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topper-123 commented on Every company should be owned by its employees elysian.press/p/employee-... · Posted by u/ellegriffin

vsuperpower2021 · a year ago

This is not tenable. 400k people aren't going to all individually work extra hard for starbucks if their own work doesn't individually benefit them.

topper-123 · a year ago

True, but could the incentuve be structured around the individual employee’s coffee shop (which would mean divulging the i individual coffee shops financials? That could make each employee look better out for the profitability of their coffee shop.

topper-123 commented on Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf] digitalassets.tesla.com/t... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

0xdde · a year ago

Could you share what numbers you are looking at?

topper-123 · a year ago

I looked at the leftmost chart on page 20.

topper-123 commented on Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf] digitalassets.tesla.com/t... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

legitster · a year ago

> In 2024, our vehicle volume growth rate may be notably lower than the growth rate achieved in 2023, as our teams work on the launch of the next generation vehicle and other products. In 2024, the growth rates of energy storage deployments and revenue in our Energy Generation and Storage business should outpace the Automotive business.

Pretty bleak YoY numbers for car sales. They are pretty open about pivoting away from cars at least.

topper-123 · a year ago

Well, the growth rate for vehicles is negative (q2-2024 compared to q2-2023), so batteries having higher growth rates is not saying much...

topper-123 commented on What Was Chevron Deference? (2023) minimumcomp.com/p/maxmin-... · Posted by u/tldrthelaw

digging · a year ago

Legislation is always the first-line rule maker, this is about deciding who is the second-line rule maker - the administrative state of experts and political appointees, or the judicial state of, well, political appointees.

topper-123 · a year ago

Yeah, I was not talking about this case in particular. For example, various international treaties are often very vaguely formulated, which has the concequence that practical law making gets done in the courts (which is too undemocratic). I would prefer the judiciary in such cases to e.g. rule that the parliment needs to make clearer rules and until that happens, the court adjourns the legal case.

This would move both power and responsibility to the parliament from the courts, which IMO would be healtier for democracy long-term.

topper-123 commented on What Was Chevron Deference? (2023) minimumcomp.com/p/maxmin-... · Posted by u/tldrthelaw

topper-123 · a year ago

Not specific to the Chevron deference, but I’ve always felt that judicial interpretation should be conservative, i.e. legal rulings should aim to not change society without a previous law change by the parliament. This would mean that the power to change how society works should lie with the parliament, not the judiciary.

I’m aware thus would also block some changes that I agree with, but longer term I think this would be much healthier for democracy.

topper-123 commented on Study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed (2015) retractionwatch.com/2015/... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

p51-remorse · a year ago

So you’re saying that their current conclusion - that this is significant for heart events, but not in general - is valid statistically?

(Honest question)

topper-123 · a year ago

Not OP, but to me it sounds line p-hacking aka bad science as well: If you slice a dataset en enough subsamples you will very likely find random correlations. That’s the nature of these kinds of analyses and we should be sceptical of conclusions that are based on suce analyses.

topper-123 commented on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid fortune.com/2024/06/16/el... · Posted by u/Capstanlqc

andrewxdiamond · a year ago

And de-incentivizes supply. A real solution need to be available to balance the supply and demand of power such that the rates on both ends are predictable.

A market where a good fluctuates between profitable and not is not one very attractive to investment.

Playing the video game Victoria 3 has taught me a lot about healthy markets. You have to play both sides of supply and demand to get to the prices you need

topper-123 · a year ago

Negative prices do incentivize storage, because storage will alliw sellers to sell at a time with higher prices (i.e. when demand is greater relative to supply).

topper-123 commented on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid fortune.com/2024/06/16/el... · Posted by u/Capstanlqc

topper-123 · a year ago

Isolated this is a zero sum game in favor of buyers (someone has ti take the electricity), but longer term, this shows there needs to be better greater electricity storage solutions available, i.e batteries or similar.

topper-123 commented on NumPy 2.0 numpy.org/devdocs/release... · Posted by u/scoresmoke

ssahoo · a year ago

No. Native python ops in string suck in performance. String support is absolutely interesting and will enable abstractions for many NLP and LLM use cases without writing native C extensions.

topper-123 · a year ago

Yeah, operating on strings has historically been a major weak point of Numpy's. I'm looking forward seeing benchmarks for the new implementation.

topper-123 commented on Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll scrollprize.org/grandpriz... · Posted by u/amrrs

bglazer · 2 years ago

One aspect of archaeology that I really find fascinating is the practice of leaving certain artifacts unexplored. The original discoverers of the scrolls tried to unroll a few, apparently found it was impossible without completely destroying the scroll, and then just left the rest undisturbed. Rather than pushing forward and destroying everything, they left these as a mystery for a future age. Two centuries (!!) later we can finally begin to understand these, with the aid of technology that would be utterly unthinkable to those people who very thoughtfully restrained themselves.

topper-123 · 2 years ago

One aspect of that time period is they absolutely idolized the romans. A lot of education at the time consisted of learning latin and at the same time people were well aware that only a fraction of the classical texts had been preserved. I find it very believable that they understood the significance of preserving and potentially unlocking these scrolls.

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