/kWh, whereas grid-scale solar supplies wholesale power @ $0.02/kWh. (Representative figures from California.) NEM (net energy metering) amplifies this effect. If you look at a s
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by shawndrost 4y ago
> Types "Why is internet waiter rude to me? (Dec '22 edition)" > Gets mad when internet waiter is rude in comments
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by shawndrost 4y ago
The article talks about learning curves, but learning curves apply to airplanes, not airports. Nuclear is the latter.
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by shawndrost 4y ago
Can anyone link to a clean writeup of one crypto app or use case (ex speculation/laundering) with strong PMF, on track to win a decent market? Honest question. This writeup cites remittances, but last time I looked into it, crypto was
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by shawndrost 4y ago
I'm CEO at a YC-backed hydrogen startup ( https://phoenixhydrogen.com/ ). Here's why I think hydrogen is cool: 1. If you believe in learning curves, you believe that green hydrogen will be cheaper than fossil fuels
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by shawndrost 4y ago
Would you approve of the comparison to postwar interventionism if you saw large scale nationalizations in key areas? Like if big EU energy companies, say EDF and Uniper, were to be nationalized?
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by shawndrost 4y ago
Stable Diffusion allows anyone to make kiddie porn with a half-second of curiosity/effort. Maybe you didn't know about that, maybe you think it's NBD, but in any case, that is the tire fire which aspiring AI majors want to av
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by shawndrost 4y ago
It's very surprising to see so little mention of race/ethnicity forces in this article, since I understand that to be a large part of the answer to the headline question. There is a gap of a couple years between Americans from Asi
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by shawndrost 4y ago
DRI is great! I am [CEO at a hydrogen startup, and] very bullish on hydrogen in the power sector, at least in North America. I should also say, I agree that batteries and "electrify everything" will play a much larger role in the
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by shawndrost 4y ago
I think this is incorrect; I have seen GWP20 numbers like 38, eg here[1], or lower numbers for GWP100. Do you have a citation? [1] https://www.greenbiz.com/article/inside-misconception-hydrog...
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by shawndrost 5y ago
I feel the need to brag that I guessed Sweden on the first try. I think that means the product is working!
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by shawndrost 5y ago
My speculation: perhaps he means that the potential energy tied up behind financial regulation is enormous, and that web3 is a practical way to tap into that. (If I'm correct about his intended meaning, you're confused because he&
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by shawndrost 5y ago
You're really misrepresenting the information from the link. Munger is the top-rated residence in the area. https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c...
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by shawndrost 5y ago
IAMA Former founder @ Hack Reactor, one of the larger coding bootcamps. I left Hack Reactor some time after selling to Galvanize in 2018. I now run a clean energy startup and am commenting as a bystander (no insider knowledge @ Lambda). Her
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by shawndrost 5y ago
"Of course the intentional hydraulic fracturing of rock near the magma chamber of a supervolcano is a risk factor that must be carefully evaluated."
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by shawndrost 5y ago
I can't point to something better than the SAT, but I can tell you what people don't like about it. SATs correlate with demographics in ways that conflict with the concept that merit is evenly distributed among student demographic
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by shawndrost 5y ago
In this article about the impacts of dropping the SAT, I would hope to find a coherent analysis of the impacts of that policy vs. the status quo. Unfortunately, that analysis seems internally inconsistent: "In short, this decision will
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by shawndrost 5y ago
I encourage you to try anyway. Just correctly represent the position. The point of my advice is this: there is already a well-understood mechanism to find work associates. It's job ads. I have found, through empirical research, that yo
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by shawndrost 5y ago
Linkedin and Indeed, which let you post for free :D
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by shawndrost 5y ago
I haven't asked my cofounder that question, but I did hear from the advisor I mentioned that she was just searching linkedin for a term that's relevant to her, to stay current with the industry.
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by shawndrost 5y ago
Climate tech / hard tech. https://www.phoenixhydrogen.com/

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