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by mrep 4y ago
Bad phrasing on my part. Wind/solar/nuclear are all basically pure capex with no marginal cost to producing max energy so they all need to be run at 100%. To handle daily/seasonal energy demands though, you'll want to r
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by mrep 4y ago
Yes, wind/solar require more peaker plants to handle their unreliability compared to nuclear but seeing as nuclear is 3x as expensive, I don't see it as the optimal solution to getting carbon neutral.
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by mrep 4y ago
IDK what your definition of green is but I'm fine with using gas (methane) to pick up the slack for wind/solar/nuclear if it is made with electrical surpluses from wind/solar/nuclear in a carbon neutral way.
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by mrep 4y ago
Wow, those both look incredibly slick. I've got a cheap like $150 chinese vacuum one and a mopping one but I might have to upgrade if they ever die. So do they actually handle floor vs carpet sweeping/mopping, don't get stu
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by mrep 4y ago
More like varies from marketing department to marketing department.
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by mrep 4y ago
Your skipping power to gas [0]. At least for the US, how are you going to use nuclear to heat every building in the entire continent 30-100 degrees fahrenheit when a polar vortex hits [1] with nuclear? Nuclear has the opposite problem of
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US Economy Shrinks for a Second Quarter, Raising Recession Odds(bloomberg.com)
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US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)(bea.gov)
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by mrep 4y ago
> I for one don't think the federal government should have anything to do with our school systems. I wouldn't go that far. Federal and state governments provide about half of education funding [0] and the way they dish it out
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by mrep 4y ago
Are you citing this poll [0] for the healthcare questions because if so, I'm not sure how relevant that is. I'd bet a lot of money those support numbers drop once you throw in the nitty gritty details that actual legislation requ
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by mrep 4y ago
What? You can get get cheapish credit for just about any asset as long is it secured by something whether that be a house, car, boat, rv... What do you consider a 'normal' loan? Unsecured ones?
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by mrep 4y ago
According to this website [0], there are actually 1683 people in the US with that name. [0]: http://howmanyofme.com/search/
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by mrep 4y ago
Well, we are the largest producer of oil in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
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by mrep 4y ago
Is this sarcasm or do you actually believe all of that is going to happen?
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by mrep 4y ago
The only power outages I have had in Chicagoland have been due to trees and those get resolved in a few hours. I'm pretty sure TX and CA are the outliers.
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by mrep 4y ago
> gas taxes don’t come close to covering costs You sure about that because when I did some quick math on US road spending I found it would require about a $2.50 tax per gallon to fully fund our yearly road construction costs with taxes [
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by mrep 4y ago
Yeah, basically every girl I have ever dated avoids public transit at all cost because of assholes/creeps.
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by mrep 4y ago
Not OP but am a born and raised American. That civil war that was a freaking 160 years ago! In what aspect would a civil war today be any similar to that one?
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by mrep 4y ago
Part time Utah resident here: you can only buy liquor/beer/wine > 5% ABV at state owned liquor stores and restaurants/bars draft beer has to be < 5% ABV but for some reason canned beer can be > 5% at restaurants (Mak
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by mrep 4y ago
> But Utah also has plenty of laws that are influenced by Mormons- and no one is complaining about the liquor laws there. What are you basing that on because I live there 3 months a year and I assure you I bitch about it nonstop!
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by mrep 4y ago
I didn't read panda-giddiness@ saying it is uniform, just that being pro-life vs pro-choice is highly correlated with being religious and some religions are against abortion. I'm all for freedom of religion but I personally would
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by mrep 4y ago
From their last earnings release [0], their retail division lost 3 billion dollars last quarter. [0]: https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2022/q1/...
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by mrep 4y ago
6%: "The average annual total return and compound annual growth rate of the index, including dividends, since inception in 1926 has been approximately 9.8% (6% after inflation), and the annual standard deviation of the return over the
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by mrep 4y ago
The euro zone and the US are neck and neck actually overall [0, 1] and if you measure it relative their gdp which you should, the eurozone is actually at 61% of gdp whereas the US is at 35% [2]. Japan is the real money printer though at a
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by mrep 4y ago
I'd say the eurozone is winning in what matters: 3 trillion euros / ≈14.5 trillion euro gdp of the eurozone ≈ 20.6% of gdp 4.5 trillion USD / ≈23 trillion US gdp ≈ 19.5% of gdp
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by mrep 4y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't try and at least segment commercial pricing versus personal. I cannot imagine many people with personal boats under like 60 feet would stomach 5k a month for internet and there are far far more boa
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by mrep 4y ago
Ever heard of the traveling salesman problem because that is worse than linear, it is factorial. Granted, that is probably overkill for most people and my team (Not FedEx) just does NxN so it is only quadratic but it is definitely not cons
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by mrep 4y ago
When I got an offer in 2018, they asked about cash vs equity and I said I didn't care so they seemed to go more heavy on the equity for my total comp. I then got an L+1 offer from dropbox that had a higher total comp and they matched
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by mrep 4y ago
Yeah, I haven't had the power go out in the past 6 years (Seattle and Chicago). I Had a few growing up but those were always caused by trees falling on power lines or transformers.
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by mrep 4y ago
And that is basically all AWS. Retail has actually lost money in the past 3 quarters.

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