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by jartelt 7y ago
I've read that part of what they do is effectively steal affiliate referrals from other websites. Say you click on an affiliate referral link from a blog that takes you to retailers website. Normally that blog would get a cut of whatev
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The midwest of the US is neither a desert nor wild. It's mostly farm land.
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There is no requirement that the grid requires "baseload" sources of power. The grid can operate with flexible sources of power that can ramp (gas, some hydro, etc.) in addition to wind and solar. If anything nuclear and coal, whi
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Most homeless folks do not have drug addictions or serious mental disorders. The majority of them just recently lost jobs or were evicted for not paying rent and live in their car for some time in between shelters and figuring out how to ge
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Silicon Valley Power still relies on some PG&E transmission lines to bring power in that is generated outside Santa Clara. My point is just that PG&E has an influence on most every electricity user in its territory (even those with
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Would your home be worth more if the single family home next to you was demolished and a multi-floor apartment building was built next to you? The situation you describe is applicable to the apartment complexes and new developments being bu
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I think it's more likely that a typical $2M house on the peninsula is paying much less than $27,000/year in property taxes because of prop 13. Only the homes that have been sold in the last ~5 years are actually paying 1% of prope
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by jartelt 7y ago
Just an FYI - Google Maps doesn't get traffic or user data from Waze. Maps gets it's data from Android and people who have Google Maps open on their phones. https://fortune.com/2019/10/11/waze-google
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I am talking about investing in battery installations for grid services (i.e. buying and building battery installations) instead of building natural gas peaker plants or building other more tradition infrastructure. I am not saying they sho
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Some areas only have one transmission line feeding them power, so there is no way to reroute. If that transmission line goes through an area with high fire risk, PG&E will cut the line and then everything fed by that line loses power.
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I imagine people would like PG&E to have a functioning website that shows where power is going to be turned off, to have a more predictable warning system so people can have more than a few hours notice of impending blackouts, to have b
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They pretty much refused to invest in and install any forward looking technologies (microgrid tech, tech to quickly cut off power to damaged lines, battery storage, more distributed generation, more switches to help isolate parts of the gri
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The book doesn't simply say that practicing something for 10,000 hours will make you a master. The point is that people who are masters at something (or known as brilliant or experts in their field) didn't just magically get to th
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The company believed it was ready for an IPO, but all the potential IPO investors disagreed after reading the S-1 and doing some diligence. In a sense the system worked well in that regard. The big issue was with the private investors letti
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Self-paid insurance plans only work if you require every one to buy a plan. Otherwise many healthy people choose to go uncovered and the insurance pools get a higher portion of sick folks. Obamacare tried to get around this by using the ind
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by jartelt 7y ago
California air quality regulators have stated that we shouldn't have any housing within 500 feet of freeways. Living near freeways increases your risk of a host of negative health effects (asthma, heart issues, etc). https:/&#x2F
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I imagine a lot gig economy workers sit in their car between orders. What else are you going to do between uber rides? You either listen to something, watch something, or read a book. Maybe you are seeing some of those?
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Running shoes are typically only designed to last for at most 500 miles. It's just hard to make a foam material that can provide cushion but also not break down over time (and still not cost a fortune). I think the best practice is to
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For anyone considering where to go to graduate school... One's PhD experience is highly dependent on the university one attends and especially the professor that one works under. Each lab has a different culture and each professor trea
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Many peoples' photos can be improved by 1) trying to be more still while the HDR photos are being captured, 2) resist the urge to zoom, 3) tap on the area of the photo you want to be in focus before shooting, and 4) generally stick wit
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Pumped hydro storage is the gold standard for large scale storage, but it is only cost effective in certain geographic areas. Many of the prime areas for pumped hydro are already being utilized in developed countries. So, we can't real
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I understand that one is privileged to some extent to have been able to pay off student debt. But, I can't help but think it could be problematic to cancel all student debt and in effect penalize all those who worked hard to save and p
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by jartelt 7y ago
Commercial solar is more expensive than solar in a field or utility scale solar. The lowest costs for solar you see quoted in the press will always be for large-scale utility solar installations that are ground mounted. Anytime you put the
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Many physical labor jobs require applicants to take a drug test and breathalyzer on their first day of work. For some reason, a fair number of workers do not realize this and end up failing one of the tests and get fired on the first day.
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The devil is in the details (who is selling shares, lock-up period, etc) and in how the stock does over the next few years, but... -Having a high price allows the company to raise money in the IPO with less dilution. A high price is also go
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The amount of power incident from the sun is roughly 1000 W/m^2 in a sunny area. Good Silicon PV panels will capture 20% of that power generating 200 W/m^2 at peak. Getting anything more than that is going to be too expensive for
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I believe the point is that you if you don't need to raise any money, you can do a direct listing instead of an IPO. Then you allow investor liquidity without selling equity.
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Assuming you want to keep Tumblr running, you are also buying the ~200 employees and the costs of running the site. Assuming the 200 employees cost $100k each (salary + benefits) and you are already at $20M in costs.
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Cost. We can make single junction GaAs solar cells with efficiency close to 30% (damn close to the theoretical limit for a single junction cell of ~33%)and we can make GaAs based multijunction cells that have efficiencies above 40%. It&#x27
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Any one should be able to visit any national park, wilderness area, or other beautiful place and take as many pictures as they want... as long as they follow the rules and regulations. Park your car where you are supposed to, stay on the tr

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