@deanwball Yeah not too familiar with the wind subsidy design but that strikes me as very plausible. The natural dangers of top down prescriptive policymaking
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Luis D. Osta Lugo
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Luis D. Osta Lugo
@ostalugo
Engineer & Techno optimist CoA Zoning & Platting Commissioner https://t.co/Z8t2GST81B 🇻🇪🇺🇲
Austin Katılım Ağustos 2015
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I'll restate: I have a principled opposition to wind subsidies, which have been a genuine boondoggle (for example: in the US it is common replace major, good-condition parts of extent wind turbines just to keep them subsidy-eligible). And were it not for subsidies, this technology would barely exist. So my principled opposition to wind is not literally to the physics of wind turning a turbine, but instead by way of the subsidies.
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I have truly never understood how solar-maxis intend to deal with this reality; I expect there to be data centers 100 times this nameplate power draw in the nearish future. What you see below is 100mw.
The response I usually get is "America has a lot of land," which is just bleak. Indeed, it turns *me* into a doomer, invoking as it does the notion of machines papering over our soil (which powers us) to power themselves.
And it's not just data centers. In a world with electric freight trucks, a *truck stop* might require as much solar as you see pictured here, if not much more. A truck stop!
Solar is fine; I do not have a principled opposition to it (which I do to eg wind). But solar's lack of energy density makes the solar-maximalist future a "loser premise," to borrow a phrase--at least it is a "loser premise" for human dignity.
The good version of the future is of course a mix of many energy sources, but with a heavy bent toward fusion/fission and geothermal.
Andrew Côté@Andercot
This is the footprint ratio of data center to solar panels in the sunniest country in the world. Yeah, I think we're gonna have to go nuclear.
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Would be funny to start Developers Union
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
.@rachelmillward: "You cannot actually solve the housing crisis in the current planning system because it begins and ends with profit. Developer profit is protected in this system. We need to have council housing at scale & that will take a change of govt legislation" 🎯
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@xurbanxcowboyx Biggest issue for Austin isn't necessarily the quality of the ramen though there's work to do there. But the quantity. Just not as many ramen shops as I'd like, I could use 2-3x more
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@xurbanxcowboyx I'm not a sushi guy so you'll have to ask my Wife about the sushi comparisons but I tried to go to every ramen shop I could. Though tbf I only went to ones in Seattle proper on the northern half. Lmk where to go next time I'm in town lol
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unfortunately austin is the worst food city I've ever lived in. It's fine and has its strengths, it's just easily below SF/NYC/Boston/Seattle imo unless you REALLY like barbeque and breakfast tacos and overpriced "new american" type stuff
foley (follard)@follard
Austin has an incredible food scene and one that is so different from other US markets. Where else is the best food often served out of a trailer or food truck? Where else can you eat a Michelin star meal at a picnic table? But there is a missing piece: our bagels suck.
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@xurbanxcowboyx Thai/Chinese would in Seattle though is without a shadow of a doubt the best I've ever had by like a country mile. World class there
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@xurbanxcowboyx I think Seattle does Thai and Chinese food better, I didn't really experience better Japanese or Korean food when I lived there. And I tried my best to explore. For Seattle having no actually good pizza alone disqualifies you from being a top contender
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@follard @AlFordTXFL I recommend Quattro Gatti downtown I really love it
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@AlFordTXFL Yeah i haven't had anything that's been notable yet in the Italian category admittedly.
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Austin has an incredible food scene and one that is so different from other US markets.
Where else is the best food often served out of a trailer or food truck?
Where else can you eat a Michelin star meal at a picnic table?
But there is a missing piece: our bagels suck.
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@Jason_A_Scharf I could pretty easily see a day where autonomous vehicles significantly reduce the number of cars the average household needs through:
- higher quality public transit
- abundant point to point AVs.
But going to 0 cars owned is hard to see happening anytime soon
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I love the autonomy revolution in Austin. We have a Tesla and use self-driving all the time.
However, I can’t see us ever getting rid of all our cars.
The particular scenario is the multi-stop day. Take the kids to the soccer game, go shopping, and then dropping one kid off at a birthday party with a present.
Each requires stuff to stay with us from one stop to another, and ideally you leave it in the car.
I haven’t seen a pitch for 100% car-as-a-service that solves this.
ATX RE@atxREpodcast
The year is 2051 - automonous cars make up 30% of vehicles on the road. New homes only feature a parking spot, car port or garage as an “add-on.” Curious to see when this technology translates to lower housing construction costs. No garage could lowers costs $30-70k.
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@MariGO2thepolls Also I feel like there's something fundamentally different about like a Latino party where it's understood people just my kinda roll in throughout the night and something with a hard schedule
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To all the ppl playing the Latino card stfu. If you are not in a Latino country and oppressed by Latino norms you are just acting like an inconsiderate jerk
🏳️🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦@MariGO2thepolls
I hate when ppl brush off being flakey, frequently late, uncomital , or shy or a shut in as harmless personality quirk. lol these are all just ways of being an inconsiderate jerk. You are a bad person
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@atxREpodcast I don't know if this is the case but those costs might include repaving the parking lot and the road leading to it. Which are incredibly fucked up last I went, I think that might make the numbers make more sense
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Wow!
$6,000,000 / 3,000 SF = $2,000 per square foot.
Ultra luxury homes in Westlake/Tarrytown cost $1,500 PSF to build.
This must be the nicest renovation in City history.
Club Zilker is going to be super high end.
ATX data@data_atx
The austin parks department wants to pay a construction company $6 million to rehab the zilker park clubhouse building.... WTF?! the clubhouse is a 3,000 sq ft single story building This truly may be the most expensive remodel of all time...
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@kimmaicutler To be clear I'm not pro China/CCP, a lot of their supply policies are downstream of requirements from their repression. But you could imagine a world of high state capacity + no economic/civic repression and that'd be pretty beautiful
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@kimmaicutler I'm obviously pretty gun-ho on Texas but even we have a lot of BS and pretty piss poor state capacity
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China builds so much housing you can lose money on a tropical island retirement community.
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@dyingscribe Lots of negative things you could say about traditional human culture but it has built into it many institutions to solve these kinds of problems out of the box
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@dyingscribe I'd have to disagree on the global front. Religion, traditional honor culture and hard masculinity serve the equivalent role of coordination for societies more traditional. globally 1 billion people would vote Red and about half of those by accident, blue would still win
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On a global scale, people are gonna pick red. Do you think on a global level people are intelligent?
Do you think it’s intelligent to be blind to other factors that lead towards and develop from a choice?
Archetype Of The Lost@ArchOfTheLost
@dyingscribe Being intelligent is not low trust
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@dyingscribe What's the global population of children like 1.2B? So you'd have to assume they vote randomly
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@shlevy Even in private games this is the case, though notionally private people usually can usually tell. In US elections who you voted for is private but it's not hard to tell how any given person went
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@shlevy Similar to jumping the fare gates for public transit if you defect and get away with it you may think you don't lose but the choice ultimately reflects and changes who you are.
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You can’t equate pressing the red button with a prediction about the outcome of the poll. Red button pressers don’t “lose” if they aren’t the majority. They aren’t “proven wrong” if there are a lot of blues.
And yeah in the real world no way blue reaches 50%
Peter Hague@peterrhague
Typical red button argument is: “I have a higher IQ than people who correctly anticipated the outcome of the poll and therefore maximised utility in that context, because I assert in a real test that can never be done the poll would go the other way!” Behavioural string theory.
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