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by jartelt 7y ago
They already get a decent amount of flak for investing a lot of money in their Other Bets. Imagine how much shareholder animus there would be if they started investing 10s of billions more?
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by jartelt 7y ago
Fungi, bugs, bacteria, etc. break down the tree. Some CO2 gets released during this process and then CO2 gets released when the bugs die and decompose. CO2 also gets released if the dead forest burns.
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by jartelt 7y ago
There is no set rule that says you need to get x% of your power from a stable "base load" producer. In many regions of the US you could cover daily demand using a dynamic combination of wind, solar, hydro, and natural gas. The bas
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by jartelt 7y ago
Most electric forklifts use lead acid batteries. These batteries are only warrantied for 1-2 years because they fail unpredictably after that time frame (hence why they get replaced on that time frame). They also take forever to charge and
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by jartelt 7y ago
No one wants to make the investment to build a plant that costs several billion dollars and will take up to 10 years to build. There have been attempts to build new plants in the US but the cost over runs have been huge. Rate payers are fed
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by jartelt 7y ago
At the same time big tech companies are always complaining about not being able to find qualified engineers. A portion of those people who were filtered out because they get nervous during interviews or got stumped by a riddle or esoteric q
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by jartelt 7y ago
Many buyers often neglect that they put $50k into their kitchen remodel, bought a new roof, and repaired the water heater/AC/washer along the way. So that $100k check feels like pure profit, but often is just reimbursement for pas
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by jartelt 7y ago
In many high cost of living markets rent for a modest apartment is much cheaper than the cost of a mortgage on even the smallest house you can find. For example, you can rent an apartment on the peninsula in the Bay Area for less than $3,00
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by jartelt 7y ago
Agree that the Spotify discovery is bad. I find myself going back to Pandora, which is sad considering I have Spotify premium.
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by jartelt 7y ago
Deaths from solar and wind are almost entirely due to falls during installation and service. I looked into this a few years ago while writing my thesis and death rate per TWhr for different energy sources was: coal (29), oil (18), natural g
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by jartelt 7y ago
Yet AA, Delta, and United are each still operating and each valued at over $10B today. The point is that the airline industry has several players operating and competing and has not totally imploded and fares have not skyrocketed. Many are
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by jartelt 7y ago
Many farmers in the Midwest are actually millionaires that own large swathes of land. Yes, they work very hard, but they also like to complain a lot despite the fact that many of them are better off than many non-farmers in the Midwest.
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by jartelt 7y ago
How do Delta, United, American Airlines, and Southwest all operate within the same market and not have fare wars constantly leading to bankruptcy? If you were correct, it seems like it would be impossible for several airlines to operate wit
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by jartelt 7y ago
The investors from the last funding round paid about the same share price as the IPO price, so they haven't really made or lost any money. It certainly wasn't a good investment for them (0% return), but I don't think they hav
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by jartelt 7y ago
People in some countries have been cooking with indoor wood-fired stoves forever, yet we know for sure that these stoves are bad for respiratory health. That doesn't mean all the research is wrong! I think the big take away is that you
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by jartelt 7y ago
In the article it says "Another perk of consistent refrigeration is shelf life: It jumps from about 21 days to almost 50 days."
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by jartelt 7y ago
> If you don't care about showing off then you won't publish anything. People who are actually altruistic won't tell you about their altruism. My point is that I think your thesis is too cynical. Many people start out writ
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by jartelt 7y ago
I think your view is too cynical. People also can be motivated by altruism or by wanting to pay it forward. I've answered plenty of questions on facebook/reddit/etc. and do so because people have answered my questions in the
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by jartelt 7y ago
Seems like if you don't change something you are potentially losing out on a lot of great students. Maybe you do not need to change your e-mail service, but I would hope you are at least warning applicants about this issue somewhere in
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by jartelt 7y ago
Commute, plane rides, going for a walk, cleaning the house... pretty much any time I otherwise would listen to music or nothing, but instead I want to be entertained and learn a little something.
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by jartelt 7y ago
This is correct. The odds that a VC investment fails because the company copied work and gets caught/sued is very low. Thus, there is little incentive to dig through all the weeds to ensure that absolutely no work was copied. Ultimatel
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by jartelt 8y ago
If you are the university dean or administrator who hires the professors, you maybe prefer the hot-shot professor who brings in a boatload of research grant money over the professor who gets the best teacher ratings. The university gets a c
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by jartelt 8y ago
I imagine it is just hard and annoying to try to enforce a time limit. You don't want your cashiers and baristas to have to keep track of how long each person has been sitting at a table. Plus, your cashiers may not be comfortable aski
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by jartelt 8y ago
Yes, the board could have absolutely done that. And Bezos could have asked the board to do that as well, but chose no to. If the company did that, I argue it would have been just as successful (if not more) and many of their low wage worker
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by jartelt 8y ago
Amazon also wouldn't exist in their current capacity without all their warehouse workers. I think the idea is that Bezos could have either sold some of Amazon stock over the years and paid his warehouse workers a better wage or he coul
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by jartelt 8y ago
If they are ultimately successful, branding will be part of it. Everyone knows about Uber and thus many people have the app on their phone. Furthermore, having a large network of riders and drivers enables lower wait times and better carpoo
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by jartelt 8y ago
More accurate pickup times would really help. I've rushed outside numerous times after being given a 2 minute ETA. Pretty much every time I end up waiting outside for 5-10 more minutes after the ETA changes to a longer time. If I knew
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by jartelt 8y ago
They plan to sequester the CO2, not "unburn" it back to carbon and oxygen. The CO2 reaction you posted has nothing to do with the cost of capturing CO2 and sequestering it.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Trees are scalable in that you can keep planting them at low cost, but no where near effective enough at sequestering carbon. Even if you cover all agricultural land in the world with trees, you won't sequester enough carbon to prevent
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by jartelt 8y ago
It would only be notable if pundits can accurately predict if there will be a recession in the next year. I doubt they can because these things are difficult/impossible to predict (otherwise no one would have lost money in the Great Re

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