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New comment by countvonbalzac in "California has so much solar power that increasingly it goes to waste"

countvonbalzac — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 19:38:38 +0000

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.

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:53 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Traveling with Apple Vision Pro"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:57:52 +0000

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.

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Google Funding Construction of Seven U.S. Nuclear Reactors"

countvonbalzac — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:03:34 +0000

That's per year right?

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

countvonbalzac — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:47:16 +0000

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.

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?"

countvonbalzac — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:18:59 +0000

where do you get it filled in 3 month increments?

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:09:09 +0000

You misspelled screenshots in the title of your website.

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid"

countvonbalzac — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:41:47 +0000

Is folding at home still relevant after alpha fold?

New comment by countvonbalzac in "How innovative is China in nuclear power?"

countvonbalzac — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:44:45 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Apple surpasses Microsoft as most valuable company"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:19:35 +0000

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.

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Implementing the Goodfellow GANs paper"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:47:08 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Wegovy and Ozempic (semaglutide) associated with reduction in alcohol addiction"

countvonbalzac — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:16:04 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund"

countvonbalzac — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:16:21 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:02:49 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:44:04 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

countvonbalzac — Wed, 29 May 2024 14:45:59 +0000

Aren't there some cheap ways to muffle sound?

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "Priced out of home ownership"

countvonbalzac — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:41:00 +0000

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...

New comment by countvonbalzac in "A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle"

countvonbalzac — Thu, 23 May 2024 00:14:51 +0000

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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "TSMC says can make next generation chips without ASML's new machine"

countvonbalzac — Tue, 14 May 2024 22:24:01 +0000

"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

New comment by countvonbalzac in "How much is enough to FIRE in San Francisco?"

countvonbalzac — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:17:43 +0000

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