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by toomuchtodo 7d ago
You can care and be profitable, but it is usually cheaper to not unless regulatory mechanisms exist to internalize this potential externality. Can't rely on humans to do the right thing, some will not unless they feel pain for doing th
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by toomuchtodo 7d ago
Caring is orthogonal to profits and shareholder value. The one who cares the least wins unless economic incentives change this math, which is what these financial penalties work towards. Humans are tricky. To defend against the threat OP ta
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
Cost of capital is a direct input to growth (from both investment and consumption). The more expensive it is to borrow, the lower future growth is, and the cost to borrow is increasing. This means taxation must go up if you want higher pote
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://archive.today/61pC1
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://archive.today/uw2hN
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
This is the important point. Oil was/is settled in dollars. The world is rapidly moving away from oil. China has already hit peak oil. China is 1/3rd of global manufacturing capacity. If you're leaving oil behind, and buying
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
Saudis Give European Oil Buyers No Supplies for Next Month - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/saudis-te... | https://archive.ph/vMUqP - September 18th, 2026
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
Related: SimpleClosure raises $1.5M in less than 24 hours to help companies shut down faster and cheaper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404122 - September 2023 (4 comments)
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
Exorbitant privilege is a gift that lasts only as long as the trust does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635834 covers this succinctly: > A
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
I agree that Bill and Jeff are better at exploitation at scale. That’s how you become that wealthy. We are lucky they’re divorced and the wealth is in the hands of better stewards to distribute it to do good.
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
There's a large body of medical research around women having more empathy than men, specifically around brain volume in the inferior frontal gyrus. Does it always hold? There are always exceptions. Broadly speaking, in most cases, it i
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
> they are not necessarily near future if you don't threaten companies and buyers with 2035 ICE cars ban This argument is irrelevant. Climate change is real. Combustion vehicle bans are to contribute towards mitigating climate chang
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Philanthropies https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Great
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
My hot take is that men with extreme wealth and power are desperate to keep it as part of their identity, where the women I mentioned do not have the same character and personality flaws, and therefore use it as a tool to do good because th
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-indias-power-sector-emi...
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India's Clean Energy Boom Halts Coal Power Growth(oilprice.com)
18 points by toomuchtodo 8d ago|1 comments
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
What's interesting is they cannot, but their ex partners go much further in their giving (Melinda French, MacKenzie Scott, for example).
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
> final desperate move before VW death, they keep shoting themselves into foot with green deal and other EU nonsense and then complain when Chinese come running... China invested in building EVs, and has the capacity to build 50M per yea
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
This is the end result of capitalism and the demand for endless growth. Line must go up. If you want to avoid the extraction machine, use source software at parity or create new open source solutions with LLMs. Microsoft will always optimiz
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://www.crowdsupply.com/ might carry what you’re looking for, as might https://www.adafruit.com/
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
Original title “This VC used AI to try to snag a restaurant reservation. Resy wasn't having it.” compressed to fit within title limits. https://archive.today/MJW6M
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Resy suspends VC for using AI agents to book reservations(businessinsider.com)
4 points by toomuchtodo 8d ago|2 comments
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Private Equity: In the Doldrums, Out of Favor with Some Institutional Investors(cepr.net)
2 points by toomuchtodo 8d ago|0 comments
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by toomuchtodo 8d ago
https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/
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by toomuchtodo 9d ago
Its fairly cool because, in order to deliver current at these rates, battery storage colocation is typically required (as utility power can rarely deliver this current at these speeds). Every fast DC charge station becomes a battery storage
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by toomuchtodo 9d ago
https://archive.ph/iSZeF
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BYD looking to build 5-minute EV charging network in Canada(driving.ca)
38 points by toomuchtodo 9d ago|19 comments
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by toomuchtodo 9d ago
Miss Big Aluminum currently mastering the pitch of these exports. https://www.instagram.com/dongsentaikongcang (no affiliation, I just love her reels)
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by toomuchtodo 9d ago
It’s a cash transfer in the aggregate from those paying inflated real estate costs in rents and mortgages to the higher education industry.
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by toomuchtodo 9d ago
AT Protocol and PDS’. BitTorrent to share and distribute bundles of data.

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