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We just need much cheaper catalysts to enable these sorts of industries that could be a very efficient use of ultra cheap excess electricity. Right now catalysts to create hydrocarbon fuels from the atmosphere are so expensive that it isn't worth it to build them, only to run them the ~20% of the time when electricity is so abundant that it can't be stored.

You should add the ability to change the public holidays. My company doesn't give veteran's day

There's a reason people watch movies on planes - it's to distract you from the uncomfortable environment you're in. VR is more immersive than a 2D screen so it's more distracting.

That's per year right?

Same - take lightbulbs for example. Thanks to LEDs, the amount of energy you need to generate X amount of light has reduced considerably, but we still have as much if not more lighting than ever. And it's not like our GDP is suffering due to a lack of sufficient lighting, at a certain point there's no gain to productivity gained from having another lightbulb. Same thing can be said about cars, CPUs etc.

where do you get it filled in 3 month increments?

You misspelled screenshots in the title of your website.

Is folding at home still relevant after alpha fold?

The median age in China is higher than in the US.

In theory none? Stock buybacks increase the stock price but reduce the number of shares. So the market cap should stay more or less the same.

Are GANs useful for synthetic data generation for transformer based models?

Interestingly there are extremely profitable industries on either side of this fight

Why would anyone use Google cloud? No one ever got fired for using ~IBM~ AWS

Does DuckDB cache the S3 downloads? Otherwise it could get pretty expensive, no?

What's the minimum spec chip you will need to run the smallest whisper model (looks like that's 39M parameters)?

Aren't there some cheap ways to muffle sound?

Wood floors, rugs, curtains, artwork, acoustic panels, etc.

Tokyo does have much lower housing costs than New York because they build enough housing :)

Rent prices are 72.9% lower in Tokyo compared to New York [1].

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Lol the "pivot to biotech" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos

"High NA tools are expected to cost more than 350 million euros ($378 million) each, from 200 million euros from ASML's regular EUV machines."

The grammar in this article is strangely bad for Reuters

Prop 13 means that property tax increases are capped at 2% or inflation, whichever is lower.

The issue is Starlink is run by a political actor. Elon was using his Starlink leverage to try to affect US foreign policy.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

This is what happens when you outlaw building new homes, and especially when you outlaw building apartments.

I wonder if that's less efficient though because now every employee has to manage a server, rather than having a small dedicated team that can manage hundreds or thousands of servers.

I guess theoretically humans do more complex work? Rather than screwing in a solar panel, humans supervise the robots that screw in the solar panels. Then in theory we'll have the same number of humans employed in the solar industry but 10x the solar installed per year. When spreadsheets came along we didn't have less accounting work, we had infinitely more. That being said I am very skeptical that AI will be the same, or that our society is in any way prepared for a rapid transition away from human labor.

What I wish this article had was a simulation that generated the best kart for each variety of stats. The article doesn't really address that different karts suit different driving styles, so as a Mario Kart lover I was hoping there would be a list of the best karts for each of a variety of different driving styles.

But this isn't _really_ about Mario Kart I suppose...

what are you supposed to do at an orange light?

Or in 2020:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-...

If someone doesn't control your phone number they can't reactivate.

The air quality in several cities in the US dropped noticeably after the fireworks. Similar to the air quality after the wildfires.

He is in fact the CTO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison