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by jartelt 5y ago
People were mainly just annoyed that rather than getting a free phone or some cash as a gift, they instead got the ability to choose a charity to receive a donation from Google (which has "value" but not monetary or physical value
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by jartelt 5y ago
If I recall correctly, the employees just picked a charity and Google gave the donation. The "gift" was being able to pick the charity. I don't think there was any employee tax break.
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by jartelt 6y ago
At least for me, the key was to keep it capped at 10 hours a week. With more hours than that I would have struggled to balance coursework, social life, work, and sleep. You definitely can't pay for everything on 10 hours a week, but it
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by jartelt 6y ago
Totally agree. You can graduate from your state school with <$100k in debt easily. You can get much lower debt levels if you don't stay in the expensive dorms (with expensive meal plans) after your freshman year, if you plan ahead a
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by jartelt 6y ago
Again, it's just not true that existing nuclear is extremely cheap. States in the US have recently had to bailout nuclear plant operators because they are struggling to compete against solar, wind, and cheap natural gas (see Illinois a
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by jartelt 6y ago
Just for context, numbers I have been told from multiple fertility doctors are: 20-30% of eggs extracted will fertilize and grow to day 5 blastocysts (aka embryos). The rest will die before reaching day 5. If the eggs were preserved before
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by jartelt 6y ago
The fees and dilution companies take on when doing a SPAC are typically higher than if they had done an IPO. SPACs also can and often do pop up just like IPOs. When you go with a SPAC you are basically paying more fees in exchange for a fas
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by jartelt 6y ago
One issue is a lot of retail people bought GME options. If those expire in the money, these people will be on the hook to buy 100s of shares of GME and likely don't have the cash on hand to purchase the shares (which leave RH holding t
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by jartelt 6y ago
My wife went into anaphylaxis at an urgent care facility. The doctor there administered an epi and then called 911 to get an ambulance to the nearest hospital. We ended up getting a >$2,000 bill for a 10 minute ambulance ride because the
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by jartelt 6y ago
There are questions about the efficacy of some meniscus surgeries performed for knee pain. Outcomes are rehab are often similar to outcomes after surgery + rehab. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28522452/
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by jartelt 6y ago
Regarding something like your rotator cup issue: it's not simply a question of doing no treatment (you just having a painful shoulder) vs. having your surgery. It is more does having your rotator cup surgery and associated post-op reha
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by jartelt 6y ago
In this case, the mRNA just gets your body to produce a part of the spike protein that is on the virus. Once the spike protein is floating around in your body, your immune system recognizes the spike protein and starts an immune response. T
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by jartelt 6y ago
The directions on extra strength tylenol say: -take 2 caplets every 6 hours while symptoms last. -do not take more than 6 caplets in 24 hours, unless directed by a doctor. It's not too crazy that someone in pain or feverish could think
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by jartelt 6y ago
But when they are in session, they focus on important issues like playing revisionist history with your children's school textbooks...
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by jartelt 6y ago
Sure for the more rural parts of IL, you could just as easily live in WI, IN, or IA. A small town in one of those states is not that much different than one in a different state. But if you want to live in Chicago or the Chicago suburbs, mo
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by jartelt 6y ago
Tylenol is surprisingly easy to overdose on and is well known to cause liver damage. This is especially true if you take extra strength tylenol. It is recommended to stay below 3,000 mg of tylenol within 24 hours, which is only 6 extra stre
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by jartelt 6y ago
You don't leave billions on the table to generate hype. You could just as easily raise the extra billions in the IPO and then spend $100 million in ads to generate hype (and it would be much cheaper).
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by jartelt 6y ago
They sold X number of shares in the IPO at at $68 per share price and then the next morning, shares were selling at >$130 per share. The money left on the table is due to them selling at $68 when they likely could have sold for high (giv
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by jartelt 6y ago
And... spinning up that trillion dollar market would likely be worth every penny if it prevents continued warming, prevents further significant sea level rise, prevents migration crises due to flooding/droughts/etc, and prevents f
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by jartelt 6y ago
Oil and gas companies (and many companies) are going to continue to use fossil fuels regardless of whether or not we invest in direct capture. By your logic, I could say that investing in soil remediation also incentivizes people to keep dr
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by jartelt 6y ago
The climate models clearly show that carbon capture is needed to meet the 1.5-2 degree C target. Without carbon capture of some sort we will very likely have >2 degree C. Once you come to that understanding, the question is not how do we
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by jartelt 6y ago
The problem is that even if we do everything you propose - rapidly deploy renewable energy tech, replace natural furnaces with heat pumps after the furnaces break, quickly transition to EVs, etc. - the best we can hope for is only 1.5 degre
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by jartelt 6y ago
The Pfizer press release reported a week (or so) ago said the vaccine was "over 90% effective" in the preliminary data. They did not explicitly say the vaccine was 90.000% effective.
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by jartelt 6y ago
The 6.1M miles was self-driving in real life, with a safety driver in the car. The simulation portion only comes into play if the safety driver intervenes in a real life situation. In this case, they go back and simulate what would have hap
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by jartelt 6y ago
>> But that may lead to unfairly low ratings for the restaurant. > If (say) 30% of the restaurant's patrons choose to get the food via food delivery, why shouldn't those folks' ratings of the food be factored into th
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by jartelt 6y ago
You may be correct, but I would just note that Uber and Uberpool are not perfect by any means. I've had a good number of ubers that are dirty or smelly, that have poor drivers, that have inadequate trunk space, or that have little to n
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by jartelt 6y ago
In the hot markets (e.g. bay area), homes already have an inspection done and all potential buyers are able to look at the inspection report. In that case waiving inspection contingencies is not as wild/crazy as it sounds.
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by jartelt 6y ago
At least in the bay area, several homes I looked at had clear disclosures stating that they were in "very high fire hazard zones." The bigger issue for us was what to do with this info. The best the realtor can do is say your home
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by jartelt 6y ago
This isn't a flagship cost. It is $700 for the Pixel 5 vs. $1,000+ for an iPhone.
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by jartelt 6y ago
The only solution to the wildfire problem offered by Trump is that California should do a better job raking up leaves/pine needles and should remove more dead fuel from forests. I think that is much more intellectually dishonest, espec

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