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by wjnc 4d ago
This is exactly the case in my household. Excess solar is pretty much worthless here, so with a smart AC you can dump the excess solar into your house as either heat or cold. This (currently) has a lot better ROI than installing a household
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by wjnc 8d ago
Capture a market. Become big enough to jump hurdles XYZ due to scale and amount of, say, lawyers and compliance officers you can field. Then push for more compliance. It’s effectively a moat and one of the most durable kind since lawmakers
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by wjnc 9d ago
Every single recipient on the thread was a Vice President, Corporate Vice President, or Senior/Group Vice President. Gates intentionally bypassed lower-level product managers and emailed the executive tier directly to demand accountabi
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by wjnc 9d ago
Sorry, but board room or top-50 professional discussions are ment to be a lot more meta. Bill using 500-1000 words to voice his concrete experience in downloading an app, with his directors immediately chiming in for fixes misses the forest
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by wjnc 10d ago
This is funny. Is this analogous to finding a wallet on the street and returning it (in my locale: and getting a finders fee), or is this analogous to taking a wallet from a drunk sleeping person (morally dubious), contacting them the day a
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by wjnc 14d ago
There is no one way of doing cost attribution. So, at scale, there is no such thing as one perfectly calculated cost per product. Hospitals are outliers compared to more regular firms in that they produce tens of thousands of procedures &#x
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by wjnc 15d ago
It’s something I like (math and networks) on a subject I like (football) but the AI tone is so heavy I get turned off. It’s far beyond my load-bearing capacity. (tldr - a subset of teams get paired dispropotionally often in UEFA Champions L
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by wjnc 16d ago
In spirit of this conversation - Terence Tao is awesome right? He was already one of the best mathematicians on the planet when he happened to start dabbling in computer assisted proofs (obviously as a giant standing on the shoulders of gia
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by wjnc 16d ago
I know! And financials and actuaries aren't either. Excel, Python, R and don't know what we can use ducktape and spit for to keep together. But as the LEAN-example quite nicely shows: with the right scaffolding I am convinced the
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by wjnc 16d ago
I share this sentiment, while deploring the current AI board room sentiment. I know some people that design (safe) buildings. They use software all the time for their load-bearing work (lol). Think about the creativity that could be unleash
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by wjnc 16d ago
This points to either an inside job (a US gov agency that feels it needs to create urgency) or Iran (that has an urgent need to do something), since no serious adversary would use this capability in the absence of a theater.
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by wjnc 17d ago
As someone who read Milton Friedman to quite disliking professional licensing, this strikes me as a real US perspective (Louisiana florists and hair braiders come to mind). Plain old US tort law should do the trick. In the same direction of
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by wjnc 21d ago
For the HN curious: What was wrong with the plan to further commercialize football via creating an SPV for the World Cup? I detest Infantino and the grotesque corruption in FIFA, like in IOC and a certain administration. But UEFA Champions
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by wjnc 21d ago
I agree. The Dutch government still has a pretty sinister way of using divide and conquer against parts of society (NOx, Groningen / gas, Tata, ‘Toeslagen’; further back: closing of the mines, Indonesia). Our government finds it very h
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by wjnc 21d ago
But be fair with us: are you holding back on investing in other forms of heating due to non-financial reasons? (I am. We use a bit less gas than you, but I am looking for another house and unwilling to transition even though I can afford it
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by wjnc 21d ago
I agree with the ideological part of it. But the Dutch economy or governement was perhaps “dependant” on the revenues in the 80s (peak at >15% of gov exp), but in recent years it was more like 1%. The strategic concern is not primarily a
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by wjnc 21d ago
Sorry, bit late to the party. Eat a pizza and the energy will only come into your body in (as far as I've learned) a few hours. Eating a pizza is hard on your digestion. That why we usually go to sleep a few hours after are largest mea
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by wjnc 21d ago
I'll expand on the economics somewhat. My intuition is that you can like a moat left of you in the supply chain, but dislike moats to the right of you. (I'm using left and right as I picture this horizontally drawn. It is usually
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by wjnc 22d ago
A proper FF back to you, Sir. We are quite far out on the parental spectrum with regards to controlling their devices and I can attest to ultimately having no control at all. They will find a way. (And that’s natural in a way.) You just hop
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by wjnc 29d ago
Because any fault of theirs feels like a fault of yours, but you learn that you cannot fix faults of theirs like you can (try to) fix faults of yours. You learn to become a parent, a teacher, a guide, a kind of friend, in the most deeply co
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by wjnc 29d ago
Why is the pointing to Relative Energy Deficiency “misinfo”? It is my understanding that that is one of the factors that are used in explaining the overtraining in say ultrarunners. Eating 5k+ calories a day is near threshold for the hours
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by wjnc 1mo ago
I had to unfollow a coworker who was starting a female inspiring coaching career by constantly pushing messages like created by thus CringeBot while adding photos in bikinis. On LinkedIn.
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by wjnc 1mo ago
I’ll just go and pick out those sentences I find not of curious good will for this forum: “Did Jeff […] get paid to post misleading headlines” “I can't believe this crap is getting upvoted. Hopefully this guy loses all his credibility
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by wjnc 1mo ago
I think the lite tip of: “take your credibility seriously” stands, however you are getting attacked by pretty much one (ab-)user. (Those type of users are normally not even in your market.) I think it’s pretty normal that you are incentiviz
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by wjnc 1mo ago
Congrats on self learning Latin. That takes hard work. I adore reading texts on ancient texts that go into possible alternative interpretations. One of my favourite classes in university was on a work of Plato where the professor knew both
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by wjnc 1mo ago
No, no, you misunderstand my intentions. Say there is art in “pop music” (I think there is, as is in classical music or rock; even in 00s or 10s pop). So there is a pinnacle of art. But if that pinnacle lies on the average of a lot of types
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by wjnc 1mo ago
I see the resemblance to what AI generates, and wow some of those works are painfully detailed. I don’t think it’s just training. His work I is what I would describe as somewhat middle of the road Fantasy / SciFi Pop art. The deviant a
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by wjnc 2mo ago
Can be true at the same time when dealing with high leverage and a growing fund. The YTD doesn’t make you more liquid or secure.
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by wjnc 2mo ago
In the category of private victories without any economic use (any hobby costs you something): I store boxes for LED lights with receipts. Write on the box where you put the light and chug it in the garage. I have not failed to get a new on
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by wjnc 2mo ago
You're right. Those are 2999.99 according to their site. According to the Wayback Machine they've been priced that way since at least 2024 [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240111120913/https:/&#

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