fredophile

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by fredophile 3mo ago
I also saw a quote from Musk saying that he expects SpaceX to hit $1 trillion in revenue by 2031. Given his track record of predicting performance I think it's safe to ignore such future looking statements from him or companies he cont
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by fredophile 3mo ago
Are you saying that they chose bad locations inside of Germany for wind and solar or that Germany doesn't have any viable locations and they shouldn't build wind and solar in Germany at all?
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by fredophile 3mo ago
It's not like other forms of power generation don't have similar problems. Solar PV cells lose efficiency and need to be replaced. Nuclear has very long term storage concerns. Coal and natural gas plants have finite expected lifet
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by fredophile 3mo ago
I spent a good chunk of my life in the Pacific Northwest. You get very long stretches of cloudy skies through most of the winter that are poor for solar. However, there are alternatives in that region like hydro that may be more suitable ch
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by fredophile 3mo ago
Can you point to large scale solar or wind projects that were shoved into places that have extended periods of low sunlight or wind?
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by fredophile 4mo ago
The $1.3 million doesn't mean much. The article stated he could've switched to a significantly cheaper option and cut the bill to $300k. That's still a lot but since he worked for the company that sells the tokens it isn&#x27
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by fredophile 4mo ago
You're looking at students at a top tier university in a field that pays extremely well. The numbers are going to be at the high end for what a grad student can make. A quick search for PhD salaries suggests that $20-35k/year is m
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by fredophile 4mo ago
There's another relevant saying about apples you should check out.
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by fredophile 4mo ago
Are you seriously trying to equate people exercising their right to peacefully protest to the power to detain and shoot people?
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by fredophile 5mo ago
> You can not have a for-profit system and a government subsidized one Have you told Australia? They seem to think they've been able to do this for a while now.
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by fredophile 5mo ago
> Democrats advocate for things like healthcare and cancelling student loans -- never happens Democrats passed the ACA under Obama. Republicans have been trying to get it repealed with only moderate success ever since. Biden announced st
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by fredophile 5mo ago
You have to replace everything you own on some cadence. Eventually I'll need to replace the battery on my solar system. I'll also need to replace the panels at some point and even the roof the system is installed on. My solar syst
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by fredophile 5mo ago
I've been to most of the places he said were bad and I totally agree that you can ignore what he says. Shortly after talking about how bad Zion is for the crowds he says that Capitol Reef is also terrible. I thought Capitol Reef was gr
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by fredophile 7mo ago
Where I live travelling at that speed will get you passed by every cop and state trooper driving on the same road. A lot comes down to local norms and enforcement.
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by fredophile 10mo ago
DOGE "failed" because cutting the budget wasn't their real goal. Here are a few outcomes they were able to achieve: (1) Cutting funding for agencies and organizations that were investigating companies run by Elon Musk. (2) Cu
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by fredophile 11mo ago
I don't understand the obsession some people have with keeping your existing plan. Lots of people can't keep there plan under the current system. Insurance companies update their plans regularly. Sometimes they remove plans or exi
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by fredophile 11mo ago
Why does Medicare for all mean I can't keep private health insurance? There are countries that have systems like this in place.
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by fredophile 11mo ago
Pension funds should be diversified and have a mix of asset classes that includes more than the stock market. Ideally, most of these assets will move independently so if one is doing particularly badly the others can balance it out to reduc
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by fredophile 1y ago
> I primarily blame Democrats for the current situation for they have been doing just an awful job of getting anything done or standing up to opposition, they are ineffective cowards and invited the current situation with their incompete
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by fredophile 1y ago
I think it depends on the piece. I have a piece that I love and spent about $5k on. It's relatively large and has a lot of detail. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the equivalent of a month's work full time for the artist s
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by fredophile 1y ago
There is no reason that cloud providers shouldn't be able to set up the same kind of billing options that advertisers have had access to for years. In Google and Meta ads I can set up multiple campaigns and give each campaign a budget.
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by fredophile 1y ago
I'm not an expert on LLMs but my guess would be that this is a result of the curse of dimensionality. As a general rule more dimensions != more better.
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by fredophile 1y ago
I'm not the poster you replied to but I appreciate your clarification. However, I still don't understand your argument. I don't think anyone has argued that supply and demand don't apply to the labour market. However, it
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by fredophile 1y ago
I don't disagree with you and think that UBI and universal health care are better alternatives. However, there is a much easier path forward to getting higher minimum wages and we shouldn't stop making incremental changes just bec
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by fredophile 1y ago
My understanding is that that's pretty common in that part of the car market. I know you can't get the really high end McLarens unless you've bought one of the cheaper ones already.
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by fredophile 1y ago
So instead I should uproot her and move her to a new home with people she doesn't know. When they go through a life event like changing jobs, getting injured, having to move to look after a family member, having children, etc they shou
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by fredophile 1y ago
> a nation that treats dogs as children is a nation that cannot possibly hope to condemn childish bickering, name-calling and flat-out toddler lying in its ruling class I don't see how the two are related. How does treating dogs as
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by fredophile 1y ago
Why is that a better solution than paying someone to take care of her while I'm at work?
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by fredophile 1y ago
A couple years ago I got a puppy. At the time I worked from home. A few months ago I got a new job and now I have to go into the office. She spent the first two years of her life with me being used to me almost always being around. It would
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by fredophile 1y ago
I will start by saying I don't have much experience with the latest AI coding tools. From what I've seen using them would lead to more boredom. I like solving problems. I don't like doing code reviews. I wouldn't trust a

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