patmorgan23

German has made some absolutely brain dead energy policy decisions over the last 30 years. Choosing to decommission their fleet of nuclear reactors, not investing in developing enough wind and solar generation, building a bunch of oil pipelines to Russia.

A couple responses.

1) heat pump appliances are much more energy efficient (they move heat rather than convert it from electronics or molecules, and modern heat pumps work well in most cold climates (and you can also utilize resistive heating for the short period your outside of their optimal operating range)

2) time of use charges can be managed by smart applications and/or a whole home battery (and the battery gives you extra resiliency in case of an outage)

3) this is probably a problem with how your local electricity market is structured. ERCOT (Texas) developed and energy-only and has the cheapest electric rates in the nation (granted lots of this is due to abundant natural gas and renewables in the state) while other markets (say PJM in the north east) have energy + capacity markets and have seen huge (11x) increase in prices on the capacity market side.

Electric utilities are trying to manage not use resource adequacy (having enough generation) but transmission adequacy as well (having enough head room on transmission line to move power around without the lines burning up). But many utilities have been slow to adopt new technologies that would allow the to squeeze more capacity out of their existing infrastructure (things like dynamic line ratings, or distributed energy resources)

We need to do the work to align the economic/market incentives so that using more efficient technologies is actually cheaper.

The banks should require sufficient collateral for those loans, so if the loans are bad they can clawback some capital.

If the bank didn't properly collateralize the loan, then the banks shareholders should take the hit.

I mean that's been the case for like a decade (maybe not 2/3rds but AWS eclipses amazon.com long ago)

That's when it's accessed, if you just have the data structure you can't tell.

Not just is the the man there? Will anthropic be able to capitalize on that demand? Or are we going to build so much excess capacity that tokens are going to be dirt cheap (like what happened with the fiber build out in the 90s).

Will anthropics models continue to be significantly better than openweight models? Even if their latest model is, Will the open weights gobble up all of the demand for lower models? (I.e. will anthropic be able to recoup training cost while their model is the best, will they make enough revenue on the long tail or will it get crushed by the open weights)

No that's ridiculous woo woo. It's just that some of the symbiotic algae from the healthy coral transfer over to feed and revive the sick coral.

Why not ping 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or time.windows.com? Things that are actually designed to be highly available services

Huawei can enforce its patents on any device manufactured in China, regardless of if it's for a US customer or not. Which is what the parent comment is saying.

Social engineering?

I mean when you're sixteen, you can sign a legally binding contract (might depend on the jurisdiction). Usually you have to be above the age of majority (18) or be emancipated before you can enter into a binding contract.

Yep, flatten the peak means you can spread the cost of the transmission grid over more electrons, lower the cost per unit of energy.

Yeah, the standard should have just specified like a sha256 HMAC, when that becomes broken in 20 years we can just do a JWT2 (or invent some new successor standard)

Taxes on guns are completely constitutional. The 24th amendment explicitly outlaws poll taxes.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to lay pill tax or other tax" - 24th amendment to the United States Constitution