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by tootie 4mo ago
Nothing and we don't have to and idk what you're talking about. I literally have an all-electric home and it's perfectly comfortable. Heat pump works great on the hottest and coldest days (outside temp has been as low 2F as
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by tootie 4mo ago
I just said. To reduce environmental impacts. A fully electric factory drawing power from a grid of renewables is cleaner, safer and more stable.
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by tootie 4mo ago
If you're considering the total cost then you have to factor in the entire reason to electrify which is the environmental cost of continuing to burn dead organic matter. In that case, electrification is absolute bargain.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Having worked in donor dependent nonprofit, this kind of stuff just unfortunately works way too well. You'd be surprised what generates the most revenue. Despite having a large digital audience, we had the highest conversion rate on pa
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by tootie 4mo ago
Most of it can be electrified. NYC has banned gas hookups in new residential buildings (I live in one and it's great). Industrial electrification will never be 100% but I've seen estimates as high as 90%. It will take time and mon
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by tootie 4mo ago
AI is enough of an issue. As fast as we are adding renewable capacity, demand is also growing extremely fast. We're chasing a rapidly moving target. And we're stuck in an adverse political climate for the time being as well.
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by tootie 4mo ago
Sure but compare that to the amount of land used for oil and gas extraction. The difference is that mines and drills can only go where there's stuff to extract and solar panels can go anywhere. Including near residential areas. That&#x
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by tootie 5mo ago
What's that old saw the investors use? The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent? You can bet on the fundamentals or you can bet on other investors.
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by tootie 5mo ago
> It cost $48 million annually to operate the network. The Trump administration repeatedly tried to shutter it, proposing to cut its funding by 80 percent in both 2025 and again in 2026. Congress pushed back, restoring the money. Congres
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by tootie 5mo ago
Random anecdote: I worked for years in the digital agency space and we basically just sold billable hours. Hours worked was everything. When crunch time hit, you worked until you were done. I once clocked 110 hours after working straight th
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by tootie 5mo ago
No it's worse than that. Your grant application must be actively aligned with their political agenda. If you are polite, deferential and apolitical but you want to study climate change you will be rejected.
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by tootie 5mo ago
See also Hank Green's take on the definition of slop: https://youtu.be/dT5IJExTUR4?si=mjkHK024MUqCId0k The tl;dr is pretty similar. Intent and care are the functional variables. A human can produce slop without AI and
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by tootie 5mo ago
As an AI hater, I sympathize. I really don't enjoy the engineering world since LLMs. I fully concede their value is immense, I just don't like it. Unlike Chad, I've put in enough years that I can step back and kinda do nothin
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by tootie 5mo ago
The cost of moving from owned home to owned home is far higher. Brokers, lawyers and all the associated closing costs can be huge. And you still have to pay movers and worry about new furniture.
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by tootie 5mo ago
I have a pet theory that we were better off when the economy flowed through Wall St rather than Silicon Valley because Wall St people ride the subway to work.
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by tootie 5mo ago
I always consult this calculator: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal... It forces you to make some assumptions on market returns and such, but it gives a pretty clear picture. The bi
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by tootie 5mo ago
I had some friends within half a mile or we'd meet at a park. But in high school, my friends were a few miles away and across a few highways. We needed to drive. Idk if this counts but my parents did let my older brother with a license
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by tootie 5mo ago
The second amendment is very much intended to protect access to military weapons. It was never intended to address personal defense or sport hunting but national defense by state militias.
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by tootie 5mo ago
Humanoid robots remain almost completely useless. We do have bomb disposal robots but they are not humanoid. They also are only designed for explosive devices not giant tanks. Or power tools.
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by tootie 5mo ago
They have repeatedly taken incredibly broad if not downright delusional interpretations of legal precedent and used them to set policy. They literally tried to override a constitutional amendment (birthright citizenship) with an executive o
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by tootie 5mo ago
I didn't say "doing better". I was responding to someone very wrongly stating that we're at a historic level of inflation.
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by tootie 5mo ago
US tariffs are mostly dead. Ruled illegal and being refunded. Second attempt at tariffs has also been stopped. And inflation over the past 5 years is still milder than the late 70s and definitely milder than what has been seen in Turkey or
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by tootie 5mo ago
Can I rent space in Colossus2?
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by tootie 5mo ago
And Anthropic can pay money to Musk to absorb all that liability while they keep training models.
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by tootie 5mo ago
Nowhere in that piece did she say AI is useless or isn't generating returns for businesses. She's just saying it's probably going to be a net negative for society and I'm not sure she's wrong. World leaders are not
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by tootie 5mo ago
Side note that the US offered the same plan as Iran. Selling insurance (in USD) to shippers to transit the Strait. They have done $0 in business. https://www.ft.com/content/eabadd1a-a712-4b44-99bf-bb50eb753...
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by tootie 5mo ago
You can very specifically blame Trump for not understanding this at all. Possibly a symptom of being born rich, he acts as though America's standing in the world is a given and he has infinite political capital to spend any way he choo
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by tootie 5mo ago
Roads covered with cars are an egregious eyesore and yet everyone is thoroughly acclimated to them. The amount of land we allocate just for parking would be shocking if it weren't so normal. Speaking of which, solar roofs for parking l
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by tootie 5mo ago
Sure but you've also probably formed a model of who I am and what I'm thinking and formulated a response that isn't just grammatical and relevant but designed to provoke an outcome.
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by tootie 5mo ago
Well this is probably the same kind of semantic trap she's fighting with. Yes, you're right it's a model. The distinction is that they models of _language_ and not thoughts or feelings.

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