countvonbalzac

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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
We just need much cheaper catalysts to enable these sorts of industries that could be a very efficient use of ultra cheap excess electricity. Right now catalysts to create hydrocarbon fuels from the atmosphere are so expensive that it isn&#
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
You should add the ability to change the public holidays. My company doesn't give veteran's day
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
There's a reason people watch movies on planes - it's to distract you from the uncomfortable environment you're in. VR is more immersive than a 2D screen so it's more distracting.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
That's per year right?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Same - take lightbulbs for example. Thanks to LEDs, the amount of energy you need to generate X amount of light has reduced considerably, but we still have as much if not more lighting than ever. And it's not like our GDP is suffering
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
where do you get it filled in 3 month increments?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
You misspelled screenshots in the title of your website.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Is folding at home still relevant after alpha fold?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
The median age in China is higher than in the US.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
In theory none? Stock buybacks increase the stock price but reduce the number of shares. So the market cap should stay more or less the same.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Are GANs useful for synthetic data generation for transformer based models?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Interestingly there are extremely profitable industries on either side of this fight
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Why would anyone use Google cloud? No one ever got fired for using ~IBM~ AWS
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Does DuckDB cache the S3 downloads? Otherwise it could get pretty expensive, no?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
What's the minimum spec chip you will need to run the smallest whisper model (looks like that's 39M parameters)?
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Aren't there some cheap ways to muffle sound? Wood floors, rugs, curtains, artwork, acoustic panels, etc.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Tokyo does have much lower housing costs than New York because they build enough housing :) Rent prices are 72.9% lower in Tokyo compared to New York [1]. [1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Lol the "pivot to biotech" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
"High NA tools are expected to cost more than 350 million euros ($378 million) each, from 200 million euros from ASML's regular EUV machines." The grammar in this article is strangely bad for Reuters
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
Prop 13 means that property tax increases are capped at 2% or inflation, whichever is lower.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
The issue is Starlink is run by a political actor. Elon was using his Starlink leverage to try to affect US foreign policy. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
This is what happens when you outlaw building new homes, and especially when you outlaw building apartments.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
I wonder if that's less efficient though because now every employee has to manage a server, rather than having a small dedicated team that can manage hundreds or thousands of servers.
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
I guess theoretically humans do more complex work? Rather than screwing in a solar panel, humans supervise the robots that screw in the solar panels. Then in theory we'll have the same number of humans employed in the solar industry bu
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by countvonbalzac 2y ago
What I wish this article had was a simulation that generated the best kart for each variety of stats. The article doesn't really address that different karts suit different driving styles, so as a Mario Kart lover I was hoping there wo
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by countvonbalzac 3y ago
what are you supposed to do at an orange light?
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by countvonbalzac 3y ago
Or in 2020: https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-...
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by countvonbalzac 3y ago
If someone doesn't control your phone number they can't reactivate.
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by countvonbalzac 3y ago
The air quality in several cities in the US dropped noticeably after the fireworks. Similar to the air quality after the wildfires.
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by countvonbalzac 3y ago
He is in fact the CTO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

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