36000 tons... doesn't actually sound like that much? That's a ~30x30m cube of dirt. But I have no reference for the cost of setting up such a storage and how it compares to battery or hydro.
It's not quite as bad as that, since you don't consume fossil fuel resources when plants aren't running, but this is mostly a benefit for oil/gas plants, not coal (since the coal is likely useless without the power…
I hate these glib comments that don't remotely reflect reality. Go look at the goods people got in countries that didn't practice capitalism. They were worse in almost every way, more expensive if you could get them and…
What are you doing that necessitates so much code? Even if you can write a lot of code with LLMs, what is that code actually doing?
I bet it was a bulleted list before they fed it into an AI. I don't understand why some people feel the need to turn a few hundred words if concise description into thousands via LLM.
Same burdensome provision issue? Forcing everyone outside of Utah to do something just in case they're from Utah.
Well, you can extract all the value created using your tools and inventions, because then no one would have any incentive to use them to create value. They try to get around this by charging you more after you've…
Nuclear is actively negative-value too, because it discourages investment when people know that government-subsidised competition is coming.
There was a brief and glorious time before September 2025 where DDR5 was actually pretty comparable. Even really good DDR5 could be had for cheap; I remember paying like 300$ for 96GB of high-quality M-die hynix DDR5.
If you don't own the land and can't demonstrate a direct, severe impact to you and yours from the actions of someone else, you shouldn't have a say. "More traffic" is not sufficient. I can actually sort of believe shade…
For a laymen, I don't follow this. Are you proving for some arbitrary definition of == that isn't what we commonly consider the definition? How is it logically coherent? You mean only in the sense that you say it is and…
Thank you for this take. It's like giving people excessive discretion. Then if you're someone they don't like (eg. a black person if you're racist), then you deal out a maximalist punishment. If they're someone you do…
The fact you're using this as an example of public review being a good thing shows how fucked up the process is. You're cheering for the prevention of building new housing in the most valuable, most useful part of the…
People don't feel like they are well-represented by either party. They may like some republican stances (say, reduced regulations and welfare spending), but despise others (Trump, wars, anti-renewable). Meanwhile they…
I believe so. AIs are shockingly good at a lot of domains, but there's still a lot of pretty basic stuff they don't really "understand" at a conceptual level and (currently) they can't learn to get better at them.…
OK, so its way better. that doesn't make it AGI. If I can't give it an arbitrary task and have it solve that task eventually, it's not a general intelligence.
Merged companies are more able to compete. Combining duplicate corporate structures let them save on costs, etc. It's not a strictly bad thing - iirc spirit? Airlines? Wanted to merge with someone, got denied, and went…
How does it cost your community money? How does it damage the environment? By using energy? Like literally any other human enterprise? What's wrong with it creating wealth? You don't have to spend money on it, it's none…
Not really. I earn a reasonable income, but the reality is even though I live alone and don't really think about where I spend my money finances are good. I could quite easily save a fair bit more than I currently do if…
The connection fee would also rise with less energy consumption/free electricity to amortize the fixed costs of the power grid.
Radio telescopes are hilariously massive. I'm not sure it'd be easy to reproduce their capabilities in space?
Starling is 10k satellites shared across the entire planet. A satellite will serve thousands of customers, whereas a fixed line only serves one. I think 10k is also severely understating the cost per customer. There's…
I'm a bit surprised you don't run into things like this then :). Do you use GDB and the like at all? Or do you mean all the windows specific stuff etc, I guess I was more imaging the call stack etc. No insult was…
Not a programmer?
Paying for T2 means the whole team gets faster T2s. Giving them resources lets them build them faster because their own resource generation is less than that of the team. T2s are so good this is an objectively good…
36000 tons... doesn't actually sound like that much? That's a ~30x30m cube of dirt. But I have no reference for the cost of setting up such a storage and how it compares to battery or hydro.
It's not quite as bad as that, since you don't consume fossil fuel resources when plants aren't running, but this is mostly a benefit for oil/gas plants, not coal (since the coal is likely useless without the power…
I hate these glib comments that don't remotely reflect reality. Go look at the goods people got in countries that didn't practice capitalism. They were worse in almost every way, more expensive if you could get them and…
What are you doing that necessitates so much code? Even if you can write a lot of code with LLMs, what is that code actually doing?
I bet it was a bulleted list before they fed it into an AI. I don't understand why some people feel the need to turn a few hundred words if concise description into thousands via LLM.
Same burdensome provision issue? Forcing everyone outside of Utah to do something just in case they're from Utah.
Well, you can extract all the value created using your tools and inventions, because then no one would have any incentive to use them to create value. They try to get around this by charging you more after you've…
Nuclear is actively negative-value too, because it discourages investment when people know that government-subsidised competition is coming.
There was a brief and glorious time before September 2025 where DDR5 was actually pretty comparable. Even really good DDR5 could be had for cheap; I remember paying like 300$ for 96GB of high-quality M-die hynix DDR5.
If you don't own the land and can't demonstrate a direct, severe impact to you and yours from the actions of someone else, you shouldn't have a say. "More traffic" is not sufficient. I can actually sort of believe shade…
For a laymen, I don't follow this. Are you proving for some arbitrary definition of == that isn't what we commonly consider the definition? How is it logically coherent? You mean only in the sense that you say it is and…
Thank you for this take. It's like giving people excessive discretion. Then if you're someone they don't like (eg. a black person if you're racist), then you deal out a maximalist punishment. If they're someone you do…
The fact you're using this as an example of public review being a good thing shows how fucked up the process is. You're cheering for the prevention of building new housing in the most valuable, most useful part of the…
People don't feel like they are well-represented by either party. They may like some republican stances (say, reduced regulations and welfare spending), but despise others (Trump, wars, anti-renewable). Meanwhile they…
I believe so. AIs are shockingly good at a lot of domains, but there's still a lot of pretty basic stuff they don't really "understand" at a conceptual level and (currently) they can't learn to get better at them.…
OK, so its way better. that doesn't make it AGI. If I can't give it an arbitrary task and have it solve that task eventually, it's not a general intelligence.
Merged companies are more able to compete. Combining duplicate corporate structures let them save on costs, etc. It's not a strictly bad thing - iirc spirit? Airlines? Wanted to merge with someone, got denied, and went…
How does it cost your community money? How does it damage the environment? By using energy? Like literally any other human enterprise? What's wrong with it creating wealth? You don't have to spend money on it, it's none…
Not really. I earn a reasonable income, but the reality is even though I live alone and don't really think about where I spend my money finances are good. I could quite easily save a fair bit more than I currently do if…
The connection fee would also rise with less energy consumption/free electricity to amortize the fixed costs of the power grid.
Radio telescopes are hilariously massive. I'm not sure it'd be easy to reproduce their capabilities in space?
Starling is 10k satellites shared across the entire planet. A satellite will serve thousands of customers, whereas a fixed line only serves one. I think 10k is also severely understating the cost per customer. There's…
I'm a bit surprised you don't run into things like this then :). Do you use GDB and the like at all? Or do you mean all the windows specific stuff etc, I guess I was more imaging the call stack etc. No insult was…
Not a programmer?
Paying for T2 means the whole team gets faster T2s. Giving them resources lets them build them faster because their own resource generation is less than that of the team. T2s are so good this is an objectively good…