maria2

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by maria2 4y ago
Very few places use electricity for heat. It’s super inefficient unless you use a heat pump, and residential heat pumps typically don’t work too far below freezing.
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by maria2 4y ago
The human brain may only be 10 watts, but the “weights” in the brains NN were computed over billions of years with countless amounts of data.
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by maria2 4y ago
It's a meaningless distinction.
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by maria2 4y ago
Overly pedantic
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by maria2 4y ago
Are you sure? Just some back of the napkin math: S&P 500 is 5.17 times higher since the bottom of 08. BRKB is 6 times higher. And performance this year is even more dramatic. S&P is down 20%. BRKB is up 3%. In 08, too, the decline i
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by maria2 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/stock-market-ind... The actual stat they provide is: > And over a full 20-year period ending last December, fewer than 10 percent of active U.S. stock funds
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by maria2 4y ago
There are very few cases where mortgage interest deductions are better than the standard deduction.
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by maria2 4y ago
Warren Buffet is not betting on index funds. If he was, Berkshire Hathaway would not exist. Buffet uses index funds to manage some of Berkshire’s money, and he famously bet a meager sum (for him) that actively managed funds wouldn’t beat th
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by maria2 4y ago
Last time I checked, the “mutual funds don’t beat the market” is kind of a myth perpetuated by S&P Dow Jones Indices to hype their own index products. First of all, what is the S&P 500 if not a handpicked collection of stocks? To sa
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by maria2 4y ago
Core CPI, which is what the Fed typically uses, excludes food and energy.
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by maria2 4y ago
White box crypto is kind of like obfuscation, but tries to make it impossible to extract the information.
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by maria2 4y ago
The original topic of conversation was: > Nvidia primarily makes add on GPU's, if I understand their business correctly. Apple integrated a GPU onto its m2 (or whichever chip is used in their studio) that performs comparably to the
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by maria2 4y ago
Just watched the videos, a few thoughts: Coffeezilla says that Tether doesn't need to honor your redemption by point to the TOS. The TOS that he shows in the video says that Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption and pay it
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by maria2 4y ago
Why do you find it sad? Everything has a cost. There are plenty of things that harm people every single day that we tolerate readily. For example, 91 lumberjacks died last year. There are way fewer employed lumberjacks than there are subway
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by maria2 4y ago
Many lifetimes of time are being wasted every day to save < 10 lives every century.
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by maria2 4y ago
FTX might have been a money-printing machine, but the situation with Alameda is a lot less clear. Being a market maker is hard. If you make a mistake, you can lose a lot of money. It's probably easier to be a crook.
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by maria2 4y ago
It seems like they were ordered to give the plaintiffs the documents, but they weren’t ordered to publicly release them. NYAG also looked into them last year. They were fined but it doesn’t seem like anything else came of it. > The New Y
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by maria2 4y ago
Does it matter if I want my laptop to sleep properly? Somehow it works properly on Windows.
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by maria2 4y ago
Alcohol is only worse than heroin on an absolute scale. A lot of people drink. A small minority damage their lives and the lives of others through poor decision making (e.g. drunk driving) or addiction. The size of this minority is larger t
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by maria2 4y ago
Smoked meats have high levels of carcinogens. The carcinogens are created when food cooks at a high temp. For smoking, in particular, they are created when fat drips on to the heat source and then the resulting carcinogens end up in the mea
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by maria2 4y ago
Quitting alcohol seems to be in vogue these days. I'd like to offer a counterpoint: I love to drink. By the government definition, I'm a very heavy drinker. I have 1 - 3 glasses of wine a night to relax after putting my child to b
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by maria2 4y ago
TikTok is a massive platform that can be used to subtly influence popular opinion through its algorithmic feed. That should make you afraid, even if you don't believe you'll ever be targeted as an individual by China.
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by maria2 4y ago
AMD Cezanne chips were released in early 2021. Patches are still landing to fix suspend resume bugs in the Linux kernel: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-5000-Laptop-Linux-6.1 This is a real issue with Linux. If you
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by maria2 4y ago
How do I get my laptop to properly sleep when using Linux?
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by maria2 4y ago
Is that a form of sadism? Perhaps the sea lion is unable to conceive of the suffering of the fish. To the sea lion, the fish is merely an object. Playing with the fish is no different than playing with a rock to the sea lion.
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by maria2 4y ago
The source you provided says that exports from North America are around 751,000 tons annually, with only 300,000 tons exported outside of North America. This NYT article says exports from the U.S. alone is 48 million tons, 25 million of whi
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by maria2 4y ago
True but I think the broader point still stands. Natural gas would either stay sequestered, leak into the atmosphere as an even more potent greenhouse gas, or breakdown into CO2.
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by maria2 4y ago
Other than the refined carbs in the bun, a cheeseburger is actually a very healthy meal.
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by maria2 4y ago
It is profitable to recycle plastic if you can pay people a few dollars a day to sort through it all to find the valuable pieces. China’s change in recycling policy was caused by, among other reasons, a documentary on the workers who sift t
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by maria2 4y ago
90% of river-borne ocean plastic comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti... Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa

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