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by jartelt 8y ago
What? Your hurricane example is not the same at all. No one is saying that predictions of a recession in the media are the cause of the recession. The OP is just asking if there is a way to predict the likelihood of a recession by using med
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by jartelt 8y ago
Exactly - If you eat an apple, you get a modest amount of sugar with some fiber to go with it. The fiber helps slow down the absorption of the sugar and lessens the insulin response. If you drink a big glass of apple juice, you get the suga
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by jartelt 8y ago
The price of the PV modules only makes up like 1/3 the cost of a utility scale solar installation and like 1/5 the cost of residential installations. A 10-15% increase in module cost will not slow solar adoption that much. The sol
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by jartelt 8y ago
One of best ways to increase parking revenue would be to set up a system to automate parking fees (similar to automated tolling). I would gladly pay the $1 fee to park for 30 minutes in my downtown. However, I often skip paying because of t
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by jartelt 8y ago
I made the switch as well and now only get an AirBnB when traveling with a large group of friends to remote destinations. For my own travel, I got so sick of the problems with key access. It's just too hard to coordinate with most host
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by jartelt 8y ago
Are there going to be any issues with peak demand charges from utilities making fast charging cost prohibitive? I have to imagine that pulling that much power from the grid will either be very expensive or will require some grid upgrades t
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by jartelt 8y ago
Leakage into ground water would certainly be and issue if proper planning was not in place. I would have to think there are ways to prevent this leakage though. We have burying lots of coal ash for many years now and must have some best pra
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by jartelt 8y ago
The amount of salt used in storage applications would likely not even make a dent in the amount of salt produced by large scale desalination.
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by jartelt 8y ago
He started in May 2018, so it's not clear he will reach the 1 year cliff.
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I think it's most likely that it would just get buried or piled up somewhere. Salt is not really a high value product, so I wouldn't be surprised if desal plants had to pay people to take the salt from them.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Anything close to a 100-1000x reduction in energy consumption is unlikely in the next 10-20 years. That said filters have steadily gotten better over the years (better throughput, more durable, etc.) Also, the main thing to focus on is cost
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by jartelt 8y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to number of capable buyers dwindling when prices reach a certain point. There is a good number of people willing to buy a junky 2 bedroom house on the peninsula for $1M. Make that house $1.5M and raise rat
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by jartelt 8y ago
Voice commands are useful if you are having conversation with friends and a question comes up that group wants an answer to. I find it more social to ask a phone with a voice command than to open the phone, type a query into google, and se
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by jartelt 8y ago
That type of delivery is an option for more expensive goods. You can also sometimes pay more to require a signature for delivery. Overall the rate of package theft is low though, so people prefer the convenience and low cost of normal packa
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by jartelt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that would be a terrible living...
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Boulder has a lot of policies in place that actually prevent growth (height limits, limits on suburban growth, etc.). They seem to literally not want Boulder to grow.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Think of it like a venture capital deal. If you wanted to invest in Uber in their seed round, you couldn't get in the deal unless you had a fund set up or you were an accredited investor and had a connection to the founders. This type
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by jartelt 8y ago
The vast majority of people should just be maxing out their 401k and investing in index funds. They shouldn't be using Robinhood to buy individual stocks, buy cryptocurrency, or do options trading.
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by jartelt 8y ago
There are zoning issues that prevent the market from buildings an adequate amount of housing to keep up with demand. You can't just go turn a single family home in Palo Alto into a small apartment complex. There is not an equivalent qu
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by jartelt 8y ago
Except they get better tax treatment than a hedge fund since they are a "non-profit".
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Sometimes people do get put into situations where buying earlier than optimal seems like the only option. However, people often use a variety of excuses to buy a house simply because they want to buy a house (even if they don't have th
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by jartelt 8y ago
It is beginning to happen in the US. Battery adoption on the grid has been slow because the utility companies like solving problems by building new generation plants (natural gas plants mostly) or by building new transmission lines. They ha
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by jartelt 8y ago
Lower price than Uber, potential for growth if they move outside the US, belief that ride share markets are not a zero-sum game and that two companies can more or less split the market...
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by jartelt 8y ago
Your holidays can become progressively longer and more extravagant. The cost of this can add up quickly. Maybe you previously just went to Florida for a week for vacation. Now you decide to take the family to Italy for 3 weeks in the summer
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by jartelt 8y ago
Yes! Sleep deprivation played a role in the two Navy crashes in the last few years.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Bird's latest round was led by Sequoia and Lime's latest round was led by GV, so I am not sure why the Softbank is relevant. Perhaps Softbank funds the next rounds, but GV and Sequoia are still going to be looking for a much bigge
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A 1x return on a large investment like these would not be good for a venture fund. They probably need to return 3x on the whole fund to get their carry/bonus, so a 3x return for a given investment is the bare minimum for success. They
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by jartelt 8y ago
Note that if you are in the demographic of well educated and high income Americans, your life expectancy is still quite high and you should assume you will live to your 90s when planning for retirement! The decrease in life expectancy obser
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by jartelt 8y ago
Sure, but that is a separate argument. I agree that working at Google/Amazon/Apple probably gives most people the best income over time. The point is that if you work at startups dilution is not your enemy. Early Uber employees go
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by jartelt 8y ago
Yes, preferred shares are worth more than shares of common stock. They are valued more highly because of the liquidation preference and other rights. In a great exit, the preferred shares are typically converted to common stock and everyon

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