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by balderdash 6mo ago
This was the concept of the mx missile program (peacekeeper icbm) - the shell game concept was to have miles and miles of tracks with multiple launch sites, and to consistently move live and dummy missiles between them - that way there was
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I was told by a former southern company exec that the McKinsey did a study for them and their largest competitive advantage was regulatory capture in the states in which they operate - unfortunately I think the politicians are more beholden
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by balderdash 6mo ago
It’s really not - we built a rather large solar plant for one of our facilities offsetting like at most like 15% of demand, but because we were paying high utility rates it was a low double digit ROI project just on the spread between us it
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by balderdash 6mo ago
At least in the us - the only way a utility can really make more money is by spending more money (as they get a return from the utility commission on a vested capital - massive oversimplification) but it means utilities are not incentivized
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by balderdash 6mo ago
At least in my mind - if we were talking about statistical segmentation of income I think that’s right - but “middle class” and “upper middle class” denote a level of economic security, social status, lifestyle, disposable income whatever t
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by balderdash 6mo ago
that's really interesting thanks.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
yeah that was a pretty cheap time to buy in nyc for sure - but i don't think that anyone would argue that the the ratio of home price/income has stayed flat/decreased over the past five decades
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I don't disagree but i also think in terms of actual numbers, the majority of the people that earn these upper middle income salaries are living in more expensive urban areas (at least before work from home)
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by balderdash 6mo ago
the thing that doesn't compute for me is that the definition of upper middle class here is 5-15x the federal poverty line, ok, but in 1970 the federal poverty line was like ~$3k (and ~$22k today) 10x in 1970 (~33k/year) in nyc you
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I’m not against offshore drilling - but I don’t think the stakes are high enough - deep water horizon should have put BP out of business (yes they paid a ton of money - but probably not enough) and people probably should have gone to jail -
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Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence 'exposing' US forces(msn.com)
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by balderdash 6mo ago
in the US - admittedly 4 years old info, the cost of utility scale solar was like ~$1/watt - rooftop solar was like $2.5-$3/watt
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by balderdash 6mo ago
This statement is 100% correct, but I think is wrong - utility scale solar is 100% more efficient and cheaper to build at scale, the problem is finding large parcels of land to put it on that are close to where the power consumption is, as
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by balderdash 6mo ago
If you could install solar at ~150% of the cost of utility scale solar it’d make a ton of sense, but at 300%+ it’s hard to make the math work
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by balderdash 6mo ago
Just my 2c but I think the biggest thing we could do is to reduce the regulatory burden, cost, and complexity associated with installing roof mounted solar. This should be something that can be approved and installed in a week, and should b
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I’d rather people went rooftop solar, and put that land to producing food.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
yeah but i think that is the problem - everyone wants to customize / thinks their business is super unique, but honestly the customization is what makes ERP so painful. industry customization is important (motels are different than a s
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I do my own writing, but i can go so much faster really just writing all of my thoughts down and organizing them a bit and using llms to really just clean up and better organize my thinking.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
A while ago we were looking at migrating ERP - netsuite was a not a good price proposition and candidly feels a bit dated - but when you mapped features it was pretty impressive and for a lot of business that have some complexity (multi-en
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by balderdash 6mo ago
on this point the netsuite ecosystem is huge and there are not that many options for SME's that are too big/complex for inacct or quicken (even campfire/rillet etc) but don't want to get anywhere near SAP, Infor, IFS, or
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by balderdash 6mo ago
with the advent of drones etc. it seems to be going in completely the wrong direction to be building fewer bigger things rather that much more smaller things.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I feel like one solution would be a streamlined divorce process - at least for people married less than like x years with no kids.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
lol you have to give them your picture to delete your picture
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by balderdash 6mo ago
Great idea, Except that this will never happen because public sector unions are important voting blocks. Public sector unions should be abolished (don’t have a problem with unions) but the conflict of interest is just too great.
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I don’t think it’s that much more - it’s really just extending the length of the pilings used in regular ground mounted utility scale solar?
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by balderdash 6mo ago
I’d love to not have a car, but I’ve lived in five us cities - one (nyc) had public transportation that was usable - the rest public transportation was massively less efficient than driving. Until that gets fixed people are driving…
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by balderdash 7mo ago
Isn’t this just about the easiest thing to investigate (at least to know the parties n loved and the purported basis for the trade)?
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by balderdash 7mo ago
I wonder what the efficacy is > a month (maybe I missed it).
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by balderdash 7mo ago
Of course they do - it sucks and it really sucks for the finance team (but that’s their job). But I’m 100% on board with the rest of the leadership team spending four weeks a year reporting on the results of the company to the people that a
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by balderdash 7mo ago
It is - there are three groups of people that do this generally the completely self absorbed, people from places where it’s culturally acceptable, and people that like the feeling of empowerment that comes from inconveniencing others (the s

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