manfredo

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by manfredo 5y ago
To be honest I think you should go ahead and delete that account (and this, my main). Upon further reflection I think my engagement with HN has become unhealthy.
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by manfredo 5y ago
Hydroelectric storage is geographically dependent. You need the right topography and access to water. Likewise, hydroelectric storage takes a long time to build.
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by manfredo 5y ago
And then we'd have to continue that production for two and a half decades to get to 1 day of storage. And we'd also have to drastically increase our battery recycling capacity to match (remember most lithium ion batteries last 100
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by manfredo 5y ago
The cause is that more people moved into the city than there were housing units constructed. It isn't an either-or question, it's both. San Francisco has more demand than supply precisely because an insufficient number of housing
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by manfredo 5y ago
The factor that drives up price for grid level storage is scale. Only ~300 GWh worth of batteries is produced globally each year. The world uses 2.5 TWh of electricity each hour. If anyone tries to install battery storage at a significant s
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by manfredo 5y ago
Even achieving just one hour of storage globally amounts to 2.5 TWh of storage. By comparison the entire world produces ~300 GWh worth of lithium ion battery annually. That leaves geographically limited options like pumped hydroelectricity,
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by manfredo 5y ago
I think you're taking the response a very narrow set of people have to this dynamic and assuming a substantial contingent of readers are sharing this response. When I discuss the observations made in the original post with people, the
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by manfredo 5y ago
If you're not well equipped to refute the claim, why do you feel equipped to call it horrible, a conspiracy theory, and a harm to society? The notion that women are more selective than men is something I consider neither harmful, nor p
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by manfredo 6y ago
This output of this kind of test is determined by the order in which the categories are presented. Put male on the left and humanities on the right first, then put male and science simultaneously on the left side and it will produce the opp
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by manfredo 6y ago
It didn't just ask about censoring specific words or terms, or staying polite. It asked about censoring beliefs . Say someone who is very much in favor of legal abortion stays silent as one of their co-workers goes on about how aborti
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by manfredo 6y ago
> There are so many literary authors that aren't white men, that arguing that he should have the right to decide to only teach works from white men (if he deems them to be the best works), does seem to me like arguing that we should
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by manfredo 6y ago
I know a lot of people (mostly white, mostly men) don't think that's true, but these types of attitudes can easily allow harmful messages to fester in academic classrooms. > 88 percent of students agreed or strongly agreed with
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by manfredo 6y ago
Google certainly has more monetary resources. But in my experience large companies like Google are the ones that can't afford to do something like this. The logistical benefits of white-boarding interviews and the accountability gain
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by manfredo 6y ago
First a note on how to read the relevant study. The link to the study in the WSJ article is paywalled. This is a non-paywalled link [1] is the results [2]. 22 applicants solved a problem alone, 26 with a proctor present. Without the proctor
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by manfredo 6y ago
I think it's hard to argue that th Fallout 3 formula was more popular than the New Vegas formula. I enjoyed obsidian's take on the fallout setting, but it's hard to deny that Bethesda's was better received.
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by manfredo 6y ago
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage
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by manfredo 6y ago
Plenty of women have told me they don't think "guys" is gendered at all. Most (all?) of the women in my office use it irrespective of gender. Maybe it's because you're asserting your anecdotal experience as truth, w
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by manfredo 6y ago
It wasn't very misleading. Giving an ultimatum on threat of resignation is more or less entails giving your resignation if the company doesn't accept. My understanding is that the conversation more or less went: Gebru: "Don&#
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by manfredo 6y ago
Right, as evidenced by the extensive storage infrastructure being deployed /s. The US has 25 GWh of storage, as compared to an hourly electricity consumption of 500 GWh. Literally less than ten minutes of storage. Almost all of it hydr
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by manfredo 6y ago
To put this in comparison, a solar farm would need 50,000 to 100,000 acres to match the net output of those nuclear plants. Plus the land used for energy storage, which would typically involve damming rivers which has its own set of ecologi
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by manfredo 6y ago
Nuclear's non-intermittency is why it wind in the long run. Once intermittent sources fulfill demand during peak production hours, the actual cost of adding each usable watt goes up dramatically. If your goal is to run a primarily foss
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by manfredo 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re... You're overstating the cost of waste storage by two orders of magnitude. It's sealed into concrete cylinders. This doesn't look very haphaz
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by manfredo 6y ago
New leadership prompting a 5-10x increase in valuation? Dubious. And Robinhood didn't shut down trading at $40. They shut it down in the $300-$400 range. To be frank, anyone that thought this price was driven by people who genuinely th
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by manfredo 6y ago
Bitcoin, and decentralized currencies in general, are a novel thing. They absolutely do have utility, especially when it comes to circumventing government asset transfer controls. Plus, there's a fixed amount of bitcoin that will ever
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by manfredo 6y ago
I didn't know about any liquidity issues. But of that's the case then yeah, this is just regulatory limits kicking in. Though one could make the argument that they should have banned the sale of all stocks, not just GME, AMC, and
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by manfredo 6y ago
I mean, I honestly don't really blame Robinhood's leadership here. This is incompetence, by virtue of having no solid precedent or guidance on what is the right thing to do here. Gamestop's stock rise was unambiguous market m
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by manfredo 6y ago
What is their dubious place in history? Google created the first effective programmatically curated search engine. Facebook created en extremely popular social network. These companies were founded when the internet was still relatively nas
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by manfredo 6y ago
Calling this blackmail seems hyperbolic. Australia is imposing a tax on serving links to Australians, so Facebook is no longer serving those links. If the US imposes a tariff on BMWs and BMW stops selling cars in the US is it blackmail? Thi
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by manfredo 6y ago
A boycott is when consumers protest an organization by refusing to do business with them. Typically this is done to try an effect a change in behavior or policy in said organization. Cancel culture usually targets an individual. The objecti
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by manfredo 6y ago
I have concluded that there's a fundamental conflict of interest between "mainstream" media like the New York Times and tech companies and people related to them. The former and the latter are competitors in the attention eco

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