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New comment by winfortheworld in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

winfortheworld — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:48:26 +0000

what are the private investor platform you mentioned ? and what are the requirements to join in?

New comment by winfortheworld in "Why vampires live forever"

winfortheworld — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:42:14 +0000

why do you feel the need to put as title “what x are not telling you”

this is so tiring

New comment by winfortheworld in "Vouch"

winfortheworld — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:06:44 +0000

Is codeowners lacking features to implement this?

New comment by winfortheworld in "The Mediocre Programmer"

winfortheworld — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:07:52 +0000

I agree, this book was free so its on us, but I must say I was fairly disappointed as well. Skimming through it I found it was providing general statement whereas I was expecting specifics. At the beginning this has the self-help flavor that tend to be hyper general. Yet towards the end it got a bit more specific. I feel like everything could've been summarized in max 10 pages or down to a blog post.

Ask HN: Is There Such a Thing as Competitive IKEA? Building

winfortheworld — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:56:34 +0000

Was wondering if anyone's aware of competition where the goals are to build IKEA furniture as fast as possible and each round becomes an increasingly more difficult set to build

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New comment by winfortheworld in "We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal"

winfortheworld — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:45:10 +0000

I have two main points against solar and wind @ large scale. Please destroy them.

First point. Solar relies on rare earth materials and are mostly being bought from China since they are cheaper. The estimate is that these solar panels last less than other panels. So imagine the land area needed to power the USA and China top polluters in the world and then imagine replacing all of that every n years. Plus we will run out way faster in rare earth material for solar than fission material for nuclear. For wind turbines maintenance costs increases as the structure ages. Imagine this at large scale.

Second point. Dams are way better than solar and wind. But they are dependent on the region, so is solar and panel. So picture the winter where the sun sets @ around 3pm-5pm and wakes up around 7am. Or cloudy days. And @ night! We're talking storage that can last weeks, months. I don't know if in 30 years grid level storage will reach a level that can satisfy these requirements.

so nuclear energy per density kills solar and wind, can produce 24/7 energy on the order of MW to GW and produces minimal waste with current technologies.

If the argument is that solar/wind energy will improve, then so will nuclear energy.