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@dineshsingh2004 That a decade ago I think burned into my brain somehow.
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⍼ John Nicholson ⍼
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@chrisdemeyere @Porkchop_EXP how many deaths from heat in europe per year?
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The weirdest thing about the “europoor no AC” discourse is that there is AC everywhere in Southern and Eastern Europe so this is obviously not a financial issue.
It is an ideological issue in Northwestern Europe, which is admittedly even funnier.
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@chrisdemeyere @Porkchop_EXP If your using a heat pump for warmth you already own AC, it just has to run in reverse. For some unhinged reason this mode gets “disabled” in some Euro markets. Heat pumps are more efficient/environmentally friendly than gas/fuel.
A single zone minisplit is 2500 euro…
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Or maybe… it doesn’t make sense here? Most of the time, we are looking to heat up our houses, not cool them down. Our houses are made of brick, well insulated.
We have about 3 months during the year where it is warm. About 1 month with an actual heatwave where AC would make sense.
And we have access to it. Climate change makes it more interesting, in combination with solar panels. Many commercial spaces, hotels, medical buildings… already have it. Because at that scale it makes sense for the limited usage.
It is one of the weirdest discussions since it is so easily debunked.
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@bluegoosetx @alibreland Agricultural use is where the water is wasted. Datacenters are less than 1% of the water usage.
One also doesn’t need to grow corn to make ethanol to drive cars…. Would save far more water.
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Ali, I’m giving you credit for sarcasm here, otherwise you’re an idiot. Barton Spring will probably stop flowing if any more data centers are put into the balconies. One does not need AI or analog tech to understand the Edward’s aquifer isn’t permanent, Baryon Spring can go dry just like Canyon Laie, just hasn’t happened yet.
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If Austin wants to be a tier 1, tech city it needs to get serious and stop using this water for frivolous recreation and start using it for data centers. If you don’t understand this, you’re going to get left behind
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@alibreland If we were not cowards, we could Drain lake travis and build a datacenter.
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@VMware (by @Broadcom) #HybridCloud #VCF - GPUs, Kubernetes & AI Infrastructure Realities with @FrankDenneman (by @virtspeaking - @vPedroArrow & @Lost_Signal) @VMwareVCF #vExpertVCF @vExpert dy.si/h7W9cD
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@data_atx Former telephone awnswring service IT worker…
They all outsource these contracts to call centers so it’s a lot of middleman work to just build the IVR and scripts.
City should contract directly. If they offshore to Manila it’ll cost 1/3rd as much.
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Austin city nonprofit contract of the day
$830k/yr for a phone hotline to point homeless to resources
Maybe this is good? But the problem with running everything through nonprofits, we have no idea how many people call, is it working?, and how to rate it vs other $$ needs
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@bryanrbeal Counterpoint:
95% of the time I’m seeing a NP is because I need someone to sign off on a prescription, or order a lab, and paying the MD/DO premium to see someone “then” vs 4 hours of waiting or days to get in is worth it.
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If I have to see an NP instead of a real doctor, I want a 50% discount on my bill
This is quite the racket healthcare providers have devised. Most of the time you go to the “doctor“ you’ll never see a doctor at all. You’ll see a nurse practitioner. But they’ll still bill you as if you had seen a doctor. Even though the nurse practitioners are far less educated and trained, and paid much less.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Employers are clamoring for workers who can do doctor-like work but who are trained faster and can cost them less. on.wsj.com/4wMBXbr
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@_adamdoug @data_atx @Oracle AE didn't do themselves favors on distributed generation by penalizing for years Batteries + Solar.
When I first moved here i was openly looking for a house in ERCOT/COOP to avoid what I viewed as bad governance.
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@_adamdoug @data_atx Absolutely would love more of that (and there are a lot of startups and movement in that space, but it'll be @Oracle and others first to deploy in Texas to unblock the interconnect queue over a city trying to balance cost. AE does own part of STP.
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Since Harper-Madison and Fuentes were absent at the meeting, its not that hard to guess how the secret natural Gas plant vote went down. Only 3 council members could have voted 'no'
Alter was very against these when they were first discussed a couple years ago ( see below ). Also Siegel seems generally against them.
If I HAD to bet , I'd guess they voted no, maybe Qadri joined them, and Chito was the swing vote to approve. That is just my guess.
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@_adamdoug @data_atx This should get AE to reduce the dependency on non-combined cycle peakers in the short to medium term. (Longer term renewables + storage.
If the concern is carbon emissions Fayette Power Project is 90% of that anyways so saving money here to focus on that would be smarter.
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@_adamdoug @data_atx Batteries LCoE is better for 4 hours, and this is about moderizing the fleet so we stop having to use Decker Creek, or Sandhill that are 20x dirtier for extended demand peaks. ERCOT has thin margins for dispatch-able and TEF will finance this or am I reading the report wrong?
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@vnaylon @LouisWordGenius Also @dominos Delivered some A+ pizza tonight for cheap, so this entire argument is invalid.
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Uber hasn't taken VC since *Checks notes* 7 years ago?
I would argue what makes deliverable "less affordable" is the LACK of VC subsidizing it.
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You know what left out of the zoomer’s ordering 50 dollars of door dash daily is that private equity did destroy food delivery. Chinese food and pizza delivery was normal and affordable for working people.
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Meanwhile @potatoslav solution is troll Europeans about their lack of AC and use her Twitter payout to buy more AC.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@Joanna__Hardy
Bought a fancy end-of-bed fan before the London heatwave began and - honestly - this is the single greatest purchase of my life
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@antoniogm In Houston, it was this way after after @Enron failed for it well over 10 years.
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Nobody actually buys new Aeron chairs in SF.
Every Aeron chair was created in a one-time Big Bang event during the first dotcom boom in 1999, and has been passed along from failed to new startup in an uninterrupted 30 year chain.
It’s the Law of Conservation of Aeron.
Marc Randolph@marcrandolph
One of my reliable signs that an early-stage company is in trouble: I walk in a few weeks after their seed round closes, and every employee is sitting in a $1,000 Aeron chair behind an automatic standing desk.
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@constans @hamptonism That’s like what an IC4 makes here without appreciation.
Looking at meta you can get above 400K…
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This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that.
9-5 until they’re what, 50?
This is not living. No matter the salary.
Alice@AliceBunnyland2
Who is making 70k a year? Like take home 70k? I’m almost 35 and the most I’ve ever made working 7 days a week, 2 jobs is 46k after taxes. Idk anyone who makes 70k after taxes besides like engineers
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@Lost_Signal @DanielBaldwin_1 Only if you reduce your interest and depreciation deductions by CPI as well. Otherwise it’s tax arbitrage.
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This piece argues that upper middle class wage earners already paying marginal rates > 40% should pay EVEN HIGHER rates so that ultra-wealthy individuals can continue to pay 0% instead of 23.8% by using the buy-borrow-die loophole.
Why? Because closing the loophole “only” raises $50 billion. I find this proposed trade indefensible.
Zachary Liscow@ZLiscow
Me @nytopinion today on the boring but effective way to tax the rich: Raise the rates.
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