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by jartelt 8y ago
Being 3 or 4% more efficient on race day is a HUGE advantage. Maybe not every elite runner wants to have to wear these shoes to compete?
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by jartelt 8y ago
This comment gets made in every single solar article put on HN. The true price of solar is what the market is willing to pay for it. If the solar was ruining the grid or was way more expensive than what it seems, we would not keep seeing s
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by jartelt 8y ago
You still get wind power at night in most areas. You can also ramp up natural gas plants at night to pick up demand. You can store energy as well using pumped hydro or batteries. We are not yet in a situation where large-scale storage is
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by jartelt 8y ago
I am all for shaming the auto manufacturers that get caught cheating. The regulations are aimed at reducing pollution and I think that is a good thing!
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by jartelt 8y ago
Comcast charges $160 a month for 1000 Mbps internet and $110 a month for 400 Mbps. The $100 per month you quote isn't terrible when compared to those numbers.
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by jartelt 8y ago
Traditional property owners don't have the skills to build the technology system needed to manage a large co-working space.
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by jartelt 8y ago
There is somewhat of a network effect for business travelers. If you are WeWork member, I assume you can grab a desk in any of their buildings around the world. That is much better than needing to sign up for multiple co-working services,
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by jartelt 8y ago
I know several UX researchers at facebook. Yes, they do in person user studies.
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by jartelt 8y ago
1.3% of generation today with a growth rate of roughly 30-40% per year. We are installing a ton of solar and are no longer building a significant number of new coal plants or nuclear plants. The article is pointing out an emerging trend.
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by jartelt 8y ago
We don't even need the price drops you quoted. Installing new solar is already the cheaper than installing coal or gas in many locations. At this point we just need to continue to deploy. The panels themselves are already very cheap
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by jartelt 8y ago
You are more likely to just need a fence with barbed wire and not active security guards. Theft of panels from utility scale solar installations is unlikely to impact cost much at all. Vegetation growth is a modest issue. Fortunately, th
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by jartelt 8y ago
Yes, founders always have ownership, but it is not always the case for the founders to own more than 50% of the company after a few financing rounds. Startups that do super well can pull this off, but I think it is safe to assume most norm
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by jartelt 8y ago
Because it is best for everyone if public businesses serve all customers regardless of race, sexual orientation, appearance, etc. No one wants to be rejected service because of their sexual orientation. Just like how it was terrible that
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by jartelt 8y ago
PG&E and the other utilities largely ignored a lot of grid maintenance prior to ~2000. As a result, not much was spent on maintenance and prices were pretty stable. The past ~20 years, stuff started breaking and they have had to put a
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by jartelt 8y ago
Then those people had spent beyond their means when they purchased the home. When you buy a home, part of the risk is that most of your net worth is wrapped up in the home, and as a result you may not be able to move if you have to sell at
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by jartelt 8y ago
I bet a lot of the people with little savings would argue that they didn't F up, they just were born into a poor family. If you are poor, it's much harder to take risks and try to get ahead. You are always on the hook for your ren
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by jartelt 8y ago
I agree, it's not a good critique. I have definitely tasted wines where I felt like there was hint of chocolate in the background. It is also common for wines to have a hint of berry flavor. Grapes and yeast can make all kinds of fl
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by jartelt 8y ago
Thank you for the explanation! I am still not sure I believe that what you predict would happen to a large degree in the Bay Area. I agree a land tax would push the owners of vacant lots to develop them. But, the NIBMY owners of single fa
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by jartelt 8y ago
Wouldn't a decent portion of the land value tax just be passed on to renters in the form of higher rent charged by their landlord?
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by jartelt 8y ago
I have spent more time helping my wife fix her iPhone 7+ than I have spent fixing my Pixel 2. My wife's iPhone won't let her transfer photos from the phone to her Mac. After talking with Apple support for 2 hours (they brought i
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by jartelt 8y ago
Yes! I really wish they banned gas powered scooters and made people get electric ones. It's difficult to actually have a conversation when walking along the street in Paris. The scooters seem to be several times louder than an averag
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by jartelt 8y ago
Sure, but the landlord can also lose his/her shirt if the market is in a valley at the time they need to sell. Your comment ignores the fact that there is market risk for property owners.
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by jartelt 9y ago
Building a system where you input an e-mail address and it spits out likely friends of that e-mail address isn't exactly the same as having pre-built "shadow profiles" for a bunch of e-mail addresses. With such a system it w
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by jartelt 9y ago
$44-50 million based on one source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/spotify-l...
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by jartelt 9y ago
Spotify paid bankers roughly 40 million euros to run this direct listing and did not raise any additional funding in the process (because it's not really an offering). Dropbox paid bankers about the same amount in fees and was able to
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by jartelt 9y ago
I would prefer 0 days in prison because I don't think voting while a felon should be a crime. But, if we still want to call this situation voter fraud, how about we sentence them to community service? This person is not a danger to s
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by jartelt 9y ago
Scraping with a metal spatula does a good job at getting a lot of the gunk off. Then, rubbing half an onion on the grill when hot cleans off the rest (and leaves a nice onion flavor).
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by jartelt 9y ago
You could certainly fit that much solar in places in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. I think the bigger issue would be getting the capital and permissions needed to build high voltage transmission lines to take that much power to where it
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by jartelt 9y ago
Typically with solar panels you reduce the power output by 30% when you reduce the panel size by 30% ;)
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by jartelt 9y ago
I think you run into legal issues when you take the steering wheel out of the car (i.e. it probably is not legal to drive on public roads under the current laws).

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