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dalyons commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study   cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rapind · 15 hours ago
I will say though as someone who solo runs their own product business, right now feels like a great time to be building your own thing.

No idea if this will last long though.

dalyons · 13 hours ago
I do wonder, will this drive the value of software “things” way down? Once everyone starts solo building their own things…
dalyons commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices   cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn
HPsquared · 5 days ago
100% solar on electricity, or all energy usage including vehicles? Vehicles use a lot of energy.
dalyons · 5 days ago
all energy including vehicles. The US grows an unfathomable amount of ethanol corn, ~ 30 million acres. Its insanity, its an incredibly inefficient way to get energy.
dalyons commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices   cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn
zahlman · 5 days ago
If solar is "ridiculously cheap" (per GGP) and California has abundant supply of it, why does electricity in major cities in California (see e.g. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS49B72610) cost several times what it does in Toronto, Ontario (https://www.oeb.ca/consumer-information-and-protection/elect... , and note these prices are in CAD)?
dalyons · 5 days ago
Politics and corruption. The generation cost is low, but the government backed monopoly folds all kinds of distribution, deferred maintenance, fire damage, and political pet projects into the retail price. It sucks.
dalyons commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices   cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn
HPsquared · 5 days ago
Still, farming is pretty important and we must strike a balance.
dalyons · 5 days ago
The US grows more acres of corn just for ethanol than the number of acres needed to go 100% solar. We would have _more_ useful farmland if we switched.
dalyons commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices   cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn
SamuelAdams · 5 days ago
I am speculating, but I think the real motive for cancelling renewables is to appeal to coal counties in the USA.

Coal is in a scary place right now in the US, see this as an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1mmqwd3/i_live_in...

Basically coal is less profitable and more expensive in places that have always been coal counties. The only thing to do in these areas is mine coal, so the concern is that entire regions will be rendered worthless if coal collapses.

Which means local residents cannot sell their homes without taking significant losses, and they probably lose their jobs in coal, which manifests into a poverty trap for the entire town.

And there are hundreds of these towns all through Appalachia.

So renewable energy will always be a political issue over the next 50 years, because entire towns and regions depend on its political outcome.

dalyons · 5 days ago
At the speed at which coal has been declining, and will continue to decline now due to economics, it’s not going to take 50 years. Maybe 10 at most.
dalyons commented on Materialized views are obviously useful   sophiebits.com/2025/08/22... · Posted by u/gz09
quectophoton · 6 days ago
> And then by magic the results of this query will just always exist and be up-to-date.

With PostgreSQL the materialized view won't be automatically updated though, you need to do `REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW` manually.

dalyons · 6 days ago
Postgres materialized views are pretty terrible / useless compared to other rdbms. I’ve never found a usecase for the very limited pg version.
dalyons commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables   insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
jimbob45 · 7 days ago
Solar and wind are unreliable and too low-impact relative to their cost and maintenance.

Every time we have this discussion, we always conclude that nuclear power generation is the only viable path forward.

dalyons · 7 days ago
Every time we have this discussion, we conclude that despite some good aspects nuclear is way too expensive and too slow to build.
dalyons commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab
hvb2 · 15 days ago
0.6% of monthly inflation wouldn't be 7.2% you can't multiply like that.

So the real number would be 1.006^12=7.44%

And over 7% inflation is a bit more than 'pretty high' that's getting really scary if there's no clear outside reason for it

dalyons · 15 days ago
Which of course there is a clear outside reason for it.
dalyons commented on How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family   thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/jger15
pydry · 16 days ago
A lot of dysfunctional management behavior ive seen can be chalked up to simple projection by either the founder or management.

They want you to feel invested enough to work 60 or 80 hour weeks coz they do. They want you to feel the need to be in the office putting in face time coz thats how they feel.

Not every founder or CEO is egocentric enough to want a bunch of mini-mes orbiting around them but a lot of them are.

dalyons · 16 days ago
agreed, and they also miss the fundamental difference in compensation they're getting for those hours compared to regular workers.
dalyons commented on I'm worried it might get bad   danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/conzar
dingnuts · 16 days ago
the gun laws are stricter in the States with more inequality
dalyons · 16 days ago
A trivial google shows thats wrong, it doesn’t look to be a strong correlation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

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