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by gibybo 8y ago
>I wonder what scale you would need to get the rocket into space/orbit? There's a great "what if" xkcd about using solid fuel model rocket engines (the same type used in BPS.space's rockets) to get to space and o
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by gibybo 8y ago
We're going to be in trouble when hackers learn how to get around javascript that disables copy/paste.
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by gibybo 8y ago
Doesn't Walmart do this without a membership? How do they get away with it?
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by gibybo 8y ago
So 200 miles round trip for the hike, plus 20 or so for food/buffer? 220 miles isn't hard to get on a single charge, wouldn't you just charge it when you got back home?
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by gibybo 8y ago
If you were in the 39.6 tax bracket, you wouldn't be paying 15% in FICA because you'd be well over the contribution limit for Social Security (which is most of FICA).
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by gibybo 8y ago
Typical $500 graphics card today will do around 10 teraflops. You'd need 2k of them ($1m) for 20 quadrillion flops (the prediction is quadrillion not quintillion).
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by gibybo 8y ago
Earnings multiples reflect the amount of future earnings growth. He laid out an argument for larger future earnings growth.
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by gibybo 8y ago
Sure, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that the probability of the longer spreads inverting based on this is nowhere near 100%. A tiny amount of good news in the market tomorrow will probably reverse this short term spread inversi
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by gibybo 8y ago
Actually they still pay a positive amount (about 2.8%/year). What's significant is that now the 3 year pays slightly more than the 5 year (2.84% vs 2.83%). Usually longer term treasuries pay more because the buyer assumes more ris
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by gibybo 8y ago
There is a 1 bps spread between the 3-year and 5-year US Treasury (2.84 vs 2.83) as of close of market today. While somewhat noteworthy, it's not huge (yet). When people talk about yield curve inversion and it being an indicator of rec
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by gibybo 8y ago
In the US, corporations are filed with one of the 50 states. The information that becomes public record varies by state, but you can always get the registered agent and some basic information about it (date it was created, name, etc). Somet
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by gibybo 8y ago
It might be optimistic to think that people will recognize the real cause. Politically it can be pretty effective to simply blame the disastrous effects on the policy of your opponents regardless of what the scientific evidence says.
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by gibybo 8y ago
Sorry, you're right, I misunderstood.
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by gibybo 8y ago
EDIT: Oops I misunderstood tehlike and had a comment about 401k -> IRA rollovers here which wasn't actually relevant.
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by gibybo 8y ago
>Yeah, transaction fees can really eat into your gains unless you're a very good picked or are interesting millions. Buying 20 stocks would only cost you ~$120 (at $6/trade). For a $100k portfolio, that's an expense ratio
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by gibybo 8y ago
>both goals are valid and possible within reasonable means. I thought that was the point zimablue was trying to make.
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by gibybo 8y ago
I don't think you need level 5, only level 4. The video demo seemed to imply that they actually had level 4.
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by gibybo 8y ago
Games aren't really about getting you to solve a problem, they are about making something fun. Making something fun is a lot easier when you control the UI completely. Letting the users build their own UI places a lot of constraints on
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by gibybo 8y ago
In name perhaps, but the concept of an economic good having potentially different values at different times is universal. An economic system that tries to pretend it doesn't exist may work in the sense that a mathematical system withou
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by gibybo 8y ago
Do you see some fundamental limit other than energy?
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by gibybo 8y ago
Still not seeing $59k. 2.3 * 30.000 * 0.7 = $48,300 (30% tax credit) 2.3 * 30.000 * 0.5 = $34,500 (50% cheaper) Total = $82,800 Regardless, adding up the cost of the second one in 30 years doesn't make sense for calculating kWh prices,
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by gibybo 8y ago
I don't se how it includes the cost of a new system in 30 years. 2.3 * 30,000 = $69,000 and your cost listed is only ~$59k. 8% over 25 years is much better than I thought for the panels, but you still need to include about 10%/yea
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by gibybo 8y ago
I didn't say it wasn't. We're talking about the cost per kWh which depends on the interest rate that you can finance it with, not your ROI.
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by gibybo 8y ago
I have found it to be surprisingly proportional. I'm sure it gets slightly cheaper per kwh with large systems, but not by a lot. I had quotes around $2.5/watt for 9 kW systems and $2.5/watt for 15 kW systems.
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by gibybo 8y ago
I think your numbers are pretty optimistic. You're neglecting depreciation for one. Panels have a lifetime in the range of 20-30 years, inverters have a lifetime in the range of 10 years. 4% is also an optimistic interest rate for a lo
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by gibybo 8y ago
All US government home loan programs are assumable (FHA, VA, and USDA). This Quora answer indicates that FHA loans alone alone make up a majority of new home loans in the US: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-US-home-
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by gibybo 8y ago
The S40 (Model S 40 KWh) was discontinued very quickly, probably no more than a couple thousand ever sold. The only other time Tesla has sold software limited batteries was when they were selling the 60 kWh models with 75 kWh software limit
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by gibybo 9y ago
What would be a better way to deal with monopolies? Surely the breakup of Bell is better than if they were allowed to continue as a monopoly right?
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by gibybo 9y ago
EquityZen has an index fund of sorts, but the fees are high and it only includes companies that are on EquityZen which are probably not representative of the average. I'm not sure how much you need to join a round with a VC fund (and t
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by gibybo 9y ago
>or it could have been 5 seconds before he hit the barrier. If that was the case, they would have said so. Their vagueness here is telling.

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