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Battery and and solar with battery have (nearly) the same tax credit advantage.

Hey, original author here. > Ah yes the age old story of a rich guy without a clue diving into a new industry and failing. Yep, very much so. I was well aware that I didn't have a …

Original author here, If you look a little more carefully the thing that killed us was an actual physical infrastructure problem. Mineral rights were a nightmare, but we were humpi…

Hey, I'm the original author here. I didn't want to do BTC for two reasons: 1) I'm already WAY over exposed on crypto in my portfolio 2) I consider energy burn on mining to be part…

I'm the original author. I'm not sure why you got down-voted for this, this was absolutely a "tax dodge". The polite term is "tax mitigation strategy", I'm also not sure why this i…

Hi Gwern, I'm the owner of 7goldfish, the developer in question, and a fan of yours via reputation and the occasional comment I run into on Reddit. First I want to acknowledge that…

Yep. In the U.S. the eggs are all machine washed which removes a natural protective outer coating (as well as dirt). This means that they don't store as well or as long, and really…

Slate Star Codex did a great write-up of risks and rewards of adderall from their perspective as a "gatekeeping psychiatrist" It's a super informative, and kind of technical read. …

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! SOMEONE SHOULD KEEP AN ARCHIVE OF OUR PRECIOUS CULTURAL HERITAGE. They could even keep in on the internet! We could call it the "Internet Archive" And with this…

Not sure where you got that number... Protocol described in the paper was: >Groups 1, 2 and 3 consumed 5, 10 and 15 mL, respectively, of ACV (containing 5% of acetic acid) diluted …

Nope BMI is just a "weight to height" ratio ( https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/bmitool... ) This can lead to some funny errors in edge cases, like Mr.Universe A…

So there are a few questions that leap out at me: * What are you using for image generation? Is that local as well (stable diffusion?) Does it have integrated prompt generation? * …

I mean, ok, then how do you distinguish yourself from LM Studio (Free)

Something I'm learning from reading the comments is that the culture has moved in what it calls a "scam" In my mind, and from my background, a scam is a pretty brutal outright frau…

>It’s interesting how the judges in Apple vs Epic stayed with Big Tech My thought is that the judges are likely staying with the "letter of the law" which is what Big Tech (Big any…

Wait, isn't most of that "tidal power" that we would be capturing going into grinding rocks into sand along the coast?

I appreciate that they corrected for a few other variables, but honestly this seems like a really really underpowered list. >Covariates > >We selected covariates that may affect th…

https://infinite.tcgplayer.com/article/A-History-of-the-Pric... Looks like it floats around a 20% to 35% APR depending on the years.

Yes, but the name "ignition" is very useful. The idea, ultimately, is that like with a wood fire, the energy from the fuel "burning" is what starts the next bit of fuel "burning", …

Yep, which is actually specifically what tornado.cash was. It was a zk based mixer. As you say: You absolutely CAN seamlessly mix crypto, but it will show a point in it's history w…

As a free alternative (which I use daily) I would recommend "Hammerspoon" https://www.hammerspoon.org/ You will need to do a little configuration, but it does the snap zones thing …

I, for one, never have corrosion problems on my software projects.

In general this doesn't work out as well as you would hope. In many cases (financial, medical, legal) another person can't trivially act as your agent. (I.E. your secretary can't d…

Particularly blurred because of the Baldwin Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_effect The short short version is that once things have intention, they can evolve more ra…

there are 14 competing standards.... We need to develop one standard that covers everyones use cases https://xkcd.com/927/