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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
And it's even worse than that The 33kWh per kilo of hydrogen - that's the absolute physical limit of green hydrogen production via electrolysis, assuming 100% efficient production, no leaks, no labor, no maintenance, no electricit
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
A relatively recent discovery points to macroscopic multicellular life as early as 2.1B years ago (1), right after the Great Oxidization Event. We only have fossils of a single specie. Given the complexity of the specimens, it's unlike
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Unfortunately, noise pollution is at the very bottom of public agencies' priority list. Even in Europe, with stricter regulators and less tolerance towards loud and obnoxious behavior, it's way too common to hear tuned motorcycles
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
imho this is the correct answer. It's also the reason why Apple seemingly can't make up their mind - making the phone thinner, wider, taller, shorter, camera notches, buttons, colors, etc. It's intentional - there must be som
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Just several years ago, Facebook IPO-ed at ~$90B valuation, before sliding all the way down to ~$45B. Facebook was already a giant global corporation with close to a billion active users, nearly all of them from western countries. AfterPay&
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
it really is much harder to self host than it used to. 90s: ask your ISP for a public IP, register your domain, start Apache and off you go Nowadays: getting a public IP is iffy. All good domain names are taken. Emails from your self-hosted
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Based on my only social contact working in trades, the income follows a bathtub distribution - a lot of people taking below average, and a sizable minority getting upper middle class incomes, with almost nothing in between. This is the reas
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Well, it doesn't end with China. Around ~2010, once you scrub off the weasel word hedging, The Economist was predicting an imminent Eurozone breakup. It didn't predict the entirely predictable austerity recessions of 2012-2015. Th
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Because those better yields are there for a reason. That reason isn't lack of intermediaries, it's high inherent risks. Economy has a risk-free rate of return, that of 1-year treasuries, at 0.05% currently. Anything above that inv
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
This. 5-year-old state of the art is today's incubator open source, and a commodity 2 years from now. There's no reason to think autonomous driving will be an exception.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
There's a large and perhaps unsolvable problem of the state of the art solutions that doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should - even if the car can safely handle 99% or 99.9% of the situations, the algorithms are not rea
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Since the early 2000s, the world is in a savings glut (1) situation. That means you shouldn't ask yourself a question of is asset X worth its valuation? , but rather ask the question do savings have anywhere else to go? . Also - igno
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
I believe something like the following would create an uncheatable system, and therefore will obviously never be implemented: Does a corporation want to sell their products and services in country X? Very well, they must agree to the follow
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
And the "minor" difference that corporations are taxed on profits, whereas individuals are taxed on revenue
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
> Power2Gas for seasonal storage is a key part of all plans for decarbonization that I'm aware of That's my understanding, too; amongst the technocrats and field-experts, power-to-gas is taken very seriously. However, amongst t
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
I'm surprised why this path isn't discussed as a viable option forward, especially given how much attention is given to hydrogen, despite mountains of likely insurmountable engineering challenges that surround H2. Production of na
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
The question is - why did this trend arise specifically in German-speaking countries? Chernobyl/Pripyat is in northern Ukraine, on the border with Belarus. Ukraine is totally fine with nuclear power. Belarus plans to expand the existin
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Or, to put it to intuitive human scale - a cubic meter from the very core of the Sun outputs 270W - about the consumption of a single gaming console, not enough to power even a vacuum cleaner. Coincidentally, it's roughly the power out
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
This has been the saddest part of the pandemic to me. The epistemology of health policy is completely broken - fully reliant on arguments from authority, impervious to contrary evidence, initial beliefs clutched onto until the bitter end. O
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
The economy as a whole is definitely not a zero-sum game, there's plenty of evidence of that. However, that doesn't in any way invalidate the claim that parts of the economy are in fact zero-sum. How large are those zero-sum par
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Battery supply is the bottleneck currently. Even if they wanted to, the automakers cannot switch to even 20% production being electric. If they offer an attractive, affordable EV, they immediately render the rest of their fleet obsolete and
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
The writeup is brilliant, and the engineers have certainly done heroics to find a software fix for an issue that should warranted a recall. But that doesn't exonerate Tesla in any way. Tens of thousands of customers got cars gimped wit
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Something doesn't fully add up. Ford's $40k truck is allegedly based on a 125 kWh battery. Tesla's numbers are similar. The only cars anywhere close to such a huge battery all cost close to double. If we look at the car model
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Is the Netherlands in any way culpable in this - do they go the extra mile to help facilitate the evasion? My layman understanding of the tax evasion schemes is that there's nothing special about Ireland or the Netherlands. They'r
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
US economy was almost a full autarchy in the 50s and 60s - imports and exports as percentage of GDP were at all time low - at about 3-4%. Meaning 96-97% of the economy was done by Americans for Americans - it was a closed system. The stagna
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Wealth tax, implemented properly without obvious loopholes (1) would be incredibly popular, as long as it shifts taxation from income to wealth. However, wealth taxes are unpopular when they're introduced as an additional tax burden. I
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
The technical term for this is 'situational awareness' > Situational awareness or situation awareness (SA) is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
Reading this discussion thread makes one psychological quirk clear. People, even well informed professionals, are rarely comparing Apple to the best available alternative on the market (arguably Ryzen U line processors). They're compar
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
> why have the greater financial markets become so wonky, why has the behavior of investors changed so radically Since the global saving glut (1), the best question to ask of crazy asset valuations is not "does it reflect the fundam
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by throwawayzRUU6f 5y ago
> BitCoin's major purpose is as a hedge to massive fiat printing Do you know what else is a great inflation hedge? An index of stocks. Unlike BTC, the stocks also pay dividends, are backed by real economic activity, enjoy massively

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