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by mrep 5y ago
Nuclear looks to be about 3x as expensive as wind/solar [0] and that is assuming you use it at 100% of its capacity due to the high building cost and low marginal costs. Just looking at California, winter nights drop to about half of
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by mrep 5y ago
Yes you can. Methane is already stored and used for electrical grids on a massive scale and you can make methane with electricity [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
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by mrep 5y ago
I totally agree farmers markets are all about tax avoidance. They would charge me the flat dollar amount for cash but then add in the tax when I used a card. No way they are paying taxes on that cash transaction.
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by mrep 5y ago
I'm in the US and the only time I can remember going to an ATM in the past 5 years is because farmers markets sometimes give you discounts > credit card rewards for cash and weed shops cannot use banks so you have to pay cash.
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by mrep 5y ago
Nope, I work for Google.
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by mrep 5y ago
Not for US mortgages, here is what my mortgage broker sent me as a requirement for the second home I am looking to buy: OK – we can use the RSU’s with the following conditions: Your borrower will need to have a 2-year history of liquidating
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by mrep 5y ago
GOOG pay + benefits > AMZN. No on-call at GOOG too which is nice and I get to work for Google maps which is like my favorite software application as I use it every time I drive. I'd consider going back for a fully remote job with l
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by mrep 5y ago
The original single A was for amazon: "FANG was an acronym coined by Jim Cramer, the television host of CNBC's Mad Money, in 2013 to refer to Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. Cramer called these companies "totally domin
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by mrep 5y ago
My target comp here in chicago is $250,000 for the level below senior software engineer and average home price here is $303,559 [0]. Pay is usually max(COL, local market rate). You don't need a super high COL if the local market is ver
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by mrep 5y ago
Not entirely, RSUs are harder to use when qualifying for a mortgage.
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by mrep 5y ago
Your mileage may very but I only worked 40 hours a week when I was there and I also got promoted in about a year and a half.
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by mrep 5y ago
Actually, I think it is easier than ever. You can move your stolen crypto to tornado.cash which pools your crypto together with everyone else's and then allows you to anonymously pull it out from the pool in .1/1/10... incre
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by mrep 5y ago
The current production ones yes but they got some models working on air force planes 2 years ago [0] so they can probably handle a boat. Probably won't be cheap though. [0]: https://www.investors.com/news/spacex-s
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by mrep 5y ago
Only for now. They wouldn't be sending out surveys about RV usage [0] if that is going to be permanently the case. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/prgrbb/starlink_r...
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by mrep 5y ago
Except you are still going to pay those taxes when you do sell, you are just delaying the taxable event so I wouldn't consider that money actually saved. What is the situation where that is actually useful? Take me for example, I inve
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by mrep 5y ago
> Consider how much tip you will make as an attractive flirty woman vs someone who is unattractive, regardless of food and service. ~4% difference according to this article [0] and still thus 21% more than the next highest paying country
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by mrep 5y ago
> Do you think smart people are going to work for tips because their employers don't pay enough I'm not a waiter and hate tipping but don't most waiters like tips because they earn more with them. It looks like the US has
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by mrep 5y ago
I mean, I'm not jeff bezos rich but I am in the 0.1% of income for my age group according to [0] and I don't want that. Why would I want that? Even for the uber rich I feel like they wouldn't want that. Smarter population k
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by mrep 5y ago
Bumble is definitely not 40+ only at least here in Chicago.
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by mrep 5y ago
Bumble is a public company (BMBL). Where are you seeing they are owned by match?
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by mrep 5y ago
I think you are off base here. I use hinge primarily and occasionally bumble. I haven't opened up tinder in months.
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by mrep 5y ago
I cannot say for tinder, but I just opened bumble for the first time in weeks and apparently I have 50+ likes.
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by mrep 5y ago
And what do you think the top schools will do? Massively cut costs to reduce tuition rates which will probably make their school seem worse and lower their competitive ranking or just accept more kids with rich parents who can pay cash or
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by mrep 5y ago
The US has the 3rd lowest housing price to income ratio [0]. You just need to avoid the west coast and northeast and you can find plenty of affordable housing [1]. [0]: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankin
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by mrep 5y ago
34-44% for hydrogen and 30-38% for methane [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas#Efficiency
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by mrep 5y ago
Only for the west coast. For the rest of the country, wind actually peaks in the winter: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20112
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by mrep 5y ago
Not sure how an MBA helps here, but if all you are doing is straight compute, then yes, cloud is a waste of money. The benefit of cloud comes when you have a bunch of different teams with different optimal solutions such as nosql, sql, que
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by mrep 5y ago
Google bought back 12.5 billion dollars worth of shares this past quarter [0] which puts them on a 50 billion a year track and it has only been going up. 50 billion on a 2 trillion market cap is about 2.5% which while not as high, they do
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by mrep 5y ago
At least for me, still way way cheaper than the coasts so no plans on leaving yet.
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by mrep 5y ago
Google is effectively paying dividends to the tune of 60 billion dollars a year through share buybacks [0]. Share buybacks reduce the number of outstanding shares increasing the P/E ratio which should increase the stock price. You ca

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