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by jartelt 9y ago
It's pretty unreasonable to believe you should be able to just move somewhere and put 20% down on a >$1M house after working for one year... If you are making $400k a year, you can rent a modest place for 2-3 years, and then you wi
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by jartelt 9y ago
States without mass population centers still get 2 senators, so they are valued, even without an electoral college...
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Because illegal miners can take sand from public beaches from rivers, from deltas, etc. Doing so destroys beaches and damages ecosystems, and many governments want to maintain these systems because they are a public good used by many.
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Historic popularity and sailing ships don't matter much here. Many popular IPAs nowadays are being dry-hopped with hop varieties that were selectively bred within the last 20 years. These hop varieties simply taste/smell a lot b
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by jartelt 9y ago
I get what you are saying, but the incentives do not have to be misaligned. It makes total sense for both the professor and student to be aligned in pursuing the goal of completing and publishing interesting and original research. It shou
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by jartelt 9y ago
During my PhD studies, most students I talked to were aware of the lack of professorships available. The issue, however, was that certain departments/professors really frowned upon PhD students exploring jobs in industry (some departm
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by jartelt 9y ago
It's hard to know what they are actually doing since the blog post doesn't explain what Capital-as-a-service is. But, if this works for them, I bet it is because it increases their deal flow. With this system and their marketing
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by jartelt 9y ago
Considering that congress has shown that they care more about campaigning and raising money than passing legislation that protects average citizens, I love having an independent CFPB watching (or at least trying to watch) out for me.
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by jartelt 9y ago
Yes, many people in your position can indeed get that mortgage and buy your house. But, it's a really big mortgage and a lot of people don't want to take that big of a financial risk for what is likely a small, average looking ho
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by jartelt 9y ago
Hyatt and Hilton own a lot more real estate than Airbnb. Perhaps a lot of the value is not in the actual building itself?
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by jartelt 9y ago
Per crunchbase they raised their last funding round on a pre-money valuation of $1.6 billion. Since the market cap now is less than that valuation, why is the coverage saying this is a big success? It seems to me like this is a down round
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by jartelt 9y ago
It was widely reported that his password was stolen via a phishing attack. If the phishing attack was carried out by someone backed by the Kremlin, then I believe that makes the statement quoted true (I'm not sure about the level proo
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by jartelt 9y ago
They have posted a profit the last 8 quarters.
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by jartelt 9y ago
Uber/lyft are also slaying yellow/black cabs because the cabs chose to just milk their monopoly for maximum profit for 30 years rather than invest in any technology or make any improvements to rider experience or comfort. It&#x27
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by jartelt 9y ago
The book Dark Money by Jane Mayer tells much of the backstory of how many of these think tanks got started. Most of them were funded by rich folks, mostly far right or libertarian (e.g. Kochs brothers), for one reason: to make the rich fol
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by jartelt 9y ago
Not sure who is right, but there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev#Vodka_myth
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by jartelt 9y ago
Plus the noise! It can be hard to have a conversation with someone next to you while walking down a busy street. Switching to EVs will really help make cities quieter as well.
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Landlords are going to charge market rate for rent. They won't charge a lower rent if their property taxes are lower than they should be due to prop 13 and won't charge a lower rent if they are deducting mortgage interest.
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by jartelt 9y ago
Yep, the market is skewed by policy. You get to buy a house using the mortgage interest deduction and then you get artificially low property taxes as your property value increases over time (in CA). Meanwhile renters don't get any so
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by jartelt 9y ago
I have to give the two utilities credit for pulling these projects. Sure they wasted $9 billion, but it would have been easy for them to keep building given the large amount of money and time already spent on the project. By cancelling th
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by jartelt 9y ago
Actually it is NOT cheap to operate a nuclear power plant after it is built. That is why nuclear plants in Illinois and New York have been bailed out recently and why utilities in other starts are looking for similar bailouts. These utili
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by jartelt 9y ago
Alternative translation: We believe in your idea, but have a small fund and cannot take up the majority of your funding round. Thus, we would love to invest a smaller amount as part of a syndicate.
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by jartelt 9y ago
The sad part is that many people will read the title and use the article to say "solar power is ruining everything and is a waste of taxpayer dollars!" But, when you actually read the article you realize that the utilities are the
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by jartelt 9y ago
He could have toned down the "playboy flair" and bro attitude as the company got larger and many of these PR issues would have been avoided (or would have been less of an issue). Perhaps just tell the cab driver that you will loo
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by jartelt 9y ago
Yes, banks and lenders played a big role by offering up and then selling terrible loans. But they never forced anyone to buy overvalued houses. Part of reason why people were compelled to buy houses during the bubble was the "flipper
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by jartelt 9y ago
They agreed to pursue profits back in 2006 when they raised a Series A and then affirmed this when they raised Series B, C, D, E, and F rounds. It's unfair to pin this on going public. Profit and growth has been the name of the game
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by jartelt 9y ago
People are way too tough on Zillow. The article states that the Zestimate is within 5% of the sale price 54% of the time and within 20% of the sale price 90% of the time. That is pretty damn good considering they do not send anyone to loo
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by jartelt 9y ago
Well, if the management company didn't use any of the fees to pay employees, credit card companies, other vendors, etc. and instead used the fees to buy a "mountain of blow", I think that qualifies as an issue.
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Well, you said wind and solar are more expensive than coal and I am saying they are not (hence why they are being built out like crazy). You seem to be arguing that wind and solar cannot replace coal since there are intermittent. I think
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If coal is so great and cheap, then why is no one building new coal plants? Over the past few years wind and solar account for ~40% of new generation capacity and natural gas makes up the rest. Based on your comment, one would expect to e

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