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by whall6 1y ago
Well put
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by whall6 1y ago
Trying to figure out how to be cool by going as far as to write an academic paper is decidedly uncool
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by whall6 1y ago
This honestly may as well have been a paid ad by Amazon. It served as a reminder for me that Prime Day is coming up. That reminder was followed up with several extremely weak arguments that Amazon is the pinnacle of evil. Also felt like it
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by whall6 1y ago
https://www.pedestal.work/
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by whall6 1y ago
That’s interesting because I feel the exact opposite. I know plenty of people that would say something like “smol pp” in real life, but then come to HN and comment like neutered 50 year old wannabe philosophers. There is no humor allowed on
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by whall6 1y ago
Hasn’t failed yet!
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by whall6 1y ago
I think there’s a black mirror episode about this?
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Case for Electricity Interconnector Between North America and Europe (2024) [pdf](ember-energy.org)
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by whall6 1y ago
Interesting that PV efficiency is impacted by peak heat. Why are there so many solar farms in the desert near Las Vegas and in West Texas then? Serious question, would love to know the answer. Are these inefficiencies just now coming to lig
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by whall6 1y ago
The amount of battery capacity required to sustain power demand for this to be scaled to a meaningful population is high (PR average daily power demand is ~50 GWh per day). Most power outages in PR take 48 to 72 hours to fix. You would need
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by whall6 1y ago
Michigan unfortunately represents a mismatch of when you need power vs when power is generated. Arizona, Texas, New Mexico are sweet spots. High power demand in the summer (A/C), relatively high proportion of sunny days.
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by whall6 1y ago
I don’t have data but I have a hunch most blackouts in PR are weather related. In that case (stormy skies), solar probably won’t help much.
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by whall6 1y ago
This isn’t a false dichotomy because I’m not even representing two separate choices. I get that you alone have probably an insignificant amount of control, but forming a coalition would allow you to make change. I’m aware that there are ass
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by whall6 1y ago
The owning class is different today than it was in Ned’s time. Who owns MSFT? You, probably, through your 401k. Nobody is stopping you from creating a coalition of similarly minded shareholders and effecting change. Unless you stuff your ca
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by whall6 1y ago
I think it would have been cool to see them allow a hand chosen direct report join them. And maybe that direct report’s hand chosen direct report too.
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by whall6 1y ago
I think you can apply for an ag exemption depending on location
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by whall6 1y ago
The web scraping arms race continues.
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by whall6 1y ago
Unrelated to tech, but I wonder if this is why so many people seek the IB to PE to HF route that seems so well trod. They just need rails that point them to the next stop.
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by whall6 1y ago
It is a damn poor mind etc.
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by whall6 1y ago
Agree that housing was a missed bubble, but disagree that fracking shouldn’t be considered a bubble. Fracking certainly is a technology, but the author is using the word to describe the very real market bubble that popped in 2016-2017. It w
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by whall6 1y ago
It’s wild to me that people would rather build their own apps than use excel.
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by whall6 1y ago
If you live in the U.S., marginal electricity demand during the day is almost invariably met with solar or wind (solar typically runs at a huge surplus on sunny days). Go forth and AI in peace, marcyb5st.
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by whall6 1y ago
Why is the far left and far right nearly the same color? If you’re showing a gradient the max and min would be nearly indistinguishable.
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by whall6 1y ago
Fossil fuels increase grid stability?
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by whall6 1y ago
This is just screaming Jevon’s paradox
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by whall6 1y ago
Some large chains have a miniature payment kiosk at each table. You just pay when you’re done and leave. Very convenient.
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by whall6 1y ago
Hot swappable batteries!
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by whall6 1y ago
When you say that “we” can revoke, I assume you are talking about your company - the app. What sort of resources would be required to constantly audit the potentially thousands or hundreds of thousands of certificate issuers on your platfor
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by whall6 1y ago
Who is the entity that has the ability to revoke the certificate?
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by whall6 1y ago
How are the certificates issued?

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