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by bkjelden 9y ago
I have an unusually strong hatred of these machines: * They are incredibly loud * I inevitably end up spraying water all over my pants * I have large hands and it takes forever to dry them
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by bkjelden 9y ago
He is apparently working on a reboot - I think it's due out sometime this year or early next year.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
The is true in theory, but in practice the housing market isn't 100% efficient. You'll no doubt recoup some of your value, but not all of it.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
The roof tiles they use are supposedly 'indestructible' and have a longer life than asphalt shingles. That being said, I'm skeptical of their claim. Not many things are indestructible when a large hailstorm rolls through.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
If your car is plugged in it can use wall power to pre-heat before your commute, similar to remote start.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Expressing a beer rating as an average has always seemed problematic to me because different folks' tastes in beer vary so much. I'd rather have an app that looked at what I've highly rated and either paired me with users who
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by bkjelden 9y ago
There can be tax advantages to having your office space show up as an operating expense rather than a capital expenditure.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
There are plenty of days where I miss living in the bay area. Today is not one of them.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Gas stations don't make much money on actually selling gas - consumers are irrationally price sensitive when it comes to the price of gasoline, so the stations are generally selling it at or near cost. As long as people still pop into
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by bkjelden 9y ago
What does your household do differently that allows your consumption to stay so low?
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Many Californians live in parts of the state where there is not much need for heating and cooling much of the year, which also helps keep consumption down.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
It's a better plan than almost every other NFL player has. Most players have lived very football-focused lives from a very young age, and have been the star on the team all of their life. Their future has always been more football, and
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by bkjelden 9y ago
The other day I was walking through a parking garage as two Volts were heading towards the exit. It was incredibly eerie how quiet it was, just the sounds of the tires against the pavement, no ICEs running.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
There's also the constant threat of break-ins. Forgot to put your sunglasses away? Have fun replacing a window!
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Sounds like a really promising business model. I know hardcore NCAA football fans will pay way more than that for access to recruiting news. I'd consider subscribing once they cover teams I follow. Hopefully a VC 'growth above all
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by bkjelden 9y ago
For me, the single biggest boost I found to help cut my carb cravings was cutting out diet soda and other artificial sweeteners.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
This is easy to say when you're young. But as someone currently watching his parents and grandparents suffer from the long-term effects of a lifetime of obesity and poor diet, these things can have long term consequences that don'
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by bkjelden 9y ago
I hope this company sees nothing but success. I bought my house through Redfin last year, and not only did I save ~$5k in commissions compared to a conventional realtor, I also felt the process was much smoother and more pleasant than other
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by bkjelden 9y ago
I would recommend anyone wanting to learn more about John Mackey, and how he built Whole Foods, to listen to a recent episode of the How I Built This podcast featuring him: http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=527979061:5280001
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by bkjelden 9y ago
82" is very wide for a vehicle in the US. Even the Ford Excursion, one of the most gargantuan SUVs ever produced, was only 80" wide: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Excursion I imagine parking a Model X
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Seems like plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt could be really popular in the US. Enough electric power to cover 90+% of daily scenarios, but an ICE that can be 'recharged' at a fuel pump in 60 seconds for long road trips. You
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by bkjelden 9y ago
The Front Range isn't really part of the 'Heartland', unless your definition is naively "all things not close to an ocean".
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by bkjelden 9y ago
This isn't just LA by any means. I live in a suburb of Denver and my neighbors will argue in one breath how the city is 'greedy' for trying to regulate utilities, and in the next breath complain that the city is also 'gr
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by bkjelden 9y ago
I have been wondering lately if we have become so dependent on certain sectors of the US economy (housing, infrastructure, healthcare, education) that risk aversion is suffocating innovation. No one wants to send their kid to an unproven, e
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by bkjelden 9y ago
I didn't see pricing info in the article. Has that been announced anywhere?
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by bkjelden 9y ago
So the tl;dr of this article is that lower prices are good for consumers, but manufacturers cannot sustain selling below cost (what a surprise). I wonder what is driving demand lower. Has supply simply finally caught up to pent-up demand f
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Cars are lasting longer on average than they used to, so stretching a loan from 48-60 months to 72-84 months seems completely reasonable to me. (This assumes a good interest rate. The 10-20%+ APR loans are a disaster at any length).
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by bkjelden 9y ago
+1. Quitting diet soda has allowed me to regain control of my appetite.
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by bkjelden 9y ago
Real estate is not liquid enough that a 'correctly' priced house will sell immediately. You have to wait for a buyer that wants the exact featureset that house is offering. Real estate has sort of a weird duality where it's v
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by bkjelden 9y ago
It seems that Trump and Brexit may have been the high water mark for the wave of nationalism sweeping the west. 2017 has seen nationalist candidates fade and underperform their polls across the EU. Trump has made less actual policy progress

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