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by thrown_22 4y ago
>But the technology does exist, and it's gonna be deployed eventually. [[citation needed]]
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Yes.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>Her emotional response was definitely not wrong nor an issue. It was both. If we keep telling people that they can fall apart at the drop of a hat we end up with a lot of people who can't function in society.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media. Dear god yes. Give me the facts without trying
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I feel like I should try and get back my account which got banned for covid misinformation - who could have seen that the vaccines wouldn't be 99% effective?
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>It's simply not true we cannot store energy. Which grid can store enough energy to run for a week if all renewables are offline? Hint: there aren't any.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
So why then are they also more profitable?
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by thrown_22 4y ago
That's profit, not revenue. I'm asking why their revenue for increased exponentially for having 10% more clients.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
> Stanford and other top institutions can't really be compared to other schools, students fees are not how these institutions make money. There are massive business arms tying in to fortune 500s, political think tanks, government in
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by thrown_22 4y ago
It doesn't matter. I did physics at a world top 10 university and the course work was basically day care. The vast majority of the 'difficulty' of the subject matter was because the majority of students were bad at algebra. T
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by thrown_22 4y ago
So you think that a 10% increase in customers should lead to a 500% increase in revenue?
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by thrown_22 4y ago
We can store grain for a year. How long can we store electricity for 15 minutes in most grids with a dollars for every five minutes further.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Let me explain my point: power is not energy and energy is not power. Renewable power is cheap in the same way someone whose head is dipped in liquid nitrogen and whose feet are in molten lead in over all pretty comfortable.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
That's the drama I was missing in my life.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
You're right. We can just turn off society between sunset and sunrise. Who needs things like refrigeration and life support on all the time anyway?
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by thrown_22 4y ago
So how much can I buy solar power for at midnight? Because coal is the same price at noon and now. That solar is cheaper at noon doesn't mean much. It's a bit like saying that coal is free underground.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
It's currently midnight in Australia. Please advice on how to turn on sun.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Worked in energy as a quant a few years back: the current 'greening' of the grid is nothing of the sort. It's just a cash grab by creating extreme volatility in energy prices. On the right (wrong) days you had swings of $10,0
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by thrown_22 4y ago
You can burn coal at night. Turning the sun on at midnight is somewhat more difficult.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
All models are wrong, some are useful.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well. If you're a programmer, there's enough of a chance that this is temporary that it's worth explicitly planning for a future in which you're laid off
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Some people want anonymity. Mobile phones do not provide it.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
All twitter employees are about to find out that writing walls of text doesn't change the economic reality of the world. Here's hoping that we can get rid of the bloat and go back to having smart people in the room after all the b
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Redhats whole business model was to make linux too complex to understand by anyone not at redhat.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I must have missed the part in the post where he talks about collective bargaining. All I saw was how much privilege he had and how it will protect him from being fired (it didn't).
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by thrown_22 4y ago
It would be nice to have a sane conversation. That however is impossible when one side has decided that the other side should be muzzled, viz. every post even remotely critical of democrats getting flagged here, or until recently getting yo
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Then you're not looking very far. Go to a discussion from 5 years ago which talked about something useful in any topic and you'd find more than half the people were banned.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>Imagine if the people who work at those companies aren't your enemy. But instead are potential customers and potential collaborators, who see value in your work and want it to succeed. Yes, but we'd have to imagine it isn&#x27
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>systemd (Lennart Poettering) I see they are still going strong on the embrace, extend extinguish strategy.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>Only exception I can imagine is Reddit, although it may just be slower given that it’s more of a forum than social media. It has its own myriad of technical problems that bog it down. Reddit has banned everyone interesting that used to

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