greeneggs

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by greeneggs 6mo ago
It doesn't have to be traded globally. The US could ban oil and gas exports, and that would decouple local prices from the global market.
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by greeneggs 1y ago
> I doubt anyone would dispute that public benefits flow disproportionately to those 72 million households for obvious reasons. I would dispute it. One of the main public benefits, if not the main benefit, is protection of property righ
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by greeneggs 1y ago
I think everyone drives less in California than in Florida. (Google says ~14,500 miles annually per licensed driver in Florida, versus ~12,500 miles in California.) Gas prices are a factor in this.
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by greeneggs 1y ago
FYI, the last sentence, "Start building today on GroqCloud – sign up for free access here…" links to https://conosle.groq.com/ (instead of "console")
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by greeneggs 1y ago
> Edit: You can also "hand feed" your jumping spider with a cotton swab dipped in sugar water. They drink flower nectar in the wild, so my wife and I tried this and it worked! But don't they need live protein, like flightl
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by greeneggs 2y ago
> Our existence as a field pretty much hinges on classical computers not being able to simulate all quantum mechanical problems efficiently. I don't think this is quite accurate. It could be that many of the kinds of quantum simula
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by greeneggs 3y ago
This is a nice composite (not mine) showing the relative sizes of various deep sky objects: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/19do9iu/c...
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by greeneggs 3y ago
Do you have a link for that, or are you just making up numbers? (Please don't make up statistics.) These sources both give the civilian labor force participation rate as 62.5% in December 2023. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#
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by greeneggs 3y ago
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Startups with Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy(nytimes.com)
3 points by greeneggs 3y ago|0 comments
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by greeneggs 3y ago
An Adobe employee wrote on Reddit that they plan to allow an unspecified limited number of generations per month, included in the current subscription (even if your subscription is annual). Beyond that there would be an extra fee for more c
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by greeneggs 3y ago
I don't understand this argument. The Kenyan is exporting essays to the United States. Would you also call it bad for Kenya if she were building cars for export to the United States? What's the difference? And an American who
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by greeneggs 3y ago
I don't understand why everyone doesn't do this. I'd buy a Tesla if I could get a $7500 credit (I'm income limited).
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by greeneggs 3y ago
I feel like your cited article [0] loses most, or all, of its heft when the author admits that 47 percent of the growth in "admin positions"---more precisely, of non-teaching employees---comes from hiring at Stanford's hospit
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China’s Tech Rainmaker Vanishes, and So Does Business Confidence(nytimes.com)
3 points by greeneggs 4y ago|0 comments
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by greeneggs 4y ago
Note that the CDC collects statistics on assisted reproductive technology success rates. Here is the 2019 report: https://www.cdc.gov/art/reports/2019/pdf/2019-Report-ART-Fer... . See especially Figure
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by greeneggs 4y ago
To put 15 billion gallons of water in context, that's about the same amount of water as used by 15 to 30 square miles of alfalfa. Arizona has ~400 square miles dedicated to growing alfalfa, worth ~$400 million per year. (Maybe someon
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by greeneggs 4y ago
In 2019, Toyota also sued California to take away its EPA waiver (dating from the 1963 Clean Air Act) to set its own car mileage standards. Aggressively suing your customers to make their air quality worse goes well beyond lobbying.
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The robots are here. And they are making you fries(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by greeneggs 4y ago|1 comments
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by greeneggs 4y ago
US new car sales are still more than 2,000,000 fewer per year than pre-pandemic (about a 12% drop) [1], mostly because of restricted supply. A less than .5 percentage point change in default rates is not nearly enough to close this gap. [1
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The loneliest trees: can science save these threatened species from extinction?(nature.com)
1 points by greeneggs 4y ago|0 comments
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by greeneggs 4y ago
MSCI ESG ratings: Tesla: A https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings... Exxon: BBB https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings...
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by greeneggs 4y ago
All the more reason to leave them be. Free admission at the British Museum, versus €10 at the Acropolis Museum.
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by greeneggs 4y ago
The Future Forest Company spreads basalt on forestland for carbon sequestration [1]. Wren offers it as one of its carbon offsets [2]. However, it is currently the most expensive of their offset programs, per ton of carbon offset or removed
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by greeneggs 4y ago
I don't buy this analogy. Bankruptcy isn't the only market discipline. If a firm is underperforming, then it will be bought up and sold for parts. This happens all the time, and low interest rates only make it easier. Anyway, t
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by greeneggs 4y ago
That's not exactly true. Free filing is also opposed by influential conservatives. The argument goes that if paying taxes were easier, then people wouldn't pay as much attention and oppose taxes as much. (I'm paraphrasing
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by greeneggs 5y ago
This perspective seems to be incredibly optimistic. Oil-rich dictators can live a long time, even as they drive their countries to ruin. I don't know that there is much of a power base against him, and he still seems to have broad su
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Sure. From Kepler's third law, assuming that the Moon's mass is negligible (it is actually ~1.2% of Earth's mass), the semi-major axis of the moon's orbit is given by (mu T^2 / 4 pi^2)^{1/3} [1]. Substituting
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Having skilled people spend their time on this is exactly why it is suboptimal. Had Bezos spent $500 million on Bitcoin or, say, gold bars, it wouldn't matter much. Up to rounding errors, it is just moving numbers around. Here we ha
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by greeneggs 5y ago
Yes, of course it can. And this doesn't seem like cheating. I would be interesting in knowing how the difficulty (worst and average case) for the different models changes over time. Of course, on the last day (in 2027?), there will o

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