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I'll take the "best way to elicit a clarification response on the internet is to state the opposite confidently" bait... The example listed in the article -- fanning out a few simp…

You might be missing the point of heat pumps, and your statement was really about end-heat in homes. You said > Burning it for heat in the home is much more efficient than burning …

Of course you need to know the power per unit to some degree, but when you're building warehouse-sized stationary storage arrays, land is cheap and LCOS is more important than ener…

CATL is kinda doing that for EVs. They're making battery packs that are a blend of sodium-ion and lithium-ion. Sodium-ion isn't as energy dense as lithium-ion and it has a slightly…

Is energy density required for all applications? Something that's not desirable for say a car doesn't mean something isn't good enough for say non-mobile applications.

> In the teenage years it has almost become an extension of the youthful belief that nobody understands you because you’re different and you see the world uniquely. huh. So "neurod…

Precisely the lesson they end with: > The individual weaknesses were familiar. A capable human attacker could have found and exploited the same flaws: unsafe dataset processing, ex…

We always expect what was promised to be different than what was delivered to some degree, but I'm not sure restaurants have fully weighed the expectations-vs-reality backlash this…

Absolutely on the industrial backdoors, but also on the consumer front: try asking Qwen anything about tienamen...

"public" doesn't mean "love and kindness with no self-interest". We only think "government spending is for hippies" in the US, and only when we don't look at public spending like d…

They're also often stored in basements, which is the first to flood.

This guy's car may be designed to be driven hard in a circuit or mountain roads, but that ain't what this guy is doing: > Now when I hit a loopy freeway interchange at night and my…

A GR Corolla goes 0-60 in 4.9 - 5.4sec. My unexotic stock electric does 0-60 in around 4.8sec, +/-. So the same performance that requires a stupid amount of wasted energy as heat a…

It's always been pretty horrific. We just didn't have bodycam livestreams invented during trench warfare times.

right, the proper term is "incentive", "tax break", or "economic development fund"

Lets be armchair evil for a sec... What is the smallest subplot you can split a parcel into? And are we talking literally land, or would condo ownership suffice? (After all, you ty…

> Unless the company have a lot of fairly stable semi-liquid assets (like real estate)... That's exactly what happened famously with Red Lobster. PE sold off all the underlying rea…

> There is zero appetite for things that make a little bit of money relative to the cash cows of the company. The other side of this is only new baby firms invest in that thing tha…

If a corporation has an incentive to make money, it will align its priorities towards making money. Question is: are "making money" and "correct priorities" synonymous? You use "zo…

Revenue transactions and taxable income are two very different topics. Your accountant can clarify the difference.

Nvidia and Oracle are already public companies, they're just aiming for their next quarterly statements. SpaceX is getting dressed for their debutante ball and is putting on the ma…

We all remember 2 weeks ago when SpaceX bought $10B of Cursor services. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293 Since Cursor often relies on Claude models, some of those serv…

Right. You're not a real medical group unless you go through an 18-month RFP procurement cycle including being wined and dined by the Epic rep who already knows they're gonna get y…

They're adapting fracking techniques to use for geothermal, which opens up many more sites. Historically geothermal has had limited potential, and the best sites have already been …