thelastgallon

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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> OMG! ONE! In a well off European street. You might want to check how many BMWs and Benz and Land Rovers are also in your street. I live in a condo complex in US, I see several Teslas parked on the street. I don't see a single BMW,
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> Are you a car person? They are as rare as Land Rovers or Lotus or Alfa Romeos or Fiats. What's the marketcap of those companies? I have never seen any of these (are these cars? what are these?!). Stagecoaches we see in western mov
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> Let’s say there is no safe limit for lead. Regardless you’d have to agree that at some point the harm caused by lead becomes irrelevant? If someone has 1 ppt lead in their blood the harm isn’t actually measurable? How does the harm fro
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> The other FAAMGs you cannot turn your head without seeing one of their logo (both in your house and when walking down the street). I see more Tesla logos more than all the companies you mention. Even including Amazon boxes. To see a Te
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Whats even better is to have a lot of people pre-fired, always on their toes, forced to deliver and no benefits. This is what all companies do with contracting. Most work is done by contractors, usually 10 - 20x of FTE workers. Or gig work.
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> Guy is 50, has been doing this for 30 years and I never used a product or a service of a company he was at the helm of, and I am not exactly a subsaharan farmer. At least 47% (3.6 billion people) don't use Internet [5]. Half the p
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
There is no safe threshold for lead exposure. [1]. Nearly all toxins have some threshold, it becomes toxic at parts per million. For lead, this is zero. All toxins also decay/degrade over a period of time, the effects aren't long
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Related: Understanding Startup Offers (withcompound.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644653
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Crypto is capitalist's wet dream come true. Capitalist 1.0: Money --> idea --> build org --> employ people --> make products (shiny new plastic toy, ends in landfill after 3 months) --> deal with marketing, fake reviews,
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Its amazing that you have kubernetes and ceph at home! Shows a lot of initiative. There are a lot of DevOps/SRE/Cloud jobs that you can work towards. Getting the first job would be your biggest hurdle, should be smooth sailing aft
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
This loop is being closed. The legislation would also disallow IRA investments that require owners to be accredited investors.[1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/house-democrats-propose-new-...
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
This is happening. It is better to do it in rice which is widely consumed, staple in most asian countries. "C4 rice research, currently in its early phases, hopes to develop a new type of rice with improved photosynthesis capacity, kno
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Pickups are #1, #2, #3 selling in the US [1]. There is room for both Tesla and Rivian. Just make them! I bet the valuations of companies selling horseshoe, saddle, horses, stables, stagecoach, etc was high when Ford started out. Most people
1934.
by thelastgallon 5y ago
Deaths per thousand terawatt hour is the correct unit to compare.[1] Coal: 100000 Oil: 36000 Nuclear: 90 Solar: 440 (rooftop) Wind: 150 Nuclear is the clear winner, closely followed by wind and solar. [1] https://www.statista.com
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
> That said, the parent comment's ideas are bad and ignorant, for the reasons you mentioned and more. The parents comments are neither bad nor ignorant. They can be summarized as demand management. Utilities hate demand management.
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
Disclaimer: Founder of Electric Foundation (accelerate EV adoption), Conduit Foundation (require all new construction to be EV ready) > And you ignore the fact that if you use car batteries as storage for the grid, that detracts from the
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Incoming New York mayor Eric Adams vows to take first three paychecks in Bitcoin(cnbc.com)
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by thelastgallon 5y ago
I'm working with a few folks on a non-profit. Conduit Foundation’s mission: Make all new construction ready for electric cars.