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by wcoenen 4y ago
Power companies can offer more than one pricing formula. People who want to minimize their power bill can choose to pick the time of use pricing and shift some of their consumption off peak. Others can choose to pay more for the convenience
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What's going on with the scrolling behavior of this page? I'm getting a very annoying "scrolling with inertia" behavior in Chrome for desktop.
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Manually turning the volume up and down is literally compressing the dynamic range; that's the goal here.
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Russia has done the same demonstration last year [1]. And yet they have not destroyed starlink, even though SpaceX donated many dishes to Ukraine[2]. So there still seems to be some restraint around the concept of shooting down foreign sate
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Is this like Vodeno in europe? When looking at job listings, I realized that Aion Bank appears to be just a marketing wrapper around Vodeno, which handles all the administration, technical stuff and even banking license and customer support
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The HN title is inaccurate. Based on the abstract, it should say "occupants" instead of "drivers".
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Interesting how that index had a massive spike and crash in 2008. As if the global economy seriously overextended itself and then faltered. I hadn't realized how much activity in the real world was linked to the financial excesses that
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> 100 m/s through soil and 5 m/s through solid rock The Wikipedia article says meter/minute where it mentions those numbers, not meter/second.
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Doesn't the heating system need electricity as well, for the electronics, fans/pumps etc.? Or is it more like a gas stove with a simple valve to open the gas line, and manual lighting?
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Just to add another data point for Belgium: my estimated price in November will be 0.74 euro/kWh. This is almost a tripling from my current rate, and the company can't offer a fixed price anymore. And this is still below the estim
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The past 5000 years have been quite stable, but there have been dramatic changes from melting ice caps before that. See https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_L... With a high enough warming rate, w
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The model only predicts the next token. This is appended to the original input (i.e. prompt), then the model predicts the next token again, etc. So those previous answers are given as input.
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It could just be that a factor which increases testosterone has been steadily disappearing. For example, testosterone is elevated in males after winning a fight. So if physical confrontations among males are getting less frequent for some r
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Instantaneous launch windows are not really that unusual. For example, all the missions to the International Space Station are like that. They launch when the launch point passes through the plane of the ISS orbit.
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No, this is just my "armchair theorizing". It just makes sense to me that if food production can be done more efficiently in terms of energy and space, then it will eventually happen.
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Using power from solar panels to synthesize food (or at least, food components like starch). It turns out this can be done much more efficiently than photosynthesis. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-chinese-scientists-star
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> then goes on to claim "In the grander catalogue of neighborhood dangers, getting hit by an e-bike is far from the deadliest" which is outright ridiculous, do these neighborhoods not have cars, that are way more dangerous? &
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Obviously, one cannot simply choose to sell above market price. But the context of the discussion was about the reason for selling far below market price.
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Selling at a higher price means more revenue, more revenue means the business can expand faster, faster expansion means climate impact of refrigerants gets solved faster.
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Taking market share can be done with a 10% discount. But why a 90% discount? That doesn't make sense to me.
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If these credits are higher quality as claimed, then they should sell at a higher price, not lower.
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> our credits are as high-quality as the best carbon removal technology, can scale up much faster, and are currently offered at 1/10th the price I'm confused about this remark about price. Isn't there a market of buyers
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The Chinese Room argument never made sense to me. By the same reasoning, humans could be considered "not sentient" because our behavior arises from the non-sentient interactions of individual neurons in our body.
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> I want a truly public domain license I think this sentence contradicts itself. A "license" implies that there is a copyright holder who allows usage of the work under the terms of said license. While "Public domain&quo
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The voyager probes had 450 watt of total electrical power at launch, supplied by 3 RTGs. The plutonium alone in one of those RTG units (4.5kg) would easily cost $10M. And it's the type of thing that is only used by government programs,
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> Much cooler temperatures (13°C) are found just a few feet below ground. (Memorable to those who've visited 'root cellars.) Before long those mysterious 'underground cities' in Anatolia may not seem so mysterious.
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This is a common misconception. It's the other way around: mining follows the price. Miners can collectively earn a pre-determined flow of block rewards. If the price rices, then those block rewards become more valuable. So then miners
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> spent a century producing literal mountains of plastic Plastic production is growing at 3.5% annually. This implies a doubling of annual plastic production about every 20 years (because 1.035^20 ≈ 2). And because of how exponential f
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The exact time is mentioned in the article. It is the NYSE closing time.
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> losing $3,218.95 from its previous close It's interesting how the concept of limited trading hours is so ingrained that reporters continue to talk about "market close", even though it doesn't exist for crypto ma

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