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by wikfwikf 4y ago
1. If a large number of people are off-grid or effectively off-grid then the cost of consumer will have to decrease until it's comparable with the total cost (capital and maintenance) of private solar and battery. 2. The duck curve wil
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think energy storage is a fascinating area. One where there are lots of new projects, both with incremental improvements and untried technologies. One where life-changing progress seems possible in the near future. For example, consumer e
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
If you did this you would have to make the amount of money required very high (hundreds of Euro) before it would tip the balance on the number of people there at peak season. Then you would exclude budget-conscious travellers without raisin
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Another point is that overcrowding also makes it less pleasant for the tourists themselves. If you charge people €10 and they find it more pleasant, don't have to queue for drinks or to take selfies, and can get help if they need it, t
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But if you take a train you are susceptible to being taxed for entry to Venice, since they can just add some fee to the train fare, to either pay for maintenance of the city or simply to reduce numbers.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Suppose there are a bunch of points on a number line (elevators in the example) and you are standing somewhere between them. You decide to minimize the sum of squared differences by the greedy algorithm - make a small move either left or ri
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
They are not using waste heat but low-cost electricity. A system heated to 500C is not running on waste heat.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
They have to heat to 500C, because recovering the energy is slow unless you have those high temperatures. The advantage of water is that it's easy to extract the heat energy and transmit it to where you want it.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Actually the feminists of the 60's and 70's debated this kind of issue at length and there was a diversity of opinion.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Yes, this is how most words work.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You used the term when saying 'very few TERFs call themselves..'. Did you intend to be offensive, or was it just the easiest way to describe a certain group of people?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is the actual problem with the app model. No one is on the line for your order being late, cold or wrong. The delivery guy doesn't care - he's the most transient and precarious labor possible and he only needs to get a certai
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
no, they get paid when you are hired. but the more people they send to interview, the more likely they are to get a hire, whether a good one or an indifferent one.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Some tube lines are very deep but there are also several which are cut-and-cover, ie at the same just-below-street depth as the NY subway.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
When I travelled through Holborn during this period, they had changed both of the up escalators in the main bank (ticket hall down to Central/Piccadilly fork) to 'standing only'.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I have seen lots of escalators at peak capacity for walking. Perhaps you didn't travel a lot in rush hour. People (for obvious reasons) are much more likely to walk up escalators in the morning rush hour than in the evening. The escala
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Their justification for this change, as I read it back then, (the linked article doesn't get into the details) seemed to me to be completely flawed. It is true that standers are more closely spaced together than walkers. The number quo
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The recruiter's interest and yours are not aligned. Recruiters would like everyone to list every skill on their resume. They have nothing to lose from you being interviewed for a position you're not suited for. And they get paid i
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
An accredited investor is one who has a certain amount of wealth, apart from their main residence. The SEC lays down the definition. You need to be an accredited investor to invest, as an individual, in hedge funds, private equity, and some
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The % of bot users is not critical to revenue, no. Advertising buyers determine how much ad views are worth to them in their own way. This demand essentially sets the price since there is no marginal cost of providing advertising views. For
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I don't think this is true if you are taking the common but technically precise mathematical meanings of 'almost all' and 'the surface'.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Once you figure out the practicalities of buying $100K worth of Bitcoin for cash, securing it, exchanging it for Tether, requesting the redemption, getting paid out to a bank account, etc, you will see that it's not particularly free m
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You're not missing anything, that is literally how it works and the reason it is now failing.
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
Do you understand how delusional it sounds in this specific context to say that not needing retraining improves safety? Not that it might improve safety or should improve safety, but that it does improve safety?
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
I honestly do not think that the logical conclusion is that Shakespeare's English teacher was the best English teacher of all time. I interpreted the implication of the talk as being that Shakespeare's formal schooling, or lack of
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
That doesn't change the value they provide to the people actually making the shows. As a producer/show runner, who would you rather make a series for, Netflix or a streaming service you've never heard of? Which would you acce
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
Making WhatsApp into a payments app is going to lead to the most difficult content moderation problems ever known. Everything from content by casual OF performers to extremely illegal and damaging content would be on that platform if it was
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
Equal opportunity not equal outcomes is a huge red herring when talking about equality. Most public places used to have bathrooms which anyone could walk into but no one could easily roll into on a wheelchair. That was equal opportunity. No
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
The thing is he might have learnt something if he had continued the project. Maybe he would have learnt something about marketing and market positioning. Or maybe he would have learnt about delivery and server provisioning, even without any
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by wikfwikf 5y ago
This guy does leetcode questions on the toilet.

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