CompelTechnic

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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Piezo crystals can produce electricity in response to mechanical stress; this material can produce temperature differentials in response to mechanical stress. In that regard GP's analogy holds.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Sounds to me like you are using meat that is too lean. Try 80% lean 20% fat beef, hard to screw up.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Both real median wages and real median per capita income are growing. Part of the rise of income is the fact that people are working more hours than they used to. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates&#x2F
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Employer-matched contributions to a 401k should be prioritized before an emergency fund. Otherwise you are leaving free money on the table. This applies to many Americans.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
You're right. It sure was morally wrong of them to take a chance on a novel way to help people. I also hate the CEO for constantly shouting, "end all other redistributive efforts, we solved it ourselves!" /s
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Being in D.C., did you expect it to be an ICBM? I would have.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf?origin=... Correlation was .82 between the SAT and the armed forces vocational aptitude battery, which is designed as an IQ test. https://pumpkinpers
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
The SAT reliably correlates with IQ, and of any psychometric variable we are able to measure, IQ has the strongest correlation with long-term socioeconomic success. Insofar as it is useful to funnel smart people into college, using the SAT
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Feeling a bit sardonic today... I suppose we should all submit a form documenting our utility payoffs with respect to temperature to corporate HQ. ------------------------------------------------- On a scale of 1-10, please rate your happin
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
>The formula to determine standard office temperature was developed in the 1960s around the metabolic resting rate of the average man. But a recent Dutch study found that the metabolic rate of young adult females performing light office
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
France does seem to have a deep seated nationalism that I don't understand very well. They care extremely deeply about their cultural works to a degree that does not make sense to me.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. I mostly wanted to convey a payment after use of the product or service. A better example might be paying your mechanic after he finishes fixing your car.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
To get the fully nuanced picture: -If you wander around to a grocery store bakery, and eat one of the donuts before getting to checkout, you have the right to settle your debt with cash. -Otherwise, the store can force you to pay with their
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
The things Peter Sripol does on youtube are amazing. He built an ultralight electric aircraft using model-building techniques.
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by CompelTechnic 7y ago
American cars currently have good quality. There was a substantial period of time in which they didn't. That time period is what GP referred to. US automakers are still playing catch-up in terms of brand image and reliability engineeri
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
That's because your other income raised you up to that bracket.
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Capital gains taxes are marginal. You are mistaken. There are no cliffs to maneuver. For example, play with this calculator: https://smartasset.com/investing/capital-gains-tax-calculato...
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Capex for lithium batteries is on the order of $100/kWh (kilo- not mega-). Other battery technologies will not be much better. You are confusing amortized cycle costs for capex costs.
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
It is true that the U.S. over the last ~150 years has outperformed a lot of the world, but it maintained 7% real over that period of time. Ritholtz was all over the damn place in his article, and attacks the strawman of 12% growth. In compa
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average... >One of the major problems for an investor looking at that 10% average return figure and mistakenly expecting to realize a nice yearly profit
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
These are in real dollars, not nominal dollars. Inflation has already been accounted for, for both investment returns and savings. I make no claim as to whether the price of coffee will grow faster than the consumer price index, or slower,
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
To give this conversation a more concrete example, here is (linked below) a calculation of saving $5 a day over 40 years, in real (inflation adjusted) dollars, assuming returns on invested assets are 7% per year. This is a realistic number
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
>Which is that the 'means of production' needs to be OWNED by the people producing. Not a corporate owner (or even an 'entrepreneur'), and not 'the state', but the collective that actually does the work, com
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
>This marks a victory for Airbus in a war without end. >Back in September the European aerospace giant, which employs 15,000 people in the UK, was on the receiving end when it was found that billions of euros in low interest loans amo
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Your comment that I replied to had a broad enough scope (i.e. asking the majority of the population to pick up and move close to their work) that it is still in context. Buying an electric car will contribute on the margin to stopping frack
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
In all likelihood, you're currently living in a way that environmentalists would describe as unsustainable, but still shaking your fist at society. This is hypocritical. There are two paths to avoid this hypocrisy: 1. Buy an electric c
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
Reminds me of Sanders' assumption that his economic policies would result in 5% GDP growth for 10 years straight... whew!
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
The relationship between business management and slavery is stupidly obvious. No reasonable person would deny it- both systems ask their workers to work, and the harder and faster the better. Duh. The article tries to make some sort of gran
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
I would like to know this as well.
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by CompelTechnic 8y ago
I agree that facebook's advertising practices allowed for illegal discrimination. A good case of "move fast and break things." Some journalists go farther though, and suggest that even the concept of a credit score is racist.

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