shawndrost

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by shawndrost 5y ago
They had been working on a very similar startup for ~6mo on their own steam, looking for cofounders. Not interested in a job.
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by shawndrost 5y ago
Might as well post this here, even though it's not software: I'm starting a green hydrogen midstream company. Amazing team, product, promise. Pre-funding; working on site control for first project. We are still fleshing out the fo
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by shawndrost 5y ago
I have a tip on finding a cofounder. I've been looking for the last 12 months and I tried a lot of things, but the thing that worked best is this: Post a job ad. That's it. My ad sounded like a normal job in every way, with a titl
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by shawndrost 5y ago
Because of ecosystem and water footprint impacts associated with dams, in conjunction with the operational requirements of power generation. Dams obviously convert a river into a lake and impede/alter natural migratory patterns. Less o
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Do you believe that about all the brokerages that halted trading on GME et al? Or did Robinhood call a halt due to insolvency, and coincidentally, other brokerages called a halt for unrelated reasons?
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by shawndrost 6y ago
I think "racial privilege" and/or "class privilege" are the general terms that have more straightforward meanings, and "white privilege" is both a) a special case of race/class privilege, and b) somet
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by shawndrost 6y ago
> Beef is only 3% of US emissions, meat has very little to do with the US's climate woes. The second half of this sentence is incorrect. Livestock is 14.5 of global greenhouse emissions, which a) determines climate change in the US,
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by shawndrost 6y ago
This essay shows a contradiction in PG's own beliefs, which I also grapple with. He doesn't believe "the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people", and his argument is persuasive. I tend to agree! All tho
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by shawndrost 6y ago
It's very similar to what is being implemented in Europe. The European Green Deal is a government-, union-, and activist-led (inter)national mobilization. They summarize the plan as a "Europ[ean] growth strategy" with a prima
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by shawndrost 6y ago
I was a co-creator of The Last Mile's coding program, and taught many classes in San Quentin prison. The students were generally there for a decade plus, for violent crimes. I would sit next to any of them for any length of time. They
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Roundtrip efficiency for batteries are 70-95% vs 47% for H2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/round-trip-... Roundtrip efficiency is not the reason to use hydrogen for anything.
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Cost structure: ~$5/kg now; forecasted to drop to $2/kg by 2030 and $1/kg by 2050. https://about.bnef.com/blog/hydrogen-economy-offers-promisin...
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Why not both? ;) Airbus is experimenting with liquid hydrogen: https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zer...
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by shawndrost 6y ago
I also think the Mirai is a dead end, but here are some things that might interest you: * The energy density (kWh/kg) of the Mirai fuel cell system (stack, tank, etc) is probably 2x or more than its battery. Replacing it with a battery
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by shawndrost 6y ago
(Shameless promotion: if this stuff interests you, check out my brand-new course https://www.terra.do/hydrogen-economy ) There is a developing consensus that in order to get to "net zero" by 2050, hydrogen will nee
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by shawndrost 6y ago
The article says the choice of songs is "all the ’90s songs that charted in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100". Is that incorrect? It does seem likely that Jay-Z at least would be on there...
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by shawndrost 6y ago
If the hypothesis is: "Normal people aren't convinced by climate intellectuals because the latter are visible hypocrites." Then it is wrong for two reasons: 1a. Normal Americans on the left, and many on the right, are convinc
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Oh hello, guy that complains about the way that the term "software engineer" is used! Outside of your head, the job title "Software Engineer" is mainly used to describe computer programmers that do not do formal engineer
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Thanks for the response! I get how this thread is about framing and partisanship and that is the part that is boring for me. I am more interested in the broader topic of the realignment, and I think you are articulating the clearest and str
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by shawndrost 6y ago
I'm a longtime fan of your comments and you've shaped my POV on many things. I am a religious reader of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rayiner You normally have the facts on your side, or else you make ge
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by shawndrost 6y ago
I'm very interested in this topic. Do you have a "favorite" (most accurate, least revisionist) writeup of the causes of the political realignment that happened between the 1940s and the 1980s? Specifically, if you don't
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by shawndrost 6y ago
And now we have come full circle. The government does indeed permit wildcatting or prospecting, but it requires that all investors are accredited. The same is true for TON and other bitcoins -- the govt is not trying to forbid them, but mer
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by shawndrost 6y ago
Huge recommendation for http://netgames.io , they have Secret Hitler and Codenames and the UI makes sense.
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by shawndrost 7y ago
> That hasn't been the case in my use of Skype, for instance. You have misread his point. He's not saying that users expect to see their contacts on their "first load". He's saying they expect to see their contac
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by shawndrost 7y ago
WattTime | REMOTE or Oakland | Many open roles | Full-time WattTime[1] is an environmental tech nonprofit that helps devices be smarter about using green energy. We are also moving into some satellite-based emissions monitoring efforts [2].
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by shawndrost 7y ago
> I cannot quit cold-turkey because all the methods that I can think of to block the websites I can undo in the mania of anxiety. I had this same problem, and I found a solution that worked for me: I gave up sudo. I use my computer with
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by shawndrost 7y ago
It did happen. Germany has shut down most of its nuclear power generation and is phasing the rest out by 2022. So far, 'researchers [..] found that nuclear power was mostly replaced with power from coal plants, which led to [..] about
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by shawndrost 7y ago
This is technically true, but it does not comprehend the threat. Crab populations (etc) can survive in a broad range of CO2 levels, but there is no reason to think that they can survive a rapid CO2 and acidity transition like the one that i
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by shawndrost 7y ago
I think you would probably agree that those technological shifts require significant policy shifts, like a carbon tax, right? Does your pessimism about social engineering extend to getting public support for those kinds of policy shifts? (I
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by shawndrost 7y ago
(The "maternal wall" is sexism. If it impacted men, academia would not be shaped liked this. This is not to detract from the article, which is awesome.)

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