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110,938karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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What if you’re wrong and it works great?
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https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/yen-japan-treasury-bessent …
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If necessary, we’ll switch to sodium chemistry for stationary storage if needed based on commodity input prices. With that said, incredible amounts of both lithium and sodium are cost effectively avai…
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https://archive.today/kMrlV
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Congrats to the Base Power team. $1B is a heck of a raise. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260803203117/en/Bas... …
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Current administration only has ~900 days left, midterms approach, ~2M voters 55+ age out every year. Perhaps not now, but the capability exists for the future. Pendulum will swing back eventually. Si…
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https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Thomas_Gleeson_Pab... …
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If someone built an ETL data pipeline and made it public, would the same complaints apply? Or is it simply negative press against a policy unpopular with the wealthy? I believe the latter. Wealthy NYC…
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Very straightforward with existing primitives. Use Login.gov to attest about age range to consuming service as Apple does today. I don’t think there is will to implement this at Login.gov at the momen…
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Battery storage provides grid stability services (frequency and voltage response, broadly speaking) within milliseconds at a lower cost than thermal generation. TLDR System Diagram: Renewable generato…
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Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158035 - August 2026 (0 comments) What's happening in H…
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https://www.biocatch.com/ https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2026/Visa-to-Acq... …
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They could've, but people and politics are hard and they didn't. It is what it is, can't change the past. We win or we learn.
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Those carbon emissions are tuition. Germany is now ramping battery storage, as most of Europe is, to push out more expensive fossil gas. Ember Energy: Batteries and demand flexibility are ready to sc…
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Lithium is the way, almost as cheap as sodium for a superior capability profile. Like solar, it just got cheap enough incredibly fast. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/27&…
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State plug in solar legislation tracker: https://www.brightsaver.org/legislation-tracker (passed in 10 states, 2 awaiting signatures, as of this comment)…
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https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.php?id=Balancing%20... > Balancing authority (electric): The responsible entity that integrates resource plans ahead of time, ma…
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Utah is about half of the Pacificorp East balancing authority. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/US-NW-PACE/live/fif... Nevada Power serves a substantial am…
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> In 2025, coal composes just 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation, and while 190 gigawatts (GW) of coal capacity remain online, the fleet is down 43 percent from 340 GW at its peak in 2010. T…
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https://ember-energy.org/data/us-electricity-data-explorer/?... …
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https://archive.today/YoGvO Takeaways: * The world has reached the 3-terawatt threshold of solar power, with the first terawatt taking 10 years to deploy and the next two terawatts ta…
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With regards to inflation, there is evidence central bankers were simply lucky over the last forty years, provided a global demographic dividend leading to disinflation that has now ended. They may no…
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His conviction was vacated and Amazon has deep pockets and diffusion of internal liability. The illicit state drug charges did not help his case.
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This narrative overweights free market competition in China and any influence Tesla or Musk might have had versus the $230B in subsides provided to the Chinese EV industry over 14 years (2009-2023), w…