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Rooftop solar has lower distribution costs. A solar farm needs new transmission and upgraded capacity distribution lines to get the power from far away to the users. Generating sol…

This! My company is mid size and we can’t hire junior people for fear they’ll jump to FANG right when they’re starting to become productive for us. And we can’t afford FANG compens…

Then Tesla should pay for back up drivers until their safety record meets the bar.

I live in a VHCOL coast (the Bay Area) and am trying to add onto my house. Contractors are quoting broadly between $500-$1000 per square feet for an addition, for an ADU, or for a …

There are horrible consequences and people are suffering, totally. So then what? How do we get others to understand the impacts and start to change their mind?

We often reach for black and white thinking which makes political discussions difficult. Both sides do it, and it stunts our empathy for why people vote the way they do.

We destroyed half of Russia’s military without shedding American lives. We defended the principle that people should govern themselves and not be dominated by force.

This weakens the US against China. Europeans have no stake in a big Pacific conflict and will be much less interested to back US war mongering now. It’s short sighted for us to for…

China will benefit the most from this. Europe has zero interest in backing up the US in a fight for Pacific dominance. Good luck trying to form a trading block that excludes China …

I think most Americans value freedom and reject tyranny.

We (Americans) can’t be relied on. Yeah most Americans are still supportive of Europe but our political system produces whipsaw foreign policy. The end result of all this is Americ…

Institutions try to make people more than the sum of their parts. The free market pits businesses against each other in a way that harnesses overall economic productivity. We’ve go…

We have a product analytics team where people have transitioned from being fully PM focused to being deeply data analysis oriented. It starts with using code-lite tools like Tablea…

One other issue with the Sahara is that you still have to transport that energy to where it will be used. It's been difficult already to build transmission within the US between a …

We’re getting to the point where sites might need to embrace ID verification to protect against fake, malicious, farmed, and AI generated content.

> I can for example look at the HTML of a document and if it has too many ads or if it has too many tracking elements I can downrank the website for example. Or enable a user to ha…

DBUs are about +50% the underlying compute cost. We use Databricks in production extensively.

Some nuggets of wisdom from the article when managing an engineering org: - “if the only reason an engineer wants to work for you is because of your tech stack, that may be a warni…

That’s reassuring we are in steady state. If perennial rice takes over, we will gradually drop atmospheric methane to a lower steady state.

They decided not to hedge on purpose, take the risk, hoping to earn the extra profits. Slate money did a good episode on this last week. SVB has high touch relationships with their…

It’s not walking on egg shells. It’s very clear directions to avoid anti competitive behavior. Maybe it’s harder without a moral compass telling them to not be evil.

People kept asking me why I was still using Atom, and Hydrogen was it. It doesn't seem like there's an exact equivalent in VSCode. For now, I'm just relying on sending blocks of co…

You might want to gravitate more in the machine learning engineer direction. So much of ML is building the data, training pipelines, the serving environment, model tracking, evalua…

A huge portion of electric bills are paying for wildfire damage/hardening and for expensive transmission lines. Rooftop solar reduces both, but is not being credited for it in NEM …

He stole intellectual property and deserves to be prosecuted. With abundant streaming options these days and threat of being cut off from your ISP, few people pirate films anymore …