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Central timezone, actually. Perth is not part of the NEM, and pretty sure the plan for this is coming out of the Northern Territory

From a competitive point of view, yes. The conversion hardware is common in both cases, the difference is one side needs more storage than the other. As others have stated, with the propagation of EV voltage conversion equipment, that's essentially mass manufactured too now.

Edit: I'd also like to add that for something cheap and mass manufactured that we shouldn't concern ourselves with, we sure don't have a lot of it on a grid that already delivers some of the most expensive power in the world. ie one that should be able to afford it a lot more than others

Sure, but that how many is a critical factor in the overall cost of energy delivered

Yes, but will it wipe out the advantage of solar by adding cost to the generation capacity? As I said, batteries still aren't cheap, and their replacement lifetime is still not good. We could rely on future technology, but is that a sound investment plan?

If this project is viable, then it'll probably be more viable to have a massive solar farm coming from India, where the timezone shift is in the correct direction, and it would outcompete Australia.

I keep seeing stuff about the viability of the cable being laid. The thing that gets me though, is the timezone shift around peak solar generation is the wrong way around. In Australia at least, peak demand is in the evening, when people get home and turn on their ACs, or cooking devices etc. I don't know about the demand patterns in Singapore, but given their heavy use of AC, I imagine their demand for power does not peter off in the evening much.

Meanwhile the peak of solar generation around midday in Australia is being sent off to Singapore in the morning who are a couple hours behind us. Presumably the morning is when the least AC will be used there. By the evening in Singapore, it'll be night in Central Australia, meaning there will still have to be plenty of peaking generation or, will need a massive ton of batteries which has still not quite there for grid scaling.

We've already got Identify and Disrupt, what do they want next?

Note that he says estimate of human survival. It could well be lower. Also some people are going to have lower thresholds than others.

The premise is contingent that all mosquitoes are bad. Turns out there are non blood sucking mosquitos that are eaten by other things, as explained in the article. So basically: blood suckers, yes, other mosquitoes no.

Would definitely be interested to hear how he got in this mental state. It's a matter of frustrating and predictable reality that people who are poor and non-influential easily end up in a suicidal spiral. The same cannot be easily said of CEOs, especially ones who work for the public good, particularly combined with reformative policy and a progressive attitude to the workforce. I can't help but think there is significance in his choice to commit suicide by means of the thing he managed.

I think you should have put (2015) in the title to give this even more context, because there's probably a lot of people thinking, oh this article is probably from after SARS-CoV-2 got out.

I'm going to guess Paul Graham, who wrote the tweet. One of the founders of YCombinator and HN (just in case people who read this don't know).

> People still give a shit about this title thing?

I mean, yes. That's pretty much the case anywhere, I don't see how China is an exception. Especially anywhere where there's a lot of competition, employers will use any excuse to choose one person over another. Employers want simple indicators that don't use lots of time and effort to select graduates (most of the time). Then if credentials aren't enough, they're going to resort to interview processes that double as hazing rituals. The reality is that employers can't really effectively measure a persons objective capacity. They are dealing with people who are putting the instagram treatment to their professional image, and employers are made up of humans.

This goes to a deeper issue with human psychology and game theory. No one can afford to comprehensively assess other people, so they resort to all sorts of shortcuts to judge others. It's how bias and stereotyping occurs. This occurs everywhere, not just in education for employment. The very fact that people are judged by their wealth and social standing instead of other factors is the ultimate judgement shortcut, because getting to know everyone personally is a big time investment. So this isn't an isolated case of stuff that only happens in hiring, but to societies everywhere.

So in conclusion:

> The scam is your actual education not the degree you receive.

If this were true, then being an autodidact would be a lot more prestigious than it actually is.

40 acres. 16 hectares. A 400m x 400m block (equivalent). Not sure that's really enough for a city. A very small town perhaps.

The big thing here, is that it's a way for Corporations to basically not be bound by all the laws of the state. That's, concerning. For all the reasons that have been covered numerous times in scifi dystopian media.

When you have the population density and city pollution levels they have in big Indian cities, I don't blame them for trying to discourage the use of petrol. Even if you don't believe in climate change, there's real haze over many of their cities which has well documented effects on respiratory health.