andrewlgood

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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I disagree re fantastic result. If a check gets mailed to you and it takes weeks to arrive, even if that is <10% of the time, that is not good. With respect to cost, it would be interesting to see how much FedEx would charge to provide
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Wish that were possible in the US. Given the amount of junk mail that goes straight to the trash can, I am surprised there has not been more of an uproar from the environmentalists.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Do European countries subsidize the residential mail service with commercial bulk mail (aka junk mail) and overnight services?
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
My friends are still getting Christmas cards mailed out on Dec 17, 2020.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I think the author missed the point that 45% of Accenture's revenues is from their business process outsourcing activities (e.g. accounts payable processing). https://investor.accenture.com/~/media/Files/
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
No where near commercially viable. I am only aware of two groups (TriAlpha and the Nuclear Ignition Facility) that reached the breakeven point - more energy out than in - and that for a very brief moment. Always seems to be 30 years away.
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
Exactly
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
You don't waste your budget on either. You build solar/wind with natural gas combined cycles. Then you shut down the existing nuclear plant that is hemorrhaging cash and never build the new nuclear. The only new nuclear power p
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
To be clear, none of the new designs have been certified in the US by the NRC
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
Solar and wind take significantly large amounts of land to generate electricity. NEI estimated in 2015 that wind farms require 360 times as much land to produce the same amount of electricity as a nuclear energy facility while PV solar req
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
The plants have been retrofitted to be secure/safe. The retrofits can cost $100+ million and do not make much sense if the power plants are losing money.
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
Nuclear power plants have become incredibly expensive to operate. You are correct that some states such as NY, IL, and MA have provided subsidies, but these have been about saving jobs and tax base, not as much about the government. In NY
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
As a CFO myself, I notice there are a few concepts it is important for successful managers to understand to help discussions regarding performance and investment. 1) Time value of money - internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
? Are you suggesting the USPS is simply a job works program?
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
The USPS has already lost a fair amount of business to email and overnight package services. It is interesting that the reason we cannot “opt out” of junk mail is because it would cause financial harm to the USPS. As for banking and chec
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
Because you don’t agree with his position. I bet when Bloomberg offers hundreds of millions of dollars to support green energy you suddenly feel great about billionaires working to save the planet.
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
FYI, the article referenced while informative is from 2011. Finland performance on the PISA has dropped steadily since then. Article also does not discuss whether wealthier families hire tutors or other similar resources to assist their c
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
The Lambda School needs to do a good job with placing people in appropriate jobs or people will stop buying the portions of the ISAs from them. Would you feel differently about the financing if they simply borrowed money from lenders and u
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by andrewlgood 6y ago
Indentured servitude historically meant you worked for no pay for a period of years in exchange for something (e.g. passage on ship to America). This is simply a student loan indexed to your earnings. I have not seen what percentage of th