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If you wouldn’t have bought it with a ridiculous amount of money if it would ever go down, maybe that’s a hint that prices are, indeed, way too high…

Anyways, gold doesn’t go up like you think it does (I recall it spent the better part of a decade getting smoked) and your house in some city isn’t a one off like the Mona Lisa.

This is a silly take in my opinion.

Something never depreciating against its value is simply bad economics. Things will always appreciate and depreciate. I don’t know who promised you this, but it sounds like you got sold a bridge in Brooklyn.

Given that, there are plenty of other ways to save, pass on an inheritance, etc. You don’t need to hoard land so that I can’t live anywhere.

I don’t really care about your 30 year mortgage, respectfully. I probably wasn’t born when you signed it - why do you get to fuck me out of having affordable housing when I wasn’t even born yet to have that fight with you?

It can’t even keep its most important members in. European pride will be its downfall.

When asked, Americans are Americans first, then whatever state they come from second.

Europeans are whatever state they come from first, European second.

Most European countries haven’t seen per capita GDP growth since the beginning of the millennium.

They’d rather preserve their “culture” than compete and survive, and it’s starting to show up in the data.

Stop defaulting to asking for sources or credentials and make your own case for why we should listen to the authors points

This comment conveniently ignores the worlds sole superpower? The US will be more or less fine this winter, and likely sees a crisis like this as an awfully cheap way to get rid of one of its only real military competitors.

Does anybody know why Apple Maps will still show directions when an iPhone is locked (basically turns the wallpaper into the directions), but for Google Maps you have to actually unlock the phone?

Isn’t this dangerous?

You’re proving OPs point… they aren’t doing this anymore.

This is fundamentally not how power markets work. You offer to sell the grid power before it is produced - you have this backwards.

You sell it to anybody you want (some regulations aside). The grid operator makes it available to anybody who wants to plug into the grid. There are many regulations that make it such that anybody who wants to plug into the grid can do so as long as it’s not destabilizing, and even then, they’ll often work with you.

If you were an expert in energy markets, you’d see that you can go to an ISO and see which entities are market participants - of which utilities are just a few.

I could, and regularly do, sell some random company power that the grid / transmission operator HAVE to transport for me as long as I’m not physically destabilizing the grid by messing with frequencies, etc.

You also have the location of the power stations backwards. We choose to build power stations in an area because we see unmet or growing demand, not because some utility showed up and demanded we do it…

Pretty much all of your arguments so far are based on premises that simply aren’t true.

“This is not science” - you keep saying that as if an online forum should be a peer reviewed, etc. thing. It makes you sound childish. You haven’t laid out any coherent points and continue not to.

You can’t call out the other guy for not acknowledging your points and then not acknowledge mine. Your points aren’t coherent, so lay them out better if you want people to engage. They other person isn’t malicious, they just don’t see you as commenting in good faith if we all know you aren’t an expert but are commenting (rather hostilely) as if you are one.

“The true cost of energy of an asset”

I work in the energy industry and I think people haven’t engaged your points because they’re completely incoherent without you significantly expanding upon them.

Respectfully, the way you’ve phrased your points makes it clear you aren’t an expert in energy markets, which makes someone like me unwilling to engage in a debate without you making your case much more clearly up front. (If this seems arrogant, consider debating somebody who has a rudimentary understanding of Python making declarations about the next revolution in distributed systems, or something like that…)

Can someone tell me why google allows paywalled results?

Thank you! Is it safe to say you want the wires transmitting the power to be cold, ideally, but the battery itself not necessarily so? (Thinking about the electric grid, etc here as well.)

Can someone explain this? I always thought batteries and electric motors were more efficient in (relatively) colder environments?

False equivalence between BLM and Republicans. They aren’t two sides of the same coin.

Further, BLM activists don’t blow up federal buildings (and nurseries) or bring zip-ties and gallows to their riots trying to overthrow the government. You sound silly.

And who, exactly, do you suggest take their space? Is there a surplus of quality teachers in the US?

Can you elaborate? The general negative sentiment towards teachers is confusing to me.

It seems you trust them enough to take a very major part in raising your child, but not enough to make a decision about what’s best? I’d like you to elaborate because this view makes it seem like parents view teachers as nannies (who, by the way, should also have a say in whether they want to get exposed to a virus or take it home to their own family).

This is a dumb, snarky comment that is a good example of why people have been complaining about the quality of HN posts.

You defeat your own argument, by the way, by acknowledging that they did clear the roads without the need for back doors into the car. Please do better.

Appreciate the extra context from both of you. Lots of that makes sense - I’m glad I could get an answer on this. Thanks again.

(Regarding the post you linked to, I’m not going to dispute whatever’s going on in that thread, but I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years that were critical of YC specifically. That is neither here nor there and it’s been too long for me to recall specifics, though I do remember being thoroughly confused more than anything.

So, personally, that guy might be asking in bad faith but it is something to be diligent about, even if it’s just avoiding the perception, as his underlying logic holds up even if it’s clear he’s looking for a fight today.)

Best regards to both of you.

Very helpful info on the low quality indicator. I would personally disagree but that’s my opinion and I can see how it would be useful running a forum like this. Any chance HN has made public any additional detail on forum behavior like that?

Only with direct link, you’ll notice it’s suddenly not on any of the first 10 pages despite being one of the most, if not the most, active threads during that time. I can keep clicking to see if it’s on the 20th or something, but if that’s the case, would be helpful for HN to explain that behavior as well to avoid us attributing it to maliciousness in the future.

I think “destroying American democracy” can pretty firmly put you in the “bad” camp unless you start doing some odd mental gymnastics.

I also think “destroying American democracy” is by definition unconstitutional, simply by what the “un-“ preface means in English.

I agree people are really complicated but thankfully, there are lines people can cross that allow us to straightforwardly recognize them as “bad” without making the only bar for that something extreme like Satan.

Alright, I grouped in PayPal with software, but point taken. That being said, it makes the simile in my original post line up even more. I also think Ken Griffin is highly intelligent, I just don’t think either of them are the political experts they seem to present themselves as. Thank you as well, appreciate the dialog.

You’re taking a utilitarian and relativistic view on this, which feels disingenuous in this context. He is already backing people who {support, condone, downplay} violence that has already happened.

I don’t find it debating on good faith to ignore real violence by countering with hypothetical violence. Furthermore, he could easily advocate for a more hawkish view on China - a wildly popular view across the entire American political spectrum - while using his platform to disavow the real violence already done against Americans (that is also dividing us at a time when we need to have a united front against China.)

So, sure, we could do mental gymnastics to find some weird, hypothetical justification, or we could just look at the evidence in front of us.

The Libertarian platform literally has a section saying, “Libertarians advocate individual privacy and government transparency.” I am not sure where you got the confidence that it does not mean this, can you elaborate?

I’ve edited this to remove the snark from my initial post where I mentioned something about being much closer to the people in question than you might guess, trying to keep conversation high quality. What do you recommend I research?

I mean, first of all, Trump himself??? Blake Masters? Kris Kobach? My claim is exactly what I stated. These people, including Thiel, support politicians who support, condone, or downplay violence that has already happened. Whether you realize it or not, trying to get intellectual about simple things is undermining the doubt you’re trying to cast.

I think to the posters point, his words and actions don’t line up. If he wants a less violent future, he shouldn’t bankroll those advocating for, condoning, or downplaying violence such as zip ties and gallows at the Capitol.

You see this a lot with hedge fund guys too. They make a boatload of money doing a very specific thing (thiel : software :: griffin : securities trading) and think their ability in that thing gives them abilities in most other things.

Stepping back it’s fairly obvious the opposite is true. They got so good at that thing by focusing on it. Focusing on something, by definition, means not paying attention to other things. You see where this goes…

This is misleading. Gas turbines used for power plants usually put out 100-250mw. Most gas plants just stack 3-5 of them together in a common location - same thing could be done for small reactors.