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by jartelt 10y ago
No, you are wrong. It takes longer than 10 years to permit/build a new nuclear plant and it costs over $1 billion. It is the exact opposite of cheap and fast.
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by jartelt 10y ago
I had two toe nails removed with local anesthetic. For a pretty minor operation, it was already a little weird so I can't imagine getting a knee replacement (like the guy in the article). I watched a bit of my toe operation but start
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by jartelt 10y ago
No, I am just arguing that someone's grade on a test is directly linked to how well they do on the test and not necessarily on how much studying they did. If you don't like university tests, that is fine (I do not believe they ar
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by jartelt 10y ago
Given that students are almost always graded on how well they do on assignments/exams rather than how long they studied, your strong-man competition analogy doesn't make much sense.
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by jartelt 10y ago
The nuclear industry was already having big issues, so I do not see this bankruptcy changing things much. The decline of nuclear wasn't even related to safety concerns, which I believe are largely exaggerated. Currently operating nuc
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by jartelt 10y ago
Yep, I think people are starting to realize that unless you are (a) a founder with 20-30% equity or (b) an early employee at one of the few startups that successfully exits for >$1B without any down rounds, your equity most likely will n
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by jartelt 10y ago
A solar cell could never achieve the Carnot limit, so the 95% number is not relevant. In order to extract the maximum amount of power from a solar cell, must operate it at it's max power point. When you do this, the cell is in forwar
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by jartelt 10y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion about efficiency. For a single junction solar cell (like the type of solar cell talked about in the article) the theoretical efficiency is 34% (under 1 sun illumination). The best a silicon device can
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by jartelt 10y ago
These things are well defined in the research community and they don't have any issues with this. The input energy is all the energy from the sun that is incident on the panel. Efficiency is electrical power generated by the panel div
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by jartelt 10y ago
When talking about solar cells, the efficiency is defined as electrical power produced divided by the solar irradiance on the panel (~1000 W/m^s without concentration). In this situation, the theoretical limit for a single junction so
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by jartelt 10y ago
I do not understand your argument. You just price a new tax high enough such that the system is paid for, no? I think everyone agrees that you need a new tax to pay for the system, and you are not going to take the current tax revenue and
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by jartelt 10y ago
You just treat them like anyone else and the cost gets rolled into the cost of coverage for everyone. Hospitals and ERs are already required to treat people who come in regardless of whether they are legal/illegal or have/don&#x2
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by jartelt 10y ago
If you don't have a car and live >1 mile from a grocery store, delivery can be worth it. It's tough to bike with a weeks worth of groceries.
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by jartelt 10y ago
Investors are banking on the fact that grocery stores are historically bad at innovation. Some may role out delivery products, and some of those products may be good, but most grocery stores are not going to be good at developing their own
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by jartelt 10y ago
I think you are right to be skeptical. In my experience (sitting near/behind students with laptops in class), the laptops are used more for web browsing than for note taking. This distracts multiple people because your eyes can'
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by jartelt 10y ago
The other consideration with raising a large round is that you are going to have a high valuation. If your company is awesome and growing really fast, this is no problem. However, if you overestimated your market and struggle to grow into
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by jartelt 10y ago
Sometimes you don't want to keep getting funding from the same VC so that they don't acquire too much ownership and power in your company. To diversify its investor base, Snap would have to convince VC2 to pay a price that is hig
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by jartelt 10y ago
I don't think Li-ion plants are free... My point is that there are situations when problems can be solved with efficiency/renewables/new technology or with building more traditional power plants and infrastructure. Utilitie
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by jartelt 10y ago
Why didn't I make the investment? Because I am a private citizen and not a public utility... Utilities are able to rate base their investment and get a guaranteed rate of return on the investments they make. This rate base system is
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by jartelt 10y ago
I can't help but believe that we would be better off (at least in the US) if utilities had embraced renewables 10 years ago. Rather than fight solar and wind, utilities could have played the role of solar installer/integrator and
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by jartelt 10y ago
Perhaps, but in a tunnel you have to deal with preventing water leaks and pumping out ground water, maintaining ventilation systems, lighting, etc. Plus fixing things like potholes will be more costly in a tunnel.
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by jartelt 10y ago
It cuts both ways though. I am sure there are even more useful services out there that you never heard of because they didn't have enough money to market or distribute their product. The VC route and bootstrapping each have their adv
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by jartelt 10y ago
If you take money at a high valuation, the VC will only be happy if you try to grow the company significantly and exit at some multiple of that valuation. If the founder decides not to do that, then one of the largest shareholders in the c
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by jartelt 10y ago
There is nothing in the VC model that says you have to run your business like an idiot if you take VC money... You can still run your business lean and keep your dignity. However, if you take VC money you need to realize that the VC wants
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by jartelt 10y ago
Maybe it would help, or maybe it would do the opposite. Having an HSA and seeing prices upfront can also make one not go to doctor because they do not want to drain their HSA. This can cause people to skip preventative care steps and to n
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by jartelt 10y ago
With a single payer system, the insurer can choose prices that will still leave incentive for innovation and not bankrupt all the medical device companies. It is just a matter of choosing the correct pricing, which I am sure is not trivial
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by jartelt 10y ago
I had a similar experience. After jury selection, the trial seemed to start almost immediately and I was surprised that we were not given more background information or preparation before opening statements started. During the trial I fel
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by jartelt 10y ago
It is true that when the average crackpot thinks something, it is not newsworthy. However, when the POTUS thinks (and especially when he tweets) something crazy/abnormal, it is newsworthy. If the leader of the US believes something c
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by jartelt 10y ago
Trump has stated several times that he supports traditional marriage and is not comfortable with gay marriage ( http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2016/aug/14/se... ). These comments show
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by jartelt 10y ago
You may think it is becoming a general slur. Many other people think we are finally just calling things for what they are.

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