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It’s hard to argue that Intel is critical to national security when we have TSMC making chips in the US now.

Sorry, but I don’t find it a very insightful comment. (Removed comment about it being AI-generated since that might be unfair.)

PE is not VC. VC is targeted at early-stage companies, which Intel is not.

Intel is not funded by venture capital.

I was mainly thinking people could charge EVs at non-peak times. It's interesting to think about using the cars as batteries, but I don't know if they're set up for that.

In theory, electric vehicles could help stabilize the California grid, if we could charge them at times of peak solar production. There are definitely logistical challenges with do…

> > Here in CA we've already have the government ask electric car owners to alter charging behavior due to power grid problems. > This bit of propaganda has been surprisingly succe…

Is this sarcasm, or do you really think Apple should get 30% of the revenue from all phone plans?

TL;DR: Dark Mode in medieval times

According to wikipedia [1] The newest large refinery built in the US was completed in 1976 in Garyville, Louisiana. Since then, while some existing refineries have expanded, new re…

Someone did that and called it MEGA

It seems questionable to evaluate what happens when you cook without any ventilation. You need ventilation to avoid smelling like food later on. Poor ventilation also has other bad…

> ...avoiding the need to build the gas infrastructure results in significant savings and so does skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitc…

My point was that commuting causes pollution, not that cities are always polluted.

I do wish we spent more on bike paths and infrastructure. It's much cheaper than any of the other transit initiatives. However, it becomes very difficult to use them if you have to…

The Linux kernel developers have pretty good tooling for refactoring. For example, they have Coccinelle and Sparse. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software) 2. https:…

Hmm. If Apple names something "Butt-Head Astronomer" and Carl Sagan sues, saying that they used his name... what does that imply about Sagan? One for the history books.

Thanks, Supernintendo Chalmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4lbel9aIo

Go treats strings as a sequence of unicode code points.

I agree that many people move away from cities to "escape", but it's important to recognize that for many decades now, rural residents have received significantly more benefits fro…

Yeah, it would be nice if their last train was later. To be fair, SF kind of shuts down around midnight anyway. If 24/7 bars and so on are important to you, there isn't any substit…

The South Bay also has VTA, the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE), and Amtrak. Caltrain is just the one that goes to the penninsula and to SF.

If you compare the Bay Area to most of the US, it has significantly better public transportation. That was the point I was making in my comment.