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wolfram74
·há 2 meses·discuss
The CIA didn't read his contract carefully enough. He snuck it into one of the rider clauses.
wolfram74
·há 3 meses·discuss
Though even if you're getting an hybrid assist bike, if you're paying much more than 1500$ for a commuter, probably overpaying [1200 from the manufacturer]

https://www.aventon.com/products/soltera-2-5-ebike?variant=4...
wolfram74
·há 4 meses·discuss
I suppose if we had access to a public data set like this receipt bank, programmers could time themselves setting up a solution with off the shelf OCR algos. If they could clock in at under 10 hours they could advertise themselves as being "just as good as an LLM, but significantly cheaper." Downside for the managerial class that wants generative algos for the complete lack of legal protections.
wolfram74
·há 4 meses·discuss
I mean, at over 1000% the cost, the machine solution doesn't scale either?
wolfram74
·há 5 meses·discuss
Your name is well earned! "can't cure cancers" is impressively counterfactual [0] as 5 year survival of cancer diagnosis is up over almost all categories. Despite every cancer being a unique species trying to kill you, we're getting better and better at dealing with them.

[0]https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/people-are...
wolfram74
·há 5 meses·discuss
Also, not like it just keels over and dies, that's just the 80% performance criteria. Most people wouldn't need to replace the batteries at that point.
wolfram74
·há 5 meses·discuss
this[0] page makes it seem 500~1000 cycles till 80% starting performance is common. So if you were charging it every other day from a 40~50 mile round trip commute, after 3~5 years you'd go to charging it every day.

[0]https://www.batterystuff.com/kb/articles/battery-articles/pr...
wolfram74
·há 6 meses·discuss
Do you think it's odd you only listed companies with already existing revenue streams and not companies that started with and only have generative algos as their product?
wolfram74
·há 7 meses·discuss
/Owning/ the truck would be imaginary/aspirational as you imagine yourself using it often enough to justify the expenditure. If it's for trips that are 3~4 times a year it probably makes more sense to rent.
wolfram74
·há 9 meses·discuss
Fortunately other chemistries are making their way down the learning curve lithium's been on, and after a few moment reflection it would be astounding if the same types of storage that are optimal for mobile consumers also happen to be optimal for grid balancing, as daily grid balancing can be done pretty reasonably with a c rating[0] of about .2 or even .1, and as long they aren't so heavy they need to be placed on massive foundation piles, weight is not really a factor. Just need to make it as cheap as possible.

[0] battery c rating is what fraction of the battery can discharge in 1 hour https://wikibattery.org/en/wiki-us/battery/charging-rate-cha...
wolfram74
·há 9 meses·discuss
What, did you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time recently?
wolfram74
·há 9 meses·discuss
I'm juggling a baby approaching lunch time at the moment, so I can't go into too much depth on this paper[0] I found 40 seconds ago, but the conclusion seems to think that solar panel EROIE in siwtzerland is somewhere between 7 and 10, which as a proxy for carbon intensity, /probably/ means it will actually result in net carbon reduction.

[0]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
wolfram74
·há 10 meses·discuss
It has some elements of standard tragedy of the commons, suppose nearly everybody is following the same rotation scheme, and holding some antibiotics out of rotation entirely as emergency last resort type of deal. Anybody who isn't playing along can be quite confident they're the only person using the emergency drugs and that they'll work quite well.